Loss of Marine Habitat (Nature):

Oceanographic connectivity strongly restricts future range expansions of critical marine forest species

AMOC Stability (WIREs Review):

Multi-Stability of the Present-Day Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Earth's Out of Balance Energy Budget (GRL):

Emerging Effective Radiative Forcing in the Radiative Imbalance Since 2010

Arctic Sea Ice Loss (GRL):

Increased Arctic Sea-Ice Variability Is Associated With Amplified Air-Sea Heat Fluxes

Ocean Overturning Circulation Dynamics (Nature):

Millennial-scale Atlantic overturning circulation led by the Southern Ocean

Benefits of Bison Grazing (Plant Soil):

Bison grazing increases grass foliar nutrients & drought tolerance at fine spatial scales

Gas Dynamics of Thawing Permafrost (Earth's Future):

Measurement of Gas Fraction & Gas Permeability of Thawing Permafrost Caused by Climate Change

Key Actions on AMOC Tipping (PLOS Opinion):

Preparing for a potential crossing of an AMOC tipping point

Changing Landscape for our Marine Food Web (Nature):

Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change

Australia > Future Droughts (HESS):

Future changes in seasonal drought in Australia

Alaska > Estuary Freshwater & Carbon Flows (Glob Biogeochem Cycles):

Hydrological Cycle Intensification & Permafrost Thaw Drive Increased Freshwater & Organic Carbon Inputs to Northern Alaska Estuaries

Tasman Sea > Marine Heatwaves (Nature):

Toward a mechanistic characterisation of marine heatwaves

Antarctic Fast Ice Dynamics (Nature):

Lagged influence of spring southern annular mode on late-summer Antarctic fast ice variability

Global Permafrost & Wildfire Emissions (Nature):

Permafrost & wildfire carbon emissions indicate need for additional action to keep Paris Agreement temperature goals within reach

Global Human Population & Earth's Sustainability (ERL):

Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity

Riverine Heatwaves (Nature):

River temperature response to atmospheric heatwaves is modulated by discharge & meltwater

Justice-Conscious Mitigation (Nature):

Exploring patterns of distributional justice in global climate change mitigation scenarios

ExxonMobil Deception (Science Review):

Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections

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. 

Book Review > The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science

 Book Review

 

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science, by Paul Behrens, London, Indigo Press, 2020, 346 pp. ISBN: 978-1-911648-09-3.

Deeply researched, remarkably accessible and comprehensive, The Best of Times is a treatise of the deteriorating social and physical systems of our world. Particularly critical structures include climate, racism, politics, energy, economies, food, information, and the media. Uniquely qualified to address the cross-disciplinary threads of our planetary crises, Behrens categorizes a bundle of wicked problems now facing the human race. Providing context and perspective, this book points to several examples of where inequality has led to collapse of civilizations. A vast set of complex objectives are set out which we must meet in a crucially brief and shrinking timespan. As the author has stated on social media, he emphatically provides no “sugar coating.”