How contemporary bioclimatic and human controls change global fire regimes
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0540-7Fires play an important role in ecosystem dynamics. Long-term controls on global burnt area include fuel...
Summer weather becomes more persistent in a 2 °C world
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0555-0Climate models project an increase in summer weather persistence for the northern mid-latitudes. In a 2 °C...
Robustness and uncertainties in global multivariate wind-wave climate projections
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0542-5There are large uncertainties in wind-wave climate projections that need to be resolved to allow adaptation...
Tackling climate change with blockchain
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0567-9Concern about the carbon footprint of Bitcoin is not holding back blockchain developers from leveraging the...
Emergence of anthropogenic signals in the ocean carbon cycle
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0553-2The components of the ocean carbon cycle will respond differently to climate change, with anthropogenic impacts...
Tiny GPS backpacks uncover the secret life of desert bats
A new study using miniaturized satellite-based tags revealed that during drier periods desert bats must fly further and longer to fulfill their nightly needs....
Discovery of a bottleneck relief in photosynthesis may have a major impact on food...
Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase...
Could biological clocks in plants set the time for crop spraying?
Plants can tell the time, and this affects their responses to certain herbicides used in agriculture according to new research. The study found that...
New insight into bacterial infections found in the noses of healthy cattle
New research used the 'One Health' approach to study three bacterial species in the noses of young cattle and found the carriage of the...
Genetic redundancy aids competition among bacteria in symbiosis with squid
The molecular mechanism used by many bacteria to kill neighboring cells has redundancy built into its genetic makeup, which could allow for the mechanism...
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