Nature Climate Change

Associate or Senior Editor (Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change), Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team, Nature Portfolio Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, (Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change), Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team, Nature Portfolio   Locations: New York, Jersey City, Shanghai, or Beijing –...

The @natureportfolio.nature.com Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team (www.nature.com/ngeo/researc...) is hiring an editor with expertise in climate/Earth science to work with us and @natclimate.nature.com (in China or the USA; deadline 5th Aug):

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New research published in @natclimate.nature.com found that secondary forests with between 20-40 years of regrowth have up to 8x the #carbon removal potential of new and mature forests per hectare.

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Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

IBES Professor Dov Sax is coauthor of a new @natclimate.nature.com article, which critiques a common research method in ecology and suggests ways to improve the reliability of ecological forecasts.

Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎

Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meltwater ponding in in Antarctica raises concerns over ice sheet stability, according to new study A team of researchers, led by the University of York, has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica.

Researchers led by @uoyenvironment.bsky.social and @sheffielduni.bsky.social have produced the first Antarctic-wide, high-resolution monthly dataset of surface meltwater using satellite images 🧊 💧

Open access article with data availability links in @natclimate.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🔓 📃

Promoting targeted heat early warning systems for at-risk populations - Nature Climate Change Extreme heat poses a growing threat to vulnerable urban populations, and the existing heat early warning system usually operates at population level. Pairing emerging individualized and population ear...

Our new comment published in @natclimate.nature.com advocating for the addition of more personalised early warning systems for the most in need during extreme heat ☀️🥵🌡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... @griffith.edu.au

Continent-wide mapping shows increasing sensitivity of East Antarctica to meltwater ponding - Nature Climate Change This study provides a continent-wide assessment of surface meltwater area in Antarctica between 2006 and 2021, highlighting recent increases in magnitude and variability in East Antarctica, with indic...

I’m delighted to share that our new paper is now out in @natclimate.nature.com! Our long-term, monthly Antarctic-wide dataset of surface meltwater shows that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is becoming increasingly prone to surface meltwater ponding.

Assoc Editor Danyang Cheng is in Vilnius attending #ICEP2025 - make sure to say hi if you spot her, or reach out to schedule a meeting

Article: Fair climate targets aligned with the Paris Agreement can be calculated in many ways. Researchers unpack how equity, global strategies & political and social uncertainties shape fair share allocations, using them to assess NDCs & guide climate finance
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Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments - Nature Climate Change Climate change assessment reports are increasing in complexity as the knowledge base grows exponentially. In this Perspective, the authors advocate, and provide recommendations, for knowledge synthesi...

Knowledge syntheses are urgently needed for many climate change topics/questions. We provide guidance for producing robust, transparent, reproducible, inclusive and timely syntheses @priestleycentre.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
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Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5 °C - Nature Climate Change How mountain glaciers will react to temporarily overshooting 1.5 °C of warming is poorly understood. Here the authors show irreversible global glacier loss for centuries after overshoot, implying long...

🏔️🌍🌎🌏 New study warns: Even if we only temporarily exceed 1.5 °C, mountain glaciers face irreversible losses lasting centuries. Such an overshoot reduces glacier runoff, specifically in regions where some glaciers regrow.

Further interested? Check out our new publication: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How might forests respond during an overshoot period before the climate potentially stabilises at 1.5°C warming?

See @carbonbrief.org's story on the recent @natclimate.nature.com paper co-authored by UKCEH climate modeller Chris Huntingford ⤵️

New paper on the risks of forest ecosystem impacts under emissions pathways designed to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goals is out today in Nature Climate Change! 🌳

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02327-9

How do fish evolve to tolerate higher temperatures, and are there trade-offs? We explore these questions in our new paper
@natclimate.nature.com led by Anna Andreassen
@annahandreassen.bsky.social

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High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...

Article: Quantification of how emission inequality translates into unequal accountability is lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disproportionately contribute to the increase in mean temperature and frequency of extreme events.
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Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points Nature Climate Change - It has been argued that parts of the climate system can experience rapid changes and that such tipping can be anticipated by early warning signals. Here the authors discuss...

