Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

Reduced rainfall increases the risk of forest dieback, while in return forest loss might
intensify regional droughts. The consequences of this vegetation–atmosphere feedback for …

Network theory, as emerging from complex systems science, can provide critical predictive
power for mitigating the global warming crisis and other societal challenges. Here we …

The Arctic's rapid sea ice decline may influence global weather patterns, making the
understanding of Arctic weather variability (WV) vital for accurate weather forecasting and …

The use of extreme events theory for the analysis of spontaneous epileptic brain activity is a
relevant multidisciplinary problem. It allows deeper understanding of pathological brain …

The frequency of hydrological extremes (droughts and floods) has increased in recent years
in India. A dense population, intensive agriculture, and rapidly developing physical …

The Anthropocene is characterized by the strengthening of planetary-scale interactions
between the biophysical Earth system (ES) and human societies. This increasing social …

Over the last two decades the complex network paradigm has proven to be a fruitful tool for
the investigation of complex systems in many areas of science; for example, the Internet …

This article presents a review of the scientific literature on detection, sources of variability,
and predictability of the timing of monsoons. The timing of monsoons is characterized by the …