China > Compound Heat Waves (AAS):

Detectable Human Influence on Daytime-Nighttime Compound Heat Waves over China
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Global Biodiversity Refugia Loss (ERL):

Climate refugia implications of warming & land-intensive mitigation under overshoot

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Pacific Atmospheric Rivers (Climate Dynamics):

Increased water vapor transports of atmospheric rivers around the western flank of the North Pacific High since the 1980s
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Europe > Extreme Temps (Climate Dynamics):

Drivers of summer extreme temperature trends in Europe: insight from three major heat waves using flow analogues
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Improving Attribution Certainty (Climate Dynamics):

Conditional pathways-based climate attribution
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Europe > Extreme Drought (Climatic Change):

Increasing risk of 2022-like droughts in Europe under climate change: evidence from Large Ensembles using flow analogs
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US West > Drought Risk to Birds (Conserv Lett):

Long-Term Drought Exposure Shapes Declines & Range Shifts in Aridland Birds
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New Book (HarperCollins):

The Fate of the World: A history & future of the climate crisis
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New Caledonia > Predicting Marine Heatwaves (OS):

Investigating the predictability of marine heatwaves at subseasonal to seasonal timescales in New Caledonia, South Pacific
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Earth's Weakened Radiative Feedback (GRL):

Recent Weakening of the Global Radiative Feedback
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Arctic Shipping Emissions (ERL):

The role of local shipping emissions in aerosol-cloud interactions in the central Arctic
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Justice for Small & Island Nations (Nature Comment):

Health & climate justice for small & island nations
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Global Heat Stress (Nature):

Global heat stress intensification & its expanding footprint on the human population
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Projecting Future Warming (ESD):

Emergent constraints on climate sensitivity & recent record-breaking warm years
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Trajectories of Urban Cooling Demand (Nature):

Patterns, drivers, & trends of urban cooling demand across global cities
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AMOC & Influence of Southern Ocean (OS):

Interaction of AMOC & intrinsic multidecadal Southern Ocean variability
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Accurate Estimation of GHG Emissions (ERL):

Assessing the accuracy of the Climate Trace global vehicular CO2 emissions

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Tibetan Plateau > Permafrost Carbon Vulnerability (Nature):

Permafrost tipping point triggered by warming-driven loss of old carbon
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Warming Asymmetry & Mitigation (Nature):

Beyond global mean temperature: increasing asymmetry of global warming in past & future climate change
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Red Sea–Gulf of Aden > Mangrove Conditions (Nature):

Long term mangrove dieback & recovery at Godorya Marine Protected Area in the Gulf of Aden under climate variability
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Global Sea Level Reconstructions (Nature):

A global chronologically standardised database of high-resolution proxy sea-level reconstructions since 1800 CE
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Record High CO2 Emissions (Scripps Institute News):

Annual Carbon Dioxide Peak Reaches 432 Parts per Million; Record setting trend continues
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Europe > Forest Carbon Uptake (GRL):

Land Models Likely Underestimate the Impact of Future Atmospheric Dryness on European Tree Growth
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China > Drought Impacts on Forests (Nature):

Climate warming strengthened but droughts eliminated the coupling between productivity & tree growth in semi-arid plantations
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Antarctic Ice & Tipping Points (Nature):

Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss
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North America > Wildfire & Freshwater Systems (GCB):

The Integration of Fire Ecology & Freshwater Ecosystems in North America: Knowledge Gaps & Research Needs

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Greenland Meltwater & AMOC (Science):

Limited impact of Greenland meltwater on abruptness & reversibility of future Atlantic overturning changes
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AMOC Stability (Royal Society):

Global stability of the Atlantic overturning circulation: edge state, long transients & boundary crisis under CO2 forcing
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Tasmania, Australia > Extreme Weather Impacts on Marine Predators (Science):

Extreme weather effects on marine predator breeding outcomes in a global climate change hotspot
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Arctic Sea Ice Thickness (JGR Oceans):

Long-Term Trends & Variability in Arctic Mixed Layer Depth
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Colonisation, Poverty & Conservation (People & Nature):

Systemic bio-inequity links poverty to biodiversity & induces a conservation paradox
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North Atlantic Cold Blob & South Asian Monsoon (AGU Adv):

Missing Summer Westerly Jet Barotropic Governor Effect Explains Climate Models—Observation Discrepancies in the Indian Monsoon Trends
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US Military Impacts in Hawaiʻi (Institute for Policy Studies Report):

The True Cost Of The US Military In Hawaiʻi: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Economic, Environmental, Strategic, & Social Impacts of the US Military Presence in Hawaiʻi
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Advocacy & Activism by Scientists (PLOS):

Climate advocacy & activism by scientists: A narrative review
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Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research Pathways (Nature Comment):

