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Enhanced policy adequacy facilitates national climate adaptation tracking across Africa Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Andreea C. Nowak, Lucy Njuguna, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Pytrik Reidsma, Krystal Crumpler, Todd S. Rosenstock
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Opportunities to strengthen Africa’s efforts to track national-level climate adaptation Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Andreea C. Nowak, Lucy Njuguna, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Pytrik Reidsma, Krystal Crumpler, Todd S. Rosenstock
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Science-based principles for corporate climate transition risk quantification Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Fouad Khan, Edward Byers, David Carlin, Keywan Riahi
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Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16
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New wheat breeding paradigms for a warming climate Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Wei Xiong, Matthew P. Reynolds, Carlo Montes, Jose Crossa, Sieglinde Snapp, Beyhan Akin, Keser Mesut, Fatih Ozdemir, Huihui Li, Zhonghu He, Daowen Wang, Feng Chen
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Explaining green industrial policy in an age of globalization Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Jessica F. Green
Governments are increasingly using industrial policy to develop low-carbon economic sectors and catalyse the energy transition. A recent study provides a framework to explain why governments adopt different types of green industrial policy, depending on industry position in the global supply chain and types of uncertainty.
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Higher-resolution projections needed for small island climates Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Jason P. Evans, Ali Belmadani, Christophe Menkes, Tannecia Stephenson, Marcus Thatcher, Peter B. Gibson, Alexandre Peltier
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Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Walter Leal Filho, Johannes M. Luetz, Patrick D. Nunn, Amelia Turagabeci, Donovan Campbell
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More than rising seas Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10
Small island states and territories have been leading climate action in many ways. In this issue, we highlight climate change research conducted on large ocean islands and how science can improve to help them adapt to changing environments.
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Climate research on big ocean islands Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Jerome Aucan, Ameer Ebrahim, Krishna Kumar Kotra, Anita Latai-Niusulu, Carlos A. Mancina, Michelle Mycoo, Mariyam Nashath, Tannecia Stephenson, Sarina Theys
Small island states and territories are often seen as particularly vulnerable to climate change, which affects the shape of the land, its ecosystems and the resources that people depend on. Nature Climate Change asked a selection of scientists from different island states and territories to discuss the role that climate science and action has in supporting island communities.
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Strategies to improve the impact of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 William Solecki, Debra Roberts, Karen C. Seto
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Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Martijn van de Pol, Liam D. Bailey, Magali Frauendorf, Andrew M. Allen, Martijn van der Sluijs, Nadia Hijner, Lyanne Brouwer, Hans de Kroon, Eelke Jongejans, Bruno J. Ens
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Collapsed upwelling projected to weaken ENSO under sustained warming beyond the twenty-first century Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Qihua Peng, Shang-Ping Xie, Clara Deser
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Climate-driven deoxygenation of northern lakes Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Joachim Jansen, Gavin L. Simpson, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer, Laura H. Härkönen, Andrew M. Paterson, Paul A. del Giorgio, Yves T. Prairie
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Ocean dynamics contribute to the amplifying Atlantic–Pacific salinity contrast Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-28
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Limits on modelling the thermal sensitivity of Wolbachia Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Perran A. Ross, Ary A. Hoffmann
arising from Vásquez et al. Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01746-w (2023) Wolbachia release programmes using the wMel strain are suppressing the incidence of dengue in many countries. Using models to predict the impact of increasing temperatures and heatwaves on the replacement of wild mosquito populations with wMel carriers, Vásquez et al.1 concluded that wMel replacement
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North Atlantic–Pacific salinity contrast enhanced by wind and ocean warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Ying Lu, Yuanlong Li, Pengfei Lin, Lijing Cheng, Kai Ge, Hailong Liu, Jing Duan, Fan Wang
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Contrasting fast and slow intertropical convergence zone migrations linked to delayed Southern Ocean warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Wei Liu, Shouwei Li, Chao Li, Maria Rugenstein, Antony P. Thomas
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Engaging diverse knowledge holders in adaptation research Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 G. Cundill, B. Harvey, D. Ley, C. Singh, B. Huson, P. Aldunce, R. Biesbroek, J. Lawrence, D. Morchain, J. Nalau, N. P. Simpson, E. Totin
Adaptation evidence and knowledge are diverse and unequally represented in global adaptation discourse. The Adaptation Futures 2023 conference sought to bring this diversity together to advance more inclusive and impactful adaptation science, and confronted both the benefits and the trade-offs that this effort entails.
