Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram

Y Nie, HD Pritchard, Q Liu, T Hennig, W Wang… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Glaciers in the Himalaya–Karakoram mountain ranges harbour approximately half
of the ice volume in High-mountain Asia and modulate the flow of freshwater to almost 869 …

Climate change and conflict

V Koubi - Annual Review of Political Science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The link between climate change and conflict has been discussed intensively in academic
literature during the past decade. This review aims to provide a clearer picture of what the …

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

L Kemp, C Xu, J Depledge, KL Ebi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for
climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate …

Food security

C Mbow, CE Rosenzweig, LG Barioni, TG Benton… - 2020 - ntrs.nasa.gov
The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail,
consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the …

Future of the human climate niche

C Xu, TA Kohler, TM Lenton… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are
unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations …

Security implications of climate change: A decade of scientific progress

N Von Uexkull, H Buhaug - Journal of Peace Research, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The study of security implications of climate change has developed rapidly from a nascent
area of academic inquiry into an important and thriving research field that traverses …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor, M Bindi… - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict

KJ Mach, CM Kraan, WN Adger, H Buhaug, M Burke… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Research findings on the relationship between climate and conflict are diverse and
contested. Here we assess the current understanding of the relationship between climate …

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

W Steffen, J Rockström, K Richardson… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a
planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate …

[HTML][HTML] Climate, conflict and forced migration

GJ Abel, M Brottrager, JC Cuaresma… - Global environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to
link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as …