Mitigation Via Global Reforestation (Nature):

Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation
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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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Hong Kong > Compound Heatwave-Ozone Events (Enviro Int'l):

Assessing the impact of compound heatwave-ozone event with varied definitions on mortality risk in Hong Kong
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Ocean Acidification (Global Change Biology):

Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed
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North American West Coast > Coastal Changes (Nature):

Waterline responses to climate forcing along the North American West Coast
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Threats to Coral Reefs (Science):

Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion
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Predicting Arctic Sea Ice (Nature):

Assimilating summer sea ice thickness enhances predictions of Arctic sea ice & surrounding atmosphere within two months
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Widespread Support for Progressive Policies (Nature):

Majority support for global redistributive & climate policies
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Bowhead Whales at Risk (Ecol. Evol.):

21st Century Sea Ice Loss Will Upend 11,700 Years of Stable Habitat for Bowhead Whales
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Global Vertebrate Vulnerability Hotspots (Global Change Biology):

Projected Increases in Climate Extremes Across Global Vertebrate Diversity Hotspots
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Global Compound Extreme Events (Earth's Future):

Global Mapping of Concurrent Hazards & Impacts Associated With Climate Extremes Under Climate Change
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Increasing Worldwide Drought Severity (Nature):

Warming accelerates global drought severity
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North Atlantic Marine Heatwaves (Nature):

Drivers of the extreme North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023
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North Atlantic Cold Blob & AMOC (Science):

Subpolar North Atlantic cooling reinforced by colder, drier atmosphere with a weakening Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
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Central Asia > Land Cover Change (Nature):

Climate-driven land cover change & altitudinal shifts in the Aksu region of the Tianshan mountains from 1985 to 2020
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Global Heat Stress on Ag Workers (Nature):

Omitting labor responses underestimates the effects of future heat stress on agriculture
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Co-Creating Indigenous Curriculum (Community Science):

Building Relationships for Meaningful Co-Created Indigenous Climate Education
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Mitigation & Conservation Trade-Offs (Nature Perspective):

Navigating synergies vs. trade-offs between climate change mitigation & biodiversity conservation
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Europe > Air Pollution & Premature Death (Nature):

High resolution assessment of air quality & health in Europe under different climate mitigation scenarios
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Greenland > Meltwater Brings Positive Feedback (Nature):

Glacial retreat converts exposed landscapes from net carbon sinks to sources
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Improving Quantification of Paris Goals (Nature):

A traceable global warming record & clarity for the 1.5 °C & well-below-2 °C goals
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Historical Reef Response to Abrupt Sea-Level Rise Events (Nature):

Constraints on sea-level rise during meltwater pulse 1B from the Great Barrier Reef
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Global Population Exposure to Compound Drought/Heatwaves (Nature):

Global disparities in rural & urban population exposure to compound drought & heatwave events
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S Asia > Black Carbon Emissions (ES&T Letters):

Observationally Constrained Wintertime Emission Fluxes & Atmospheric Lifetime of Black Carbon in South Asia
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Cleaning N Pacific Garbage Patch (Nature):

Evaluating the environmental impact of cleaning the North Pacific Garbage Patch
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Antarctic Ice Sheet & Sea Level Rise (Nature):

Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss
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Pacific Ocean Sea Level Dynamics (Science):

Pan-Pacific low-frequency modes of sea level & climate variability
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Changing Car Culture (Urban Transitions):

Reducing Resistance to Urban Transport System Change
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Global Glacial Mass Loss (Science):

Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C versus 2.7°C

Guardian: Almost 40% of world’s glaciers already doomed due to climate crisis – study
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China > Power Sector Emissions (Nature):

Exploring the role of energy transition in shaping the CO2 emissions pattern in China’s power sector
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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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AMOC & N Atlantic Warming Hole (Nature):

Weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation causes the historical North Atlantic Warming Hole
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Colorado River Basin > Drought & Water Resources (GRL):

Declining Freshwater Availability in the Colorado River Basin Threatens Sustainability of Its Critical Groundwater Supplies 
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Declining Arctic Sea Ice & Shipping Routes (GRL):