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Misestimations as a barrier to climate action Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Ulf J. J. Hahnel, Nina L. Frings
Effective climate action requires understanding of the contribution of individual actions, firms and industries to greenhouse gas emissions. Now a study illustrates widespread misestimations of emission impacts and reveals underlying psychological processes.
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Biodiversity reduces the advancement of leaf green-up with climate warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21
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Widespread misestimates of greenhouse gas emissions suggest low carbon competence Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Eric J. Johnson, Eli Rosen Sugerman, Vicki G. Morwitz, Gita Venkataramani Johar, Michael W. Morris
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Climate change to exacerbate the burden of water collection on women’s welfare globally Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Robert Carr, Maximilian Kotz, Peter-Paul Pichler, Helga Weisz, Camille Belmin, Leonie Wenz
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Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Pengju Shen, Xiaoyue Wang, Constantin M. Zohner, Josep Peñuelas, Yuyu Zhou, Zhiyao Tang, Jianyang Xia, Hua Zheng, Yongshuo Fu, Jingjing Liang, Weiwei Sun, Yongguang Zhang, Chaoyang Wu
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Diminished efficacy of regional marine cloud brightening in a warmer world Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Jessica S. Wan, Chih-Chieh Jack Chen, Simone Tilmes, Matthew T. Luongo, Jadwiga H. Richter, Katharine Ricke
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Supporting carbon pricing when interest rates are higher Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 F. Funke, L. Mattauch, T. Douenne, A. Fabre, J. E. Stiglitz
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Extreme weather events do not increase political parties' environmental attention Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Tim Wappenhans, António Valentim, Heike Klüver, Lukas F. Stoetzer
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Child brains respond to climate change Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Johanna Lepeule
Maternal exposure to ambient heat during pregnancy has been shown to increase the risk for several adverse birth outcomes. Now research reveals that variations of ambient temperature during pregnancy and childhood could have a long-term impact on a child’s brain development.
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Early life cold and heat exposure impacts white matter development in children Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Laura Granés, Esmée Essers, Joan Ballester, Sami Petricola, Henning Tiemeier, Carmen Iñiguez, Carles Soriano-Mas, Mònica Guxens
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A decrease in radiative forcing and equivalent effective chlorine from hydrochlorofluorocarbons Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Luke M. Western, John S. Daniel, Martin K. Vollmer, Scott Clingan, Molly Crotwell, Paul J. Fraser, Anita L. Ganesan, Brad Hall, Christina M. Harth, Paul B. Krummel, Jens Mühle, Simon O’Doherty, Peter K. Salameh, Kieran M. Stanley, Stefan Reimann, Isaac Vimont, Dickon Young, Matt Rigby, Ray F. Weiss, Ronald G. Prinn, Stephen A. Montzka
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Nuclear watchdog tracks warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Samuel Royle
The International Monitoring System (IMS), run by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), is a global network of stations continuously observing for evidence of nuclear explosions. This network produces a steady flow of (near) real-time data, including monitoring atmospheric radionuclides, which could have alternative scientific applications. Jolanta Kuśmierczyk-Michulec and
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The effects on children Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Danyang Cheng
Climate change presents a multifaceted challenge, extending across generations and impacting vulnerable groups, particularly children. Previous studies have quantified children’s heightened climate susceptibility to both disasters and slower-onset climate change. However, many existing measures of children’s climate risk frame child vulnerability solely in terms of material deficits, thus oversimplifying
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Increasing double storms Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Jasper Franke
In their study, Dakota Forbis and colleagues from Iowa State University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US used a high-resolution regional climate model to estimate potentially tornadic storms over the southeastern US. They modelled four major TCs from the last two decades under their respective conditions and in a future climate (2040–2060) under high emissions. In these simulations
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Slimmed success for heated sperm Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Tegan Armarego-Marriott
Kris Sales from Forest Research, UK, and colleagues from the UK, investigated the impacts of heatwaves on the reproductive capacity of the model insect Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle), a species in which females mate with multiple partners, and store sperm within complex internal storage structures for later fertilization. By visualizing sperm nuclei tagged with green fluorescent protein (GFP)
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Cautious carbon removal Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10
Carbon dioxide removal is an important part of climate mitigation pathways. However, its planning and implementation should be carefully reviewed given the potential limitations and risks.
