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Featuring articles on the loss meteorites on the Antarctic ice, the effect corporate tax competition has on emissions and how foraging behaviour influences the vulnerability of animals to predators.

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  • Existing global economic damage assessments only focus on the impacts induced by annual temperature changes. Including variability and extremes of temperature and precipitation in climate damage projections raises global gross domestic product losses and exacerbates global disparities of economic damage.

    • Paul Waidelich
    • Fulden Batibeniz
    • Sonia I. Seneviratne
    ArticleOpen Access
  • The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen marked an important step in global climate action with parties submitting 2020 mitigation targets. However, this retrospective study shows that many countries either have failed to meet their targets or have reduced their emissions through carbon leakage.

    • Shuping Li
    • Jing Meng
    • Dabo Guan
    ArticleOpen Access
  • The authors link intensification of cold upwelling in two western boundary currents to the observed death of marine organisms, and upwelling avoidance behaviour in bull sharks. They raise concerns of increased risk of cold-mortality events for climate migrants at their poleward distribution limits.

    • Nicolas Lubitz
    • Ryan Daly
    • Adam Barnett
    Article
  • The authors use individual-based models to assess the contribution of frugivore-mediated seed dispersal to forest restoration. They show that the movement of large birds—which disperse seeds with higher carbon storage potential—is limited in landscapes with low forest cover (<40%).

    • Carolina Bello
    • Thomas W. Crowther
    • Daisy H. Dent
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Hydrological sensitivity describes how much precipitation changes for a given warming. Here, the authors show that the hydrological sensitivity differs between the three tropical ocean basins, which influences land rainfall changes across the tropical and mid-latitude regions.

    • Jie He
    • Kezhou Lu
    • Stephan A. Fueglistaler
    Article