West Africa is known to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to high climate
variability, high reliance on rain-fed agriculture, and limited economic and institutional …

Climate change and variability may have an impact on the occurrence of food safety hazards
at various stages of the food chain, from primary production through to consumption. There …

Terrestrial primary productivity and carbon cycle impacts of droughts are commonly
quantified using vapour pressure deficit (VPD) data and remotely sensed greenness, without …

Long-term warming trends across the globe have shifted the distribution of temperature
variability, such that what was once classified as extreme heat relative to local mean …

Carbonaceous aerosols (CA) emitted by fossil and biomass fuels consist of black carbon
(BC), a strong absorber of solar radiation, and organic matter (OM). OM scatters as well as …

Some of the earliest unequivocal signs of climate change have been the warming of the air
and ocean, thawing of land and melting of ice in the Arctic. But recent studies are showing …

High temperatures and heat waves are related but not synonymous concepts. Heat waves,
generally understood to be acute periods of extreme warmth, are relevant to a wide range of …

Global warming is expected to enhance drought extremes in the United States throughout
the twenty-first century. Projecting these changes can be complex in regions with large …

Global climate models project a decrease in the magnitude of precipitation in tropical
regions. Changes in rainfall patterns have important implications for the moisture content …

A large carbon sink in northern land surfaces inferred from global carbon cycle inversion
models led to concerns during Kyoto Protocol negotiations that countries might be able to …