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The race to uncover snow’s many mysteries before it disappears forever
Historian brings icy climate warnings and warm personal memories.
- Gareth Thompson
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Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
- Andrew Macintosh
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Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say
A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Where I Work |
Connecting the dots: I trace the history of the East Kolkata Wetlands
Environmental-humanities researcher Jenia Mukherjee uncovers the complex relationship between people, canals and wetlands in Kolkata, India.
- Nikki Forrester
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Book Review |
From fossil fuels to ‘green capitalism’: the dilemmas of a just energy transition
Greening the global economy does not have to be done through unjust fuel extraction; societies can choose fairer paths to net-zero emissions.
- Sophia Kalantzakos
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Correspondence |
India and Pakistan share flood risks and must combine solutions
- Saheeb Ahmed Kayani
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Research Highlight |
Saharan dust on the wind linked to hail in Europe
Satellites help scientists to document a correlation between dust travelling from Africa and hailstones falling in the Alps.
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World View |
Trust in the sea-bed mining authority is fragile — here’s how to change that
The authority created to safeguard the ocean floor now leans towards licensing its exploitation. Here’s how to reset the balance.
- Carlos Garcia-Soto
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China pledges to cut emissions by 2035: what does that mean for the climate?
The country’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases will largely determine the world’s emissions trajectory, researchers say.
- Xiaoying You
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Book Review |
Fighting climate change takes more than data — it needs wonder, love and hope
An informative and highly accessible book discusses climate change, its impacts and challenges to mitigating global warming through a compelling personal account.
- Raya Muttarak
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News & Views |
Climate change is reshaping fish communities in the United States
Rising temperatures and the introduction of non-native fishes have been linked to rapid changes in fish communities across the United States.
- Ian P. Vaughan
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Diverging fish biodiversity trends in cold and warm rivers and streams
In the past three decades, fish abundance, richness and uniqueness have diverged across cold and warm streams, and the effects on native fish communities of stream warming and increases in introduced fishes have magnified each other.
- Samantha L. Rumschlag
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Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality
- Junri Zhao
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- & Qiang Zhang
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Caribbean coral reefs are threatened by rising seas
Modelling suggests that most Caribbean coral reefs will erode by the year 2100 as sea-level rise outpaces reef growth and limits potential reef restoration.
- Nicola K. Browne
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Research Briefing |
Earth’s atmosphere took two billion years to become fully oxygenated
High-resolution isotope data show that a modern-like, oxygen-rich atmosphere was not established until 410 million years ago, supporting a 2-billion-year transitional oxygenation of Earth’s surface. The record also captures a dynamic co-evolution of atmospheric and oceanic reduction–oxidation states, with repeated oxygenation pulses and feedback cycles.
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‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models
Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Trump team disbands controversial US climate panel
A report by the panel downplays the ills of global warming and was key to White House efforts to revoke federal authority to regulate climate policies.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Editorial |
Climate impacts are real — denying this is self-defeating
The US administration is attempting to undermine efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. It will ultimately leave that country, and the world, worse off.
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Nature Podcast |
Feeling the heat: fossil-fuel producers linked to dozens of heatwaves
Attribution study suggests major energy producers play an outsized role in causing extreme heatwaves — plus, the scientists fighting back against US funding cuts.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies
Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Heatwaves linked to emissions of individual fossil-fuel and cement producers
The emissions of leading fossil-fuel and cement producers have been systematically linked to particular heatwaves. Three scientists discuss the methodology behind the result and its potential impact on climate-liability court cases.
- Karsten Haustein
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| Open AccessSystematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
- Yann Quilcaille
- , Lukas Gudmundsson
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Correspondence |
Strengthen the science behind the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies
- Shu Su
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News Feature |
A revolution is sweeping Europe’s farms: can it save agriculture?
Momentum is building for regenerative agriculture, a set of approaches that could help farms to weather the changing climate and make them more profitable.
- April Reese
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Book Review |
How to build nature back better — read this manual
By clearing the confusion, this comprehensive guide can help businesses to do more for nature.
- Ryan Nolan
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Nature Video |
Tiny flier could soar through the mesosphere powered only by light
A quirk of physics lets light power flight in low pressure environments.
- Dan Fox
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Earth’s capacity to store carbon could max out surprisingly soon
Around 1,460 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide can be safely stored underground, but this limit could be reached by 2200.
- Mohana Basu
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Article
| Open AccessA prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage
A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit decisions on priorities for storage use.
- Matthew J. Gidden
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World View |
States now have a legal duty to prevent climate harm — justice is in reach
A July ruling from the International Court of Justice is clear: nations can face consequences if they don’t act on the climate crisis.
- Maina Vakafua Talia
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This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings
Paralvinella hessleri is the first known animal to create orpiment, which was used by artists for centuries.
- Mohana Basu
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Scientific meetings debate the effect of climate change on future food production
The threat to global agriculture from climate change gains scientific consensus, and a musing about the reasoning ability of domestic cats in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
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Climate models need more frequent releases of input data — here’s how to do it
Annual updates to ‘climate forcing’ data sets would allow simulations to keep pace as global warming accelerates.
- Vaishali Naik
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Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.
- Freda Kreier
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Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise
Without artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach. Action in five areas is needed to keep this goal alive.
- Amy Luers
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Spotlight |
‘A double-whammy problem’: how plastic dust is altering natural processes
Carbon emissions from plastics production are no surprise. But when plastic turns to dust, it also affects how the planet absorbs carbon from the air, on land and in the oceans.
- Saima Sidik
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Research Highlight |
The world’s largest methane emitter manages to curb one source
Output of the powerful greenhouse gas by China’s energy sector peaked in 2014, an inventory shows.
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When will dengue strike? Outbreaks sync with heat and rain
Analysis uncovers seasonal patterns of the mosquito-borne disease across the Americas, which could anticipate future outbreaks.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Spotlight |
Securing climate justice in the courtroom
Advances in climate modelling are clarifying accountability for global warming.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Review Article |
Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
Abrupt changes are developing across Antarctica’s ice, ocean and biological systems; some of these changes are intensifying faster than equivalent Arctic changes, potentially irreversibly, and their interactions are expected to worsen other impacts across the Antarctic environment and global climate system.
- Nerilie J. Abram
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Could these five future agricultural innovations slow down climate change?
From AI-powered bee monitors to genetically modified yeasts that make protein, here are some solutions that are set to revolutionize the future of food.
- Nic Fleming
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World View |
How citizen science can help to solve the global freshwater crisis
Encouraging people to test their local rivers and lakes with simple kits could spark a shift in how we manage water.
- Sasha Woods
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Correspondence |
Include Indigenous Knowledge systems in climate reports
- Bradley Moggridge
- , Vinnitta Mosby
- & Nina Lansbury
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Correspondence |
Study protected waters newly opened up to fishing
- Angelo Villagomez
- , Kirsten Grorud-Colvert
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Battery prices are falling, so why are electric cars still so expensive?
Policies incentivizing electrified transport don’t seem to be working. Here’s what we need to do.
- Lucas Woodley
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Book Review |
Why amphibious, wet environments hold the key to climate adaptation
As the planet braces for climate-change-induced fluctuations, the wisdom of communities living at the intersection of land and water could offer valuable lessons.
- Ananya
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Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown
To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage.
- Ida Kubiszewski
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Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanizes scientists into action
Authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttal, while researchers say report misrepresents decades of climate science.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Jeff Tollefson