Current and projected regional economic impacts of heatwaves in Europe

D García-León, A Casanueva, G Standardi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extreme heat undermines the working capacity of individuals, resulting in lower productivity,
and thus economic output. Here we analyse the present and future economic damages due …

Challenges and opportunities in the use of nature-based solutions for urban adaptation

S Castelo, M Amado, F Ferreira - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The concept of nature-based solutions (NbS) has been endorsed by multiple international
organizations as one of the priority approaches to address climate-related challenges …

The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points

C Heinze, T Blenckner, H Martins… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic climate change profoundly alters the ocean's environmental conditions,
which, in turn, impact marine ecosystems. Some of these changes are happening fast and …

[HTML][HTML] Different mechanisms for daytime, nighttime, and compound heatwaves in southern China

M Luo, NC Lau, Z Liu - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2022 - Elsevier
Heatwaves often cause immense stress on human society and the natural environment.
While heatwaves can be classified into daytime, nighttime, and compound daytime-nighttime …

Changes in precipitation variability across time scales in multiple global climate model large ensembles

RR Wood, F Lehner, AG Pendergrass… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Anthropogenic changes in the variability of precipitation stand to impact both natural and
human systems in profound ways. Precipitation variability encompasses not only extremes …

Increasing spatiotemporal proximity of heat and precipitation extremes in a warming world quantified by a large model ensemble

C Raymond, L Suarez-Gutierrez… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Increases in climate hazards and their impacts mark one of the major challenges of climate
change. Situations in which hazards occur close enough to one another to result in amplified …

Large humidity effects on urban heat exposure and cooling challenges under climate change

J Yang, L Zhao, K Oleson - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Many urban climates are characterized by increased temperature and decreased relative
humidity, under climate change and compared to surrounding rural landscapes. The two …

Highly efficient subambient all-day passive radiative cooling textiles with optically responsive MgO embedded in porous cellulose acetate polymer

L Du, Z Zhou, J Li, B Hu, C Wang, J Zheng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Passive radiative cooling (PRC) is an electricity-free and spontaneous cooling technology to
alleviate the global scorching weather that increasingly threatens human health. Herein …

[HTML][HTML] Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming

R Flach, G Abrahão, B Bryant, M Scarabello… - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
In tropical regions, widespread loss of native forest and savanna vegetation is increasing
extreme heat, particularly in agricultural regions. Using the case of rising extreme heat from …

Exploiting large ensembles for a better yet simpler climate model evaluation

L Suarez-Gutierrez, S Milinski, N Maher - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
We use a methodological framework exploiting the power of large ensembles to evaluate
how well ten coupled climate models represent the internal variability and response to …