An overview of climate change impacts on the society in China
April 2021
Society could sustain the impact of climate change by adapting to the change and mitigating risks from adverse effects of increasing changes, so that it can continue maintaining its prospect and improving...
U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Reasons, impacts, and China's response
December 2017
Applying qualitative and quantitative methods, this article explains the driving forces behind U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, assesses the impacts of this...
A Long Lasting and Extensive Drought Event over China in 1876–1878
November 2010
Between 1876 and 1878 a large-scale drought occurred in China. This is a major meteorological disaster and an extreme climate event despite the cold climate at the end of the Little Ice Age. In this...
The withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Agreement and its impact on global climate change governance
December 2017
The global community has prepared for the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Agreement since Donald Trump was elected as the president of the U.S. However, Trump's formal declaration of withdrawal...
Contributions of natural systems and human activity to greenhouse gas emissions
December 2018
In this study, we conducted a literature review of relevant research and then statistically analyzed global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from natural systems, including forest fires, oceans, wetlands,...
Global electricity development and transition: Progress and assessment
April 2026
Electricity is attracting widespread attention for its critical role in global socioeconomic development, the clean energy transition, and climate change mitigation. Based on a newly established global...
Impacts of climate-induced permafrost degradation on vegetation: A review
February 2021
Under a warming climate, degrading permafrost profoundly and extensively affects arctic and alpine ecology. However, most existing relevant studies are more focused on the hydrothermal impacts of vegetation...
Achieving Paris Agreement temperature goals requires carbon neutrality by middle century with far-reaching transitions in the whole society
April 2021
The concept of carbon neutrality is much emphasized in IPCC Spatial Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C in order to achieve the long-term temperature goals as reflected in Paris Agreement. To keep these...
Designing precipitation networks from altitudinal gradient patterns in global mountain basins
June 2026
Altitudinal precipitation gradients (APGs) characterize the spatial distribution of precipitation in mountainous regions and constrain precipitation interpolation, with broad applications in meteorology,...
Recent warming trends in Antarctica revealed by multiple reanalysis
June 2025
The lack of long-term in-situ observations hampers our ability to fully understand climate change in Antarctica. State-of-the-art reanalysis datasets fill a critical gap, and this study utilizes the...
Climate finance challenges and solutions for global climate change
August 2026
Addressing the persistent gaps in global climate finance requires moving beyond descriptive accounts of funding shortfalls to a systematic understanding of the structural factors that impede effective...
Unprecedented 2025 glacier mass loss in Pamir
October 2026
Recent extreme heat events have caused exceptional glacier mass loss worldwide. However, their impact on Pamir–Karakoram glaciers with anomalously stable or slightly positive mass balances remains unclear....
Quantifying indirect economic losses from extreme events to inform global and local adaptation strategies
August 2025
Existing studies on extreme event attribution are typically event-specific, particularly those conducted since the early 2000s. They primarily focus on direct economic losses to people and physical...
Understanding systemic risk induced by climate change
June 2021
The systemic risk induced by climate change represents one of the most prominent threats facing humanity and has attracted increasing attention since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the end...
Impacts of a multi-hazard compound extreme event on power systems and implications for future research
June 2026
As China accelerates energy transition to achieve its dual-carbon goals, the power system increasingly faces challenges arising from compound extreme events. In this context, multi-hazard compound extreme...
Using appropriate methods to assess population exposure to extreme weather events: Why and how?
June 2026
The existing assessment of population exposure to extreme weather events has established various standards, particularly in the definitions of extreme weather events and the methods of population exposure...
High-resolution risk assessment reveals billion-dollar additional threat to infrastructure from permafrost thaw in the Qinghai‒Tibet engineering corridor
June 2026
Permafrost degradation along the vital Qinghai‒Tibet Engineering Corridor (QTEC) poses a severe, escalating threat to critical infrastructure, yet high-resolution assessments of future risk and economic...
Traditional ecological knowledge in High Mountain Asia: A pathway to climate resilience in agriculture amidst changing climates
February 2025
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) often represents centuries of empirical observation and adaptation to specific ecological conditions, which is relevant to meaningful nature-human relations. Yet,...
Updated radiative efficiencies and emissions metrics of halocarbons
April 2026
Accurately quantifying the radiative properties of halogenated compounds is essential for climate change research, given their potent warming potential. While radiative transfer models facilitate explicit...
Downscaling daily climate data with super-resolution and CMIP6 global climate models to predict the climate in China
February 2026
Traditional downscaling methods are often hampered by high computational costs and assumptions of statistical stationarity, which compromise the reliability of future regional climate risk assessments....
Divergent trajectories of global fires: Overall decline, regional intensification
June 2026
Fires profoundly influence the climate system and human societies, yet their global dynamics remain insufficiently resolved, which could limit global fire risk assessment and mitigation. Using satellite-based...
Global prevalence of compound heatwaves from 1980 to 2022
June 2025
Global warming has led to increasing occurrence of hot extremes, yet our understanding of the compound heatwaves (CHW) of both day and night—the most threatening and harmful type—remains limited. Here...
Escalating labor risks from sequential extreme precipitation–heatwave events in China under a warming future
June 2026
Climate warming has intensified the frequency and severity of extreme precipitation and heatwaves, yet their sequential coupling and impact on socio-economy remains poorly understood. This study defines...
Big ambitions and insufficient actions: A decade of climate adaptation progress
October 2025
Despite growing global awareness of climate adaptation that prompts ambitious national targets as highlighted by COP29's ‘Enhance Ambition, Enable Action’ dual pillars, UNFCCC's assessments consistently...
Contrasting trends of extreme rainfall and snowfall in the Northern Hemisphere
December 2025
Global warming has modified the distribution between solid and liquid precipitation, leading to changes in the intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall and snowfall. However, the distinct response...
