Thailand > Drought Risk (Nature):

Evaluating the impacts of climate change & land-use change on future droughts in northeast Thailand
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Canada > Forest Diversity & Productivity (Science):

Functional diversity enhances dryland forest productivity under long-term climate change
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Greenland > Warming Archaeological Sites (Nature):

Assessing the consequences of recent climate change on World Heritage sites in South Greenland
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Emperor Penguins & Ice Loss (Antarctic Science):

A 6 year assessment of low sea-ice impacts on emperor penguins
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US > Wildfires & Prescribed Burns (Nature):

How will future climate change impact prescribed fire across the contiguous US?
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Urban Heat Islands & Local Climate Zones (Nature):

Advancing the local climate zones framework: a critical review of methodological progress, persisting challenges, & future research prospects
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Protecting Biodiversity (Science):

The positive impact of conservation action
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Indonesia > Peat Swamp Forest Emissions (Nature):

Large variation in carbon dioxide emissions from tropical peat swamp forests due to disturbances
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Svalbard > Changing Arctic Fjord (Nature News):

Hello puffins, goodbye belugas: changing Arctic fjord hints at our climate future; Stunning images show an ecosystem’s upheaval as it warms at an alarming pace.
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Arctic Marine Conservation (Nature):

Whole-ocean network design & implementation pathway for Arctic marine conservation
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Conifer Tree Mortality (Science):

Drought- & heat-induced mortality of conifer trees is explained by leaf & growth legacies

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Siberia > Tundra Plant Dynamics (ERL):

Summer drought weakens land surface cooling of tundra vegetation
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E. Africa > Extreme Events (Earth System Dynamics):

The perfect storm? Co-occurring climate extremes in East Africa
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Greenland Ice Sheet Loss (Nature):

Ice acceleration & rotation in the Greenland Ice Sheet interior in recent decades
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Future of Barrier Island Habitation, 2 Studies (Earth's Future):

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N. Carolina > Stormwater Inundation & Health Hazards (GeoHealth):

Fecal Bacteria Contamination of Floodwaters & a Coastal Waterway From Tidally-Driven Stormwater Network Inundation
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Malaria Transmission (Nature):

Estimating the effects of temperature on transmission of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum
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Coca-Cola & Other Top Global Plastic Polluters (Science):

Global producer responsibility for plastic pollution
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PFAS In Sea Spray (Science):

Constraining global transport of perfluoroalkyl acids on sea spray aerosol using field measurements
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Indonesia > Risks To Tropical Forests (PNAS):

Impacts of fire & prospects for recovery in a tropical peat forest ecosystem
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Adaptation In Developing Countries (Nature):

Developing countries can adapt to climate change effectively using nature-based solutions
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet (In)Stability (Nature):

Ocean cavity regime shift reversed West Antarctic grounding line retreat in the late Holocene
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What Is Happening In the Atlantic Ocean? Watch Stefan Rahmstorf on AMOC (50 min):


 See Also: AMOC Tipping Point (Oceanography Overview)

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N. America > Heat Domes & Wildfires (Nature):

Record-breaking fire weather in North America in 2021 was initiated by the Pacific northwest heat dome
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China > Sinking Cities (UEA Story on Paywalled Science Paper):

UEA News: A third of China’s urban population at risk of city sinking, new satellite data shows


Science Perspective (Paywall): Earth’s sinking surface; China’s major cities show considerable subsidence from human activities
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US > Identity Fusion (Royal Society):

Why care for humanity?
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Antarctic Sea-Ice Dynamics (Nature):

Last Interglacial subsurface warming on the Antarctic shelf triggered by reduced deep-ocean convection
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Risks To Critical Infrastructure (One Earth):

Infrastructure failure cascades quintuple risk of storm & flood-induced service disruptions across the globe
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Human Displacement & Migration (One Earth):

Research priorities for climate mobility
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East Africa > Soda Lakes & Flamingos At Risk (Current Biology):

Productivity declines threaten East African soda lakes & the iconic Lesser Flamingo
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Global Record Warmth & Extreme Events (Adv. Atmos. Sci.)

