Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00919-1Drought frequency will probably increase under climate change, posing a potential risk to forests. Forest response...
Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00916-4Winter conditions are the strongest environmental variable relating to fine-scale patterns in tundra vegetation. Vascular plants,...
Electrification of light-duty vehicle fleet alone will not meet mitigation targets
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00921-7Electric vehicles (EV) are often considered as the best chance for reducing light-duty transport emissions. Analysis...
Warming drives ecological community changes linked to host-associated microbiome dysbiosis
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0899-5Replicated bromeliad microecosystems were used to examine warming-induced community shifts and changes to tadpole gut microbiome....
Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00918-2Seawater properties—temperature, salinity and density—cause stratification of the water column, limiting vertical exchange. Considering down to...
Climate change disturbs wildlife microbiomes
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00923-5While large-scale climate-associated changes are becoming increasingly visible, our understanding of changes in the microbial world...
Winter in a warming Arctic
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0900-3Winter conditions have typically been downplayed or oversimplified in past estimations of terrestrial Arctic vegetation shifts...
Researchers help develop sustainable polymers
Researchers have made new discoveries on the effects of temperature on sustainable polymers. Their findings may help the industry to produce plastics that are...
Coldest Northern Hemisphere temps of minus 69.6 degress Celsius: Greenland, 1991
Nearly 30 years after recording a temperature of minus 93.2 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 69.6 Celsius) in Greenland, the measurement has been verified by the...
A better alternative to phthalates?
Researchers analyzed urine samples from pregnant women to look for the presence of DINCH, which is short for di(isononyl)cyclohexane-1,2-dicarboxylate. They found concentrations of DINCH...
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