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India and climate: what does the world’s most populous nation want from COP28?
India wants to be the voice of the global south at the climate conference. It is also massively dependent on coal.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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| Open AccessBiological carbon pump estimate based on multidecadal hydrographic data
By using several decades of hydrographic data and an inverse biogeochemical model that implicitly accounts for all known export pathways, a top-down estimate of the strength of the biological carbon pump is calculated.
- Wei-Lei Wang
- , Weiwei Fu
- & François W. Primeau
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Correspondence |
Nature-based climate solutions: align policy with science
- Trevor F. Keenan
- , Kimberly A. Novick
- & Caroline P. Normile
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Correspondence |
A system-transitions report for the next IPCC assessment cycle
- Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
- , Christopher Trisos
- & Aditi Mukherji
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World View |
Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators
Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.
- Daniel Swain
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Editorial |
Combat corporate greenwashing with better science
Companies must be transparent about how they calculate their emissions goals. Researchers must help to clear up doubts about the system.
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Scientists skip COP28 to demand climate action at home
Concerned about safety at the global climate summit and wanting to make their protests count, researchers stage demonstrations elsewhere.
- Anil Oza
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Approaching 1.5 °C: how will we know we’ve reached this crucial warming mark?
Assessing global mean temperature rise using the average warming over the previous one or two decades will delay formal recognition of when Earth breaches the Paris agreement’s 1.5 °C guard rail. Here is what’s needed to avoid the wait.
- Richard A. Betts
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Climate change is also a health crisis — these 3 graphics explain why
Health is on the agenda at the COP28 climate meeting. Rising temperatures increase the spread of infectious diseases, claim lives and drive food insecurity.
- Carissa Wong
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Microbiologists at COP28 push for a seat at the climate-policy table
At this week’s big climate summit and beyond, scientists are campaigning for microbes to be included in climate models and solutions.
- Katherine Bourzac
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First cash pledged for countries devastated by climate change: COP28 starts with historic decision
Draft resolution on a ‘loss and damage fund’ has attracted more than $400 million, but climate-vulnerable countries say more cash is needed.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Editorial |
Global science is splintering into two — and this is becoming a problem
The United States and China are pursuing parallel scientific tracks. To solve crises on multiple fronts, the two roads need to become one.
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Tackling extreme poverty around the world need not impede climate action
A study has revealed that eliminating extreme poverty would result in a relatively small increase in global greenhouse-gas emissions, dispelling the idea that efforts to combat climate change and poverty are incompatible.
- Katharine L. Ricke
- & Gordon C. McCord
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Why COP28 probably won’t keep the 1.5 degree dream alive
We discuss the challenges of the upcoming climate-change conference, and a way to make stable plasma using hairy blocks.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Shamini Bundell
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| Open AccessEnding extreme poverty has a negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions
Global emissions associated with the economic growth needed to alleviate extreme poverty are limited.
- Philip Wollburg
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- & Daniel Gerszon Mahler
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China and California are leading the way on climate cooperation. Others should follow
California governor Gavin Newsom’s delegation is building on existing research and policy initiatives with China, showing that effective climate action can happen below the national level.
- Fan Dai
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How effective are climate protests at swaying policy — and what could make a difference?
Why people take to the streets to march against global heating is relatively well documented. But it’s unclear why certain tactics work better than others in reaching the public and policymakers.
- Dana R. Fisher
- , Oscar Berglund
- & Colin J. Davis
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California wildlife pays the cost of megafires
Increasingly intense wildfires in the United States could have profound impacts on natural habitats — potentially leaving hundreds of animal species struggling to recover.
- Holly Smith
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Research Highlight |
Huge California wildfires seeded cirrus clouds half a world away
Smoke from record-breaking fires in 2020 travelled all the way to Cyprus, where it helped to trigger cloud formation.
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Réunion’s search for energy self-sufficiency
Whether the French island succeeds in producing all of its electricity depends not only on technology, but also on social and political will.
- Rachel Nuwer
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‘Loss and damage’ — the most controversial words in climate finance today
Crucial talks on how richer countries should compensate poorer countries for the effects of climate-related extreme weather are stuck. The COP28 climate summit must make a breakthrough.
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Climate loss-and-damage funding: how to get money to where it’s needed fast
Finance for coping with the harms of climate change must be disbursed swiftly and pragmatically. The world’s largest existing climate fund for supporting climate mitigation and adaptation provides lessons.
- Laura Kuhl
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Climate loss-and-damage funding: a mechanism to make it work
Compensating for the devastating impacts of heatwaves, hurricanes and floods after they occur is too slow. With climate risks accelerating, the world must predict who needs funds and when.
