Stepping up action
Climate action is urgently needed, with reports appearing regularly highlighting the current state of the planet and scientific understanding of what is to come....
Principles of decarbonization politics
Climate change mitigation politics is not delivering on climate targets. Recent research suggests that a general formal framework that represents the behaviour of citizens,...
Experimental warming leads to convergent succession of grassland archaeal community
AbstractUnderstanding the temporal succession of ecological communities and the underlying mechanisms in response to climate warming is critical for future climate projections. However, despite...
Microclimate alters the picture
The speed at which terrestrial organisms are shifting their ranges in response to climate is consistently lower than that predicted by models. However, the...
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change
AbstractCurrent conservation policy has been shaped by the expectation that, for many species, places with suitable climate will lie outside their current range, thus...
Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release
AbstractThe northern peatland carbon sink plays a vital role in climate regulation; however, the future of the carbon sink is uncertain, in part, due...
Author Correction: Research agenda for the loss and damage fund
Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01648-x. Published online...
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