Rising global temperatures will dampen the world’s capacity to produce food from most staple crops—even after accounting for adaptation, according to new Human Climate Horizons data.

The grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will enable researchers to study dry-season prey concentrations in the Florida Everglades. The project will collect and analyze data on aquatic prey and habitat conditions to reveal the key factors driving wading bird nesting success. By identifying when and where prey concentrate during the dry season, the research will fill a critical knowledge gap, guiding restoration under the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan and supporting strategies to protect the Everglades’ iconic wildlife.

Long-lived contrails form predominantly not in cloud-free skies, but within already existing ice clouds. This is the conclusion reached by a team of scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, the University of Cologne, the University of Wuppertal, and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Professors Jun Borras, Esteve Corbera, Ian Scoones and Anna Tsing, working at universities in the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and Denmark, have been awarded an €8.33 million European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant for their five-year project, Land and Life in the Anthropocene: Landscape reform (LAND). The project asks a pressing question: How can we learn to live on Earth in new ways?   

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) today officially launched the International Coordination Office for Urban-PREDICT, a flagship initiative of the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO), cementing its position as a global leader in urban climate science. The inauguration ceremony, attended by prominent international scientists, policymakers, and industry experts, was followed by the Urban Climate Prediction and Resilience Roundtable, marking a momentous step in global efforts to address urban climate risks through cutting-edge science and cross-sector collaboration.

A new study warns against oversimplifying the causes of extreme weather. While the Asian monsoon can influence North American climate, researchers found its usual effect is to cool the Pacific Northwest. However, during the 2021 heatwave, a uniquely strong jet stream acted as an "atmospheric waveguide," redirecting the monsoon's energy and amplifying the heat. This shows that a factor's general influence ("can it?") can differ from its role in a specific event ("did it?"), highlighting the need for detailed, case-by-case analysis.

A Weill Cornell Medicine investigator and other members of a technical advisory group to the World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund have outlined measures that nations can take to ensure that children’s health is accounted for within climate change goals. 

The impact of water expulsion into the open ocean from formerly ice-covered areas means that sea levels will change world-wide. Ambarish Karmalkar in the University of Rhode Island's Climate Dynamics Lab recently collaborated on a project to simulate and predict ice sheet-climate interactions in the coming decades, to better understand Antarctica’s potential sea level contributions.