Industry False Solutions (ERSS):

False solutions: How do fossil fuel companies reproduce their power through the energy transition

US > Vulnerable Populations (ERL):

Cumulative environmental burdens & vulnerable populations: taking into account the intensity & count of burdens in environmental justice analyses

Canada > Indigenous-Led Nature-Based Solutions (Earth's Future):

Indigenous-Led Nature-Based Solutions Align Net-Zero Emissions & Biodiversity Targets in Canada

Johan Rockström on Global Coral Bleaching (Wired):

The Earth Is Nearing an Environmental Tipping Point; Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.

Global Compound Hazards & Inequality (Nature):

Divergent trends in demographic & socioeconomic inequalities of global wildfire & compound hazard exposures

Global Poverty & Inequality (Nature):

Impacts of global warming on subnational poverty & inequality

Karnali River in Nepal & China > Flooding (Nature):

Increased rainfall-runoff drives flood hazard intensification in Central Himalayan river systems

Research Gap, Indigenous Knowledge (Frontiers):

Indigenous peoples’ voices & engagement on climate change: towards improved health & wellbeing

Caribbean > Extreme Heatwaves (GRL):

Climatology & Large-Scale Drivers of Extreme Heatwaves in the Caribbean: From 1971 to 2025

Co-Designing Earth System Models with Indigenous Communities (AGU Adv.):

Toward Co-Designed Earth System Models: Reflecting End-User Priorities in Local Applications From a Modeler's Perspective

Eos.: Climate Modeling for Communities, with Communities

Africa > Sea Level Rise (Nature):

Accelerating sea level rise in Africa & its large marine ecosystems since the 1990s

Asia > Heatwaves & Inequity (CRM):

Assessing exposure inequity to heatwaves between urban & rural populations across 18 Asian countries in a warmer climate

New Indigenous Book (OSU):

Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship & Ecological Partnerships

Indigenous Fire Stewardship (Fire Ecology):

Indigenous stewardship rights & opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire

Indigenous Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies (WIREs Review):

Perceptions of Climate-Related Risk by Indigenous Communities: A Systematic Review

Africa > Deforestation (Nature):

Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source

Sub-Saharan Africa > Heatwave Mortality (Science):

Escalated heatwave mortality risk in sub-Saharan Africa under recent warming trend

Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge Leadership in Ocean Governance (Nature):

Co-producing ocean plans with Indigenous & traditional knowledge holders

Congo Basin > Deforestation (Earth's Future):

Increasing Forest Disturbance in the Congo Basin is Driven by an Emerging Frontier in Cameroon

Brazilian Amazon > Disasters & Social Vulnerability (Nature):

“Vulnerabilities & compound risks of escalating climate disasters in the Brazilian Amazon”

China > Peatland Carbon Stock & Subsidence (Nature):

Climate–human interactions influence widespread peatland subsidence & soil carbon stock vulnerability in China

Amazon Deforestation (Nature):

Observed shifts in regional climate linked to Amazon deforestation

S America's Andes Mountains > Declining Rivers (Nature):

Recent south-central Andes water crisis driven by Antarctic amplification is unprecedented over the last eight centuries

US > Inequitable Flooding Hazards (Nature):

Sea level rise & flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the US

Arctic Inuit & Adaptation (Nature):

Political ecology of climate change adaptation in the Arctic: Insights from Nunatsiavut, Canada

Africa > Forest Loss (Nature):

Deforestation reduces microclimate buffering of African montane forests

Mozambique > Vulnerable Farmers (ERC):

Smallholder farmers’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change in Metuge district, Northern Mozambique

S America > Glacier Retreat (Nature):

Less water from glaciers during future megadroughts in the Southern Andes

Caribbean Severe Coral Bleaching (PNAS):

Marine heatwave decimates fire coral populations in the Caribbean

Hawaiʻi > Indigenous Aquaculture & Resiliency (Nature):

Restoration & management of an Indigenous aquaculture system helps mitigate climate change impacts to estuarine fisheries

