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Just-Released CC-ARP-CE Tool Helps Improve Water Management and Resilience to Extreme Weather Events

An online platform developed with the aim to support stakeholders of water management in integrated strategies and actions to adapt to climate change and to prevent and reduce the associated risks: the just-released CC-ARP-CE tool is the TEACHER-CE (joinT Efforts to increase water management Adaptation to climate CHanges in central EuRope) project's main output.

19 Jan 2022

New Water-Power-Economy Model to Explore Climate Impacts on Electricity Demand and Cost

Around the world, energy systems are increasingly impacted by the effects of a changing climate. Energy systems, especially the electric-power system, are vulnerable to natural stressors such as wildfires, severe storms, extreme temperatures and long-term disruptions of the hydrological cycle.

19 Jan 2022

Atmospheric Rivers Likely to Bring Severe Extreme Rainfall Events Over East Asia

It's been becoming more and more clear that global warming means more than just warmer temperatures. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense in many different parts of the world, creating an urgent need to predict and prepare for these changes.

19 Jan 2022

Freshwater Accelerating Arctic Ice Melt at Unprecedented Rate

Irina Panyushkina grew up in Siberia, near the Arctic Circle. She was raised on stories of explorers trudging through seas of ice to reach the North Pole.

19 Jan 2022

Climate Change Forces Fish Stocks to Shift from Their Historical Habitat Range

Climate change will force 45 per cent of the fish stocks that cross through two or more exclusive economic zones to shift significantly from their historical habitats and migration paths by 2100, a challenge that may lead to international conflict, according to a new UBC study.

19 Jan 2022

Using Renewable Fuels Consistently will Have an Immediate Impact on Climate Protection in the Transport Sector

The press conference in the run-up to the 19th International Conference on Renewable Mobility “Fuels of the Future 2022” addressed the contribution that sustainable renewable fuels already make to mitigating climate change and their potential to boost climate protection immediately.

19 Jan 2022

Only 1 in 10 People Recognise Biodiversity Loss as a Major Environmental Threat – Research Reveals

NEW RESEARCH published today reveals a worrying lack of awareness around biodiversity and the critical role it plays in protecting our planet and future survival.

19 Jan 2022

Citizen Scientists Needed to Help Record Impact of Fires on Biodiversity in Weekend BioBlitzes

UNSW scientists are behind a citizen science event which will document the bushfire recovery of plants, animals and fungi across three bushfire affected regions in New South Wales.

18 Jan 2022

Climate Adaptation Makes Cocoa Farmers More Vulnerable to Economic and Climatic Risks

New research offers an alternative perspective on adaptation to climate threats in Southeast Asia.

17 Jan 2022

$1.5 Million Grant to Support the Role of USDA Climate Hubs in Indian Country

A collaborative team of researchers led by Maureen McCarthy, Ph.D., of DRI has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to support and strengthen the role of USDA Climate Hubs in Indian Country.

17 Jan 2022