The carbon hoofprint of cities is shaped by geography and production in the livestock supply chain
The study deploys and expands the FoodS3 model to estimate the carbon hoofprint of 3,531 US cities. Our…
Southern Ocean freshening stalls deep ocean CO2 release in a changing climate
Sabine, C. L. et al. The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2. Science 305, 367–371 (2004). Article CAS Google…
Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science
Meng, Y., Broom, M. & Li, A. Impact of misinformation in the evolution of collective cooperation on networks.…
Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century
Weather station data We obtain hourly on- and near-glacier air temperature (Ta) data for 169 individual glaciers over…
Synchronization of global peak river discharge since the 1980s
Merz, B. et al. Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 2, 592–609…
Dynamic grid management reduces wildfire adaptation costs in the electric power sector
Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Underfinanced. Underprepared. Inadequate Investment and Planning on Climate Adaptation Leaves World Exposed (UNEP, 2023);…
Scope for waterfowl to speed up migration to a warming Arctic
Walther, G.-R. et al. Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature 416, 389–395 (2002). Article CAS Google Scholar …
Neglecting land–atmosphere feedbacks overestimates climate-driven increases in evapotranspiration
Fischer, E. M. & Knutti, R. Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes. Nat. Clim.…
Sinking carbon sinks | Nature Climate Change
Terrestrial ecosystems take up approximately a third of anthropogenically emitted carbon and are a key component of climate…
Italian still life paintings as a resource for reconstructing past Mediterranean aquatic biodiversity
We have explored the historical representation of aquatic resources in Italian still-life paintings as an indicator of past…
Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023
Data sources This study relied on four fCO2 products and two global ocean biogeochemical models, for which technical…
Towards positive net outcomes for biodiversity, and developing safeguards to accompany headline biodiversity indicators
Biodiversity impact calculations Our focal biodiversity metric is based on LCIA approaches, as is current good practice for…