Heat extremes (ie, heatwaves) already have a serious impact on human health, with ageing,
poverty, and chronic illnesses as aggravating factors. As the global community seeks to …

The risks of climate change are enormous, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions to
billions of people. The economic consequences of many of the complex risks associated …

Under continued global warming, extreme events such as heat waves will continue to rise in
frequency, intensity, duration, and spatial extent over the next decades (–). Younger …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

The risk of heatwave events and their persistence has intensified in recent past and is
expected to increase faster in future. However, the anticipated changes in socioeconomic …

The acceleration of global urbanization has increased the frequency of the urban heat island
(UHI) effect and heatwaves, which seriously endanger human health. We used Shenzhen as …

Mitigation pathways exploring end-of-century temperature targets often entail temperature
overshoot. Little is known about the additional climate risks generated by overshooting …

Empirical evidence demonstrates that lakes and reservoirs are warming across the globe.
Consequently, there is an increased need to project future changes in lake thermal structure …

The current study investigates a holistically developed solar energy system combined with a
ground-sourced heat pump system for stand-alone usage to produce power, heat, and …

A large discrepancy exists between the dire impacts that most natural scientists project we
could face from climate change and the modest estimates of damages calculated by …