W Africa > Land Use & Weather Extremes (Earth's Future):

Impacts of Idealized Land Use & Land Management Changes on Weather Extremes in West Africa

AMOC & Brazil's Precipitation (Nature):

AMOC weakening modulates global warming impacts on precipitation over Brazil

Justice for Wildfire Loss (Nature Comment):

Recognition of Loss & Damage from wildfires is key for climate justice

Presentation Slide Deck of Key Facts (Climate Central):

Climate Change: Key Facts (Free Slide Deck)

Global Mitigation & Income Inequality (ERL):

Enhancing energy & food access through reduction of income inequality does not jeopardize the achievement of existing climate pledges

New Tim Lenton Book (Oxford U):

Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis

Nile Basin Flood Risk (Nature):

Nile basin flow regimes under 21st century climate variability

China > Extreme Sea Level Rise Events (Nature):

Reconstructing hourly coastal total sea levels & assessing current & future extreme sea levels threats to the Coast of China

Singapore > Sea Level & Intertidal Reefs (Nature):

Coral microatoll partial mortality after multi-hour subaerial exposure with implications for relative sea-level studies

Amazon > Extreme Warm Waters (Science):

Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate

Brazil > Forest Restoration (Nature):

Land tenure regimes influenced long-term restoration gains & reversals across Brazil’s Atlantic forest

India > Heat Stress & Migrant Workers (Earth's Future):

Migrant Laborers in India Face Increased Heat Stress Driven by Climate Warming & ENSO Variability

Global Food Systems & Planetary Boundaries (Nature):

Identifying the safe operating space for food systems

China > Vegetation Resilience (GRL):

Climate Impacts on Forest & Grassland Resilience in China: The Role of Climate Inter-Annual Variability

Worldwide Luxury Consumption (Annual Reviews):

What Has Been Done to Reduce Luxury Consumption? A Global Review

China > Sea-Level Rise (Nature):

Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability in southeastern China

China > Urban Extreme Heat (Earth's Future):

Urban Adaptation Strategies Alleviate the Exposure of Future Population to Extreme Heat in China

S Africa > Changes in Precipitation (WIREs Review):

Southern African Climate Change: Processes, Models, & Projections

China > Heatwaves & Ozone (Nature):

Future warming exacerbates heatwave-ozone compound extremes in China

Global Tipping Points (Int'l Research Group Report):

Global Tipping Points Report 2025 (download)

Nature News: Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say

Tipping Points in Circulation Systems (ESD):

Tipping points in ocean & atmosphere circulations

Stefan Rahmstorf on AMOC (RealClimate Blog):

High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)

China > River Runoff (Nature):

Climate change & human activities amplify runoff variability risks in lower reaches of large rivers

Africa > Ag Adaptation (Nature Review):

A systematic review of climate change adaptation in vegetable farming systems in Africa

Our Global Food System & Planetary Boundaries (Lancet):

Lancet (Paywall): The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

Explained by Johan Rockström (5.5 min):

 

Consumption by the Rich (Nature):

Nudge the rich! The case for targeting the top 10% in behavioural climate policy

Destabilising Tipping Elements (Potsdam Inst. Press Release on Nature Paywalled Paper):

Nature (Paywall): Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements

PIK Press Release: Four major Earth system components are losing stability

Justice & Int'l Migration (Nature):

Evidence of climate & economic drivers affecting migration in an unequal & warming world

Renewed Doughnut Framework for Human Needs & Planetary Integrity (Nature):

Doughnut of social & planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance

Nature Editorial: End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity

Planetary Boundary Report (Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research):

Planetary Health Check 2025 (Download 144 pg)

Mongabay: Interview with Johan Rockström

Amazonian Community Territorial Mgmt (Nature):

Community-based management expands ecosystem protection footprint in Amazonian forests

Tipping Point Dynamics (ESD Ideas):

Climate tipping is not instantaneous – the duration of an overshoot matters

Africa > Growing Heatwaves & Heat Stress (Societal Impacts):

