A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

Drought is a complex and multivariate phenomenon influenced by diverse physical and
biological processes. Such complexity precludes simplistic explanations of cause and effect …

Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia between 2016 and 2024
was driven by high sea surface temperatures (SST). The likelihood of temperature-induced …

The large socioeconomic costs of droughts make them a crucial target for impact
assessments of climate change scenarios. Using multiple drought metrics and a set of …

Hydroclimate extremes critically affect human and natural systems, but there remain many
unanswered questions about their causes and how to interpret their dynamics in the past …

BACKGROUND Anthropogenic emissions are rapidly altering Earth's climate, pushing it
toward a warmer state for which there is no historical precedent. Although no perfect analog …

The response of the global water cycle to changes in global surface temperature remains an
outstanding question in future climate projections and in past climate reconstructions. The …

In recent decades, Europe has experienced more frequent flood and drought events.
However, little is known about the long-term, spatiotemporal hydroclimatic changes across …

Investigating the spatiotemporal link among different drought types is of great significance
for understanding the causative mechanism of droughts. In this study, we propose a new …

Cool-and warm-season precipitation totals have been reconstructed on a gridded basis for
North America using 439 tree-ring chronologies correlated with December–April totals and …