Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00920-8Carbon emissions from fires are generally modelled and predicted from fire weather and climate. Fuel availability...
Drivers of wildfire carbon emissions
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00922-6Increasing fire frequency and severity may shift boreal forests from carbon sinks to carbon sources and...
Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00909-3Dust deposition in high-mountain Asia lowers snow albedo and hastens melt. Satellite data and models show...
Right-wing ideology reduces the effects of education on climate change beliefs in more developed...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00930-6Education increases political polarization on climate change beliefs in the US. Here the authors find that...
Plant agrodiversity to the rescue
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00925-3Agricultural systems are vulnerable to climate change, and global reservoirs of plant genetic diversity are proving...
Intraspecific diversity as a reservoir for heat-stress tolerance in sweet potato
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00924-4Mass field testing of heat tolerance in 1,973 cultivars of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) from 50...
A darker cryosphere in a warming world
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00911-9Dust and black carbon deposition in high-mountain Asia darkens snow and ice, increases sunlight absorption and...
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...
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