Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

Famines in medieval and early modern Europe—Connecting climate and society

FC Ljungqvist, A Seim, D Collet - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The article evaluates recent scholarship on famines in Europe during the medieval and early
modern periods (c. 700–1800), synthesizing the state‐of‐the‐art knowledge and identifying …

Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events

J Yin, P Gentine, L Slater, L Gu, Y Pokhrel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Compound drought–heatwave (CDHW) events are one of the worst climatic stressors for
global sustainable development. However, the physical mechanisms behind CDHWs and …

Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers

S Willcock, GS Cooper, J Addy, JA Dearing - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
A major concern for the world's ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes
and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing …

The 2018–2020 multi‐year drought sets a new benchmark in Europe

O Rakovec, L Samaniego, V Hari, Y Markonis… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the period 2018–2020, Europe experienced a series of hot and dry weather
conditions with significant socioeconomic and environmental consequences. Yet, the …

Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting

R Hoffmann, R Muttarak, J Peisker, P Stanig - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Public support is fundamental in scaling up actions to limit global warming. Here, we
analyse how the experience of climate extremes influences people's environmental attitudes …

Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change

P Sanczuk, K De Pauw, E De Lombaerde… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Macroclimatic changes are impacting ecosystems worldwide. However, a large portion of
terrestrial species live under conditions where impacts of macroclimate change are buffered …

Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years

K Treydte, L Liu, RS Padrón, E Martínez-Sancho… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The vapor pressure deficit reflects the difference between how much moisture the
atmosphere could and actually does hold, a factor that fundamentally affects …

Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

B Yang, C Qin, A Bräuning, TJ Osborn… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Asian summer monsoon (ASM) variability and its long-term ecological and societal impacts
extending back to Neolithic times are poorly understood due to a lack of high-resolution …

Drought and heat reduce forest carbon uptake

S Wolf, E Paul-Limoges - nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
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