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Year: 2020

Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change

Photo by Konstantin Dyadyun on Unsplash

In the first six months of 2020, Siberia experienced a period of unusually high temperatures, including a record-breaking 38 degrees C in the town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June, causing wide-scale impacts including wildfires, loss of permafrost, and an invasion of pests.

15 July, 2020 | Heatwave | Northern Asia

Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

Our latest analysis explores the role of human-induced climate change in the southeastern Australian bushfires in 2019–2020.

10 January, 2020 | Wildfire | Australasia

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