a–c Climatology of observed annual TCGF in the WNP over 1980–2014 derived from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC; a), the China Meteorological Administration (CMA; b) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA; c). Unit:1. d Time series of annual TC numbers in WNP derived from JTWC (black), CMA (green) and JMA (blue). The dashed region … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As we approach the global annual climate change conference, COP29, the need for increased public finance from the global north to address climate adaptation in Africa has become more urgent than ever. However, framing the finance debate solely around this need risks deepening mistrust and downplaying the scale of the challenge. … Read more
Sea-level rise caused by climate change poses a serious and often unpredictable threat to coastal forests, and new tools are needed to help mitigate damage and allocate conservation resources. A new study from North Carolina State University and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) details how satellite imagery may help identify forested areas that are … Read more
We’ve repeatedly chronicled increasingly visible and consequential examples of failures in organizational capabilities. The degree of institutional brain rot has become disconcertingly visible in recent years, particularly among top national officials and international institutions (we’re looking at you, Ursula). These shortcomings are set to become a critical lapse as climate change related disasters become more … Read more
In perhaps the first long-term study of CO2 fluxes in northern forests growing on permafrost, an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team has found that climate change increased not only the sources of carbon, but also the CO2 sinks. The 20-year observation from 2003-2022 in the interior of Alaska showed that while CO2 sinks turned into … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The world is striving to reach net-zero emissions as we try to ward off dangerous global warming. But will getting to net-zero actually avert climate instability, as many assume? Our new study examined that question. Alarmingly, we found reaching net-zero in the next few decades will not bring an immediate end … Read more
Comparison of model and environmental proxy reconstructions for winter temperature (a, b), summer temperature (c, d) and annual precipitation (e, f) between pre-Industrial values, paleoclimate models (MH-PMIP) and Sahara greening models (MH-GS). Credit: Climate of the Past (2024). DOI: 10.5194/cp-20-1735-2024 Africa’s Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As TVs across Florida broadcast the all-too-familiar images of a powerful hurricane headed for the coast in early October 2024, people whose homes had been damaged less than two weeks earlier by Hurricane Helene watched anxiously. Hurricane Milton was rapidly intensifying into a dangerous storm, fueled by the Gulf of Mexico’s … Read more
Observed signature of the western boundary currents in climatological mean vertical motion and precipitation. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08019-2 A trio of atmospheric scientists at Colorado State University has found evidence suggesting that western boundary currents have a bigger impact on local climate variability than has been previously thought. In their paper published in the … Read more
Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs — the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art — by analysing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and stretching from Siberia to Britain. The aurochs roamed … Read more