Arctic Wildfire & Snow Cover Dynamics (Nature):

Delayed formation of Arctic snow cover in response to wildland fires in a warming climate
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Global Water Scarcity (Nature):

The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene
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Global Road Traffic Impacts (Nature):

Global expansion of the ecological impact of extra-urban road traffic
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Pacific NW Heatwave & Asian Summer Monsoon Dynamics (GRL):

Impact of Asian Summer Monsoon on the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave: Can It? Did It?
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Sweden > Sustainable Food (Nature):

Diet changes in food futures improve Swedish environmental & health outcomes
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Mongolia > Rangeland Degradation (Science):

Climate rather than overgrazing explains most rangeland primary productivity change in Mongolia
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Amazonian Community Territorial Mgmt (Nature):

Community-based management expands ecosystem protection footprint in Amazonian forests
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US West > Post Wildfire Snow Loss (Science):

Impact of current & warmer climate conditions on snow cover loss in burned forests
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US > Equity, Mitigation & Bird Conservation (Nature):

A nature-based conservation framework that aligns opportunities for bird biodiversity, climate mitigation, & human equity
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Global Human Health Losses (Nature):

Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change
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Coral Reefs at Risk (Nature):

Reduced Atlantic reef growth past 2 °C warming amplifies sea-level impacts
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Arctic Permafrost & Positive Feedback (Science):

Climate-carbon feedback tradeoff between Arctic & alpine permafrost under warming
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Global Hydropower & Flood Risk (Earth's Future):

Has Hydropower Made the World More Flood-Prone?
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S America > Reduced AMOC Impacts (JGR Atmos.):

Impacts of a Reduced AMOC on the South America Mean Climate & Extremes
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Puerto Rico > Soil Respiration (Nature):

Warming induces unexpectedly high soil respiration in a wet tropical forest
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Tipping Point Dynamics (ESD Ideas):

Climate tipping is not instantaneous – the duration of an overshoot matters
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New Book (Hatchette):

Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World

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Global Wetland CH4 Emission Feedbacks (Nature):

Addressing methane emission feedbacks from global wetlands
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China > Wildfire Emissions (ACP):

Spatiotemporal patterns & drivers of wildfire CO2 emissions in China from 2001 to 2022
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Africa > Growing Heatwaves & Heat Stress (Societal Impacts):

The societal impact of heatwave intensification & heat stress on African Urban populations
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China > Extreme Heat (ERL):

Intensifying heat extremes in China attributed to rising greenhouse gases & declining aerosols since the 2010s
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Global Heatwave Attribution (Nature):

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors
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    New Indigenous Book (Canadian Scholars Pub.):

    Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health & Sustainable Food Systems: Learning from International Case Studies
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    Corporate Voluntary Carbon Offsets (Nature):

    The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies
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    Global Land Carbon Sink (Science Review):

    The weak land carbon sink hypothesis
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    Global Water Scarcity-Induced Conflicts (Nature):

    Transboundary conflict from surface water scarcity under climate change
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    Thawing Arctic Permafrost & Toxic Rivers (PNAS):

    Wild, scenic, & toxic: Recent degradation of an iconic Arctic watershed with permafrost thaw
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    Advocating for Indigenous Knowledge (Nature Commentary):

    ‘Communities already have the solutions’: why I advocate for Indigenous knowledge

    New Book by Above Author (Penquin): Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement
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    Bark Beetle Infestations (Agric. For. Meteorol.):

    Bark beetles as microclimate engineers – thermal characteristics of infested spruce trees at the canopy surface & below the canopy
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    Global Mangrove Restoration (Environ. Res. Clim.):

    A warming ocean threatens mangrove restoration targets & deepens global inequities in ecosystem service losses
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    Importance of Bison Restoration (Science Paywalled Paper):

    Science (Paywall): Yellowstone's free--moving large bison herds provide a glimpse of their past ecosystem function


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    Heatwaves Increasing Globally (JGR Atmos.):

    Heatwaves on the Rise: The Role of El Niño-Southern Oscillation & Local Water-Energy Exchanges in Shaping Global Patterns
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    Global Marine Ecosystem Impacts (Science):

    Cumulative impacts to global marine ecosystems projected to more than double by midcentury
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    Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics (ERL):

    Seasonal Evolution Patterns of Arctic Sea Ice & Their Connection to Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
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    US West > Wildfire Risk (Earth's Future):

    Projections of Lightning-Ignited Wildfire Risk in the Western US
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    British Columbia > Wildfire Recovery & Indigenous Food Sovereignty (Ecol. Evol.):

    From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery
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    Indigenous Fire Stewardship (PNAS):

    Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Lakes forests
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    Planetary Boundaries & Biospheric Risk (One Earth):

    Breaching planetary boundaries: Over half of global land area suffers critical losses in functional biosphere integrity
     
    PIK News: 60% of the world’s land area is in a precarious state
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    Beef Industry Misinformation (DeSmog Blog Report):

    Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly
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    Indigenous Knowledge & Nature-Based Solutions (PNAS):

    Indigenous critiques & recommendations for reclaiming nature-based solutions
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    Planetary Boundaries, Land-Based Mitigation & Food Systems (Rockström, et al., Lancet Planetary Health):

    Planetary boundaries under a land-based climate change mitigation scenario with a food demand transformation: a modelling study
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    Risks to Arctic Food Webs & Alaska Native Food Security (Nature):

    Bowhead whale faeces link increasing algal toxins in the Arctic to ocean warming
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    S America > Indigenous & Community Sustainable Pathways (Nature):

    Indigenous & Local Communities’ initiatives have transformative potential to guide shifts toward sustainability in South America
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    Australia > Indigenous Landscape Burning (Global Change Biology):

    Plant Responses to a Re-emergence of Cultural Burning in Long-Unburnt, Threatened Temperate Woodlands
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    Canada > Fisheries Mgmt & Indigenous Knowledge (Fish & Fisheries):

    Inclusivity of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Fisheries Management
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    Planetary Boundary Thresholds, Lenton, Rockström, et al. (Earth System Governance):

    Thresholds of significant harm at global level: The journey of the Earth Commission
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    AMOC, Amazon Rainforest & Tipping Elements (ERL):

    Causal pathway from AMOC to Southern Amazon rainforest indicates stabilising interaction between two climate tipping elements
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    Co-Creating Indigenous Curriculum (Community Science):

    Building Relationships for Meaningful Co-Created Indigenous Climate Education
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    Indigenous Māori Urban Ecological Restoration (Nature):

    Reimagining, reclaiming, & reconnecting Indigenous voices in urbanism: a review of Indigenous approaches for urban ecological restoration
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    Global Wild Animals at Risk, Ripple, et al. (BioScience):

    Climate change threats to Earth's wild animals
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    Status of Planetary Boundaries, Rockström, et al. (Nature):

    Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries
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    Indigenous Knowledge & Biodiversity Hotspots (Nature):

    Simulated biodiversity hotspots from traditional ecological knowledge & Western metrics do not always overlap
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    Alaska > Research Partnerships that Include Indigenous Communities (Community Science):

    Sharing Our Story to Build Our Future: A Case Study of Evaluating a Partnership for Co-Produced Research in Southeast Alaska
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    Warming Oceans, Trenberth, et al. (J of Climate):

    Distinctive Pattern of Global Warming in Ocean Heat Content
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    Solutions Involving Indigenous Knowledge (Front. Ecol. Environ. Conceptual Paper):

    A path to reconciliation between Indigenous & settler–colonial epistemologies
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    Triggering Tipping Points, Tim Lenton, et al. (ESD):

    High probability of triggering climate tipping points under current policies modestly amplified by Amazon dieback & permafrost thaw
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    New Indigenous Book (Hachette):

    The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River & a Way of Life
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    Declining Great Lakes Indigenous Wild Rice Harvest (Nature):

    Climate change contributes to the decline in off-reservation tribal harvest availability in the Great Lakes region
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    Indigenous Conservation & Traditional Ecological Knowledge / TEK (Nature News):

    The future of conservation lies in listening, not just science
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    US > Indigenous Knowledge, Impacts & Resilience Report (Inst. for Tribal Environmental Professionals):

    Status of Tribes & Climate Change Report (Vol. 2, Download 125 Pg)

    Vol. 1 (2021, Download 317 Pg)

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    Carbon Cycle Feedbacks, Rockström, et al. (ERL):

    Interplay between climate & carbon cycle feedbacks could substantially enhance future warming

    PIK News: Amplified global heating risk due to climate & carbon cycle feedbacks
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    Using Indigenous & Local Knowledge (Nature Career Feature):

    How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous & local knowledge
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    S Africa > Indigenous Crop Resilience (Nature):

    Indigenous farming methods & crop management practices used by local farmers in Madibeng local municipality, South Africa
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    Indigenous & Holistic Fire Management (Nature Perspective):

    Integrated fire management as an adaptation & mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes
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    Caribou Conservation & Indigenous Observations (Global Change Biology):

    The Erosion of Threatened Southern Mountain Caribou Migration
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    Indigenous Resilience > Gitxsan Nation (Canadian Geographies):

