The Earth; It's the only one we have
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02545-1
Current climate migration literature focuses on quantifying the link between climate drivers and migration, yet overlooks its broader and more complex interactions with mitigation, adaptation and climate impacts. This Perspective highlights key gaps and offers concrete solutions.
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02541-5
Economists have spent a decade designing the perfect climate club, yet political reality has hitherto rendered these designs practically infeasible. The Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Markets offers a path forward, but only if its architects recognize that understanding political feasibility is crucial to turning a declaration into a functioning carbon pricing club that could close the emissions gap.
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02534-4
The El Niño–Southern Oscillation threatens human health, and its impacts are likely to intensify under climate change. This research examines how historical El Niño–Southern Oscillation events have caused life expectancy and economic losses across the Pacific Rim and projects future impacts and vulnerable groups.
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02503-x
It is essential to understand the best way to frame a persuasive message aimed at increasing concern about climate change and support for pro-environmental action. Now a Registered Report presents a large-scale study that tests and compares the effectiveness of ten widely cited messaging strategies.
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02519-3
Transforming school environments into nature-based climate shelters not only promotes cooling and greening under extreme heat, but also fosters quality education, ecological restoration, empowerment and reconnection with nature, and provides children with healthier, safer, more playful, equitable and climate-proof spaces.
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02532-6
Heatwave attribution in seconds
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02514-8
Both green industrial policy (‘carrots’) and carbon pricing (‘sticks’) are seen as important instruments for decarbonization, but the sequencing strategy matters. Researchers now demonstrate that carrots alone — without sticks — are unlikely to reach long-term net-zero targets in the USA.
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02523-7
Climate denial in political discourse is fuelled by psychological factors such as psychological distance, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, loss aversion, existential anxiety and social identity. Effective communication strategies addressing deniers’ motivations are crucial as denial undermines urgent climate action.
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