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The past can be a key to the future. For 5000 years prior to British colonization, Indigenous ‘cultural burning’ effectively reduced shrub cover and the intensity of bushfires.

Storms

Hurricane Kirk is coming to Europe. Well, not quite.

October 7, 2024

Biodiversity Fishery

The oceans are increasingly gasping for breath

October 6, 2024

Climate change

Can we turn our rivers and oceans into carbon sponges?

October 3, 2024

Wildfires

Risk of unprecedented, extreme wildfires is spreading to the north of Europe

October 1, 2024

Climate change

Methane emissions are increasing, fueling global warming

September 29, 2024

River floods

Heavy rainfall Central Europe 2024 twice as likely due to climate change

September 25, 2024

Droughts and desertification

Trend of more extreme drought in Europe continues

August 9, 2024

Transport, infrastructure and building

By 2100, year-round navigation of the Arctic Ocean

July 31, 2024

Droughts and desertification

Droughts in the Swiss Alps: At the transition from the wet north to the dry south

July 30, 2024

Avalanches and landslides

Flood hazard of ice-dammed lakes at melting glaciers is decreasing

March 29, 2023

At melting glaciers, lakes are being formed where meltwater gets trapped behind debris or ice dams. Floods caused by outbursts of ice-dammed lakes have become less extreme over the past 120 years.

Climate change already increases the number of rockfalls in the Alps

July 19, 2021

The future of landslides in the Pyrenees

March 15, 2021

Temperature and precipitation changes seem to trigger slope destabilization in the Alps

September 8, 2019

On a global scale, landslide hazard doesn't seem to be increasing due to climate change

September 27, 2018

Droughts and desertification

Trend of more extreme drought in Europe continues

August 9, 2024

Since 1950, the frequency and intensity of extreme soil and air drought events have increased over most of Europe. A further increase is projected between now and 2100.

Droughts in the Swiss Alps: At the transition from the wet north to the dry south

July 30, 2024

Drought magnitude and frequency in Ireland will increase in the summer

January 3, 2024

Dryer summers and heavier rainfall: a bad combination

February 10, 2023

Adaptation may strongly limit Europe’s economic drought impacts with global warming

September 20, 2021

Flash floods and urban flooding

Floods have become less deadly worldwide

March 5, 2024

Over the last five decades, floods have become less deadly. The global number of flood events has increased over time, but the average number of people killed and affected per event has decreased.

Half of the annual precipitation falls in fewer and fewer days

February 7, 2024

A flaw in classic approach to flooding: the floods of 2021

June 22, 2022

Intense rainstorms are moving more slowly, causing more floods

October 3, 2021

Fingerprint of climate change in recent European floods

August 24, 2021

Health

More trees, fewer deaths from the heat, London study shows

July 24, 2024

Trees have reduced heat-related mortality in recent years in London by around 16%. London’s strategy to increase tree coverage by 10% would reduce this mortality by a further 10%.

How the hottest city in the US fights the heat

April 23, 2024

Twenty years after the deadly heat of 2003, Europe’s heat response is still ineffective

January 29, 2024

Clear footprint of global warming on death toll in European summer of 2022

August 1, 2023

From Paris Agreement to current policies: a 5-fold increase in global hot exposure

June 5, 2023

River floods

Heavy rainfall Central Europe 2024 twice as likely due to climate change

September 25, 2024

Man-made climate change has doubled the likelihood of the heavy rainfall event in September 2024, causing widespread flooding, and increased the intensity of the heavy rainfall by 7%.

Room for the river, the exception rather than the rule

January 22, 2024

The best way to combat increasing river flood risk in Europe? Water storage!

April 28, 2023

What is driving future fluvial flood risk in Europe?

March 20, 2023

Mixing signals of different catchments blurs climate-related trends in river floods

March 7, 2023

Security and crisis management

How climate change is affecting global migration patterns

April 18, 2023

Migration in response to climate change is not an option for an increasing number of poor people. They lack the financial means to move and are the ‘trapped population’.

Climate-driven shocks to agriculture spur emigration from poor countries

January 17, 2020

Does climate change already affect armed conflicts?

September 25, 2019

New perspectives on the global distribution of climate risk. The Netherlands stands out!

January 7, 2019

Ranking the world on climate security: European countries at the top

August 16, 2018

Storms

Hurricane Kirk is coming to Europe. Well, not quite.

October 7, 2024

What started off as a hurricane over the Atlantic is about to hit the European continent as a storm. The hurricane will have dissipated much of its energy by then.

Hurricanes develop much faster now, giving residents less time to prepare

July 5, 2024

Unprecedented high thunderstorm losses in the USA and Europe: the natural disasters of 2023

May 31, 2024

Americans, brace yourself for this year’s hurricane season

April 5, 2024

More lightning in the north, less in the south

February 9, 2023

Wildfires

Controlled burning to fight wildfires: Indigenous populations show us the way

November 4, 2024

The past can be a key to the future. For 5000 years prior to British colonization, Indigenous ‘cultural burning’ effectively reduced shrub cover and the intensity of bushfires.