Conservation in Global Borderlands (Nature):

Three-quarters of species’ ranges have not been covered by protected areas in global borders
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Germany > Sustainable Farming (Earth Stewardship):

Farmer motivation to participate in cooperative agri-environmental & climate measures
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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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Global Lake Deoxygenation (Science):

Climate warming & heatwaves accelerate global lake deoxygenation
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Saving Glaciers (Nature Comment):

Glaciers are not just blocks of ice — plans to save them mustn’t overlook their hidden life
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China > Rhododendron (Woody Plant) Survival (Nature):

Predicting the impact of climate change on the distribution of rhododendron on the qinghai-xizang plateau using maxent model
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Alaska > Permafrost Thaw-Related Damages (Nature):

Permafrost thaw-related infrastructure damage costs in Alaska are projected to double under medium & high emission scenarios
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Training for a Green Economy (Nature Perspective):

Foundations for a green economy: how institutions shape green skills
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Siberia > Boreal Wildfires (Global Change Biology):

What Are the Limits to the Growth of Boreal Fires?
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Retreat of Marine-Terminating Glaciers (Nature):

New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century
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Predicting Tropical Cyclones (Science):

An annually resolved 5700-year storm archive reveals drivers of Caribbean cyclone frequency
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Antarctica > Subglacial Drainage & Ice Loss (Nature):

The past, present, & future evolution of Aurora Subglacial Basin’s subglacial drainage system
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Baltimore, MD, US > Urban Heat Island (Nature):

Distributional outcomes of urban heat island reduction pathways under climate extremes
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Arctic Warming & Marine Heatwaves in NE Pacific (Nature):

Arctic warming as a potential trigger for the warm blob in the northeast Pacific
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Global Socio-Economics, Mitigation & Adaptation (Nature):

Quantifying both socioeconomic & climate uncertainty in coupled human–Earth systems analysis
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US > City Action Plans (Climatic Change):

A review of US city climate action plans
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Global Update (WMO Report):

State of the Global Climate 2024 (download 42 pg)
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Antarctica > Effects of Warming (Nature):

Surface darkening by abundant & diverse algae on an Antarctic ice cap
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Tropical Atlantic Extreme Marine Heatwaves (Nature):

The severe 2020 coral bleaching event in the tropical Atlantic linked to marine heatwaves
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Storytelling & Justice (Climate & Development):

A review of intersectionality & climate change & the potential of intersectional participatory methods & storytelling to co-produce climate justice
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Using Indigenous & Local Knowledge (Nature Career Feature):

How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous & local knowledge
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Amsterdam > Green Roofs & Food Crops (SCS):

Optimizing productive green roofs for urban food self-sufficiency in Amsterdam
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Our Carbon Budget (ESSD):

Global Carbon Budget 2024
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AI & Early Warning Systems (Nature Perspective):

Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence
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Antarctic Coastal Ecosystems (Nature):

Climate change-driven ice variability & isotopic polarization in Antarctic coastal food webs
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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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Our Warming Oceans (Nature):

Record sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 unlikely but not unexpected
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Austria > Heavy Rain & Flooding (Nature):

Increasing hourly heavy rainfall in Austria reflected in flood changes
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Modeling Tools (Nature Perspective):

The futures of climate modeling
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US > Burn Smoke & Inequality (Nature):

Socially vulnerable communities face disproportionate exposure & susceptibility to US wildfire & prescribed burn smoke
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Global Heat Stress & Greenness (The Innovation):

Billions of people exposed to increasing heat but decreasing greenness from 2000 to 2022
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Comparing Modeled & Observed Trends (Science Review):

Confronting Earth System Model trends with observations
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Bangladesh > Migration & Inequality (Nature):

Economic inequality is a crucial determinant of observed patterns of environmental migration
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New Book (Routledge):

Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice
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Earth's Energy Imbalance & Ocean Warming (ERL):

Reconciling Earth's growing energy imbalance with ocean warming
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Arctic Sea-Ice Loss & Atmospheric Response (Nature):

Arctic sea-ice loss drives a strong regional atmospheric response over the North Pacific & North Atlantic on decadal scales
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Greenland > Fjord Heat Exchange (Nature):

Winter subglacial meltwater detected in a Greenland fjord
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UK > Extreme Heat & Fires (ERL):

Very high fire danger in UK in 2022 at least 6 times more likely due to human-caused climate change
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Amazonia > Threatened Peatlands (ERL):

Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia
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Svalbard > Methane Emissions (Biogeosciences):

Proglacial methane emissions driven by meltwater & groundwater flushing in a high-Arctic glacial catchment
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Predicting Weather Extremes (Nature):

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather
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Whales & Nutrient Movement (Nature):

Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical & subtropical ecosystems
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Himalayan Ag Adaptation (Sci. Total Environ.):

Climatic vulnerability & adaptation strategies for vegetable production in the Northern Himalayan region
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Global Tree Restoration Impacts (Nature):

Observed different impacts of potential tree restoration on local surface & air temperature
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Madagascar > Farmer Adaptation (PLOS):

Climate Change Perceptions & Adaptive Behavior Among Smallholder Farmers in Northeast Madagascar
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Geoengineering Implications (Nature):

Assessing the impacts of mitigation & geoengineering intervention scenarios on Earth system dynamics & climatological variability with multimodal simulations
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Antarctica > Dynamics of Projecting Ice Loss (Nature):

Rare ice-base temperature measurements in Antarctica reveal a cold base in contrast with predictions
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Mitigation Via Worldwide Solar Panels (Nature):

Worldwide rooftop photovoltaic electricity generation may mitigate global warming
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Greenland > Ice Sheet Instability (Nature):

Active ice sheet conservation cannot stop the retreat of Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, Greenland
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Emissions From Global Ditches/Canals (Global Change Biology):

The Importance of Ditches & Canals in Global Inland Water CO2 and N2O Budgets
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Shifting N Atlantic Hurricanes (Nature):

The southward shift of hurricane genesis over the northern Atlantic Ocean
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Mesoamerica > Vulnerable Cloud Forests (Science):

Upslope plant species shifts in Mesoamerican cloud forests driven by climate & land use change
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West Antarctic Ice Loss Dynamics (Nature):

The influence of subglacial lake discharge on Thwaites Glacier ice-shelf melting & grounding-line retreat
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Monitoring Forests Worldwide (EDS):

OpenForest: a data catalog for machine learning in forest monitoring
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Risks to Tropical American Plant Communities (Science):

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
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US > Marine Heatwaves (Nature):

Climate change & variability drive increasing exposure of marine heatwaves across US estuaries
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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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A Just & Safe Planet, Johan Rockström, et al. (Lancet):

A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, & transformations

See Resources Page For More On Earth System / Planetary Boundaries
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Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge (Nature Commentary):

No basis for claim that 80% of biodiversity is found in Indigenous territories
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Canada > Indigenous Alternatives (Yellowhead Institute):

From Risk to Resilience: Indigenous Alternatives to Climate Risk Assessment in Canada (Download 24 pg)
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Johan Rockström TED Talk (July 2024):

The Tipping Points of Climate Change & Where We Stand (18:35 Min)

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Tipping Point Early Warnings (ESD):

Tipping point detection & early warnings in climate, ecological, & human systems

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Amazon Forest & Indigenous Peoples (Climatic Change):

Climate justice, forests, & Indigenous Peoples: toward an alternative to REDD + for the Amazon
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Predicting Tipping Elements (Science):

Uncertainties too large to predict tipping times of major Earth system components from historical data
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