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 emerging materials risks by expanding trading partnerships.

Interpersonal communication plays a crucial role in shaping climate change beliefs, knowledge and willingness to take action. However, many Americans refrain from discussing climate change even within their close circles. In particular, farmers’ voices have often been overlooked in climate change narratives, despite their direct exposure to climate-related impacts. Hong Tien Vu and colleagues from

Xiaochao Yu from the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences and colleagues from China used reanalysis datasets and multi-model simulations to isolate the effects of various anthropogenic forcings on VWS over the western North Pacific basin during 1979–2014. They showed an increase in TC intensity, coupled with a decline in VWS, primarily due to the weakening of upper-level winds (200 hPa level)

Raed Hamed from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and colleagues used a storyline approach invoking factual conditions (1 °C warming) and counterfactual scenarios without warming and with 2 °C warming to isolate the specific impacts of climate change on soybean losses. They attribute 35% of the global 2012 soybean deficit to climate change, with losses driven by both warmer temperatures

Regulations to improve firms’ energy efficiency are essential to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector, especially for developing countries. However, such policies could suffer from spillover effects along ownership networks, allowing conglomerates to mitigate the regulatory impact by distorting allocations of production among their affiliates. Such shifts would undermine the

Climate change and climate action are socially and politically divisive topics in many countries. In addition to contributing to political disparity, climate research is also affected by political context, with consequences not only for scientists but for society as well.

The Comment by Schipper et al.1 offers a crucial perspective on the emotional strain climate scientists face as they confront the accelerating climate crisis. It highlights how climate scientists experience feelings of despair, anxiety, sadness and worry, yet hesitate to communicate these emotions due to the prevailing norm that rigorous science should be objective, value-free and apolitical — essentially

Cities have historically benefitted from coastal access, but sea-level rise may turn this advantage into a vulnerability. Government investment should account for future climate risks.

Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C requires aggressive climate pledges, but their impact on land-use strategies remains underexplored. Now, a study reveals that these commitments may drive large-scale cropland loss, intensifying food security risks, especially in the global south.

Forest restoration and management have huge potential to contribute to climate, biodiversity and sustainability goals; and countless projects to plant trees and conserve forests are underway on the African continent. Unfortunately, forest management and governance are plagued by policies and practices handed down from colonialism that impede innovation and progress. To colonial powers, natural forests

The Hague in the Netherlands was the first city in the world to enact a law prohibiting advertisements for fossil fuel products and services. Although the ban is restricted to The Hague’s jurisdiction, the decision to implement the ban challenges norms and conventions that drive fossil-fuel consumption worldwide and sets an example for other governments to follow.

Criticisms of climate policymaking and the Conference of the Parties (COP) process are mounting. In October 2024, Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister announced that the COP meetings were a “total waste of time” and that his government would not be attending1. In an open letter, a list of high-profile signatories including former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former UN climate

Climate change is causing rapid shrinkage of high-latitude glaciers, fundamentally altering the nature of Arctic landscapes. Now, research quantifies the substantial, yet under-reported, development of new coastlines and islands that are revealed as marine-terminating glaciers fall back from the sea.

Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02256-7, published online 4 March 2025.

The nature and purpose of research into climate change has evolved over the past half century. In the last decades of the twentieth century, the focus was on understanding the climate system, detecting human influences on it and establishing how a changing climate might impact future society. In the present century, the more pressing focus for research has been informing the design and implementation

Airport infrastructure and operations are vulnerable to both increasingly extreme weather events and gradual climatic shifts such as rising temperatures and sea-level rise under climate change. However, research on how airports are impacted by climate change and the measures taken to mitigate risks remains limited, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the Middle East and Africa. Rachel

Rohini Kumar from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Germany, and colleagues used multi-model ensemble simulations to project groundwater recharge variations across Europe under different warming scenarios. Their findings reveal a strong north–south divide, with recharge declining up to 50% in the Mediterranean while increasing over 25% in northern Scandinavia under high-warming scenarios

Eva-Marie Metz from Heidelberg University, Germany, and colleagues used satellite (GOSAT) measurements of CO2 concentrations over southern Africa from 2009 to 2018 to constrain selection of global vegetation models (TRENDY) and investigate carbon flux variability and cycling processes in the region. They find that variability between years is predominately influenced by carbon uptake via photosynthesis

Altered phenology — the timing of life cycle events — is a commonly documented outcome of climate change. Seed germination shifts under warming remain relatively understudied, but it is known that warming can alter germination timing to different degrees among species. For fast-growing plants, these relative shifts may have broader impacts on community composition, as early arriving species often have

The IPCC is in its seventh assessment cycle, and international collaboration, which established this organization, is still needed to ensure successful deliverables.

Energy-economic models are increasingly being used to inform climate mitigation policies. This Comment describes three situations where models misinform policymakers and calls for more iterative, policy-orientated modelling exercises that maximize learning in the pursuit of long-term emissions reductions goals.

Species are shifting their distributions in response to climate change, which on land depends on routes connecting intact habitat patches. Now, an analysis exploring the interaction between climate-driven shifts and human activities across ocean depths reveals threats for deep-sea biodiversity.