Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

Water is the fundamental natural resource that supports life, ecosystems and human society.
Thus studying the water cycle is important for sustainable development. In the context of …

Rivers support indispensable ecological functions and human health and infrastructure. Yet
limited river sampling hinders our understanding of consequential changes to river systems …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Observational knowledge of the epidemic intensity, defined as the number of deaths divided
by global population and epidemic duration, and of the rate of emergence of infectious …

The intensity of extreme precipitation events is projected to increase in a warmer climate,,,–,
posing a great challenge to water sustainability in natural and built environments. Of …

Droughts that exceed the magnitudes of historical variation ranges could occur increasingly
frequently under future climate conditions. However, the time of the emergence of …

The world's big rivers and their floodplains were central to development of civilization and
are now home to c. 2.7 billion people. They are economically vital whilst also constituting …

Appropriation of fresh water to meet human needs is growing, and competition among users
will intensify in a warmer and more crowded world. This essay explains why freshwater …

Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and droughts often result from a combination of interacting
physical processes across multiple spatial and temporal scales. The combination of …