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The future of our deltas is at stake. Sea level is rising and land is subsiding, but not enough river sediments are reaching these deltas to keep up with sea level rise.

Storms

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

July 5, 2024

Biodiversity

Oceans are increasingly affected by heat, acidification and oxygen loss

June 5, 2024

Storms

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

May 31, 2024

Climate change

The future of clean air: Are agreements effective?

May 30, 2024

Climate change

We can cool our cities much more than we currently do

May 15, 2024

Energy

From now on, fossil fuel use for electricity generation will decrease

May 10, 2024

Climate change

We will fail to achieve the Paris climate agreement, IPCC experts say

May 8, 2024

Fresh water resources

Droughts, not floods, are the biggest challenge in the Alps

May 2, 2024

Insurance and business

Climate change is already having an impact on our incomes

April 25, 2024

Health

How the hottest city in the US fights the heat

April 23, 2024

Phoenix, the fifth largest city of the US and the nation’s hottest, has established the country’s first office of heat response and mitigation. Its main instrument: trees!

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

70 years from now, nearly half of the urban population could be exposed to high heat stress

May 23, 2023

Insurance and business

Climate change is already having an impact on our incomes

April 25, 2024

Without global warming, global income between now and 2050 would be a fifth higher. By 2050, the economic impact of climate change equates to a global income loss of $38 trillion per year.

Tourism and energy of southern European islands are vulnerable for climate change

March 18, 2022

Heat exposure outdoor workers already leads to productivity loss of 1.7 per cent of GDP

February 20, 2022

Future increase of heat stress productivity losses relatively low in Europe

December 30, 2021

Escalating summer heat exposure will increase loss in labour productivity

January 28, 2021

River floods

Room for the river, the exception rather than the rule

January 22, 2024

We are losing more natural floodplain area each year, globally, than half a century ago. Relative land use change was largest in Europe, almost 10% of all floodplain areas since the early 1990s.

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

What is causing increased disaster losses, societal change or climate change?

February 17, 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

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

July 5, 2024

The number of tropical cyclones that intensify from a category 1 hurricane (or weaker) into a major hurricane within 36 hours has more than doubled today compared to half a century ago