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March 3rd is the UN's World Wildlife Day. We feature work demonstrating the diverse impacts of climate change on a range of organisms- from meerkats to snowshoe hares to polar bears to salmon.

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    • Enli Wang
    • Greg J. Rebetzke
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  • The Amazon rainforest is increasingly under pressure from climate change and deforestation. The resilience of three-quarters of the forest, particularly in drier areas or close to human activity, has been decreasing since the 2000s, indicating that the system may be approaching a tipping point.

    • Chris A. Boulton
    • Timothy M. Lenton
    • Niklas Boers
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  • Determining the emergent climate change signals in the tropical Pacific—mean state and El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)—is crucial for climate action. Model simulations show that the mean sea surface temperature signal is already detectable, and that mean rainfall and ENSO-related signals could emerge around 2040.

    • Jun Ying
    • Matthew Collins
    • Karl Stein
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  • Tropical forest restoration has the potential to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, but the climate mitigation potential could be threatened by climate change impacts. This study shows that carbon sequestered in restored forests is predominantly safe under a range of future scenarios.

    • Alexander Koch
    • Jed O. Kaplan
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  • Climate hazards can compound existing stresses on the revenues and expenditures of local governments, revealing potential risks to fiscal stability. Incorporating these risks into local budgeting and strategic planning would encourage a more complete accounting of the benefits of climate adaptation and risk reduction efforts.

    • Elisabeth A. Gilmore
    • Carolyn Kousky
    • Travis St.Clair
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  • Communities want to determine their own climate change adaptation strategies, and scientists and decision-makers should listen to them — both the equity and efficacy of climate change adaptation depend on it. We outline key lessons researchers and development actors can take to support communities and learn from them.

    • Anne C. Pisor
    • Xavier Basurto
    • James Holland Jones
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  • Climate change poses a threat to heritage globally. Decolonial approaches to climate change–heritage research and practice can begin to address systemic inequities, recognize the breadth of heritage and strengthen adaptation action globally.

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    • Christopher H. Trisos
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Nature Climate Change, we invited experts to highlight exciting developments of the past decade, and talk to our past and present editors about some of the remarkable papers published in the journal.
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