Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram

Y Nie, HD Pritchard, Q Liu, T Hennig, W Wang… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Glaciers in the Himalaya–Karakoram mountain ranges harbour approximately half
of the ice volume in High-mountain Asia and modulate the flow of freshwater to almost 869 …

Climate change and conflict

V Koubi - Annual review of political science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The link between climate change and conflict has been discussed intensively in academic
literature during the past decade. This review aims to provide a clearer picture of what the …

Climate endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

L Kemp, C Xu, J Depledge, KL Ebi, G Gibbins… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for
climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate …

Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement

M Lawrence, T Homer-Dixon, S Janzwood… - Global …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Multiple global crises–including the pandemic, climate change, and Russia's war on Ukraine–
have recently linked together in ways that are significant in scope, devastating in effect, but …

Future of the human climate niche

C Xu, TA Kohler, TM Lenton, JC Svenning… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are
unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh-Guldberg, D Jacob, M Bindi… - Global warming of …, 2018 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Abstract An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 C above pre-
industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of …

Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict

KJ Mach, CM Kraan, WN Adger, H Buhaug, M Burke… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Research findings on the relationship between climate and conflict are diverse and
contested. Here we assess the current understanding of the relationship between climate …

Food security

C Mbow, C Rosenzweig, LG Barioni, TG Benton… - 2019 - figshare.utas.edu.au
The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail,
consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the …

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

W Steffen, J Rockström, K Richardson… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a
planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate …

[HTML][HTML] The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality

F Cappelli, V Costantini, D Consoli - Global Environmental Change, 2021 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mechanisms that connect climate
change-induced disasters, inequality and vulnerability by accounting for both directions of …