Climate justice discussions need new participants and new audiences
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02219-4
Climate justice discussions need new participants and new audiences
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Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02190-0
There is a closing window of opportunity to ensure a sustainable future for all, with deep and rapid action needed this decade. Inclusive and just climate resilient development advances sustainable development and keeps open pathways to a liveable planet but requires urgent and fundamental shifts in prevailing development politics and practice.
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Impact of climate change on vaccine responses and inequity
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02192-y
Climate change poses a substantial threat to global health by altering environmental conditions and impacting vaccine effectiveness. We explore how climate change impacts vaccines and worsens inequities, highlighting the need for further research and targeted interventions.
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Emergence of a climate oscillation in the Arctic Ocean due to global warming
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02171-3
Abrupt transitions in the climate system are discussed mostly in terms of mean state changes. Here, the authors use simulations to show that a decline in Arctic sea ice can lead to a new multidecadal mode of surface temperatures in the Arctic Ocean.
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Increased environmental drying risk for anurans globally under projected climate change
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02169-x
Climate change is exacerbating the severity of drought for life on land, especially for drying-sensitive species such as anurans (frogs and toads). Evaporative water loss rates for anurans are expected to double in areas with increased aridity. Increased drought severity combined with climate warming will likely reduce activity time for anurans owing to physiological limits.
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Author Correction: Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02195-9
Author Correction: Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change
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Is climate anxiety a pressing problem, or a luxury?
This story is part of the Grist arts and culture series Moral Hazards, a weeklong exploration of the complex — sometimes contradictory — factors that drive our ethical decision-making in the age of global warming.
In May 2014, Kate Schapira carted a little table with a hand-painted sign out to a park near her home in Providence, Rhode Island, and started listening to strangers’ problems. The sign read “Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth,” referencing an emotion that was relatively unknown, or at least seldom named, at the time. As an English professor, she had no psychological training, no climate science background. She could not offer expertise, simply an ear and a venue for people to unload worries.
And people came, tentatively but earnestly, as she brought the table out roughly 30 times over the rest of the summer. Those who …
Scientists have emotional responses to climate change too
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02139-3
The dominant paradigm holding that science is always objective needs to be challenged. When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as irrelevant, it suggests that science is separate from society; however, this perspective ultimately weakens climate science.
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