The Arctic tundra is warming faster than any other biome. Its biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and Indigenous land use are increasingly influenced by interacting climate- and human-driven stressors. These include the expansion of woody plants, the thawing of permafrost and the associated disturbance dynamics, and the...

Climate change is driving more frequent and intense heavy rainfall, increasing pluvial flooding hazards in densely built cities. Researchers at TUHH and Universität Hamburg have developed a high-resolution framework for assessing pluvial flood risk at the building level, following the IPCC risk concept that defines risk as...

Butterflies are widely considered to be a valuable 'early warning system' for environmental changes, as they react rapidly and pronouncedly to changes in their environment, such as climate change. In an international meta-study published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers investigated 1,758 butterfly...