News
Wageningen World: More frequent extreme weather
Wildfires, floods, heatwaves and storms: over the past year, we’ve had a taste of what’s ahead for us, according to the IPCC’s climate report. Extreme weather is going to become increasingly normal but will still be hard to predict. Researchers are trying to solve the puzzle from several different perspectives.
The Netherlands will have to learn to live with wildfires, floods, heatwaves and storms. Unlike meteorological data on precipitation and temperature, data on the impact of extreme weather are not yet registered centrally. Both economic and social damage done by extreme weather is currently being mapped through a platform that will go online at the end of 2023: the Climate Impact Monitor.
Other articles in Wageningen World
- Bacterium makes the male parasitic wasp redundant
- ‘Measures were relaxed too soon, and too many at once’
- Free access to Wageningen CRISPR patents
- Where do oysters go?
- ‘Invest in leafy vegetables’
- A wealth of apple varieties
- ‘A microcredit paved the way to millions of euros’
- ‘The future belongs to the young’