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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02371-5
Ice-sheet surface melting impacts sea level and ice dynamics. Now two studies provide a wake-up call for monitoring melt in Antarctica.
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02117-9
Night-time activities substantially impact climate change yet remain widely overlooked in climate research and action. We advocate for incorporating night studies into discussions surrounding climate socio-ecological dynamics to develop equitable and effective adaptation and mitigation strategies, especially in cities.
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In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency, as thousands of residents were told to boil their water before drinking it. For some, the pressure in their taps was so low that they couldn’t flush their toilets and were forced to rely on bottled water for weeks.
Many of the city’s 150,000 residents were wary that their local government could get clean water running through their pipes again. State officials had a history of undermining efforts to repair Jackson’s beleaguered infrastructure, and the city council, for its part, didn’t have the money to make the fixes on its own. So when the federal government stepped in that fall, allocating funding and appointing an …
This story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live.
As a second “heat storm” bears down on Southern Europe, millions of people across the continent are bracing another week of record-setting temperatures.
“The bubble of hot air that has inflated over Southern Europe has turned Italy and surrounding countries into a giant pizza oven,” said Hannah Cloke, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in England. “We haven’t even seen the highest temperatures yet.”
Wide swaths of Europe are expected to see the mercury climb above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, with the Italian weather news service Meteo.it forecasting temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius (115 Fahrenheit). The swelter comes as places across the globe are also being hit by extreme heat, flooding, and …
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01598-4
We estimate that US residential properties exposed to flood risks are overvalued by close to US$ 200 billion. We discuss where these properties are located, and who stands to lose the most from housing prices that better reflect climate risks.
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