Extreme climatic events — floods, droughts, heatwaves — are reshaping river ecosystems worldwide.

Our new review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity (Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change) synthesises global evidence showing how these events cascade across river networks, drive ecological thresholds, work together to have compound impacts, and interact with other stressors — and what we can actually do to prepare.

The takeaway? We need to shift from reactive, local-scale fixes to proactive, catchment‑scale, resilience‑focused management.

If you work in or are interested in freshwater, climate adaptation, biodiversity, or environmental planning, go take a look. Otherwise, l’ll be writing up a Substack post about this for Thursday US time.

Paper: nature.com/articles/s44…

Read-only link: rdcu.be/e4Dkv

Press release: canterbury.ac.nz/news-a…