Anthropogenic climate change detected in European renewable freshwater resources
Freshwater is a key feature of the terrestrial environment, which is inevitably linked to life on Earth and essential for flourishing societies. Consequently, freshwater...
Habitat-based conservation strategies cannot compensate for climate-change-induced range loss
Plants and animals are shifting their ranges in response to recent climate change4, 5 and the climate predicted for the twenty-first century will further...
The appeasement effect of a United Nations climate summit on the German public
Panel survey.
We conducted a three-wave online panel survey, two weeks before, during and four weeks after the UN climate conference 2015 (COP 21). The...
Weakening of the North American monsoon with global warming
State-of-the-art general circulation models (GCMs) forced with greenhouse gas emission scenarios project a reduction of annual precipitation over a broad area of North America...
Coral bleaching pathways under the control of regional temperature variability
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Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. in Vulnerability of Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change (eds Bell, J. D., Johnson, J. E. & Hobday, A....
Potential volcanic impacts on future climate variability
Volcanism has been a major driver of past climate variability1 and will continue to affect future climate alongside human influences9. Explosive volcanic eruptions warm...
Progress in climate modelling
How and why did CMIP come about?
Under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Coupled Models, CMIP aims to...
Getting involved
Education and outreach are becoming an increasingly important requirement in research. In the UK and US, for example, public engagement is a condition for...
Getting involved
Education and outreach are becoming an increasingly important requirement in research. In the UK and US, for example, public engagement is a condition for...
Choices to be made
The breaking off of a large piece (over 5,800 km2) of the Larson-C Ice Shelf has dominated the news headlines of late — a...
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