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Economic and social constraints on reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0856-3Reforestation has been recently identified as a promising climate mitigation option. In Southeast Asia, 120 million...
Human-induced changes to the global ocean water masses and their time of emergence
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0878-xClimate models predict that by 2020, 20–55% of the three key ocean basins express an anthropogenic...
Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant communities
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How people and ecosystems fit together on the Great Barrier Reef
A world-first study examines the scales of management of the Great Barrier Reef. The findings have the potential to help sustain other ecosystems across...
Author Correction: Climate change and locust outbreak in East Africa
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0907-9Author Correction: Climate change and locust outbreak in East Africa
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