Multiple threats to child health from fossil fuel combustion: impacts of air pollution and climate change

FP Perera - Environmental health perspectives, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel
combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on …

Machine learning methods for crop yield prediction and climate change impact assessment in agriculture

A Crane-Droesch - Environmental Research Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Crop yields are critically dependent on weather. A growing empirical literature models this
relationship in order to project climate change impacts on the sector. We describe an …

Dead or dying? Quantifying the point of no return from hydraulic failure in drought‐induced tree mortality

WM Hammond, K Yu, LA Wilson, RE Will… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Determining physiological mechanisms and thresholds for climate‐driven tree die‐off could
help improve global predictions of future terrestrial carbon sinks. We directly tested for the …

Armed-conflict risks enhanced by climate-related disasters in ethnically fractionalized countries

CF Schleussner, JF Donges… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although
each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors …

Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

AK Magnan, ELF Schipper, M Burkett… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the current theoretical scholarship on maladaptation and provides some
specific case studies—in the Maldives, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Bangladesh—to advance …

Overview of biodiesel combustion in mitigating the adverse impacts of engine emissions on the sustainable human–environment scenario

O Ogunkunle, NA Ahmed - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Air pollution is a precursor to many health issues such as difficulty breathing, asthma, lung
and heart diseases, and cancer. This study presents a concise view of biodiesel combustion …

Determinants of the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices by small-scale farming households in King Cetshwayo District Municipality, South Africa

VO Abegunde, M Sibanda, A Obi - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Agriculture, particularly small-scale farming, is both a contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and a victim of the effects of climate change. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) …

Mainstreaming climate adaptation: taking stock about “what works” from empirical research worldwide

H Runhaar, B Wilk, Å Persson, C Uittenbroek… - Regional environmental …, 2018 - Springer
Adaptation to a changing climate is unavoidable. Mainstreaming climate adaptation
objectives into existing policies, as opposed to developing dedicated adaptation policy, is …

Untangling the impacts of climate change on waterborne diseases: a systematic review of relationships between diarrheal diseases and temperature, rainfall, flooding …

K Levy, AP Woster, RS Goldstein… - Environmental science & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Global climate change is expected to affect waterborne enteric diseases, yet to date there
has been no comprehensive, systematic review of the epidemiological literature examining …

Widespread drought‐induced tree mortality at dry range edges indicates that climate stress exceeds species' compensating mechanisms

WRL Anderegg, LDL Anderegg, KL Kerr… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Drought‐induced tree mortality is projected to increase due to climate change, which will
have manifold ecological and societal impacts including the potential to weaken or reverse …