Unlocking the potential of boundary crossing research to address sustainability challenges
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US > Inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge (Climatic Change):

A brief history of Indigenous involvement in the US National Climate Assessment
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Predicting Sea Level Rise (PLOS):

Rising tides: Unveiling the spatial & temporal evolution of sea level rise under climate change
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Eastern Mediterranean & Middle East > Predicting Heatwaves (Weather Clim Extrem):

Process-based evaluation of Eastern Mediterranean heatwave development in the CMIP6 models
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US > Forest Health (Earth's Future):

Current Status, Past Trends, & Future Projections of Renewable Forest Resources & Ecosystem Services Across the US
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US West > Heatwaves & Wildfires (Science):

Heatwaves enable wildfire activity in the western US
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Impacts From Top 10% of Global Consumers (Nature):

Environmental damages of the top ten percent consumers exceed global climate & biodiversity funding gaps
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Indigenous Planetary Stewardship (Nature):

Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems & practices for climate survival

Conservation Int'l News: Inside the ancient traditions saving nature's last strongholds

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Arctic Seafloor Carbon Storage (PLOS):

Fungi enhance microbial carbon retention in high Arctic fjord sediment
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UK > Changing River Flows (Earth's Future):

Escalating Hydroclimatic Extremes & Volatility in the UK Under 2°C & 4°C Warming
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Warming Arctic Ocean & Drifting Materials (Nature):

Warming transforms the western Arctic Ocean into a hub of drifting matter
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Permafrost Thaw Emissions (Science):

Net release of CO2 from thawing permafrost soil carbon predicted to occur earlier in this century
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India > Crops & Excessive Rain (Earth's Future):

Excess Rainfall Threatens Monsoon Crop Yield Stability Under Climate Change
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Alaska & Iceland > Glacier Mass Loss (Nature):

Rapid rebound hides glacier mass loss from satellite observations in Alaska & Iceland
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Permafrost Feedback & Tipping Risks (ERL):

Permafrost carbon–climate feedback amplifies Earth system tipping risks
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Global Flash Drought (GRL):

Earlier Flash Drought Onset Driven by Spring Vegetation Greening & Warming
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AMOC, Heat Loss & Wind Stress (OS):

Greenland tip jet & deep convection in the Irminger Sea: disentangling the roles of heat loss & wind stress
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Resisting Mega-Dams (J Peasant Stud):

Dams, dissent & indigeneity: repertoires of resistance against large dam development in the northern Philippines
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Ecological Memory & Resiliency (Science):

Legacies of foundation species shape life after death
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Antarctic Heatwaves & Ice-Sheet Stability (Nature):

Impact attribution of the March 2022 Antarctic heatwave reveals amplification by cloud feedbacks & increased future meltwater
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Annual Key Indicator Report (ESSD):

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system & human influence
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Amazonian Drought (Nature):

Intense El Niño provokes production of new reactive volatiles as stress defences in Amazon rainforest
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    AMOC & the North Atlantic Warming Hole (Nature):

    Weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation causes the historical North Atlantic Warming Hole
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    Albedo & Planetary Energy Budget (Nature):

    Earth’s east–west albedo symmetry
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    A Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth (Guardian Opinion):

    The Guardian: We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way
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    Europe > Soil Health & Food Forests (Nature):

    Planting food forests can increase soil biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of Northwest Europe
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    AMOC & Gulf Stream Dynamics (Nature):

    Co-ordinated shifts in deep-water formation & Gulf Stream migration during abrupt climate changes
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    Stefan Rahmstorf EGU Lecture: AMOC Tipping Risk (15 min):


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    Canadian Forests & the Global Carbon Cycle (GCB):

    Canada's Forests Are Shifting From a Recovery-Driven Carbon Sink to a Disturbance-Driven Carbon Source
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    Greenland > Ice–Ocean Interactions (Nature):

    Atlantic water access & the break-up of the C.H. Ostenfeld Gletsjer ice tongue, northwest Greenland
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    Arctic Icebergs Changing the Seafloor (Nature):

    Amplified Arctic iceberg traffic reshapes benthic biodiversity
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    Quantifying Human-Caused Sea Level Rise (Science):

    Human-caused sea level rise drives 21st-century worldwide water level extremes
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    Tapanuli Orangutan at Risk (Current Biology):

    Extreme rainfall further endangers the world’s rarest great ape
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    Worldwide Weather Disruption (Science News):

    El Niño has begun. It may become the strongest this century
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    Global Soil Carbon Sequestration (BG):

    Global quantification of the eco-hydrological co-benefits of soil carbon sequestration
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    Sea-Bed Stress (Nature):

    Climate change affects future sea-bed mobility via storms & sea level rise
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    Expanding Antarctic Surface Melt (Nature):

