When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate will look like, depending on how fast we act to cut emissions. Why ...

SSP5-8.5 shaped school curricula, international aid decisions, financial risk standards for global banks, and the operating assumptions of tens of thousands of research papers. As of this spring, more ...

New research finds that eggs belonging to the small-spotted catshark will have a much harder time surviving under the worst case climate scenario by 2100. Reading time 3 minutes Climate change may be ...

The reader wrote: “You’ll never guess the scenario!” We can all guess the scenario. It is RCP8.5. As I looked into the New York state government’s report that was the basis for the news article, I ...

Projected changes in dengue case incidence (%) between the future period (2035–2065, SSP5-8.5 scenario) and the historical period (1985–2015) at district level. Values were calculated by normalizing ...