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Cover and source: Nature communications
Documents and publications
This study into compound drought-heatwaves reveals a significant disparity between low-income and high-income regions in terms of global compound drought-heatwaves. This inequality is largely attributed to a similar disparity in drought occurrence.
Update
The capacity to imagine and create should become integral to delta management. This concept has been echoed by ten pioneering scientists in an article published in one of the prestigious Nature Partner Journals.
Earth.com
Person holding an umbrella during a hot day in a square
Research briefs
A new study takes a look into extreme heat waves that hit predominantly in the last five years or so, particularly areas where extreme heat is accelerating considerably faster than more moderate temperatures.
Columbia Climate School
A group of pedestrians are stranded during heavy flooding in Karachi, Pakistan
Update
Crop failures, droughts, flooding, extreme weather, wildfires and rising seas are highly lethal. It is essential that policymakers begin considering the number of premature deaths expected from any emissions that may result from their decision.
Conversation Media Group, the
A small stream flowing out of the top of the Carpathian Mountains, general view from the drone.
Update
By 1982, only 3.1% remained of Ethiopia's forests remained following decades of clearing. Communities are now bringing forests back and with them, climate change mitigation, sustainable land management, and livelihood improvement.
The Energy Mix
Research briefs
In certain parts of the United States, the ability of residents to prepare for and respond to flooding is being undercut on three different levels: an underestimation of risks, social vulnerability, and pervasive skepticism on climate change.
University of Michigan
Update
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides announced the revival and strengthening of the Initiative undertaken by the Republic of Cyprus in 2019 to address the impacts of Climate Change in the region.
The Cyprus Institute
Mongolia yurts in the snow
Update
Increasingly frequent and severe dzud events threaten food security and economic development in Mongolia. While dzud has always been a part of life in Mongolia, climate change is intensifying these events.
Asian Development Bank Institute
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