Pole positions - p151

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 02 December 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.132

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Monsoon misery - p152

Anna Barnett

Published online: 13 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.119

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Shrooms shrivel - p152

Anna Barnett

Published online: 13 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.120

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Assessing ethane - p152

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 20 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.124

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Gas copies carbon - pp152 - 153

Alicia Newton

Published online: 20 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.125

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Water vapour warming - p153

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 27 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.129

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Fiery forecast - p153

Anna Armstrong

Published online: 27 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.130

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Going underground - pp154 - 155

Carbon capture and storage may be one way to achieve deep reductions in emissions, but ensuring the gas stays buried will be crucial to proving its viability. Mark Schrope reports on a promising new method for monitoring carbon dioxide deep underground.

Published online: 13 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.121

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Carbon is forever - pp156 - 158

Carbon dioxide emissions and their associated warming could linger for millennia, according to some climate scientists. Mason Inman looks at why the fallout from burning fossil fuels could last far longer than expected.

Published online: 20 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.122

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Sleeping with the fishes - pp159 - 160

Ocean acidification is the latest in a slew of threats to coral reefs. A team of scientists is now getting right up close to Florida's reefs to better understand how their inhabitants may be affected. Mark Schrope reports from the Aquarius Underwater Laboratory.

Published online: 27 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.127

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No simple solutions - p161

Claudia M. Caruana

An ambitious look at how global warming is wreaking havoc with natural phenomena suggests there are no simple solutions to complex problems.

Published online: 13 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.118

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Fossil carbon's fate - pp162 - 163

Euan Nisbet

A clever use of fable brings surprising clarity to the story of climate change.

Published online: 20 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.123

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Snapshot: China's dust bowl - p162

Anna Barnett

Published online: 20 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.126

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Interview: Yvo de Boer - pp164 - 165

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, discusses what world leaders can expect from next month's UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland. The summit marks an important stepping stone to talks at the end of 2009 in Copenhagen, where countries have agreed to strike a new climate accord to follow on the heels of the Kyoto Protocol. Interview by Amanda Leigh Mascarelli.

Published online: 27 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.128

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Making the Paper: reactive rocks - p166

Anna Barnett

Peridotite rocks in Oman show promise for carbon sequestration.

Published online: 27 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.131

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