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A Canadian start-up is building a machine to grind up limestone and release the powder into a river. This will increase the water’s alkalinity, soaking up carbon dioxide.

Wildfires

Risk of unprecedented, extreme wildfires is spreading to the north of Europe

October 1, 2024

Climate change

Methane emissions are increasing, fueling global warming

September 29, 2024

River floods

Heavy rainfall Central Europe 2024 twice as likely due to climate change

September 25, 2024

Droughts and desertification

Trend of more extreme drought in Europe continues

August 9, 2024

Transport, infrastructure and building

By 2100, year-round navigation of the Arctic Ocean

July 31, 2024

Droughts and desertification

Droughts in the Swiss Alps: At the transition from the wet north to the dry south

July 30, 2024

Health

More trees, fewer deaths from the heat, London study shows

July 24, 2024

Coastal erosion and coastal floods

The Geography of Future Coastal Water Challenges

July 15, 2024

Storms

Hurricanes develop much faster now, giving residents less time to prepare

July 5, 2024

Climate change

Can we turn our rivers and oceans into carbon sponges?

October 3, 2024

A Canadian start-up is building a machine to grind up limestone and release the powder into a river. This will increase the water’s alkalinity, soaking up carbon dioxide.

Methane emissions are increasing, fueling global warming

September 29, 2024

The future of clean air: Are agreements effective?

May 30, 2024

We can cool our cities much more than we currently do

May 15, 2024

We will fail to achieve the Paris climate agreement, IPCC experts say

May 8, 2024

Coastal erosion and coastal floods

The Geography of Future Coastal Water Challenges

July 15, 2024

The future of our deltas is at stake. Sea level is rising and land is subsiding, but not enough river sediments are reaching these deltas to keep up with sea level rise.

The adaptation challenge of US coastal cities

March 13, 2024

Storm surges in the near future: good news for some, bad news for others

November 13, 2023

Subsidence coastal cities contributes more to relative sea level rise than previously thought

February 21, 2023

Coastal flood risk increases much faster than previously thought

February 13, 2023

Flash floods and urban flooding

Floods have become less deadly worldwide

March 5, 2024

Over the last five decades, floods have become less deadly. The global number of flood events has increased over time, but the average number of people killed and affected per event has decreased.

Half of the annual precipitation falls in fewer and fewer days

February 7, 2024

A flaw in classic approach to flooding: the floods of 2021

June 22, 2022

Intense rainstorms are moving more slowly, causing more floods

October 3, 2021

Fingerprint of climate change in recent European floods

August 24, 2021

Health

More trees, fewer deaths from the heat, London study shows

July 24, 2024

Trees have reduced heat-related mortality in recent years in London by around 16%. London’s strategy to increase tree coverage by 10% would reduce this mortality by a further 10%.

How the hottest city in the US fights the heat

April 23, 2024

Twenty years after the deadly heat of 2003, Europe’s heat response is still ineffective

January 29, 2024

Clear footprint of global warming on death toll in European summer of 2022

August 1, 2023

From Paris Agreement to current policies: a 5-fold increase in global hot exposure

June 5, 2023

River floods

Heavy rainfall Central Europe 2024 twice as likely due to climate change

September 25, 2024

Man-made climate change has doubled the likelihood of the heavy rainfall event in September 2024, causing widespread flooding, and increased the intensity of the heavy rainfall by 7%.

Room for the river, the exception rather than the rule

January 22, 2024

The best way to combat increasing river flood risk in Europe? Water storage!

April 28, 2023

What is driving future fluvial flood risk in Europe?

March 20, 2023

Mixing signals of different catchments blurs climate-related trends in river floods

March 7, 2023

Storms

Hurricanes develop much faster now, giving residents less time to prepare

July 5, 2024

The number of tropical cyclones that intensify from a category 1 hurricane (or weaker) into a major hurricane within 36 hours has more than doubled today compared to half a century ago

Unprecedented high thunderstorm losses in the USA and Europe: the natural disasters of 2023

May 31, 2024

Americans, brace yourself for this year’s hurricane season

April 5, 2024

More lightning in the north, less in the south

February 9, 2023

In 2013 Dutch scientists already saw Ophelia as a realistic scenario due to global warming

October 16, 2017

Wildfires

Risk of unprecedented, extreme wildfires is spreading to the north of Europe

October 1, 2024

Severe weather conditions causing wildfires are increasing across Europe. Countries in central and northern Europe may be insufficiently prepared for prolonged fire seasons.