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Soil carbon worldwide is reduced by an increasing number of global change stressors Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07
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Reducing sectoral hard-to-abate emissions to limit reliance on carbon dioxide removal Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Andries F. Hof, Maarten van den Berg, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Hsing-Hsuan Chen, Vassilis Daioglou, Mark M. Dekker, Jonathan C. Doelman, Michel G. J. den Elzen, Mathijs Harmsen, Stratos Mikropoulos, Mariësse A. E. van Sluisveld, Elke Stehfest, Isabela S. Tagomori, Willem-Jan van Zeist, Detlef P. van Vuuren
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Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Berdugo, Antonio Gallardo, César Plaza, Pablo García-Palacios, Emilio Guirado, Guiyao Zhou, Carsten W. Mueller, Leho Tedersoo, T. W. Crowther, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
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Climate-driven disturbances amplify forest drought sensitivity Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Meng Liu, Anna T. Trugman, Josep Peñuelas, William R. L. Anderegg
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Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-05
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Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Yongxiao Liang, Nathan P. Gillett, Adam H. Monahan
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Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Felix Creutzig, Sofia G. Simoes, Sina Leipold, Peter Berrill, Isabel Azevedo, Oreane Edelenbosch, Tomer Fishman, Helmut Haberl, Edgar Hertwich, Volker Krey, Ana Teresa Lima, Tamar Makov, Alessio Mastrucci, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Florian Nachtigall, Stefan Pauliuk, Mafalda Silva, Elena Verdolini, Detlef van Vuuren, Felix Wagner, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Charlie Wilson
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No respite from permafrost-thaw impacts in the absence of a global tipping point Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Jan Nitzbon, Thomas Schneider von Deimling, Mehriban Aliyeva, Sarah E. Chadburn, Guido Grosse, Sebastian Laboor, Hanna Lee, Gerrit Lohmann, Norman J. Steinert, Simone M. Stuenzi, Martin Werner, Sebastian Westermann, Moritz Langer
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Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Brittany T. Trew, David P. Edwards, Alexander C. Lees, David H. Klinges, Regan Early, Martin Svátek, Roman Plichta, Radim Matula, Joseph Okello, Armin Niessner, Matti Barthel, Johan Six, Eduardo E. Maeda, Jos Barlow, Rodrigo Oliveria do Nascimento, Erika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Jhonatan Sallo-Bravo, Ilya M. D. Maclean
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Climate change and geohazards Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Anna Harrison, Claire Dashwood
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Current and future global water scarcity intensifies when accounting for surface water quality Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Edward R. Jones, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Michelle T. H. van Vliet
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An integrated perspective on the decarbonization of shipping Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22
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International shipping in a world below 2 °C Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Eduardo Müller-Casseres, Florian Leblanc, Maarten van den Berg, Panagiotis Fragkos, Olivier Dessens, Hesam Naghash, Rebecca Draeger, Thomas Le Gallic, Isabela S. Tagomori, Ioannis Tsiropoulos, Johannes Emmerling, Luiz Bernardo Baptista, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Anastasis Giannousakis, Laurent Drouet, Joana Portugal-Pereira, Harmen-Sytze de Boer, Nikolaos Tsanakas, Pedro R. R. Rochedo, Alexandre Szklo
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Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Sven Anders, Ulf Liebe, Juergen Meyerhoff
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Multi-decadal climate services help farmers assess and manage future risks Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Yuwan Malakar, Stephen Snow, Aysha Fleming, Simon Fielke, Emma Jakku, Carly Tozer, Rebecca Darbyshire
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Africa’s carbon budget Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Samuel Royle
