Climate Change

C limate change has made the kind of heavy rainstorms that drove deadly flooding in Europe last month more likely, scientists have warned. Researchers found that extreme rainfall events similar to those which led to severe flooding in Germany Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg are between 1.2 and nine times…

Published: 5:01am, 24 Aug, 2021 Updated: 5:51am, 24 Aug, 2021 Read More

Extreme weather events like wildfires, heat waves and flooding have ravaged the province of British Columbia this year and forced over 20 provincial parks to shut their doors, leaving backcountry enthusiasts to notice first hand, the effects climate change has had. Ian Lipchak pictured on a canoeing trip in Ontario…

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate change is rattling the world’s central bankers. With unprecedented heat and wildfires in the American West and southern Europe, and record floods racing through German towns and Chinese megacities…

“Let’s be clear: This was avoidable,” a furious Varshini Prakash, the executive director of the Sunrise Movement, said in response to the latest United Nations climate report. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, released on August 9, “is apocalyptic, catastrophic, and nothing we haven’t been screaming about…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most scientists agree climate change has a profound impact on U.S. agricultural production. But estimates vary widely, making it hard to develop mitigation strategies. Two agricultural economists at the University of Illinois take a closer look at how choice of statistical methodology influences climate study results.…

As climate change intensifies summer after summer, millions of people around the world are finding themselves shrouded in toxic wildfire smoke, including those in North America, Russia and the Mediterranean just this past month. I’m from Australia, where our devastating 2019–2020 bushfires and smoke caught the world’s attention. Wildfire smoke…

Bumblebees largely contribute to the pollination of crops. However, they are threatened by land use changes due to climate change. Long-term simulations made by researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and partners from Italy have now shown that smart land management may stabilize some species. The results are reported…

A new study shows that disappearing sea ice is a significant element of the food web supporting female walruses and their dependent young in the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea. Researchers were able to trace biomarkers that are unique to algae growing within sea ice to connect marine mammals with a food…

Waters of high AsiaHow the rivers of the Himalaya-Karakoram region of Asia respond to climate change is critical for the billion-plus people who depend on the water that they provide. In a Review, Azam et al. discuss recent progress in understanding the importance of glacier and snow melt in the…