Earth's forests face grave challenges in the Anthropocene, including hotter droughts
increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events. But despite the vital …

Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, 160 million grid-connected electricity consumers live in
countries where hydropower accounts for over 50% of total power supply. A warmer climate …

In recent decades, an increasing persistence of atmospheric circulation patterns has been
observed. In the course of the associated long-lasting anticyclonic summer circulations …

Associated with global warming, drought has destructive influences on agriculture and
ecosystems, especially in the fragile Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP). This study investigated …

Extreme droughts are expected to increase in frequency and severity in many regions of the
world, threatening multiple ecosystem services provided by forests. Effective strategies to …

Extreme climate events (ECEs) such as severe droughts, heat waves, and late spring frosts
are rare but exert a paramount role in shaping tree species distributions. The frequency of …

Dengue is expanding globally, but how dengue emergence is shaped locally by interactions
between climatic and socio-environmental factors is not well understood. Here, we …

Climate change poses certain threats to the World's forests. That is, tree performance
declines if species-specific, climatic thresholds are surpassed. Prominent climatic changes …

The co-occurrence of warm spells and droughts can lead to detrimental socio-economic and
ecological impacts, largely surpassing the impacts of either warm spells or droughts alone …

Drought is a complex phenomenon which can be characterised mainly by its severity,
duration and areal extent. Among these three dimensions, drought severity is the key factor …