Yolandi Ernst and Sally Archibald from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a global team of co-authors, have produced an up-to-date inventory of Africa’s greenhouse gas budget integrating the most comprehensive modelling and observational data available. This includes novel methods to incorporate termite, herbivore and fire emissions. They find that between 2010 and 2019, Africa
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Remote effects of melting Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jasper Franke
In their study, Varunesh Chandra and Sukumaran Sandeep, working at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, used model simulations to assess how reductions of polar sea ice affect the Indian summer monsoon, a key source of rainfall for much of South Asia. They find that both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice leads to a warming of tropical sea surface temperatures, leading to a weakening of the monsoonal
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Emergency loan Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Lingxiao Yan
The agricultural sector in low-income countries is vulnerable to increasing extreme weather events, yet adaptation capacities are largely constrained. Climate credits and insurance often fail to be effective adaptation measures as institutions fear losing money and farmers are hesitant about the high up-front costs. Eligible households with a pre-approved emergency loan are promised in advance that
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Gene plasticity higher in hybrids Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Tegan Armarego-Marriott
Climate-change-induced species redistribution has the potential to bring isolated species into contact, leading to increased rates of hybridization. While interspecific hybridization may be seen as a risk to local population identities, it can also lead to outcomes whereby hybrid offspring have novel features that can maximize their survival under global change. Transgressive phenotypes — in which
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Considering health can drive climate action Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Tegan Armarego-Marriott
Last December saw the inaugural Health Day at a Climate Conference of the Parties (COP) and the announcement of the COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health, marking a substantial step in global recognition of the intersecting crises of climate change and health. Nature Climate Change speaks to Maria Neira, director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health
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Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Yessenia Funes
Scientists and health professionals acknowledge that climate change is also a health emergency, but responses have been slow. Now, citizens and experts are turning to the courts as a path towards accountability, action and adaptation.
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Talking about climate change and health Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
The climate crisis is also an urgent and ongoing health crisis with diverse human impacts leading to physical, mental and cultural losses. Translating knowledge into action involves broad collaboration, which relies heavily on careful communication of a personal and politicized issue.
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Views on climate change and health Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Wenjia Cai, Jessica Fanzo, Jason Glaser, Rachel Lowe, Adelaide M. Lusambili, Elizabeth Marks
Climate change is a health emergency, impacting multiple facets of human well-being via direct and indirect pathways. Nature Climate Change asked experts from different health fields to share their thoughts on the urgent issues and possible paths forward.
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High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Gaopeng Xu, M. Cameron Rencurrel, Ping Chang, Xiaoqing Liu, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Stephen G. Yeager, Michael Steele, Wilbert Weijer, Yuchen Li, Nan Rosenbloom, Frederic Castruccio, Qiuying Zhang
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Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 William F. Lamb, Thomas Gasser, Rosa M. Roman-Cuesta, Giacomo Grass, Matthew J. Gidden, Carter M. Powis, Oliver Geden, Gregory Nemet, Yoga Pratama, Keywan Riah, Stephen M. Smith, Jan Steinhauser, Naomi E. Vaughan, Harry Smith, Jan C. Minx