Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

National contributions to climate change due to historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1850

MW Jones, GP Peters, T Gasser, RM Andrew… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)
have made significant contributions to global warming since the pre-industrial period and …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

JG Canadell, CP Meyer, GD Cook, A Dowdy… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and
extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential …

Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020

S Peng, X Lin, RL Thompson, Y Xi, G Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Atmospheric methane growth reached an exceptionally high rate of 15.1±0.4 parts per
billion per year in 2020 despite a probable decrease in anthropogenic methane emissions …

Abating ammonia is more cost-effective than nitrogen oxides for mitigating PM2.5 air pollution

B Gu, L Zhang, R Van Dingenen, M Vieno… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Fine particulate matter (PM2. 5, particles with a mass median aerodynamic diameter of less
than 2.5 micrometers) in the atmosphere is associated with severe negative impacts on …

A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018

WF Lamb, T Wiedmann, J Pongratz… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be traced to five economic sectors: energy,
industry, buildings, transport and AFOLU (agriculture, forestry and other land uses). In this …

Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

NL Harris, DA Gibbs, A Baccini, RA Birdsey… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Managing forests for climate change mitigation requires action by diverse stakeholders
undertaking different activities with overlapping objectives and spatial impacts. To date …

Record-high CO2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021

B Zheng, P Ciais, F Chevallier, H Yang, JG Canadell… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Extreme wildfires are becoming more common and increasingly affecting Earth's climate.
Wildfires in boreal forests have attracted much less attention than those in tropical forests …