2023: Weather & Climate Extremes Hitting the Globe with Emerging Features
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European Bison = Ecological Restoration (Forest Ecology & Mgmt):

European bison (Bison bonasus) increase plant species richness in forest habitats
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San Francisco Bay > Marsh Restoration (Nature):

The value of marsh restoration for flood risk reduction in an urban estuary
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European Forest Diversity (Global Change Biology):

‘How to adapt forests?’—Exploring the role of leaf trait diversity for long-term forest biomass under new climate normals
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New England > Forest Composition & Conservation (Ecology & Evolution):

Frequent & strong cold-air pooling drives temperate forest composition
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Global Lake Health (Earth's Future):

Global Lake Health in the Anthropocene: Societal Implications & Treatment Strategies
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Amazon Fire Crises (Nature):

Emergency policies are not enough to resolve Amazonia’s fire crises
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Sweden > Warming Boreal Forests (Nature):

Restricted plant diversity limits carbon recapture after wildfire in warming boreal forests
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Southern Ocean Carbon Fixation & Macroalgae (Nature):

Deep-living & diverse Antarctic seaweeds as potentially important contributors to global carbon fixation
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West Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss (Science):

Antarctic Slope Undercurrent & onshore heat transport driven by ice shelf melting
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Antarctic Desert Ecosystems (Conservation Biology):

Effects of increasing soil moisture on Antarctic desert microbial ecosystems
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Tundra Carbon Stock (Nature):

Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra
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Tracking Global Mitigation Efforts (Nature):

Revisiting Copenhagen climate mitigation targets
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Impact of Lawsuits (Nature News Explainer):

Do climate lawsuits lead to action? Researchers assess their impact; Litigation can lead governments to strengthen their climate policies & curb companies’ greenwashing, say scientists.
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Europe's Plant Communities (Global Change Biology):

Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, & grasslands
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Antarctic Sea Ice (Nature):

Weakened western Indian Ocean dominance on Antarctic sea ice variability in a changing climate
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Global Economic Damages (Nature):

Climate damage projections beyond annual temperature
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Los Angeles > Flood Exposure Inequality (Multidiscip. J. Civ. Eng.):

Quantifying Social Inequalities in Flood Risk
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Canada > Oil Sands & Greenwashing (ERSS):

Greenwashing, net-zero, & the oil sands in Canada: The case of Pathways Alliance
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Global Emissions & Temp Probabilities (Climate Risk Mgmt):

Literature-informed likelihoods of future emissions & temperatures
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New Book (Princeton U Press):

Long Problems: Climate Change & the Challenge of Governing across Time

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Sea-Level Rise & Infrastructure (Annual Review Of Marine Science):

Hidden Threat: The Influence of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater & the Convergence of Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure
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China > Soil CO2 Emissions (Nature):

Soil respiration & its response to climate change & anthropogenic factors in a karst plateau wetland, southwest China
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Brazil > Forest Restoration & Role Of Birds In Seed Dispersal (Nature):

Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes
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Atlantic Hurricane Dynamics (GRL):

The Influence of Climate Variability & Future Climate Change on Atlantic Hurricane Season Length
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Ocean Warming & Acidification Impacts On Marine Life (Nature):

Hidden impacts of ocean warming & acidification on biological responses of marine animals revealed through meta-analysis
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Arctic > Wildfire Health Impacts (Nature):

Large transboundary health impact of Arctic wildfire smoke
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Global Coral Recovery (Nature):

A global database on coral recovery following marine heatwaves

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East Antarctica > Ice Dynamics (Nature):

Recent increase in the surface mass balance in central East Antarctica is unprecedented for the last 2000 years
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"Bringing Nature Into Decision-Making" Theme Issue (Royal Society, Multiple Open Access Papers):

