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Increasing lifetime exposure to extreme fire weather under climate change in Europe

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae93de

Published: September 20, 2026 23:00

Climate change increases fire weather globally. Hot, dry and windy conditions raise the likelihood of fires igniting and spreading and make suppression more challenging. With further warming, fire weather is projected to intensify across Europe, yet…

The variability atlas: how internal climate variability affects the estimation of climate extreme indices

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9c57

Published: September 17, 2026 23:00

Robustly quantifying climate extremes is crucial for understanding their occurrence, reliable impact assessments, and efficient adaptation planning. To allow objective and comparable assessments of various climate extremes across regions, time periods, and…

Atmospheric thickness links circum-hemisphere teleconnection to extreme cold events in boreal winter

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea2b0

Published: September 17, 2026 23:00

Extreme cold events (ECEs) impose societal risks, yet the local process linking large-scale teleconnections to regional ECEs is unclear. Here we systematically evaluate local atmospheric factors to identify the factor most strongly associated with the…

Wastewater treatment-induced carbonate chemistry alteration and its implications for ocean alkalinity enhancement

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea177

Published: September 17, 2026 23:00

Municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are important components of urban carbon cycling and have been proposed as potential platforms for ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE). However, carbonate-system transformations across full-scale treatment…

Equitable cooperation deepens the solution space for high ambition pathways

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea34d

Published: September 17, 2026 23:00

Integrated assessment model scenarios informing global climate ambition typically treat fairness and cooperation as external to the modelling process, reinforcing a perceived tension between fair effort-sharing and the urgent collective action needed to…

Apparent recovery asymmetry across global reservoir records can be reproduced by index thresholds and persistence

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea434

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

Reservoir monitoring often emphasizes how quickly storage falls below normal, but the duration of below-normal conditions after the minimum is also relevant to water security. Using monthly satellite storage estimates for 6 819 reservoirs from 1999–2018,…

Health and environmental co-benefits of reducing ultra-processed food consumption in Argentina: a modelling study

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea587

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

Reducing ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption is widely proposed to improve population health, but whether it also generates environmental co-benefits depends on the foods that replace UPFs in the diet. We developed a comparative risk assessment…

Accelerating retreat of northern hemisphere snow regimes

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea4ca

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

Anthropogenic warming is rapidly transforming Northern Hemisphere snow cover, and conventional metrics such as snow mass and season duration fail to capture the full seasonal structure or the pace of ongoing change. Here we introduce a phenology-based…

Compound atmospheric phenomena driving Antarctic mean and extreme precipitation

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea588

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

Antarctic precipitation is the dominant positive term in the ice sheet surface mass balance, directly influencing its contribution to global sea level rise. In some coastal and ice-shelf regions, episodic extreme precipitation events can account for more…

Integrating literature review into a conceptual framework for monetizing water reuse benefits

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea433

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

Water crisis, driven by scarcity, pollution, and uneven distribution, threatens water security worldwide. Water reuse projects can contribute to sustainable water-management objectives by augmenting water supplies, reducing pressure on freshwater sources,…

No net carbon recovery in logged tropical forests in central Vietnam

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9969

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

Tropical forests recovering from logging are widely assumed to rapidly accumulate carbon. However, in Southeast Asia, where a legacy of high-intensity logging and climate change may modulate recovery trajectories, uncertainties remain about the rate and…

Carbon storage and mitigation potential of structural wood and biochar-based concrete in global urban building scenarios

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9f73

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

Urbanization is accelerating globally, increasing material demand and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Bio-based construction materials can store biogenic carbon within buildings over long periods, yet their net climate change mitigation…

Mean-state warming loads Germany’s extreme summer heat burden

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea4c9

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

European summers are warming rapidly, increasing the frequency and intensity of hazardous heat. Here, we quantify how mean-state warming has increased Germany’s extreme summer heat burden and how that risk scales with global-warming level (GWL). We develop…

Stratification-conditioned nonlinear coupling between biological CO2 uptake and coastal oxygen depletion

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea353

Published: September 16, 2026 23:00

Coastal eutrophication enhances biological CO2 uptake but also intensifies bottom-water oxygen depletion, creating a fundamental sustainability trade-off that remains poorly constrained in coastal systems. Based on four cruises (2023–2024) in coastal…

East Asian heatwaves intensify faster than they dissipate in a warming climate

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea00c

Published: September 15, 2026 23:00

Extreme heat research has primarily emphasized static characteristics, while the temporal evolution of heatwaves remains less explored. Using observations (1979–2024) and CMIP6 simulations, we quantify heatwave lifecycle dynamics across East Asia in terms…

Global kilometer-scale climate simulations: new opportunities for climate services

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea00d

Published: September 14, 2026 23:00

Climate services are essential for risk management and economic planning. This paper presents a century-long simulation performed with the ARP-GEM global atmosphere model at 2.6 km horizontal resolution. This simulation was specifically designed to…

Land reclamation and resilience of the rice market to climate change in Guangdong Province during the 18th century

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9c5b

Published: September 14, 2026 23:00

The agriculture sector has consistently attracted substantial attention due to its high vulnerability to climate change in pre-industrial societies. This study examines the role of land reclamation in stabilising rice prices and improving the resilience of…

Irrigation and historical reductions in the interannual variability of Midwestern maize yield

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9ee3

Published: September 14, 2026 23:00

Model-based studies indicate that climate change will increase agricultural yield variability, with major implications for price volatility and food security. We examine the historical variability of US Midwestern maize yields and find that the sign and…

Incomplete recovery in compound extreme events under a CO2 removal scenario

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea34e

Published: September 14, 2026 23:00

Compound events (CEs), defined as the co-occurrence of multiple climate extremes, often amplify societal and environmental impacts beyond those of individual extremes. While carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is increasingly considered essential for achieving…

The dynamic impact of land-use changes on soil organic carbon

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9e50

Published: September 10, 2026 23:00

This study examines the response of soil organic carbon (SOC) to land-use changes (LUCs) across Europe. Using field data from the LUCAS survey and satellite-based Corine Land Cover data, we find that SOC losses due to conversions to cropland are immediate…

Urban planning to strengthen resilience to extreme climate events—a systematic review

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9eb2

Published: September 10, 2026 23:00

A growing body of literature shows that cities are key actors in mitigation and adaptation to climate change. However, there is less knowledge about the approaches and challenges urban planners face in building resilience. Existing studies often focus on…

Are high-income countries vulnerable to drought? A review

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea2ad

Published: September 10, 2026 23:00

Drought is a hazard that impacts millions of people globally each year and that can have significant impacts on societies, economies, and ecosystems. Limited research has been focused on drought vulnerability in high-income countries partly because many…

Evaporative demand delays soil moisture accumulation timing during the dry-to-wet season transition in the Sahel

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea2ae

Published: September 10, 2026 23:00

Soil water availability during the dry-to-wet season transition drives ecosystem productivity across the semi-arid Sahel. During this period, soil moisture reflects the balance between water supplied by precipitation and atmospheric demand, but how these…

Larger methane emissions from Indian paddies than expected: towards tracking wetland methane emissions over India using multi-satellite measurements and modeling, Part B (non-natural wetlands)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea2ac

Published: September 10, 2026 23:00

India is the world’s second-largest rice producer, accounting for 22% of global production from cultivating over 40 million hectares and exporting more than 15 million tons annually. This makes the country a key player in global food security, but a…