    Expansion of Antarctic surface melt through the 21st century
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    Global Freshwater Changes (Nature):

    Regionally divergent drivers behind transgressions of the freshwater change planetary boundary
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    Southern Ocean Warming Hotspot (Nature):

    High-latitude Southern Ocean warming hotspot induced by ocean mesoscale eddies
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    Global CH4 Freshwater Emissions (Nature):

    A fixed methane filter maximizes freshwater emissions under warming
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    Changing Ocean Heat Transport (GRL):

    Multidecadal Atlantic “Warming Hole” Heat Content Variations Are Caused by Ocean Heat Transport, Not by Surface Fluxes
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    Arctic Northern Sea Route Tensions (Nature):

    Testing Arctic exceptionalism under global tensions: climate change, geopolitics, & the strategic value of the Northern Sea Route
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    East Antarctica > Winter Heatwave (Nature):

    Unprecedented 2024 East Antarctic winter heatwave driven by polar vortex weakening & amplified by anthropogenic warming
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    Sweden > Peatland Forest Carbon Cycle (GCB):

    Tree Harvest Decisions Modulate the Climate Impact of Rewetting in a Low-Productive Peatland Forest in Boreal Sweden
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    Mangroves & Sea Level Rise (Earth's Future):

    The Importance of Scale in the Future of Mangrove Blue Carbon Under Sea-Level Rise
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    Antarctic Glacial Meltwater (Frontiers):

    Glacial meltwater is the primary source of subsurface freshening off the Western Antarctic Peninsula
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    Arctic Marine Heatwaves (Nature):

    Polar processes set Arctic marine heatwaves apart
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    Amazon Deforestation & Decline in Connectivity (GCB):

    Rapid & Intense Declines of Forest Connectivity in the Amazon Arc of Deforestation Over Four Decades
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    Global Impacts on Mountain Mammals & Birds (Conservation Biology):

    Impact of global change on the distribution of mountain mammals & birds
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    Canada > Peatland Burns (Can J For Res):

    The changing contribution of peatlands to burned area in Alberta’s Boreal Plains
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    Antarctica > Ice Shelf Calving (Cryosphere):

    Impact of surface melt & brine infiltration on fracture toughness of ice shelves

    British Antarctic Survey News: New study provides clues to predicting iceberg calving
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    Switzerland > Insect Declines (Nature):

    Ninety-year trends reveal sharpest insect declines in the mid-twentieth century
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    Sub-Saharan Africa > Mining-Driven Forest Loss (Nature):

    Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa

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    Global Terrestrial Water Availability (Nature):

    More concentrated precipitation decreases terrestrial water storage
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    Global Water Justice (PLOS Opinion):

    Water justice for all
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    Global Hailstorm & Crop Risks (Nature):

    Shifting hail hazard under global warming & effects on crop hail risk
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    Canada > Post-Wildfire Albedo Changes (PNAS):

    Canadian wildfires are losing their climate-cooling influence from postfire snow albedo
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    Assessing AMOC Stability (J Phys Complex):

    Assessing the probability of CO₂-driven AMOC transitions using a rare event algorithm in PlaSim-LSG
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    Global Lake Sediment Heatwaves (Nature):

    Lake sediment heatwaves under global warming
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    Pamir, Central Asia > Glacier Loss (Adv Clim Change Res):

    Unprecedented 2025 glacier mass loss in Pamir
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    Antarctic Research Operations (Nature):

    Antarctic science operations must account for climate change & extreme environmental events
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    Himalayan Glacier Vulnerability (Nature News):

    Tracing the collapse of a giant ancient Himalayan glacier
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    Global Shipping Impacts (Nature):

    Marine fuel choices & related life-cycle environmental impacts under global shipping policies
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    Benefits of Bison Grazing (Plant Soil):

    Bison grazing increases grass foliar nutrients & drought tolerance at fine spatial scales
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    ExxonMobil Deception (Science Review):

    Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
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    Book Review > Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth

                                       Book Review


    Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth, by Benjamin von Brackel, The Experiment, New York, 2022, 278 pp. ISBN: 978-1-61519-861-0 (Translated by Ayça Türkoğlu).


    One of the nine components of the scientifically based planetary boundaries framework* is the loss of biosphere integrity (biodiversity losses and extinction).

    Biodiversity is all the living things on our planet – from the smallest bacteria to the largest plants and animals…. Biodiversity on Earth is the result of four billion years of evolution.

    The Royal Society

    Relatively recently, a new scientific field of research has emerged ̶ movement ecology or climate change-induced migration of flora and fauna. Placed within such context, this book, originally published in Germany (2021) under the title Die Natur auf der Flucht, reports numerous examples of how the biodiversity threshold of our world is being overstepped. 

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