State of polar climate (2025)
August 2026
Against the backdrop of successive global temperature records in past years, polar climate has exhibited high interannual variability. Consequently, maintaining a timely understanding of recent polar...
Risk assessment of large hailstones and strong winds on photovoltaic installations in China
August 2026
Catastrophic weather events can have a devastating impact on photovoltaic (PV) facilities, potentially leading to instability of the power system and great economic losses. However, the risks of such...
Fixed climate feedback assumptions systematically underestimate policy-relevant economic risks: Implications for climate resilience
August 2026
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), central to informing climate policy, typically treat the climate feedback parameter as a fixed constant, contradicting robust evidence that it weakens as the planet...
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating the trend slowdown of the summer Southern Annular Mode
August 2026
The pronounced positive trend in the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), previously driven by ozone depletion, has markedly weakened since the early 21st century due to ozone recovery. However, whether state-of-the-art...
A novel framework of the Natural–Anthropogenic Carbon Estimation Scheme (NACES) for China's megacities
August 2026
High-resolution simulation of urban carbon emissions is critical for achieving national carbon-peaking and carbon-neutrality targets. Previous studies that rely on sectoral fossil-fuel emission inventories...
Rapid increase in the United States influenza epidemics driven by anthropogenic rapid temperature variations during the autumn transition period
August 2026
Recent decades have witnessed an intensification of influenza epidemics in the United States despite winter warming, highlighting a gap in understanding the climatic drivers of epidemic variability....
Geographical differences in marine heatwaves across global coral reef zones
August 2026
Coral reefs worldwide are suffering from severe bleaching due to their high sensitivity to the prolonged and intense marine heatwaves (MHWs). However, the geographical differences in MHW characteristics...
Long-term variations in precipitation types (rain, snow, and sleet) on the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the cryosphere and ecohydrological systems
August 2026
Changes in precipitation types (rain, snow, sleet) under climate warming will directly affect the stability of cryosphere environments, including permafrost, glaciers, and snow cover, thereby influencing...
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...
Multi-scale drivers of compound day‒night heatwaves in Shanghai, China (1873–2023): The role of asymmetric warming, oceanic modes, and urbanization
August 2026
A noticeable gap in urban climate science lies in the limited understanding of multiscale drivers (global climate, oceanic variability, urbanization interactions) governing the centennial evolution...
A comparative review of compliance-linked carbon offset programs in China and California: The new CCER and the Compliance Offset Program
August 2026
Growing integrity concerns have undermined confidence in carbon offset markets. Despite extensive discussion of quality issues, a systematic understanding of how different institutional architectures...
Between hope and failure: What influenced the United States‒EU agreement on clean steel?
August 2026
In the 2020s, multilateral cooperation in both the climate and the trade regimes is increasingly contested. Countries are often turning to industrial policy instruments with a unilateral and protectionist...
China's growing halogenated gas emissions and banks over 1980–2024: Impacts on ozone, climate, and trifluoroacetic acid
August 2026
China's mitigation strategy design under its 2035 nationally determined contribution calls for updated inventories of halogenated gases, given their current incomplete and outdated coverage. This study...
Declining snow depth in northwest Central Asia driven by atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamic warming
August 2026
The relative roles of atmospheric circulation and thermodynamic warming in driving the rapid decline of winter snow depth (SD) in northwest Central Asia (CA) remain poorly quantified, despite their...
Evaluating the effectiveness of artificial covering in reducing glacier melt
August 2026
To mitigate glacier melt, artificial covering methods, such as high-albedo geotextiles, have been employed, primarily in small-scale applications like ski resorts. However, their effectiveness and feasibility...
Flood exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth: A study of 25 countries from Africa
August 2026
As climate change intensifies, floods are increasingly disrupting maternal healthcare access, elevating stress, and heightening infection risks—all established triggers for preterm birth (PTB). Investigating...
The role of mid-latitude zonal wind anomalies in extreme glacier mass loss on central Tibetan Plateau
August 2026
Long-term in-situ glacier mass balance records on central Tibetan Plateau (TP) are pivotal for assessing climate change impacts, yet the drivers of extreme mass loss events remain poorly understood....
Changes in glaciers and climate in the Karakoram since the Little Ice Age
August 2026
Reconstructing the long-term context of glacier changes in the Karakoram helps to further understand the anomalous behavior of its glaciers particularly under a changing climate. In this study, based...
Glacier type transformation trends in China over 1981–2019 based on Shi‒Xie classification framework
August 2026
Glaciers worldwide are undergoing rapid retreat, yest changes in their glaciological and climatological characteristics remain poorly quantified at large spatial scales and cross different glacier types....
Physics-guided machine learning approach for reconstructing air temperature in warm permafrost on the Qinghai‒Xizang Plateau
August 2026
High-resolution air temperature data are essential for quantifying eco-hydrological processes in climate-sensitive regions like the Qinghai‒Xizang Plateau. However, in-situ observations are frequently...
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...
Unveiling remote and local drivers for the interdecadal increase in summer extreme high temperature days over southern China
June 2026
Summer extreme high temperature days (EHTD) over southern China undergoes a pronounced interdecadal increase in the early 2000s, but its drivers are unclear. Here, we show that the increased EHTD can...
Revisiting the CMIP6 simulations of the most-concerned surface air temperature changes at the Earth's three poles
June 2026
A unified framework for the systematic and simultaneous evaluation of CMIP6 models in reproducing warming responses across the Arctic, Tibetan Plateau, and Antarctic remains lacking. Most previous studies...
Thermal dynamics of proglacial lakes in 1990–2023: A case study of Jiongpu Co, Southeastern Tibet
June 2026
The temperature of proglacial lakes is a sensitive indicator of glacier‒lake interactions and climate forcing, yet its long-term evolution on the Tibetan Plateau remains poorly constrained. This study...
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...
