May 2008
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Editorial
Research is responsibility - pp49
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 01 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.42
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Research Highlights
Mammoth's last stand - pp50
Anna Barnett
Published online: 17 April 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.32
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Sandy storehouse - pp50
Alicia Newton
Published online: 17 April 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.34
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Seismic slippage - pp50
Anna Barnett
Published online: 24 April 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.36
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Northward bound - pp50
Alicia Newton
Published online: 01 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.40
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This year's model - pp51
Mark S. Allen
Published online: 01 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.39
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Ozone anxieties - pp51
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 01 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.41
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News Features
Plight of the pines - pp52 - 53
Brian Hoyle
Under attack from pine beetles that are thriving in a warmer climate, Canada's boreal forests could become a sizeable source of emissions in the coming decade. Brian Hoyle reports.
Published online: 24 April 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.35
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Breaking the ice - pp54 - 56
Dan Whipple
Scientists are becoming increasingly open to using local knowledge to understand how climate change could affect the world's most vulnerable, and often inaccessible, regions. But how useful are these data to science? Dan Whipple reports.
Published online: 24 April 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.38
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Commentary
Beware the lone killer - pp57 - 59
J. Alan Pounds & Luis A. Coloma
Why are harlequin frogs disappearing across the American tropics? A resifting of the evidence backs up the conclusion that global warming is a key conspirator in the losses.
Published online: 24 April 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.37
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Books and Arts
The Fine Life - pp60
Dave S. Reay
Humour can be a great vehicle for sustainable-living messages, but a lack of substance makes for a faltering ride.
Published online: 17 April 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.33
News and Views
Natural ups and downs - pp61 - 62
Richard Wood1
The effects of global warming over the coming decades will be modified by shorter-term climate variability. Finding ways to incorporate these variations will give us a better grip on what kind of climate change to expect.
Published online: 30 April 2008; doi:10.1038/453043a
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Article originally published in Nature 453