Large Decreases in Sea Ice Strength & Pressure Along Major Arctic Shipping Routes Projected for the Next Two Decades
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Germany > Sea Level Rise & Biogenic Structures (Nature):

Sediment accumulation by coastal biogenic structures sustains intertidal flats facing sea level rise in the German Wadden sea
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Global Ocean > Reduced Light Penetration Impacts (Global Change Biology):

Darkening of the Global Ocean

Guardian: Planet’s darkening oceans pose threat to marine life, scientists say
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Iran > Soil & Infrastructure Hazards (Nature):

Projecting the effect of climate change on multiple Geomorphological hazard using machine learning data driven approaches
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Implementing Urban Nature-Based Solutions (Nature Comment):

Urban resilience through adaptive multifutures & nature-based solutions
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Siberia > Forest Fire Emissions (Global Change Biology):

Carbon Emissions From Fires in Eastern Siberian Larch Forests
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Hong Kong > Flood Risks (Nature):

Human mobility amplifies compound flood risks in coastal urban areas under climate change
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US > Extreme Flooding (Nature):

Divergent responses of historic rain-on-snow flood extremes to a warmer climate
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Antarctica > Penguin/Bird Colonies, Oceanic & Aerosol Dynamics (Nature):

Penguin guano is an important source of climate-relevant aerosol particles in Antarctica
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Western US > Stream, Snowmelt & Groundwater Dynamics (Nature):

Groundwater dominates snowmelt runoff & controls streamflow efficiency in the western US
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Global Mangrove at Risk (Paywalled Nature Study):

Tulane U Press Release: Study shows how El Niño & La Niña climate swings threaten mangroves worldwide

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East Asia > Temps & Sea-Level Rise (Nature):

Continental shelf area inundation drove reduced temperature seasonality in East Asia during the last deglaciation
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Agricultural Ethics (Nature Comment):

Agricultural environmental ethics: an emerging way to understand & solve sustainability challenges
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Antarctica > Surface Air Temps (Nature):

Deep learning-based reconstruction of monthly Antarctic surface air temperatures from 1979 to 2023
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Northern Hemisphere > Terrestrial Heatwaves (Nature):

Evidence for preferred propagating terrestrial heatwave pathways due to Rossby wave activity
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Global Crop Production & Mitigation (Nature):

Managing for climate & production goals on crop-lands
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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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Ice Sheets & Sea Level Rise (Nature Review):

Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets
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Global Glacier Runoff (Nature):

Irreversible glacier change & trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5 °C
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US Hurricanes, Sobel & Emanuel (Nature Comment):

Hurricane risk in a changing climate — the role of uncertainty
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Arctic Council Update Report:

Arctic Climate Change Update 2024: Key Trends & Impacts. Summary for Policy-makers. (download 16 pg)

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Central America > Extreme Temps & Precipitation (Climatic Change):

Detection & attribution of trends of meteorological extremes in Central America
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Middle East > Intensifying Drought (Nature):

Drought risks are projected to increase in the future in central & southern regions of the Middle East
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Western N America > Fire Weather (Nature):

Fingerprint of anthropogenic climate change detected in long-term western North American fire weather trends
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Global Coastlines & Sea Level Rise (Nature):

A global high resolution coastline database from satellite imagery
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US > East Coast Flooding (Science):

Skillful multiyear prediction of flood frequency along the US Northeast Coast using a high-resolution modeling system
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Predicting Global Sea Level Rise (Nature):

Origin of the solar-cycle imprint on global sea level change
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Impacts to World's Largest Lakes (Nature):

Climate change-induced amplification of extreme temperatures in large lakes
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Tropical Rainforest Resiliency (Nature):

Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought
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Pollution Offshoring & Democracy (PLOS):

Shifting environmental pollution abroad contributes to lower emissions in democracies
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Global Coastal Lagoons at Risk (Earth-Science Reviews):

Microbial ecology in hypersaline coastal lagoons: A model for climate-induced coastal salinisation & eutrophication
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Status of Planetary Boundaries, Rockström, et al. (Nature):

Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries
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Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers (Nature):

Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system
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Australia > Lifestyles & Sustainability (Nature):

Exploring the safe & just space for urban & regional Australia
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San Francisco, CA > Nature-based Levee System Solutions (Nature):

Nature-based solutions extend the lifespan of a regional levee system under climate change
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Global Forest & CO2 Dynamics (ERL):

Climate constrains the enhancement of CO2 fertilization on forest gross primary productivity
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Global Marine Pollution (Nature):

Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments
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Forests at Risk (Nature):

Risks of unavoidable impacts on forests at 1.5 °C with & without overshoot
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Global Marine Heatwaves (GRL):

Changes in Global Marine Heatwaves in a Non-stationary Climate
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Global Coastal Ocean Projections (Progress in Oceanography):

Future climate projections in the global coastal ocean
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Global Rainfed Ag Water Stress (Ag Wtr Mgmt):

Global multi-model projections of green water scarcity risks in rainfed agriculture under 1.5 °C & 3 °C warming
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Arctic Sea Ice Retreat (Nature):

Seasonal forecasting of Pan-Arctic sea ice with state space model
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US > Sinking Cities (Nature):

Land subsidence risk to infrastructure in US metropolises
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Australia > Droughts & Heatwaves (ERL):

Impacts on compound drought heatwave events in Australia per global warming level

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Industry Energy Efficiency (Nature):

Advances in the social construction of energy management & energy efficiency in industry
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Tropical-Antarctic Teleconnections (Nature):

Strong impact of the rare three-year La Niña event on Antarctic surface climate changes in 2021–2023
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Cumulative Lifetime Exposure to Extremes (Nature):

Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes
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Link Between Wealth Disparities & Impacts (Nature):

High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide
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Australia > Possum Impacts (Global Change Biology):

Climate-Induced Physiological Stress Drives Rainforest Mammal Population Declines
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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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Greenland Ice Sheet > Petermann Ice Shelf Melting (Nature):

Enhanced subglacial discharge amplifies Petermann Ice Shelf melting when ocean thermal forcing saturates
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N Hemisphere > Attribution of Sea Ice/Snow Change (Nature):

Attributing climate & weather extremes to Northern Hemisphere sea ice & terrestrial snow: progress, challenges & ways forward
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Global Plant Impacts from Extreme Heat (Nature):

The impacts of plant physiological responses to rising CO2 on humidity-based extreme heat
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N2O in N High Latitudes (Enviro Int'l):

Climate change rivals fertilizer use in driving soil nitrous oxide emissions in the northern high latitudes: Insights from terrestrial biosphere models
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Mediterranean Cyclones (Rev. Geophys. Review):

Mediterranean Cyclones in a Changing Climate: A Review on Their Socio-Economic Impacts
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Finland > Forest Resilience (Nature):

Finnish forest-related laws need to acknowledge climate change risks & integrate adaptive strategies to enhance resiliency
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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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Marine Heatwaves, Cyclones & Asian Summer Monsoon Dynamics (Nature):

Compound marine heatwaves & tropical cyclones delay the onset of the Bay of Bengal summer monsoon
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Global Ocean Plastic Pollution (Nature):

The distribution of subsurface microplastics in the ocean
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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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US > Wildfire Smoke & Mortality (Nature):

Anthropogenic climate change contributes to wildfire particulate matter & related mortality in the US
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Arctic > Extreme Weather & Impacts to Biodiversity (Global Change Biology):

Increases in Arctic Extreme Climatic Events Are Linked to Negative Fitness Effects on the Local Biota
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Eurasia > Heatwave-Drought Events (Science):

Emerging trans-Eurasian heatwave-drought train in a warming climate
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Western US > Heat & Wildfire Hazards (Science):

Coexposure to extreme heat, wildfire burn zones, & wildfire smoke in the Western US from 2006 to 2020
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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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Global Oceanic Extreme Conditions in Temperature, Acidity & Oxygen (GBC):

Surface & Subsurface Compound Marine Heatwave & Biogeochemical Extremes Under Climate Change
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Arctic > Changing Plant Diversity (Nature):

Plant diversity dynamics over space & time in a warming Arctic
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