Vocal communication is essential for information transmission in many species, such as that related to mating opportunities or predator presence. Recent research revealing how phenotypic changes brought about by a changing climate may influence vocal communication raises some serious concerns for conservation management.

The boreal summer of 2024 has unusually affected the health of people in India. The number of cases of heat stroke rose across the nation and stakeholders issued warnings to prevent health problems and deaths from the heat. The effect was felt more in those states that usually have higher temperatures and dry weathers, such as Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Normally, government and non-government

The hottest boreal summer on record has driven widespread humid heat mortality across every continent of the Northern Hemisphere. With critical physiological limits to human heat tolerance drawing ever closer, this Comment highlights the urgent need to limit further climate warming and emphasizes the adaptation challenge ahead.

We greatly appreciate Coolsaet et al.’s Correspondence1, which gives us the opportunity to clarify and emphasize the scope and intended use of our framework. With respect to scope, we are in agreement with our colleagues that various forms of justice (that is, distributional, procedural and so on) have been discussed in different disciplines. We thus believe, as stated in our paper, that the novelty

In a recent Perspective1, Zimm et al. argued that “there is no consistent approach to comprehensively incorporate and examine justice considerations” in climate research. While we welcome the attention of the authors and the journal to climate justice, we find that Zimm et al. replicate a number of forms and practices of injustice and fail to recognize and include the history and breadth of environmental

Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01941-3, published online 8 March 2024.

Original reference: Earth’s Future 11, e2023EF003886 (2023)

Anselm Vogler from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg conducted interviews with local stakeholders in Vanuatu and Guåhan to collect their insights on environmental security. In Vanuatu, a developing island nation, climate change and socioeconomic factors have transformed traditional lifestyles into a state of underdevelopment, resulting in food insecurity, displacement, economic

Reserves or protective areas can help with the long-term conservation of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. However, as climate change alters the suitability of previously optimal habitats, and leads to species range shifts, reserves that are spatially flexible may be increasingly favourable. But reserve expansion is often limited by budget constraints, and selling of suboptimal reserve

Windthrows are trees that have been uprooted or snapped by winds and are a natural disturbance caused by strong winds during convective storms. These types of storm are an important source of rainfall for the Amazon rainforest, and their frequency may change under climate change, with important hydrological and ecological implications for the forest. In addition to providing evidence for storm incidence

The year 2024 has once again been characterized by a large number of devastating climate-related hazards. While many of these events were likely to have been exacerbated by climate change, they also provide drastic reminders of the degree to which humans can influence whether a meteorological extreme develops into a disaster.

Tipping points have gained substantial traction in climate change discourses. Here we critique the ‘tipping point’ framing for oversimplifying the diverse dynamics of complex natural and human systems and for conveying urgency without fostering a meaningful basis for climate action. Multiple social scientific frameworks suggest that the deep uncertainty and perceived abstractness of climate tipping

Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02178-w, published online 13 November 2024.

Online image search results depict climate change differently across the world. Countries with high (versus low) levels of climate concern encounter more emotional images, creating a difference that can change how people think and feel about climate change.

Ocean alkalinity enhancement is a commonly touted method for marine carbon dioxide removal but many questions remain, including its capacity for large-scale carbon removal. Computer models have now been used to map the timescales and efficiency of carbon removal at global scale, revealing important regional differences.

Woody plants have expanded into many grasslands, in part due to anthropogenic suppression of natural fires. Restoring fire to grasslands is a shift in conservation strategy aimed to improve the health of these ecosystems, which depend on fire. However, fire exclusion changes ecosystem characteristics, and particularly in areas that have experienced extensive tree expansion, reintroducing fire can have

Climate-induced disasters can often capture the attention of both the public and the media, which make them effective channels for government accountability as governments could then be pressured into taking action. A dramatic surge of public attention on certain events could largely shape the emergent response of regulatory agencies. Yet the existence and duration of such an effect is still unknown

Mark Kirk, from Murray State University and Allegheny College in the USA, and colleagues, used a 32 year mark–recapture dataset investigating 717 Arizona tiger salamanders (Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum), in the context of climate and population density. While longer growing seasons directly favoured terrestrial metamorphic outcomes, climate impacts including long overwintering cold spells and light

To understand the effect of chlorophyll solar absorption on coastal upwelling regions, Siyu Meng and colleagues use a coupled ocean–biogeochemistry model and find that chlorophyll absorption causes colder, stronger upwelling in the Pacific Ocean, but warmer, weaker upwelling in the Atlantic Ocean. The authors attribute this to phytoplankton spatial differences, with the Pacific Ocean having more surface

Aspirations for a just society can motivate individuals to engage in climate action; however, public awareness of climate justice remains low, and the extent of injustice within the climate crisis is often underestimated.

As attribution studies evolve in complexity and become more present in public discourse, care is needed to ensure that the associated uncertainties and relevant contexts remain clear.

An in-depth examination of the factors driving rising greenhouse gas emissions in the production of wheat, maize and rice uncovers trends that conflict with the objective of reducing emissions while simultaneously boosting production.

Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02149-1, published online 21 October 2024.

Before the 12th Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12), Nature Climate Change spoke to experts across the world to discuss how cities can and should cope with the intensifying climate crisis in the coming decades.

Climate influences when leaves change colour and fall, but not all trees lose their leaves at the same time. Combining field data, mathematical models and remote sensing, researchers show how local-scale variation in tree canopies and understory temperatures alters the start and duration of autumn leaf colouration and forecast reduced autumn delays under climate change.

Relaxing fertility policies and delaying retirement age would increase China’s household carbon footprint mainly by boosting population and labour. Policymakers should synergize policies targeting population ageing and climate change, which are both crucial for sustainable development.

Freshwater ecosystems contribute disproportionately to global biodiversity, but organisms in these ecosystems are declining at faster rates than those in terrestrial or marine environments. Among other stressors, both direct human activities and climate change are leading to increased irregularity of water flow in rivers and streams (flow intermittence), which has been shown to negatively impact biodiversity

The contribution of Antarctica to sea-level rise is highly uncertain. One important source of uncertainty is a lack of consensus on which mechanisms act during the demise of Antarctic ice masses. A particularly debated mechanism is that of marine ice cliff instability (MICI), where the formation of tall ice cliffs could lead to a rapid collapse of ice sheets. In their study, Mathieu Morlighem from

Olivia Guerra-Santin from Eindhoven University of Technology and colleagues in the Netherlands have developed an interdisciplinary behaviour model for residential buildings, based on the empirical results from three monitoring campaigns in the Netherlands. This model links measurable drivers directly to energy outcomes, considers building-related contexts and reflects the complexity of high-performance

Khosro Soleimani-Chamkhorami of Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and colleagues developed a ML framework to distinguish between climatic and non-climatic failures. They collected datasets on failure reports, asset and weather information for Sweden’s railway system over 23 years. They demonstrate that the random forest model has the highest accuracy. Their analysis also shows that for classifying

The feasibility of certain climate actions needs to be carefully examined to address concerns over their practicality. Researchers across different climate change research fields are increasingly working on this topic.