    A framework for Indigenous climate resilience: A Gitxsan case study
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    Arctic Indigenous Food Cultures (Nature Commentary):

    Arctic food & energy security at the crossroads
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    Bioenergy & Planetary Boundaries (Nature):

    Multiple planetary boundaries preclude biomass crops for carbon capture & storage outside of agricultural areas
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    Marine Ecosystem Restoration with Indigenous & Community Involvement (Nature Review):

    A framework for just seascape restoration
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    Indigenous Knowledge & Human-Polar Bear Coexistence (Nature):

    Coexistence between people & polar bears supports Indigenous knowledge mobilization in wildlife management & research

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    New Zealand > Indigenous Water Management (Nature):

    Untapping the potential of Indigenous water jurisdiction: perspectives from Whanganui & Aotearoa New Zealand
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    Indigenous Knowledge & Futures Thinking (Sustainability Science Review):

    Framings in Indigenous futures thinking: barriers, opportunities, & innovations
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    AMOC Update by Stefan Rahmstorf (RealClimate.org):

    The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, …
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    Utilizing Indigenous Knowledge & other Traditional Knowledge re: Adaptation (Nature):

    Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation & minimize losses & damages
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    New Zealand > Indigenous Knowledge on Coastal Change (Camb. Prism., Coast. Futures):

    Braiding archaeology, geomorphology & indigenous knowledge to improve the understanding of local-scale coastal change
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    Indigenous Rights, Big Data & Open Science (Nature):

    Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science
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    US > Justice & Indigenous Co-Management (Nature):

    From paternalism to self-determination: examining evolving tribal-federal relationships & co-management arrangements through three case studies
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    Indigenous, Land-Based Knowledge (Book Chapter, Open Access, Springer Nature):

    Chapter: Transforming the Planetary Health Crisis Through an Indigenous Land-Based Meta-Narrative

    Full Open Access Book: Transforming Global Health Partnerships; Critical Reflections & Visions of Equity at the Research-Practice Interface
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    Amazonian Ecosystems & Indigenous Knowledge (Science Policy Forum):

    Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon
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    Canada > Just & Decolonial Action (Nature):

    Shifting & sharing power in urban climate justice work: experiments in transformative learning in Vancouver, Canada
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    Antarctica & Southern Ocean > Potential Tipping Points (Ambio):

    Cascading tipping points of Antarctica & the Southern Ocean
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    S. America & Africa > Tipping Rainforests (ESD):

    Multi-fold increase in rainforest tipping risk beyond 1.5–2 °C warming
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    Māori Whale Conservation (Frontiers):

    How legal personhood & markets can partner to help save the whale
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    Polar Sea-Ice Tipping Points (Nature):

    Optimal control of polar sea-ice near its tipping points
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    Polar Ice Sheets, Tipping Risks & Cascading Effects (Nature):

    Polar ice sheets are decisive contributors to uncertainty in climate tipping projections
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    Arctic Indigenous-Led Sustainability (Nature):

    The benefits of Indigenous-led social science: a mindset for Arctic sustainability


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    US > Tribal Lands & Clean Energy (Sustainability):

    Opportunities & Barriers for Agrivoltaics on Tribal Lands
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    Canada > Indigenous Peoples & Biocultural Conservation (Conserv. Sci. Pract.):

    Cultural keystone species & their role in biocultural conservation
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    Consumption Patterns & Planetary Boundaries (Nature):

    Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries
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    Hawaiʻi > Indigenous Resilience (2 Frontiers Articles):

    Kīpuka Kuleana: restoring relationships to place & strengthening climate adaptation through a community-based land trust
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    Indigenous Knowledge & Adaptation Planning (Frontiers):

    Indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation planning: reflections from initial efforts
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    New TEK Book (Oregon State U):

    Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge

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    Planetary Boundaries Update, Rockström, et al. (Nature Review):

    Planetary Boundaries guide humanity’s future on Earth
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    New Climate Extremes Documentary (53 min):


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    Ripple & Rockström (Context Commentary):

    We are near tipping points that will make the climate crisis worse
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    Our Global Emergency (BioScience):

    The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth
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    Johan Rockström Essay (TIME):

    Planet Earth Is in Critical Condition. These are the Steps the World Must Take to Change That

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    Indigenous Shellfishing & Resiliency (Nature):

    Shellfishing, sea levels, & the earliest Native American villages (5000–3800 yrs. BP) of the South Atlantic Coast of the US
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    Planetary Health Check, Johan Rockström, Et al. (New Report & Website):

    Planetary Health Check (Download 97 pg 2024 Report)

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    Africa > New Earth4All Report:

    SDGs for All: Africa (download 68 pg)

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