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 …

Climate change and small island developing states

A Thomas, A Baptiste, R Martyr-Koller… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Despite their heterogeneity, small island developing states (SIDS) are recognized as being
particularly at risk to climate change, and, as they share numerous common traits, the United …

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 …

IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks

BC O'neill, M Oppenheimer, R Warren… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
The reasons for concern framework communicates scientific understanding about risks in
relation to varying levels of climate change. The framework, now a cornerstone of the IPCC …

Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts

PD Wallingford, TL Morelli, JM Allen, EM Beaury… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
As Earth's climate rapidly changes, species range shifts are considered key to species
persistence. However, some range-shifting species will alter community structure and …

Extreme coastal erosion enhanced by anomalous extratropical storm wave direction

MD Harley, IL Turner, MA Kinsela, JH Middleton… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Extratropical cyclones (ETCs) are the primary driver of large-scale episodic beach erosion
along coastlines in temperate regions. However, key drivers of the magnitude and regional …

Detecting and attributing health burdens to climate change

KL Ebi, NH Ogden, JC Semenza… - Environmental health …, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Detection and attribution of health impacts caused by climate change uses
formal methods to determine a) whether the occurrence of adverse health outcomes has …

Human influence on climate in the 2014 southern England winter floods and their impacts

N Schaller, AL Kay, R Lamb, NR Massey… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
A succession of storms reaching southern England in the winter of 2013/2014 caused
severe floods and£ 451 million insured losses. In a large ensemble of climate model …

Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

J Mao, A Ribes, B Yan, X Shi, PE Thornton… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Significant land greening in the northern extratropical latitudes (NEL) has been documented
through satellite observations during the past three decades,,,,. This enhanced vegetation …

Historical warming has increased US crop insurance losses

NS Diffenbaugh, FV Davenport… - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantification of the sector-specific financial impacts of historical global warming represents
a critical gap in climate change impacts assessment. The multiple decades of county-level …