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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
State of polar climate (2024)
October 2025
The year 2024 has become the warmest year on record globally. As key indicators of global warming, the Antarctic and Arctic have shown heightened sensitivity and experienced more frequent climate anomalies....
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...
Intensified extreme cold surges in northern East Asia and the associated changes in atmospheric circulation under climate change
October 2025
Despite accelerated global warming, extreme cold surges remain a critical threat to East Asian socio-economic stability. However, research gaps persist regarding trends in the intensity of extreme cold...
Disaster effects of climate change in High Mountain Asia: State of art and scientific challenges
June 2024
High Mountain Asia (HMA) shows a remarkable warming tendency and divergent trend of regional precipitation with enhanced meteorological extremes. The rapid thawing of the HMA cryosphere may alter the...
Review of WRF for weather and climate change over the Tibetan Plateau
December 2025
The state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is an indispensable tool for studying weather and climate change; however, its application over the Tibetan Plateau—a region characterized...
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...
Widespread loss of ecosystem resilience in response of 1.5 and 2 °C global warming
February 2026
Global changes are reshaping the structure and function of ecosystems, exerting profound impacts on the maintenance and enhancement of terrestrial ecosystem resilience. However, the future dynamics...
Omics insights into ocean health: Molecular adaptations and ecosystem resilience under climate stress
February 2026
Despite extensive research documenting the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems, the molecular mechanisms driving organismal and ecosystem resilience to ocean warming, acidification, and deoxygenation...
The impact of climate change on wind and solar photovoltaic power potential and distribution in China
August 2025
The cleanliness and sustainability of renewable energy resources, primarily wind and solar, position them as key technological choices in the global transformation to low-carbon development. However,...
Integrated impacts of climate change on glacier tourism
June 2019
Glacier tourism is an important type of nature-based tourism with great global potential. However, glacial landscapes and environments are seriously affected by global warming. This study used a scoping...
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,...
The change of cloud top height over East Asia during 2000–2018
June 2020
In order to know how regional averaged cloud top height (CTH) responded to the past climatic change, the spatial and temporal variations of CTH based on MODIS data (MOD03_08_v6.0) from March 2000 to...
Synergistic reductions of CO2 and aerosols: Navigating mid-term warming risks for 2 °C climate futures
February 2026
Achieving the 2 °C climate target requires the coordination of strategies for greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants mitigation, yet their complex interactions remain insufficiently explored. BCC-ESM1...
Glacier geoengineering to address sea-level rise: A geotechnical approach
December 2020
It is remarkable that the high-end sea level rise threat over the next few hundred years comes almost entirely from only a handful of ice streams and large glaciers. These occupy a few percent of ice...
Increasing extreme heat events in the permafrost region of the Northern Hemisphere
February 2026
The intensification of extreme heat events is a potent thermal disturbance that can trigger abrupt permafrost degradation. However, a systematic understanding of their spatiotemporal variation across...
