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Climate Change and Environmental Impact

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Hans Otto-Portner
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
2
Anoek J. van Tilburg
Deltares
3
Isaac Ayo Oluwatimilehin
University of Kentucky
4
Jackob Haywood Ondiko
Egerton University
5
Corey Lesk
Dartmouth College
6
Xingzhi Yuan
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
7
Jorge Alvar‐Beltrán
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
8
Christopher Lamie
Eastern Research Group (United States)
9
Ivo de Klerk
Unknown
10
Yihe Tang
Northwest A&F University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Projected runoff declines from plant physiological effects on precipitation
Nature Water|2025
16 cit.
2
Assessing the impact of climate and crop diversity on regional greenhouse gas emissions and water demand of cropland
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology|2024
14 cit.
3
New York State Climate Impacts Assessment Chapter 02: New York State's Changing Climate
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences|2024
14 cit.
4
Wind-solar complementarity in the Northwest Pacific: Implications for renewable energy planning and policy guidance
Applied Energy|2025
9 cit.
5
Recent shift from energy- to moisture-limitation over global croplands
Environmental Research Letters|2024
8 cit.
6
Does the ocean have better suitability for wind–solar energy complementarity than land? A regional study in East Asia
Renewable Energy|2025
7 cit.
7
Temporal connections between extreme precipitation and humid heat
Environmental Research Letters|2024
6 cit.
8
Assessing climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for key crops in the Republic of Moldova using the AquaCrop model
European Journal of Agronomy|2025
6 cit.
9
Understanding inter-farm inequalities in extreme weather event impacts: Insights from the Dutch agricultural sector
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction|2024
3 cit.
10
Cropping pattern switching induces disturbances in spatiotemporal greenhouse gas emissions and water demand
European Journal of Agronomy|2025
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
J Malley
Imperial College London
2
H. Sohl
WWF-UK
3
J. Simmonds
Unknown
4
Habiba Mtongori
Tanzania Meteorological Agency
5
Hien T. Ngo
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
6
Akintomiwa Isaac Akin-Onigbinde
Obafemi Awolowo University
7
Daniel Bowden
Aecom (United Kingdom)
8
Kamal Aryal
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
9
Aiqing Feng
China Meteorological Administration
10
Emmanuel Egwuchukwu
Unknown

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Will the 2022 compound heatwave–drought extreme over the Yangtze River Basin become Grey Rhino in the future?
Advances in Climate Change Research|2024
12 cit.
2
Drought Monitoring from Fengyun Satellite Series: A Comparative Analysis with Meteorological-Drought Composite Index (MCI)
Remote Sensing|2023
11 cit.
3
Determinants of adoption of climate resilient agricultural solutions
Agricultural Systems|2024
4 cit.
4
Factors influencing pollinator abundance in indigenous coffee farms of the Nilgiris, Western Ghats, India
Journal of Apicultural Research|2025
1 cit.
5
A dataset of the extreme precipitation indices in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River from 1961 to 2020
China Scientific Data|2024
0 cit.
6
Evaluation of Pesticides Against Aphids in Cabbage in Nepal
Indian Journal of Entomology|2025
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Ghassem Asrar
Bay Area Discovery Museum
2
Jouni Räisänen
Helsinki Institute of Physics
3
Qian Zhao
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
4
Francis Nathan Okurut
Kyambogo University
5
Richard G. Derwent
Bioscientifica (United Kingdom)
6
Richard H. Moss
Arizona Science Center
7
Janet Ranganathan
World Resources Institute
8
Paul Watkiss
Paul Watkiss Associates
9
Noah S. Diffenbaugh
Stanford University
10
Katharine Hayhoe
Texas Tech University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
Nature|2010
6.6k cit.
2
Addressing climate information needs at the regional level: the CORDEX framework
Unknown Journal|2009
1.8k cit.
3
Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses.
Ecology|1997
1.6k cit.
4
Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2015
1.4k cit.
5
Estimating Absorbed Photosynthetic Radiation and Leaf Area Index from Spectral Reflectance in Wheat<sup>1</sup>
Agronomy Journal|1984
1.2k cit.
6
Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire
PLoS ONE|2009
1k cit.
7
Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity
Ecosphere|2012
977 cit.
8
Climate change and water: technical paper of the intergovernmental panel on climate change
Unknown Journal|2008
964 cit.
9
Global warming has increased global economic inequality
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2019
890 cit.
10
Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast
Climate Dynamics|2006
882 cit.

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