Category: Nature

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02257-6 Critical methodological choices in marine heatwave detection can yield dramatically different results. We call for context-specific methods that account for regional variability to advance marine heatwave research and socio-ecological outcomes.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02250-z Governance of domestic cross-border carbon capture and storage faces great challenges, which varies across political systems, economic structures and socio-cultural backgrounds, yet is often overlooked. Overcoming these challenges requires a comprehensive and coordinated approach built on synergistic cluster governance.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02258-5 Western boundary currents flow along the western edge of subtropical oceans, transporting heat polewards, and are integral in the climate system. Using high-resolution models, this work shows that western boundary currents will shift shorewards as a result of increased stratification driven by climate change.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02270-9 Stewardship of soil carbon sits at the nexus of efforts to mitigate climate change, improve soil health and increase climate resiliency of agricultural production. Unlocking the full potential of soils to support a sustainable future requires embracing the unique and contrasting realities of soil carbon dynamics…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02248-7 Using community data of 581 angiosperm and 172 Lepidoptera species, the authors consider the impacts of extreme weather events (EWE) on the timing of life events (phenology). They show high responsiveness of phenology to EWEs and highlight the potential for EWEs to drive phenological mismatches.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02264-7 As urban extent continues to grow, the impact this major land-use change has on soils and their carbon stocks is an increasingly important question. A recent global study suggests that the effects are not straightforward.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02249-6 Climate research centres provide valuable support to scholars wanting to engage with interdisciplinary research. Fully leveraging this support requires strategic individual efforts. We outline how scholars can achieve collaborative synergy at the intersection of top-down institutional support and bottom-up individual action.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 18 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02266-5 The degree to which the tropical circulation changes with warming is not well known. Here, the authors use an emergent constraint to show that the tropical Hadley circulation is weakening more intensely than previously thought, resulting in stronger precipitation increases in subtropical regions.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02279-0 Author Correction: Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02278-1 Author Correction: Carbon burial in sediments below seaweed farms matches that of Blue Carbon habitats   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02251-y Land-based carbon dioxide removals are critical for meeting the low-warming targets, yet their availability is limited when avoiding excessive risks to sustainability. Scenario-based analysis suggests that they should only be used to compensate for emissions from hard-to-abate sectors and overshoot.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02263-8 Satellite observations suggest a slowdown in the decay of sea surface temperature anomalies over the past four decades, coinciding with an increase in the duration of marine heatwaves. This change is probably linked to factors such as stronger upper-ocean stratification, a deepening mixed layer and weakening…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02252-x This study uses available models to show intensified Atlantic multidecadal variability under global warming. Warmer and fresher waters, along with slowed overturning circulation, reduce the mixed layer, intensifying sea surface temperature variability, suggesting increased global climate extremes.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02247-8 The 12 months before July 2024 were more than 1.5 °C warmer than the pre-industrial baseline. Using climate models, the author shows that the first year that exceeds 1.5 °C of warming most probably also occurs within the first 20-year period with an average temperature that exceeds temperature targets.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02246-9 What a first year with temperature 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial baseline implies for long-term temperature goals is unclear. Here the authors show that such a first year above the baseline is highly likely to occur within the first 20-year period with average warming of 1.5 °C.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02261-w Uniformity of climate anxiety scales   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02262-9 Plants countering downpours   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02260-x Thermal impacts on aquatic fertility   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02259-4 Ineffective carbon offset   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 06 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02245-w Analysis of 42 years of daily sea surface temperature data shows increasing persistence of anomalies. These changes, which are attributed to deepening of the mixed layer, reduced oceanic forcing and reduced damping associated with stronger stratification, have implications for marine heatwave duration.