2026 February - 34 articles
This paper explores the intertwined relationship between food systems and climate change, emphasizing their role in achieving the global target of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Food systems contribute significantly to gr...
Mesoscale eddies are highly active around the Kuroshio in the East China Sea (ECS), serving as a crucial component of the ECS’s complex dynamic environment. However, the long-term variation in mesoscale eddies in this region has not been system...
Within the U.S., there are racial–ethnic and regional disparities in climate event experiences. For example, the West region has experienced increased frequencies of wildfires, whereas minoritized racial–ethnic groups have experienced mor...
The escalating frequency and severity of extreme weather events globally have underscored the critical importance of addressing anthropogenic climate change. Countries that contribute disproportionately to global warming relative to their population...
This study presents a comparative flood frequency analysis of annual maximum discharges for major Romanian river basins, assessing the performance of the Halphen-A distribution relative to the Pearson Type III distribution, the reference model in Rom...
Drought is a slow-onset hazard whose economic impacts can propagate across sectors with multi-year delays. This study develops a non-linear autoregressive model with exogenous drought inputs (ARX) to assess whether U.S. drought severity, measured by...
This study presents a hybrid modeling framework aimed at enhancing climate mitigation strategies by evaluating the predictive power of sustainability indicators using both statistical analysis—correlation metrics, regression modeling, distribut...
Estimating future air quality under the warming climate is an urgent task for all populated regions. Often, climate models are evaluated with respect to air temperature and precipitation, but without a focus on other air quality-related meteorologica...
Climate change is intensifying extreme weather events and placing increasing pressure on global water resources, particularly in regions with high climatic variability such as Mexico. However, long-term changes in precipitation patterns and their imp...
Since early 2023, severe to exceptional drought has developed in southern coastal Australia, with dam levels falling as stream flows plummet. The wet season, April to September, reflects the most equatorward position of the mid-latitude westerly wind...
Sub-Saharan Africa faces intersecting challenges of water scarcity, climate-induced migration, and gender inequality, all of which have profound implications for health. These overlapping stressors, compounded by fragile socioeconomic conditions, con...
Ambient air pollution is a major environmental health risk, with impacts that may be unevenly distributed across vulnerable populations, particularly in urban areas under changing climate conditions. This study assessed whether social conditions modi...
Watersheds provide fundamental hydrological ecosystem services for human well-being and the environment, such as water provisioning, hydrological cycle regulation, and erosion control; however, these services face increasing anthropogenic and climati...
Weather modification has gained significant and growing interest in the United States (US) in recent years. The trend can be largely attributed to the changing climate, persistent droughts, and other extreme weather events that have been experienced...
People living in India are experiencing some of the hottest summers on the planet. Conditions are particularly harsh in Indian cities, like Kolkata, where high temperatures are combined with high humidity. Understanding how conditions in Kolkata have...
Cities are among the major consumers of environmental resources and contribute significantly to the degradation of many ecosystems. For this reason, the European Union is prioritising the transformation of the role of European cities to become key ac...
Local governments play a critical role in advancing climate change mitigation under national carbon neutrality strategies; however, practical mechanisms for policy learning and collaboration remain limited. This study analyzes the Kyoto Roundtable, a...
Rapid urbanization and global warming are amplifying heat-related health risks, particularly for vulnerable age groups. This study develops an open-source risk assessment framework that uses big data from remote sensing, land use, and population data...
Based on a previously developed empirical model of global solar irradiance (EMGSI) at the Dome C station under all-sky conditions, and on good simulations of global solar radiation and its losses in the atmosphere caused by absorption and scattering...
Urbanization and climate change have intensified the need for advanced methods to simulate building energy performance within realistic urban environmental contexts. This study presents a microclimate-informed framework for developing representative...
This study presents an analysis of 40-years (1981–2020) precipitation climatology of ERA5-Land and E-OBS gridded datasets over Greece. The analysis focused on trends in total annual, low, moderate, and extreme precipitation—as well as num...
A comprehensive multidisciplinary review of recent advances in aviation emissions modeling methodologies and mitigation strategies through optimized in-flight operational procedures, and how they could be considered in evaluating their climatic impac...
The increasing frequency of extreme rainfall events that cause severe damage is considered a clear sign of climate change. Therefore, analyzing these events and gaining a better understanding of the circulation patterns that form precipitation regime...
The Earth’s climate system exhibits nonlinear behavior driven by interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, land, and biosphere. These dynamics have given rise to relatively stable environments that shape the structure and function...
Global warming (GW) contributions from feedbacks and feedback loops are projected to rise from ≈54% (loops: 29%) in 2024 to ≈71% (loops: 50%) under faltering RCP pathways without Solar Geoengineering (SG) by about 2100. A critical thresho...
In regions lacking sufficient data, remote sensing (RS) offers a reliable alternative for precipitation estimation, enabling more effective drought management. This study comprehensively evaluates four commonly used RS datasets—Climate Hazards...
We are interested in modelling smaller datasets to generate more accurate, sub-regional or regional climate forecasts. The focus of this paper is to present the findings of a study investigating the application of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) t...
Recent projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicate that global warming will turn permanent and further intensify the severity and frequency of extreme weather events (heat waves, rain, and intense droughts), with coastal reg...
The Canadian Prairies are a region of critical importance to continental hydroclimate and agriculture, exhibiting high sensitivity to variability in atmospheric moisture transport. This study investigates the seasonal and interannual variability of i...
The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of vegetation cover and height on soil and plant nutrients across managed and unmanaged agricultural land in a temperate climate. Fresh soil and vegetation samples were collected during the years 202...
This study presents a process-informed framework for assessing the differential credibility of diverse downscaling methodologies, including both statistical (simple and complex) and dynamical approaches. The methods evaluated include a convolutional...
In pursuit of global climate goals and sustainable development, countries have adopted a wide range of environmental policy instruments. This study examines the relationship between environmental policy stringency (EPS) and environmental outcomes, me...
Background: Health care work contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Primary health care is community-based and focused on wellness and disease prevention. Within primary health care, pharmacists are most frequently the stewards of med...
Tourism is increasingly acknowledged as a major driver of global greenhouse gas emissions. However, efforts to accurately assess its carbon footprint remain hindered by methodological inconsistencies and a reliance on fragmented case studies. This st...
