State of the climate in Africa 2022
Africa is responsible for only a fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions but is suffering disproportionately from climate change. This is harming food security, ecosystems and economies, fueling displacement
Climate
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Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale
<p>Soil pH regulates the capacity of soils to store and supply nutrients, and thus contributes substantially to controlling productivity in terrestrial ecosystems . However, soil pH is not an independent
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Population density, climate variables and poverty synergistically structure spatial risk in urban malaria in India
<p>The world is rapidly becoming urban with the global population living in cities projected to double by 2050. This increase in urbanization poses new challenges for the spread and control of communicable
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Large scale anthropogenic reduction of forest cover in last glacial maximum Europe
<p>Reconstructions of the vegetation of Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) are an enigma. Pollen-based analyses have suggested that Europe was largely covered by steppe and tundra, and forests
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Regional statement on the impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño and 2016/17 climate and tropical cyclone outlook for the Pacific Islands
The Pacific Island Climate Outlook Forum (PICOF) has issued its Regional climate outlook and tropical cyclone outlook for 2016/2017. The forum, which took place on 17th and 18th of October in Nadi, Fiji,
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Comparing multiple model-derived aerosol optical properties to collocated ground-based and satellite measurements
<p>Anthropogenic aerosols are a key factor governing Earth’s climate, and play a central role in human-caused climate change. However, because of aerosols’ complex physical, optical, and dynamical
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Estimating the effect of air pollution on road safety using atmospheric temperature inversions
This paper estimates the causal eff ect of increased ambient air pollution on the frequency of road traffic accidents in the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2014. An instrumental variable approach is applied,
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Annual disaster statistical review 2015: the numbers and trends
The 2015 annual review of disaster figures based on the EM-DAT database outlines information about the EM-DAT International Disaster Database, its definitions, criteria and content; asks: What did 2015
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State of the climate: global analysis for June 2016
June marks 14 consecutive months of record heat for the globe. Average sea surface temperature was also record high, Persistent heat on land and in the sea this June shattered records, yet again. June
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The spatially varying influence of humans on fire probability in North America
<p>Humans affect fire regimes by providing ignition sources in some cases, suppressing wildfires in others, and altering natural vegetation in ways that may either promote or limit fire. In North America,
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Decadal variability of tropical tropopause temperature and its relationship to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
<p>Tropopause temperatures (TPTs) control the amount of stratospheric water vapour, which influences chemistry, radiation and circulation in the stratosphere, and is also an important driver of surface