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Life history and spatial traits predict extinction risk due to climate change
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There is an urgent need to develop effective vulnerability assessments for evaluating the conservation status of species in a changing climate1. Several new ass...
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Inhomogeneous forcing and transient climate sensitivity
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Understanding climate sensitivity is critical to projecting climate change in response to a given forcing scenario. Recent analyses1–3 have suggested that tra...
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Commentary: The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world
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It is time to acknowledge that global average temperatures are likely to rise above the 2 °C policy target and consider how that deeply troubling prospect shou...
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CO2, Carbon stocks, Climate and society, Climate Change, Carbon cycle, Carbon sink, Atmospheric CO2, Adaptation, Dangerous, Carbon sequestration, Climate Impact...
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Predictive traits to the rescue
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Climate change poses new challenges to the conservation of species, which at present requires data-hungry models to meaningfully anticipate future threats. Now ...
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A systems approach to evaluating the air quality co-benefits of US carbon policies
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Because human activities emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) and conventional air pollutants from common sources, policy designed to reduce GHGs can have co-benefits f...
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CO2, Air quality, Climate Change, Cost benefit analysis, GHG, Carbon policy, Human health, Human civilization, Co-benefits, Human Dimensions
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Human land-use-driven reduction of forest volatiles cools global climate
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Human conversion of forest ecosystems to agriculture is a major driver of global change. Conventionally, the impacts of the historical cropland expansion on Ear...
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Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress
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Forests provide innumerable ecological, societal and climatological benefits, yet they are vulnerable to drought and temperature extremes. Climate-driven forest...
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Forest mortality, Climate Impacts, Temperature, Land atmosphere coupling, Thermal limits, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Habitat, Global warming, Fores...
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A drought-induced pervasive increase in tree mortality across Canada’s boreal forests
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Drought-induced tree mortality is expected to increase worldwide under projected future climate changes (1–4). The Canadian boreal forests, which occupy about...
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Temperate, tree mortality, Disturbance, Temperature, Habitat, Carbon cycle, Climate Change, Land Use, Forests, Water, Sustainability, Heat, Carbon sink, Soil, l...
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An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot
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Extreme climatic events, such as heat waves, are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude as a consequence of global warming but their ecological effect...
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Key Species, Temperature, Heat wave, Extreme scenarios, Habitat degradation, Movement, Abrupt change, Fisheries, Heat, Ecosystems, Water temperature, Habitat qu...
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Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss
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Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions in range size and...
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Editorial : Half-hearted engineering
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Climate warming is not the only consequence of rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases. The only way to counter all effects, including those on rainfall a...
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Environmental economics, Economics, Water deficit, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, General circulation models, Watersheds, Water supply, Geoengineering, Dro...
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Stronger winds over a large lake in response to weakening air-to-lake temperature gradient
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The impacts of climate change on the world’s large lakes are a cause for concern1–4. For example, over the past decades, mean surface water temperatures in ...
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Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe’s terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance
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Climate change negotiations aim to reduce net greenhouse-gas emissions by encouraging direct reductions of emissions and crediting countries for their terrestri...
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commentary: the case for mandatory sequestration
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the fact that cumulative carbon dioxide emissions are more important than annual emission rates calls for a fresh approach to climate change mitigation. one opt...
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Cap and trade, CO2, Fossil fuel, Climate Change, Carbon tax, Fossil fuel combustion, Carbon sequestration, Emissions, Carbon policy
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Permanent storage of carbon dioxide in geological reservoirs by mineral carbonation
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Anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions continue to increase rapidly despite efforts aimed at curbing the release of such gases. One potentially long-term soluti...
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Southward movement of the Pacific intertropical convergence zone AD 1400–1850
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Tropical rainfall patterns control the subsistence lifestyle of more than one billion people. Seasonal changes in these rainfall patterns are associated with ch...
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Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change
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Targets for stabilizing climate change are often based on considerations of the impacts of different levels of global warming, usually assessing the time of rea...
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Sea temperature, CO2, Carbon stocks, Climate and society, Biosphere, Climate Change, Carbon flux, Ice, Carbon cycle, Heat, Carbon sink, Carbon sequestration, Se...
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Riverine carbon dioxide release
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Inland waters are increasingly recognized as important to the global carbon cycle. Detailed measurements in the United States suggest that significant amounts o...
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Wood and river landscapes
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The influence of trees and dead wood on river dynamics has long been overlooked. Recent work suggests that large wood pieces can stabilize the land surface, con...
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Response of the North Atlantic storm track to climate change shaped by ocean– atmosphere coupling
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A poleward shift of the mid-latitude storm tracks in response to anthropogenic greenhouse-gas forcing has been diagnosed in climate model simulations1,2. Explan...
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