Ecological novelty & planetary stewardship: biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere
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AMOC > Freshwater Dynamics (Ocean Science):

Persistent climate model biases in the Atlantic Ocean's freshwater transport
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Increasing Stroke Risk (Neurology):

Burden of Stroke Attributable to Nonoptimal Temperature in 204 Countries & Territories:
A Population-Based Study, 1990–2019
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Changing Streamflow In The Alps (Earth's Future):

Future Changes in Floods, Droughts, & Their Extents in the Alps: A Sensitivity Analysis With a Non-Stationary Stochastic Streamflow Generator
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Increasing Threats To Global Coastlines (Nature):

The risk of concurrent heatwaves & extreme sea levels along the global coastline is increasing
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Asia & Indo-Pacific > Marine Heatwaves (Nature):

Large spread in marine heatwave assessments for Asia & the Indo-Pacific between sea-surface-temperature products
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Antarctica > Ice Shelves Melting (Nature):

Amundsen Sea circulation controls bottom upwelling & Antarctic Pine Island & Thwaites ice shelf melting
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Wisconsin, US > Risks To Loons (Ecology):

Climate change-associated declines in water clarity impair feeding by common loons
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Madagascar > Drought (Nature):

Climate change linked to drought in Southern Madagascar
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Denmark > Sustainable Food Transition (Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change):

How to move the transition to sustainable food consumption towards a societal tipping point
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Sweden > Intergenerational Altruism (PNAS):

Intergenerational altruism & climate policy preferences
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AMOC Tipping Point (Oceanography Overview):

Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point?

PIK News: Overview article - Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point?
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Worldwide Coastal Defense (Nature):

Meta-analysis indicates better climate adaptation & mitigation performance of hybrid engineering-natural coastal defence measures
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Brazil > Risks To Ag (PNAS):

Empirical modeling of agricultural climate risk
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Changing Arctic (Weather & Climate Extremes):

Arctic springtime temperature & energy flux interannual variability is driven by 1- to 2-week frequency atmospheric events
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Global Economic Inequality (ERL Review):

Climate change impacts increase economic inequality: evidence from a systematic literature review
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Southern Ocean > Microplastics (Sci. Total Environ.)

Unveiling high concentrations of small microplastics (11–500 μm) in surface water samples from the southern Weddell Sea off Antarctica
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Thermal Impacts On Octopuses (Global Change Biology):

Projected ocean temperatures impair key proteins used in vision of octopus hatchlings
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Global Irrigated Ag Footprint (Nature):

Global energy use & carbon emissions from irrigated agriculture
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India > Human Heat Stress (Climate Risk Mgmt):

Community adaptation to heat stress − Social network analysis
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Changing Global Mountain Biodiversity Ranges (Nature):

Climate velocities & species tracking in global mountain regions
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West Antarctic Ice Shelves (GRL):

Subsurface Warming of the West Antarctic Continental Shelf Linked to El Niño-Southern Oscillation
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US > Urban Tree Inequality (Nature):

Current inequality & future potential of US urban tree cover for reducing heat-related health impacts
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Arctic Precipitation (GRL):

Factors Contributing to Historical & Future Trends in Arctic Precipitation
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US & China > Renewable Energy (ERL Commentary):

From powerpoint to powerplant: evaluating the impact of the US-China Sunnylands commitment to tripling global renewable energy capacity by 2030
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New Book (Island Press):

Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, & the Delusion of Controlling Nature
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Global Vegetation Changes (Royal Society):

Projected future climatic forcing on the global distribution of vegetation types
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Indigenous Knowledge & Water Quality (Frontiers):

The contributions of Indigenous People's earth observations to water quality monitoring
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Equality Is Essential For Sustainability (Nature Commentary):

Why the world cannot afford the rich
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We Need A Paradigm Shift (PNAS):

Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction & forge a just & sustainable future
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Multiple Global Pressures (Lancet):

 Interconnecting Global Threats: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, & Infectious Diseases

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Global Bird Species' Impacts From Human Footprints (Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.)

