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Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

Earth Average temperature

2025-01-21

Abstract It’s official: Earth’s average temperature climbed more than 1.5 ℃ above pre-industrial levels for the first time in 202...
Fuel aridity emerges as dominant driver of severity in recent Canadian wildfires

fuel aridity a multinomial logistic regression model major drivers Canadian wildfires

2025-01-21

Abstract The frequency and intensity of wildfires in Canada have increased markedly over the past 40 years. What are the causes a...
Predicting debris flow pathways using volume-based thresholds for effective risk assessment

debris flow climate change

2025-01-21

Abstract Investigating the preferential flow path of a debris flow is crucial for quantifying the risk and developing mitigation ...
How AI Is Being Used to Respond to Natural Disasters in Cities

Climate Change United Nations Initiative Artificial Intelligence Disaster Management Urban Resilience

2025-01-21

Abstract As urban populations have tripled over the past five decades, the susceptibility of cities to natural disasters like ear...
Earth shattered heat records in 2023 and 2024: is global warming speeding up?

El Niño Climate models Global warming Climate Change Air pollution

2025-01-21

Abstract Earth's temperature has risen sharply over the past two years, surpassing 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels in 2024, sp...
Changing boreal tree densities lead to higher wildfire risk and alter crucial forest functions

wildfire tree densities forest functions

2025-01-21

Abstract The extensive northern forests of Canada, Alaska and Siberia are about to fundamentally change their tree density becaus...
IKCEST-DRR participated in the Sustainable Resilience Agenda: 20-years Commemoration of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

Tsunami IKCEST-DRR Earthquake

2025-01-17

Abstract The 20-years Commemoration of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami was held in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Decembe...
Global disparities in transboundary river research have implications for sustainable management

river basin climate change

2024-12-31

Abstract Anthropogenic pressures, climate change, and hydro-politics pose significant risks for sustainable transboundary river ba...
El Niño exacerbates effects of drought on Amazon groundwater and increases fire risk, study finds

El Niño fire risk groundwater drought Amazon

2024-12-31

Abstract The risk of fires in the Amazon is greater in regions where groundwater storage is compromised, especially when El Niño ...
Earth’s clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming

Solar Energy Imbalance NASA Terra Satellite Pollution and Reflectivity Climate Change Greenhouse Gases

2024-12-31

Abstract Over the past two decades, NASA instruments have documented a growing imbalance in Earth’s solar energy budget, with more...

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