Bioretention systems for stormwater management: Recent advances and future prospects

K Vijayaraghavan, BK Biswal, MG Adam… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bioretention is a popular stormwater management strategy that is often utilized in urban
environments to combat water quality and hydrological impacts of stormwater. This goal is …

Transpiration increases under high‐temperature stress: Potential mechanisms, trade‐offs and prospects for crop resilience in a warming world

W Sadok, JR Lopez, KP Smith - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The frequency and intensity of high‐temperature stress events are expected to increase as
climate change intensifies. Concomitantly, an increase in evaporative demand, driven in part …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change

LV Gatti, LS Basso, JB Miller, M Gloor… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Amazonia hosts the Earth's largest tropical forests and has been shown to be an important
carbon sink over recent decades 1, 2, 3. This carbon sink seems to be in decline, however …

Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature

P Jain, D Castellanos-Acuna, SCP Coogan… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent increases in regional wildfire activity have been linked to climate change. Here, we
analyse trends in observed global extreme fire weather and their meteorological drivers from …

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

JK Balch, JT Abatzoglou, MB Joseph, MJ Koontz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Night-time provides a critical window for slowing or extinguishing fires owing to the lower
temperature and the lower vapour pressure deficit (VPD). However, fire danger is most often …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

Forest fire threatens global carbon sinks and population centres under rising atmospheric water demand

H Clarke, RH Nolan, VR De Dios, R Bradstock… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Levels of fire activity and severity that are unprecedented in the instrumental record have
recently been observed in forested regions around the world. Using a large sample of daily …

Assessment of CMIP6 performance and projected temperature and precipitation changes over South America

M Almazroui, M Ashfaq, MN Islam, IU Rashid… - Earth Systems and …, 2021 - Springer
We evaluate the performance of a large ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCMs) from
the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) over South America for a …

Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil

L Rattis, PM Brando, MN Macedo, SA Spera… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Brazil's leadership in soybean and maize production depends on predictable rainfall in the
Amazon-Cerrado agricultural frontier. Here we assess whether agricultural expansion and …