The societal impact of heatwave intensification & heat stress on African Urban populations

New Indigenous Book (Canadian Scholars Pub.):

Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health & Sustainable Food Systems: Learning from International Case Studies

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

British Columbia > Wildfire Recovery & Indigenous Food Sovereignty (Ecol. Evol.):

From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery

Indigenous Fire Stewardship (PNAS):

Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Lakes forests

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

Indigenous Knowledge & Nature-Based Solutions (PNAS):

Indigenous critiques & recommendations for reclaiming nature-based solutions

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

Risks to Arctic Food Webs & Alaska Native Food Security (Nature):

Bowhead whale faeces link increasing algal toxins in the Arctic to ocean warming

S America > Indigenous & Community Sustainable Pathways (Nature):

Indigenous & Local Communities’ initiatives have transformative potential to guide shifts toward sustainability in South America

Australia > Indigenous Landscape Burning (Global Change Biology):

Plant Responses to a Re-emergence of Cultural Burning in Long-Unburnt, Threatened Temperate Woodlands

Canada > Fisheries Mgmt & Indigenous Knowledge (Fish & Fisheries):

Inclusivity of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Fisheries Management

Planetary Boundary Thresholds, Lenton, Rockström, et al. (Earth System Governance):

Thresholds of significant harm at global level: The journey of the Earth Commission

AMOC, Amazon Rainforest & Tipping Elements (ERL):

Causal pathway from AMOC to Southern Amazon rainforest indicates stabilising interaction between two climate tipping elements

Co-Creating Indigenous Curriculum (Community Science):

Building Relationships for Meaningful Co-Created Indigenous Climate Education

Indigenous Māori Urban Ecological Restoration (Nature):

Reimagining, reclaiming, & reconnecting Indigenous voices in urbanism: a review of Indigenous approaches for urban ecological restoration

Global Wild Animals at Risk, Ripple, et al. (BioScience):

Climate change threats to Earth's wild animals

Status of Planetary Boundaries, Rockström, et al. (Nature):

Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries

Indigenous Knowledge & Biodiversity Hotspots (Nature):

Simulated biodiversity hotspots from traditional ecological knowledge & Western metrics do not always overlap

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

Warming Oceans, Trenberth, et al. (J of Climate):

Distinctive Pattern of Global Warming in Ocean Heat Content

Solutions Involving Indigenous Knowledge (Front. Ecol. Environ. Conceptual Paper):

A path to reconciliation between Indigenous & settler–colonial epistemologies

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

New Indigenous Book (Hachette):

The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River & a Way of Life

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

Indigenous Conservation & Traditional Ecological Knowledge / TEK (Nature News):

The future of conservation lies in listening, not just science

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)

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

Using Indigenous & Local Knowledge (Nature Career Feature):

How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous & local knowledge

S Africa > Indigenous Crop Resilience (Nature):

Indigenous farming methods & crop management practices used by local farmers in Madibeng local municipality, South Africa

Indigenous & Holistic Fire Management (Nature Perspective):

Integrated fire management as an adaptation & mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes

Caribou Conservation & Indigenous Observations (Global Change Biology):

The Erosion of Threatened Southern Mountain Caribou Migration

Indigenous Resilience > Gitxsan Nation (Canadian Geographies):

A framework for Indigenous climate resilience: A Gitxsan case study

Arctic Indigenous Food Cultures (Nature Commentary):

Arctic food & energy security at the crossroads

Bioenergy & Planetary Boundaries (Nature):

Multiple planetary boundaries preclude biomass crops for carbon capture & storage outside of agricultural areas

Marine Ecosystem Restoration with Indigenous & Community Involvement (Nature Review):

A framework for just seascape restoration

Indigenous Knowledge & Human-Polar Bear Coexistence (Nature):

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

Nature's Behind the Paper, “Bears are like family”: Indigenous insights on human-polar bear coexistence

New Zealand > Indigenous Water Management (Nature):

Untapping the potential of Indigenous water jurisdiction: perspectives from Whanganui & Aotearoa New Zealand