Dryland ecosystems cover 41% of Earth's land surfaces, account for 44% of cultivated lands and 60% of food sources, and make large contributions to the global water and carbon cycles. However, these ecosystems are experiencing unprecedented extremes including heatwaves, floods, and droughts as well as hotter temperatures and often declining water resource availability. These ecosystems are some of the most challenging to monit...

In the southern Gulf of Mexico, the oil and fishing industries coexist in a complex, historically unbalanced relationship that remains insufficiently documented. Constructing spatially explicit knowledge about these interactions is essential to inform decision-making, reduce conflicts among regional stakeholders and in the end, benefit the parties through marine territorial planning that enables stronger governance elements fo...

Kelp forests are among the most extensive and productive coastal ecosystems, yet they remain underrepresented in global conservation policy despite widespread declines driven by interacting global- (i.e., ocean warming, marine heatwaves) to local-scale stressors. At the same time, kelp conservation and restoration efforts are expanding rapidly across regions, but measures of success and syntheses tend to primarily focus on eco...

Understanding the interaction between multiple earthquake-related hazards is essential for improving risk assessments in urban areas. This study presents a multi-hazard framework to integrate earthquake motion and liquefaction within a probabilistic liquefaction hazard assessment in an urban area. The novel contribution of this work is the development of a probabilistic liquefaction framework designed for sites with a non-liqu...

This study carries out an analysis of a precipitation diminution in Tenerife, located in the Canary Islands. The research focuses on the apparent reduction in precipitation occurring during the 2020s compared to historical climate patterns, a trend that may be accelerated by the impact of climate change. Mean precipitation during the period 1990–2022 undergoes significant reductions, with December experiencing the most pronoun...

Age is a well-known risk factor to develop severe viral respiratory infections, including severe COVID-19. This study aimed to identify the biological alterations linked to severe disease in elderly patients with COVID-19. For this purpose, we employed a derivation cohort with 450 SARS-CoV-2 infected and unvaccinated patients admitted to hospital wards and a validation cohort with 244 SARS-CoV-2 infected and unvaccinated patie...

Climate change and human activities threaten water resources in the Canary Islands, where increasing temperatures and decreasing precipitation intensify water stress. In order to develop strategies to protect water resources, it is necessary to know how water availability will evolve in this region. The Fundación para la Investigación del Clima (FICLIMA) methodology offers high-resolution projections (100 m × 100 m), which all...