Climate damage is worsening faster than expected, but there's still reason for optimism – 4 essential reads on the IPCC report

The final report in the IPCC’s sixth assessment series says countries will have to cut their greenhouse gas emissions 60% in the next 12 years to keep global warming in check.

Stacy Morford, Environment + Climate Editor • conversation
March 20, 2023 • ~10 min

Intense downpours in the UK will increase due to climate change – new study

A supercomputer spent six months projecting localised rainfall extremes decades into the future.

Elizabeth Kendon, Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol • conversation
March 7, 2023 • ~7 min

How flood forecasting in real time, with block-by-block data, could save lives

The majority of flood-related deaths involve vehicles in water. What if flood models could warn of the risks street by street using real-time storm forecasts? Machine learning can make it possible.

Valeriy Ivanov, Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
Jan. 18, 2023 • ~8 min

Flood forecasts in real-time with block-by-block data could save lives – a new machine learning method makes it possible

The majority of flood-related deaths involve vehicles in water. What if flood models could warn of the risks street by street using real-time storm forecasts?

Valeriy Ivanov, Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
Jan. 18, 2023 • ~8 min

Extreme storms and flood events cause damage worth billions to ports -- and they are most disruptive to small island developing states

Natural disasters cause billions in damage to ports around the world each year.

Jasper Verschuur, DPhil Student, University of Oxford • conversation
Jan. 17, 2023 • ~6 min

2022's billion-dollar disasters: Climate change helped make it US's 3rd most expensive year on record

A monster hurricane, destructive storms and a drought that disrupted businesses across the economy led the list of the year’s costliest disasters.

Stacy Morford, Environment + Climate Editor • conversation
Jan. 10, 2023 • ~8 min

18 huge, billion-dollar disasters: Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record

With a weather disaster unfolding in California and memories of December’s bone-chilling winter storms fresh in many people’s minds, NOAA released its list of the costliest disasters of 2022.

Stacy Morford, Environment + Climate Editor • conversation
Jan. 10, 2023 • ~7 min

Atmospheric rivers over California’s wildfire burn scars raise fears of deadly mudslides – this is what cascading climate disasters look like

Mudslides start with destabilized land, often from wildfires, and then rain drives the cascading disaster.

Amir AghaKouchak, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine • conversation
Jan. 10, 2023 • ~8 min

England may be set to flood at the end of winter – here's why

The Met Office has predicted that England is to be affected by flooding this February.

Jonathan Paul, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Earth Science, Royal Holloway University of London • conversation
Jan. 10, 2023 • ~8 min

How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific

Urban infrastructure was designed to take stormwater out to the ocean quickly. Now, California needs that precious water.

Andrew Fisher, Professor of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Cruz • conversation
Jan. 6, 2023 • ~7 min

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