Africa > Forest Loss (Nature):

Deforestation reduces microclimate buffering of African montane forests
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Mozambique > Vulnerable Farmers (ERC):

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

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S America > Glacier Retreat (Nature):

Less water from glaciers during future megadroughts in the Southern Andes
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Caribbean Severe Coral Bleaching (PNAS):

Marine heatwave decimates fire coral populations in the Caribbean
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Hawaiʻi > Indigenous Aquaculture & Resiliency (Nature):

Restoration & management of an Indigenous aquaculture system helps mitigate climate change impacts to estuarine fisheries
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W Africa > Land Use & Weather Extremes (Earth's Future):

Impacts of Idealized Land Use & Land Management Changes on Weather Extremes in West Africa
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AMOC & Brazil's Precipitation (Nature):

AMOC weakening modulates global warming impacts on precipitation over Brazil
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Justice for Wildfire Loss (Nature Comment):

Recognition of Loss & Damage from wildfires is key for climate justice
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Presentation Slide Deck of Key Facts (Climate Central):

Climate Change: Key Facts (Free Slide Deck)

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Global Mitigation & Income Inequality (ERL):

Enhancing energy & food access through reduction of income inequality does not jeopardize the achievement of existing climate pledges
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New Tim Lenton Book (Oxford U):

Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis

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Nile Basin Flood Risk (Nature):

Nile basin flow regimes under 21st century climate variability
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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
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Singapore > Sea Level & Intertidal Reefs (Nature):

Coral microatoll partial mortality after multi-hour subaerial exposure with implications for relative sea-level studies
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Amazon > Extreme Warm Waters (Science):

Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate
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Brazil > Forest Restoration (Nature):

Land tenure regimes influenced long-term restoration gains & reversals across Brazil’s Atlantic forest
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India > Heat Stress & Migrant Workers (Earth's Future):

Migrant Laborers in India Face Increased Heat Stress Driven by Climate Warming & ENSO Variability
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Global Food Systems & Planetary Boundaries (Nature):

Identifying the safe operating space for food systems
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China > Vegetation Resilience (GRL):

Climate Impacts on Forest & Grassland Resilience in China: The Role of Climate Inter-Annual Variability
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Worldwide Luxury Consumption (Annual Reviews):

What Has Been Done to Reduce Luxury Consumption? A Global Review
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China > Sea-Level Rise (Nature):

Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability in southeastern China
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China > Urban Extreme Heat (Earth's Future):

Urban Adaptation Strategies Alleviate the Exposure of Future Population to Extreme Heat in China
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S Africa > Changes in Precipitation (WIREs Review):

Southern African Climate Change: Processes, Models, & Projections
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China > Heatwaves & Ozone (Nature):

Future warming exacerbates heatwave-ozone compound extremes in China
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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

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Tipping Points in Circulation Systems (ESD):

Tipping points in ocean & atmosphere circulations

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Stefan Rahmstorf on AMOC (RealClimate Blog):

High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)
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China > River Runoff (Nature):

Climate change & human activities amplify runoff variability risks in lower reaches of large rivers
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Africa > Ag Adaptation (Nature Review):

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


 

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Consumption by the Rich (Nature):

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

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Justice & Int'l Migration (Nature):

Evidence of climate & economic drivers affecting migration in an unequal & warming world
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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
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Planetary Boundary Report (Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research):

Planetary Health Check 2025 (Download 144 pg)

Mongabay: Interview with Johan Rockström
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Amazonian Community Territorial Mgmt (Nature):

Community-based management expands ecosystem protection footprint in Amazonian forests
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Tipping Point Dynamics (ESD Ideas):

Climate tipping is not instantaneous – the duration of an overshoot matters
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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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New Indigenous Book (Canadian Scholars Pub.):

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