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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02177-x The authors use multidecadal, high-resolution data to investigate the spatial variability of vegetation greening in European mountains. They show that changes in snow cover duration play a more significant role than rising air temperatures alone in driving greening patterns.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02156-2 Older adults are more likely to have health conditions that increase their vulnerability to climate stressors. This Review introduces a framework to conceptualize how biophysical, socio-demographic, cultural and contextual factors intersect with climate stressors to impact the health of older adults.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02172-2 Record-breaking temperatures pose critical risks to the global food supply, particularly endangering fresh produce. Urgent enhancements in food safety measures, including re-evaluating the impact of food production, improving cold chain logistics and adapting dietary practices, are required to ensure the resilience of food systems and public…
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02149-1 The authors combine fire–vegetation models, a chemical transport model and a health risk model to link human mortality from fire emissions to climate change. They estimate that 12.8% of mortalities in 2010 were linked to climate change, with South America, Australia, Europe and boreal forests most…
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02140-w Complex interactions between drivers have hampered efforts to understand observed changes in fire behaviour worldwide. Here fire model ensembles and impact attribution show that climate change increasingly explains changes in global burned area.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02141-9 Multiple fire models, within an impact attribution framework, have been used to explore how climate change is impacting fire worldwide. Results show that climate change is increasing burned area in most regions, particularly during periods of peak fire activity, and this effect is increasing over time….
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02167-z The authors consider the future risks of warming and drying to water-sensitive anuran species. They show that increased aridity of anuran habitats and drought exposure under climate change, combined with warming, can substantially reduce anuran activity.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 18 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02168-y Little is known about public understanding of climate justice, despite its increasing prominence in climate change communication. Here a global survey reveals that, although awareness of climate justice is low, beliefs in climate justice are widely supported across countries.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02165-1 Limited comparative evidence exists on the impacts of climatic factors on internal migration. Here, using a harmonized census-based dataset, the authors find that drought and aridity substantially increase internal migration, with considerable heterogeneity across regions, age groups and education levels.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02164-2 The authors demonstrate a significant influence of canopy structure on autumn phenology in temperate forests, mediated by microclimate regulation. Incorporating this relationship into autumn phenology models enhances their prediction accuracy and reduces previously projected delays in autumn phenology.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02154-4 Climate influences when leaves change colour and fall, but not all trees lose their leaves at the same time. Combining field data, mathematical models and remote sensing, researchers show how local-scale variation in tree canopies and understory temperatures alters the start and duration of autumn leaf…
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02145-5 Relaxing fertility policies and delaying retirement age would increase China’s household carbon footprint mainly by boosting population and labour. Policymakers should synergize policies targeting population ageing and climate change, which are both crucial for sustainable development.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02162-4 Demographic policies to address population aging could have major climate consequences, and such interaction effect is context dependent. This study shows that relaxing the fertility policy and delaying retirement age in China could lead to an increase in total and per capita household carbon footprint.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02161-5 By comparing the responses of 323 elite maize lines from different breeding eras, the authors demonstrate that reduced tassel size in newer lines can lead to increased susceptibility to high temperature. This highlights the potential for traits optimized by breeding to lead to climate maladaptation.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02152-6 A multi-model study demonstrates that well-designed climate policies that mitigate climate impacts and redistribute carbon revenues to households can stabilize the climate while also reducing economic inequality.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02166-0 The feasibility of certain climate actions needs to be carefully examined to address concerns over their practicality. Researchers across different climate change research fields are increasingly working on this topic.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02129-5 The authors use long-term satellite tracking to project climate-induced shifts in whale shark distributions and understand their potential future risk of ship-strike. Under high-emission scenarios, the movement of sharks to current range-edge habitat is linked to 15,000-fold increased co-occurrence with ships.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02158-0 Stream flow and community stability
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02160-6 A low chance of collapsing ice cliffs
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02159-z Bridging social sciences and engineering