- Richard H. Clarke
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- & Domenico Lombardi
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Emissions scenarios and targets aligned to meet climate goals
A mismatch in how carbon emissions are reported could endanger nations’ best efforts to meet targets for curbing climate change. A method for translating between reporting conventions offers a path forward.
- Chris D. Jones
- & Alexander J. Askew
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JWST ends game of hide and seek with methane
The space telescope has helped to determine the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet using the light spectrum of its host star. Spectral changes as the planet orbits the star reveal the long-sought presence of exoplanetary methane.
- Gloria Guilluy
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| Open AccessAligning climate scenarios to emissions inventories shifts global benchmarks
Aligning the IPCC-assessed mitigation pathways with the national greenhouse gas inventories shows that key global mitigation benchmarks become harder to achieve, requiring achieving earlier net-zero and lower cumulative emissions.
- Matthew J. Gidden
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Correspondence |
China: personalized carbon accounting for consumers
- Li Zhang
- , Lan Tao
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Deep-sea mining threatens jellyfish, suggests first-of-its-kind study
Sediment dislodged by ocean-floor mining could disrupt jellyfish metabolism, potentially causing the animals serious harm.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Is it too late to keep global warming below 1.5 °C? The challenge in 7 charts
Chances are rapidly disappearing to limit Earth’s temperature rise to the globally agreed mark, but researchers say there are some positive signs of progress.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Swathes of Earth are turning into desert — but the degradation can be stopped
The latest United Nations data paint a grim picture. But countries that are getting land-restoration measures right provide some cause for hope.
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Record-breaking heat set to hit Southern Hemisphere as summer begins
The Northern Hemisphere experienced a sweltering summer due to climate and meteorological patterns. Scientists say the south will not escape.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Dust: the tiny substance with enormous power
Jay Owens joins us to talk about her book Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Research Highlight |
A Russian warship’s sinking is linked to strange weather pattern
Unusual temperature inversion might have helped Ukraine to sink the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet last year.
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Major US climate disasters occur every three weeks, report finds
Fifth National Climate Assessment says nowhere is safe from warming, but some communities are impacted harder than others.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Research Briefing |
Impact of a catastrophic tropical cyclone on large African mammals
In 2019, Cyclone Idai caused devastating flooding in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park when ecological studies of mammals were already under way. Small-bodied species and those in low-lying areas were affected most, suggesting that animals’ sensitivity to extreme weather depends on traits such as body size and habitat use.
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How to 3D print fully formed robots
Printing multi-material objects in a single run, and the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions for preventing type 2 diabetes.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Shamini Bundell
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Correspondence |
Promise of private finance is blocking peatland restoration
- Lydia Cole
- , Cornelia Helmcke
- & Ewan Jenkins
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Authors reply to questionable publicity
- Patrick T. Brown
- , Craig B. Clements
- & Scott J. Strenfel
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The Amazon’s record-setting drought: how bad will it be?
Scientists tell Nature why the rainforest has dried out, and what to expect in the coming months.
- Meghie Rodrigues
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| Open AccessIntegrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential
Analysis of ground-sourced and satellite-derived models reveals a global forest carbon potential of 226 Gt outside agricultural and urban lands, with a difference of only 12% across these modelling approaches.
- Lidong Mo
- , Constantin M. Zohner
- & Thomas W. Crowther
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Four science stars on the fast-track to impact
With the world at their feet, these prolific young researchers are making their mark.
- Sandy Ong
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Why a climate researcher pushed the limits of low-carbon travel — and his employer’s patience
A refusal to fly to Papua New Guinea for fieldwork took Gianluca Grimalda the long way across 22,000 kilometres and 12 countries.
- Christine Ro
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Powerful gusts unleashed by thunderstorms are getting stronger
Climate change is intensifying straight-line winds, which can be as damaging as tornadoes.
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‘Oceans are hugely complex’: modelling marine microbes is key to climate forecasts
Microorganisms are the engines that drive most marine processes. Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.
- Alessandro Tagliabue
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Rich countries fall short on climate aid for poor nations
Low-income countries need 10–18 times more global funding than they are receiving to help them adapt to climate change.
- Carissa Wong
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Asteroid sampler’s hypersonic return thrilled scientists: here’s what they learnt
The re-entry of the OSIRIS-REx sample canister is the most closely observed of its type in history.
- Alexandra Witze
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Protect the ‘right to science’ for people and the planet
Upholding human rights can ensure that environmental policy is driven by facts and evidence, not denialism, greed and profit.
- Volker Türk