Drylands are home to more than 38% of the world's population and are one of the most
sensitive areas to climate change and human activities. This review describes recent …

The mountain cryosphere of mainland Europe is recognized to have important impacts on a
range of environmental processes. In this paper, we provide an overview on the current …

The AR5 concluded that human influence on the climate system is clear, evident from
increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing …

Arctic sea-ice loss is a leading indicator of climate change and can be attributed, in large
part, to atmospheric forcing. Here, we show that recent ice reductions, weakening of the …

By coordinating the design and distribution of global climate model simulations of the past,
current, and future climate, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) has become …

Between about 1998 and 2012, a time that coincided with political negotiations for
preventing climate change, the surface of Earth seemed hardly to warm. This phenomenon …

While climate warming reduces the occurrence of frost events, the warming-induced
lengthening of the growing season of plants in the Northern Hemisphere may actually …

Research on woody plant species highlights three major cues that shape spring
phenological events: chilling, forcing and photoperiod. Increasing research on the …

The recent levelling of global mean temperatures after the late 1990s, the so-called global
warming hiatus or slowdown, ignited a surge of scientific interest into natural global mean …

The emergence of rapid Arctic warming in recent decades has coincided with unusually cold
winters over Northern Hemisphere continents. It has been speculated that this “Warm Arctic …