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Climate-Driven Bushfires Create Urgent Need to Revise the Location and Design of Settlements

Climate change-driven extreme weather events, including devastating Australian bushfires, have created the urgent need for a new approach to planning and building in high fire risk areas and a shift to climate-resilient towns and cities.

26 Feb 2021

Experts Analyze How Rising Sea Level Could Affect the National Flood Insurance Program

Insurance policy premiums from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) allow policyholders to maintain a lower, grandfathered rate even when the risk escalates. But as coastal flooding increases due to rising sea level and more intense storms, new research published in the journal Risk Analysis suggests this grandfathered policy could lead to big losses for the NFIP.

26 Feb 2021

Illinois Researchers Use Short-Term Forecasts to Stress the Urgency of Drought Risk in the U.S.

Many climate models focus on scenarios decades into the future, making their outcomes seem unreliable and problematic for decision-making in the immediate future. In a proactive move, researchers are using short-term forecasts to stress the urgency of drought risk in the United States and inform policymakers' actions now.

26 Feb 2021

Gulf Stream System has Weakened Unprecedentedly in over 1000 Years, Shows Study

Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been as weak as in the last decades. This is the result of a new study by scientists from Ireland, Britain and Germany.

26 Feb 2021

Repeated Fires Drive Long-Term Changes to Tree Communities, Reduce Their Population

Several decades of data related to the effect of recurrent fires on ecosystems throughout the world have been analyzed by researchers from the University of Cambridge.

26 Feb 2021

Climate Change Triggers Abrupt Deviations in Mountain Ecosystems

In the Alps, spring snowmelt is happening earlier in the year because of climate change and consequently activating sudden deviations in mountain ecosystems.

26 Feb 2021

The Melting of Large Icebergs is a Key Stage in the Evolution of Ice Ages

A new study, in which the Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute (IACT) (CSIC-UGR) participated, has described for the first time a key stage in the beginning of the great glaciations and indicates that it can happen to our planet in the future. The findings were recently published in the scientific journal Nature.

26 Feb 2021

Extreme Climate Forecasts can be Counterproductive

For decades, climate change researchers and activists have used dramatic forecasts to attempt to influence public perception of the problem and as a call to action on climate change. These forecasts have frequently been for events that might be called "apocalyptic," because they predict cataclysmic events resulting from climate change.

25 Feb 2021

Freshwater Transport Through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago may Affect Marine Environment and Oceans

Freshwater is accumulating in the Arctic Ocean. The Beaufort Sea, which is the largest Arctic Ocean freshwater reservoir, has increased its freshwater content by 40% over the past two decades. How and where this water will flow into the Atlantic Ocean is important for local and global ocean conditions.

25 Feb 2021

Warming Temperatures may Increase the Number of Thunderstorms in Alaska

Warming temperatures will potentially alter the climate in Alaska so profoundly later this century that the number of thunderstorms will triple, increasing the risks of widespread flash flooding, landslides, and lightning-induced wildfires, new research finds.

24 Feb 2021