Categorie: Nature

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: 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: 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   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02157-1 Failures in railway systems   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 04 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02151-7 Climate change and economic inequality are critical issues, and we still lack understanding of the interaction between them. Multi-model analysis shows how climate policies compatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement, including revenue-redistribution schemes, can reduce inequality—particularly in the short and medium terms.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02139-3 The dominant paradigm holding that science is always objective needs to be challenged. When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as irrelevant, it suggests that science is separate from society; however, this perspective ultimately weakens climate science.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02120-0 Changes in nutrient availability can alter carbon storage and carbon dioxide emissions from tundra soils. Now, work shows that these responses can shift dramatically over long timescales of nutrient addition, by restructuring the interplay between plants and soil microorganisms.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02153-5 By expanding on one of the longest-running ecosystem manipulation experiments in the world, we found that the substantial Arctic soil carbon losses observed in the first 20 years of experimentation were temporary. We present evidence suggesting that the Arctic soil carbon balance depends on complex plant–microbial…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02147-3 Arctic warming is thought to lead to large losses in soil carbon stocks. Here a 35-year-long fertilization experiment in Alaska shows that increased shrub productivity and changes in plant–microbial feedbacks may eventually reverse trends of carbon loss and restore the soil carbon sink.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02174-0 Publisher Correction: Climate damage projections beyond annual temperature   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 01 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02150-8 The IPCC holds the gold standard for climate change scientific knowledge and authority at the science–policy interface. Here we reflect on our experience of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and discuss how diversity in authorship and inclusion of different disciplinary backgrounds can be improved.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02112-0 A feasibility analysis reveals that carbon capture and storage capacity might be able to expand fast enough to meet the requirements of 2 °C climate pathways but will unlikely meet those for 1.5 °C. Moreover, carbon capture and storage is unlikely to capture and store more…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02148-2 More understanding of demand-side mitigation is needed for overall emissions reductions. Now, a study evaluates mitigation potential based on a cost–benefit approach, but gaps remain to fully leverage demand-side mitigation to achieve effective climate policies.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02136-6 The authors reveal distinct trends in surface and subsurface phytoplankton dynamics, highlighting the need for subsurface monitoring. Whereas subsurface phytoplankton respond to recent warming with biomass increases, surface phytoplankton show altered carbon-to-chlorophyll ratios but minimal biomass change.