Satellite remote sensing of surface urban heat islands: Progress, challenges, and perspectives

D Zhou, J Xiao, S Bonafoni, C Berger, K Deilami… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
The surface urban heat island (SUHI), which represents the difference of land surface
temperature (LST) in urban relativity to neighboring non-urban surfaces, is usually …

Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions

C Mora, D Spirandelli, EC Franklin, J Lynham… - Nature climate …, 2018 - nature.com
The ongoing emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is triggering changes in many climate
hazards that can impact humanity. We found traceable evidence for 467 pathways by which …

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

W Steffen, J Rockström, K Richardson… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a
planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate …

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

TP Hughes, JT Kerry, AH Baird, SR Connolly, A Dietzel… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Global warming is rapidly emerging as a universal threat to ecological integrity and function,
highlighting the urgent need for a better understanding of the impact of heat exposure on the …

Quantifying excess deaths related to heatwaves under climate change scenarios: A multicountry time series modelling study

Y Guo, A Gasparrini, S Li, F Sera… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Heatwaves are a critical public health problem. There will be an increase in the
frequency and severity of heatwaves under changing climate. However, evidence about the …

A global synthesis of animal phenological responses to climate change

JM Cohen, MJ Lajeunesse, JR Rohr - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Shifts in phenology are already resulting in disruptions to the timing of migration and
breeding, and asynchronies between interacting species,,,–. Recent syntheses have …

[HTML][HTML] A global assessment of Indigenous community engagement in climate research

DM David-Chavez, MC Gavin - Environmental Research Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
For millennia Indigenous communities worldwide have maintained diverse knowledge
systems informed through careful observation of dynamics of environmental changes …

Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities

SB Guerreiro, RJ Dawson, C Kilsby… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Cities are particularly vulnerable to climate risks due to their agglomeration of people,
buildings and infrastructure. Differences in methodology, hazards considered, and climate …

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 …

A critical political ecology of human dimensions of climate change: Epistemology, ontology, and ethics

MJ Goldman, MD Turner, M Daly - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To understand the broader epistemological and ontological politics of human dimensions of
climate change, this review adopts a political ecology approach, informed by Science and …