Changes in observed climate extremes in global urban areas
Climate extremes have profound implications for urban infrastructure and human society, but studies of observed changes in climate extremes over the global urban areas are few, even though more than half
View ArticleBiomass enables the transition to a carbon-negative power system across...
Sustainable biomass can play a transformative role in the transition to a decarbonized economy, with potential applications in electricity, heat, chemicals and transportation fuels. Deploying bioenergy
View ArticleMenopausal hormone use and ovarian cancer risk: individual participant...
Half the epidemiological studies with information about menopausal hormone therapy and ovarian cancer risk remain unpublished, and some retrospective studies could have been biased by selective...
View ArticleWalk on the wild side: Estimating the global magnitude of visits to protected...
How often do people visit the world’s protected areas (PAs)? Despite PAs covering one-eighth of the land and being a major focus of nature-based recreation and tourism, we don’t know. To address this,
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Effects of large-scale deforestation on precipitation in the monsoon regions:...
Large-scale deforestation could cause monsoon
View ArticleResidential heating with wood and coal: health impacts and policy options in...
Residential heating with wood and coal is an important source of ambient (outdoor) air pollution; it can also cause substantial indoor air pollution through either direct exposure or infiltration from
View ArticleClimate and land use change impacts on global terrestrial ecosystems and...
A new generation of an Earth system model now includes a number of land-surface processes directly relevant to analyzing potential impacts of climate change. This model, HadGEM2-ES, allows us to assess
View ArticleClimatic dipoles drive two principal modes of North American boreal bird...
This study is the first, to our knowledge, to reveal how climate variability drives irruptions of North American boreal seed-eating birds. Patterns of Pine Siskin irruption and associated climate drivers
View ArticleA global map of urban extent from nightlights
Urbanization, a major driver of global change, profoundly impacts our physical and social world, for example, altering not just water and carbon cycling, biodiversity, and climate, but also demography,
View ArticleAn alternative policy evaluation of the British Columbia carbon tax:...
Climate change is putting infrastructure, food supply, water resources, ecosystems, and human health at risk. These risks will be exacerbated depending on the degree of additional greenhouse gas...
View ArticleChild and adolescent obesity: part of a bigger picture
The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has risen substantially worldwide in less than one generation. In the USA, the average weight of a child has risen by more than 5 kg within three...
View ArticleContribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme...
Surface weather conditions are closely governed by the large-scale circulation of the Earth’s atmosphere. Recent increases in the occurrence of some extreme weather phenomena have led to multiple...
View ArticleLaboratory rodent diets contain toxic levels of environmental contaminants:...
The quality of diets in rodent feeding trials is crucial. We describe the contamination with environmental pollutants of 13 laboratory rodent diets from 5 continents. Measurements were performed using
View ArticleClimate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents
For many species, geographical ranges are expanding toward the poles in response to climate change, while remaining stable along range edges nearest the equator. Using long-term observations across
View ArticleClimate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013
Climate strongly influences global wildfire activity, and recent wildfire surges may signal fire weather-induced pyrogeographic shifts. Here we use three daily global climate data sets and three fire
View ArticleClimate impact of beef: an analysis considering multiple time scales and...
An analysis of the climate impact of various forms of beef production is carried out, with a particular eye to the comparison between systems relying primarily on grasses grown in pasture ('grass-fed'
View ArticleRegional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America...
A new data set of landslides that caused loss of life in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 10-year period from 2004 and 2013 inclusive has been compiled, providing new insight into the impact of
View ArticleImpact of school cycles and environmental forcing on the timing of pandemic...
While a relationship between environmental forcing and influenza transmission has been established in inter-pandemic seasons, the drivers of pandemic influenza remain debated. In particular, school
View ArticleConservation status of North American birds in the face of future climate change
Human-induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of biological processes and patterns. Historic climate change is known to have caused shifts in the geographic ranges
View ArticleBiotic and climatic velocity identify contrasting areas of vulnerability to...
Metrics that synthesize the complex effects of climate change are essential tools for mapping future threats to biodiversity and predicting which species are likely to adapt in place to new climatic
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