Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds
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Snow cover in the mountains of Greece – an important water source for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems during the dry summer months – has more than halved over the past four decades, a study has found.
The World Stroke Organization is warning that climate change poses an escalating threat to brain health, with extreme heat in particular increasing the risk of having a stroke and of patients dying from stroke.
A synthesis of six assessments of first generation of carbon credit projects designed to reduce deforestation has found that although their climate benefits were often oversold tenfold, many played an important role in reducing forest loss.
Researchers suggest improved valuation methods, that better reflect real reductions in deforestation over time, would increase confidence in the critically important market for these credits.
Up to 36 per cent of animal habitats on land could be exposed to multiple extreme climate events by 2085, according to a new international study.
A Simon Fraser University researcher was part of an international team that used climate impact modelling to project how much of the planet’s land animals’ habitat would experience multiple extreme heat waves, wildfires, droughts or river floods under low- to high-emissions scenarios over the next 60 years.
“We were looking at what percentage of amphibian, bird, mammal and reptile land habitats would experience repeated extreme events such as back-to-back heat waves or a heat wave followed by a wildfire,” says Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, a contributing author of the study.
A new study led by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich reveals that a key part of the climate system - the large-scale wind patterns that determine where rain falls – can be underestimated by current climate models, helping explain why forecasts of regional rainfall remain uncertain. Ultimately, this insight could enable more confident projections of future rainfall patterns, supporting better preparation for floods and droughts.
A new study by researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso has identified a significant rise in Valley fever cases in El Paso over the past decade and found strong connections between the disease and extreme weather, wind and airborne dust.
This study reveals that geographic isolation and Quaternary climatic fluctuations jointly drove genetic differentiation and multiple glacial refugia of the fully mycoheterotrophic herb Burmannia nepalensis, with recent human activity causing population decline.