Category: Nature

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 08 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01937-z Complex drivers of droughts   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 08 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01935-1 Supply-chain adaptation   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 08 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01927-1 Carbon sequestration in mangroves has been proposed as a mitigation strategy for climate change, yet the benefits of carbon burial may be offset by methane emissions. This study shows that methane offsets are small in saline and tropical mangroves, leading to greater net carbon sequestration.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01921-z Oceans, covering more than 70% of Earth’s surface, play a vital role in regulating the climate by absorbing heat and carbon dioxide. Now research shows oceans have warmed by more than 1.5 °C since the beginning of the industrial era, challenging previous estimates and emphasizing the…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01919-7 Understanding temperature change since the pre-industrial period is essential for climate action. This study uses an ocean proxy to better quantify when anthropogenic warming began and estimates that global temperatures have already increased by 1.7 °C.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01932-4 In this issue of Nature Climate Change, we publish our first Registered Report. We encourage scientists from all climate research communities to consider this format in the future.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01910-2 The desire to justify carbon-emitting behaviours could influence people’s climate change beliefs due to motivated cognition. Based on a pre-registered survey experiment in the United States, the study, however, finds no evidence supporting the claim in explaining climate denial and environmentally harmful behaviour.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 01 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01902-2 The authors estimate the global vulnerability of wheat crops to wheat blast under current and future climates. They show that warmer, more humid climates can increase wheat blast infection, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere, subsequently reducing global wheat production.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 01 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01928-0 How the climate system reacts to stabilized or decreasing CO2 concentrations is not yet well understood. Here, the authors show that deep ocean warming and its slower heat release lead to unique patterns of ocean surface warming and precipitation.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01916-w Tropical instability waves (TIWs) are an important component of the equatorial Pacific climate. An analysis of satellite observations, in situ measurements and ocean circulation models indicates that TIW activity has intensified in the central equatorial Pacific by approximately 12 ± 6% per decade since the 1990s.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01915-x Tropical instability waves (TIWs) are an important component of the equatorial Pacific climate. Here the authors show that TIW activity has intensified in the central equatorial Pacific at ∼12 ± 6% per decade over the recent three decades.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01930-6 Author Correction: Dependence of economic impacts of climate change on anthropogenically directed pathways   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01920-0 Ongoing climate change has the potential to reduce people’s direct experiences with nature, leading to or further exacerbating the ‘extinction of experience’. We argue that understanding these impacts is crucial, as the extinction of experience can have adverse consequences for both humans and the natural environment.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01931-5 Author Correction: Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01903-1 The authors investigate the impacts of excluding ecosystem data from Russian stations in the Arctic. While the current network of Arctic stations is already biased, the exclusion of Russian stations lowers representativeness and creates further biases that can rival end-of-century climate change shifts.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01917-9 Climate warming can impact predators directly as well as indirectly by affecting their prey and habitat. How predators respond to such changes is largely unknown. Now, experimental work shows the ability of spiders to adjust their webs in response to warming-induced changes in plant communities that…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01918-8 The authors show shifts in predatory spider web mesh size under experimental warming in an alpine meadow. Web mesh size decreased for a large spider species, but increased for a small species, with changes linked to altered prey size spectra following soil moisture and plant community…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 18 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01909-9 Accurate representation of permafrost carbon emissions is crucial for climate projections, yet current Earth system models inadequately represent permafrost carbon. Sustained funding opportunities are needed from government and private sectors for prioritized model development.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01905-z Despite the promise of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) to improve food security in South Asia, most CSA practices and technologies have not been widely adopted. We identify the key barriers to CSA adoption in South Asia and suggest strategies to overcome them to increase CSA adoption at…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01906-y Recent US climate bills mark a major step in domestic climate actions, while their successful implementation relies on strong assumptions. This Perspective discusses potential challenges regarding supply, consumer demand and political polarization and how insights of social science could help to overcome these challenges.