Bird species' tolerance to human pressures & associations with population change
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Adaptation > Making Technocratic Discourse Local (Nature Commentary):

Integrating science & the arts to deglobalise climate change adaptation
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Aerosol Emissions & Warming (Nature):

Recent reductions in aerosol emissions have increased Earth’s energy imbalance
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Europe > Summer Heat (Nature):

Exacerbated summer European warming not captured by climate models neglecting long-term aerosol changes
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2023 Year In Review Chronicles (Nature Series):

Extreme terrestrial heat in 2023

Wildfires in 2023

Global carbon emissions in 2023

Sea ice in 2023

Ocean heat content in 2023

Vegetation greenness in 2023

Terrestrial water storage in 2023

Precipitation extremes in 2023

Climate policy in 2023



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Germany > Effective Protests (Nature):

Increase in concerns about climate change following climate strikes & civil disobedience in Germany
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Warm Arctic, Cold East Asia Teleconnection (Adv. Atmos. Sci.)

Relative Impacts of Sea Ice Loss & Atmospheric Internal Variability on the Winter Arctic to East Asian Surface Air Temperature Based on Large-Ensemble Simulations with NorESM2
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Policy & Inequality (Energy Research & Social Science):

Climate action from a gender perspective: A systematic review of the impact of climate policies on inequality
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India > Extreme Weather & Extremism (J. Appl. Secur. Res.):

Monsoon Marauders & Summer Violence: Exploring the Spatial Relationship between Climate Change & Terrorist Activity in India
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Threats To Killer Whales (Nature):

Warning sign of an accelerating decline in critically endangered killer whales (Orcinus orca)
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Antarctica > Ice Shelf Stability (Nature):

Ice shelf basal channel shape determines channelized ice-ocean interactions
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Education & Academic Understanding (Nature):

Discrepancies in academic perceptions of climate change & implications for climate change education
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Antarctica > Ice Loss & Sea Level Rise (Nature):

Sustained ocean cooling insufficient to reverse sea level rise from Antarctica
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Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica > Observed Displacements (GRL):

Ross Ice Shelf Displacement & Elastic Plate Waves Induced by Whillans Ice Stream Slip Events
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Alaska > Coastal Flood Exposure (Nature):

Current & projected flood exposure for Alaska coastal communities
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Global Human Health Impacts (Frontiers):

Immune-mediated disease caused by climate change-associated environmental hazards: mitigation & adaptation

Related Commentary: Accelerating the end of the fossil fuel era: a human & planetary health imperative & opportunity
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US > Home Natural Gas Use (Science):

Drivers of natural gas use in US residential buildings
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Urban Ecological Footprints (Nature):

Urban Nature Indexes tool offers comprehensive & flexible approach to monitoring urban ecological performance
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Alpine Soil Functions (Nature):

Nutrient-induced acidification modulates soil biodiversity-function relationships
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US > Soil Carbon Stocks (JGR):

Upscaling Soil Organic Carbon Measurements at the Continental Scale Using Multivariate Clustering Analysis & Machine Learning
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Justice & Indigenous Peoples’ Participation In Policy (PLOS Commentary):

Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ participation in climate policy processes
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Humpback Whale Impacts (Royal Society):

Bellwethers of change: population modelling of North Pacific humpback whales from 2002 through 2021 reveals shift from recovery to climate response
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Anvil Cloud Feedback (Nature):

Weak anvil cloud area feedback suggested by physical & observational constraints
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Alaska > Arctic Coastal Storms (Nature):

Increasing coastal exposure to extreme wave events in the Alaskan Arctic as the open water season expands

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Arctic Sea Ice Loss & Asian-Pacific Oscillation (Nature):

Recent autumn sea ice loss in the eastern Arctic enhanced by summer Asian-Pacific Oscillation
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