Evidence of crop production losses in West Africa due to historical global warming in two crop models

B Sultan, D Defrance, T Iizumi - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Achieving food security goals in West Africa will depend on the capacity of the agricultural
sector to feed the rapidly growing population and to moderate the adverse impacts of climate …

The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

BR Scheffers, L De Meester, TCL Bridge, AA Hoffmann… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Climate change impacts have now been documented across every
ecosystem on Earth, despite an average warming of only~ 1° C so far. Here, we describe the …

Hybrid photothermal–photocatalyst sheets for solar-driven overall water splitting coupled to water purification

C Pornrungroj, AB Mohamad Annuar, Q Wang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Photocatalytic water splitting converts sunlight directly into storable hydrogen, but commonly
involves the use of pure water and land for plant installation while generating unusable …

Recent advances and new frontiers in riverine and coastal flood modeling

K Jafarzadegan, H Moradkhani… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the scientific community has made significant efforts to simulate
flooding conditions using a variety of complex physically based models. Despite all …

Climate change effects on vulnerable populations in the Global South: a systematic review

BS Ngcamu - Natural Hazards, 2023 - Springer
The climate and environmental changes in the Global South have devastating effects on
vulnerable populations, which have been perpetuated by socio-economic and political as …

Carbonate precipitation through microbial activities in natural environment, and their potential in biotechnology: a review

T Zhu, M Dittrich - Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Calcium carbonate represents a large portion of carbon reservoir and is used commercially
for a variety of applications. Microbial carbonate precipitation, a by-product of microbial …

How tree roots respond to drought

I Brunner, C Herzog, MA Dawes, M Arend… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The ongoing climate change is characterized by increased temperatures and altered
precipitation patterns. In addition, there has been an increase in both the frequency and …

Uncertainty in climate change impacts on water resources

ZW Kundzewicz, V Krysanova, RE Benestad… - … Science & Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The uncertainty concepts play a prominent role in global environmental change research,
including climate change science and climate change impact science, with hydrology and …

The impact of climate variability and change on food security in sub-saharan africa: Perspective from panel data analysis

R Affoh, H Zheng, K Dangui, BM Dissani - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the relationship between climate variables such as rainfall amount,
temperature, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission and the triple dimension of food security …

Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India

TA Carleton - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
More than three quarters of the world's suicides occur in developing countries, yet little is
known about the drivers of suicidal behavior in poor populations. I study India, where one …