Perspective: It has been argued that parts of the climate system can experience rapid changes and that such tipping can be anticipated by early warning signals. Here the authors discuss the limitations of such indicators and common pitfalls in their application rdcu.be/ejQfr

Dual impact of global urban overheating on mortality - Nature Climate Change The urban heat island (UHI) effect can increase and decrease mortality depending on the season, yet global comparison is still lacking. This study finds that the UHI effect has net positive impact by reducing more cold-related mortality and highlights the necessity of place-based adaptive cooling strategies.

Cities having higher ambient temperatures than rural surroundings could offset some of the negative effects of increased heat-related mortality by reducing the number of deaths associated with cold exposure in some global cities, says @natclimchange.bsky.social study:

Climate chronicles Climate chronicles brings together Nature Reviews Earth & Environment's annual series of 'Year in Review' articles.

Our 2024 climate chronicles have just been published!

Check out the Collection: www.nature.com/collections/...

Thread below details all articles and their take-home messages.

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Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios Nature Climate Change - Trade risks associated with fossil fuels and critical materials matter for energy security, and will evolve with the low-carbon transition. Here the researchers find that...

Here's a read-only link rdcu.be/ehnyf

Decarbonization can improve energy security - Nature Climate Change Moving towards net-zero carbon emissions reduces reliance on fossil fuels but requires geographically concentrated materials for clean energy technologies. Now research finds countries can reduce emer...

New piece from me published in Nature Climate Change: Decarbonization can improve energy security, robust trade and a circular economy increases energy security, and critical minerals are not like oil. 🔌💡

Journal link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open access link: rdcu.be/eg3lR

Meeting global climate goals requires ambitious climate pledges, but some policies put pressure on finite land resources.
The cover article of @natclimchange.bsky.social's April edition, a recent CGS co-authored study, analyzes the impact of current pledges on croplands:
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Decarbonization improves energy security for most countries, study finds Researchers analyzed trade-related risks to energy security across 1,092 scenarios for cutting carbon emissions by 2060. They found that shifting from dependence on imported fossil fuels to increased ...

Shifting from fossil fuels to clean energy technologies would improve energy security and reduce trade risks for most nations, according to a new Stanford-led study in @natclimchange.bsky.social

Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection - Nature Climate Change Melting from below is crucial for the future evolution of Antarctic ice shelves. Here the authors use an Earth system model with explicit simulations of ice-shelf cavities to show how regional hydrogr...

The groundbreaking study led by Dr. Pengyang Song is out today in @natclimchange.bsky.social! In his article, Dr. Song and co-authors investigate the response and feedback of ice cavities under a changing climate using the AWI Earth System Model AWI-ESM2.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The image shows the April cover of journal, with the journal name over a photo of new shoots in a crop field, and a woodland in the distance. The line "Cropland loss from climate mitigation" describes the cover.

Nature Climate Change April issue is now online

Content includes
🍃 drought delay of spring greening
☀️rooftop photovoltaic power generation for mitigation
💰wealth inequality & climate change
❄️increasing N. Atlantic Oscillation & more severe winters

& much more

www.nature.com/nclimate/vol...

Recherchebreen marine terminating glacier on Svalbard

We are stoked to present a brand-new @natclimchange.bsky.social paper by our Jan Kavan! ❤️

Did you know that between 2000 and 2020, retreat of marine-terminating glaciers has exposed more than 2,400 km of new coastline in the Arctic?

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New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century - Nature Climate Change As marine-terminating glaciers retreat, they reveal new coastlines in many regions. Here the authors use satellite data to quantify these changes for the Northern Hemisphere, finding that between 2000...

Full paper in @natclimchange.bsky.social is available here:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial photosynthesis mitigates carbon loss from northern peatlands under warming Nature Climate Change - The authors use experimental and modelling approaches to understand the response of microbial photosynthesis to peatland warming. They show that warming amplifies microbial...

Our work on the role of photosynthetic microbes in #peatland carbon dynamics, and the effects of warming now in @natclimchange.bsky.social. Warming amplifies microbial photosynthesis, and offsets ~14% of heterotrophic CO₂ emissions in northern #peatlands. rdcu.be/eejri @ribesresearch.bsky.social

Mike Hulme contrasts 'giant leap' funding for climate change research with 'small-steps' model that established the Tyndall Centre, 25 years ago, in @natclimchange.bsky.social 💬

See "integrated, interdisciplinary and incremental" research in Sept at our #Tyndall25UEA conference: buff.ly/ci3oOIJ