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Hate heatwaves? Droughts? How about both at the same time?

Have you noticed a surge in heatwaves in the last decade? Heatwaves are becoming more common and so are their negative effects. So how do we alleviate these negative impacts? Most answers to this question involve using water directly or indirectly. European cities, for example,... click to read more

Mojtaba Sadegh | Assistant Professor at Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA

Mohammad Reza Alizadeh | PhD Student at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

drought

heatwave

Concurrent Drought and Heatwave

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jul 16, 2021

Cascading effects of a marine heatwave impact dolphin survival and reproduction

Extreme weather events such as droughts, heavy rainfalls or extreme temperature fluctuations are occurring more frequently around the globe associated with global climate change. In early 2011, the western Australian coastline was hit by an unprecedented marine heatwave, which turned the coastal waters into a... click to read more

Sonja Wild | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Radolfzell, Germany; Cluster for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

climate change

global warming

dolphins

heatwave

survival

reproduction

Reading time 4 min

published on Sep 20, 2019