The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

M Romanello, C Di Napoli, C Green, H Kennard… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Executive Summary The Lancet Countdown is an international research collaboration that
independently monitors the evolving impacts of climate change on health, and the emerging …

Non-perennial segments in river networks

T Datry, AJ Boulton, K Fritz, R Stubbington… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-perennial river segments—those that recurrently cease to flow or frequently dry—occur
in all river networks and are globally more abundant than perennial (always flowing) …

Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe

AM Van Der Woude, W Peters, E Joetzjer… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The year 2022 saw record breaking temperatures in Europe during both summer and fall.
Similar to the recent 2018 drought, close to 30%(3.0 million km2) of the European continent …

Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought

E Bevacqua, O Rakovec, DL Schumacher… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In 2022, Europe faced an extensive summer drought with severe socioeconomic
consequences. Quantifying the influence of human-induced climate change on such an …

Drought characteristics in Mediterranean under future climate change

YH Essa, M Hirschi, W Thiery, AM El-Kenawy… - Npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
The present work aims to address the physical properties of different drought types under
near-future climates in the Mediterranean. To do so, we use a multi-model mean of the bias …

[HTML][HTML] Species diversity and competition have minor effects on the growth response of silver fir, European larch and Douglas fir to drought

JC de Sauvage, H Bugmann, C Bigler… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
With climate change, the frequency and duration of droughts are increasing, strongly
impacting forest ecosystems. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the factors influencing …

Efficient agricultural drip irrigation inspired by fig leaf morphology

S Liu, C Zhang, T Shen, Z Zhan, J Peng, C Yu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Irrigation is limited by water scarcity. Here, we show how a drip irrigation system inspired by
the leaf of the fig tree Ficus religiosa (also known as the bodhi tree) can improve irrigation …

Tackling growing drought risks—the need for a systemic perspective

M Hagenlocher, G Naumann, I Meza, V Blauhut… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few years, the world has experienced numerous extreme droughts with adverse
direct, cascading, and systemic impacts. Despite more frequent and severe events, drought …

Recent European drying and its link to prevailing large-scale atmospheric patterns

SJ Bakke, M Ionita, LM Tallaksen - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The extreme 2018 and 2022 droughts pose as recent examples of a series of drought events
that have hit Europe over the last decades with wide ranging social, environmental and …

Characterization of temperature regimes in Western Europe, as regards the summer 2022 Western European heat wave

CC Ibebuchi, IO Abu - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
During the 2022 summer season, parts of Western Europe experienced record-breaking
high temperature and drought conditions that had negative societal impacts. To enhance the …