Nature Climate Change
Heatwave attribution in seconds
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02532-6
Heatwave attribution in secondsForaging constrained by heat and dark
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02530-8
Foraging constrained by heat and darkRising lake and reservoir emissions
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02529-1
Rising lake and reservoir emissionsInequalities in resilience and preparedness
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02531-7
Inequalities in resilience and preparednessRivers accelerate and slow as temperatures rise
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02508-6
Whether erosion is accelerating or decelerating along Arctic rivers has been unclear, but each trend has distinct implications for the vast amount of carbon stored in permanently frozen soils. Now, research demonstrates that warming air temperatures are driving divergent outcomes for Arctic rivers, causing some to erode their banks more rapidly while others slow down.Overlooked toll of climate change on migrant children in the Americas
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02525-5
Climate change drives displacement and migration across the Americas, particularly exposing Latin American and Caribbean children to compounded health risks. We explore these health impacts, identify gaps in related US healthcare and health policy, and propose recommendations for how they can respond.Resolving the changing pace of Arctic rivers
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02512-w
Whether rivers are speeding up or slowing down in a warming Arctic is unclear, but has implications for carbon cycling and infrastructure. This study finds divergent behaviour in migration rates for rivers in discontinuous versus continuous permafrost, driven by changes in permafrost thaw and river ice.Deforestation-induced emissions from mining energy transition minerals
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02520-w
Energy transition minerals (ETM) are essential for decarbonization, yet extractions often occur in carbon-rich forests and lands of Indigenous peoples and local communities. Here the authors provide global analysis showing how ETM mining causes sustained forest loss and GHG emissions.Green industrial policy is not enough for net-zero decarbonization
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.Modelling the impacts of policy sequencing on energy decarbonization
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02497-6
Green subsidies (carrots) are now becoming a more politically acceptable climate policy option compared with corrective regulations (sticks). However, researcher show that carrots without quick and appropriate sticks will not be sufficient to reach the deep decarbonization goal in the long run.Impacts of global warming on subnational poverty and inequality
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02516-6
In addition to affecting general economic indicators, climate change could worsen poverty and inequality across and within countries. With a global subnational dataset, researchers confirm that temperature rise leads to increases in headcount poverty and the Gini index, with poorer countries being particularly vulnerable.The political psychology of climate denial
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.Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9
Many mountain glaciers will disappear with warming. Here the authors assess how many glaciers will disappear per year under different warming scenarios, finding that a peak in glacier loss will happen during the mid-twenty-first century.Reducing the large short-lived impact of methane emissions with temporary carbon removals
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02511-x
We consider potential non-permanence of carbon removal not as an obstacle but as a feature to focus on the compensation for the short-term warming of methane emissions. This could re-open climate finance for nature-based solutions and provide an immediate reduction in temperature stress.Structural lock-ins in tourism decarbonization and the alternative
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02502-y
Decarbonization of the tourism sector faces challenges of structural lock-ins. This Comment challenges the conventional narratives of green tourism and emphasizes to practice more transformative eco-friendly solutions rather than to consume less, with ecotourism as a promising alternative to encourage more low-carbon behaviour in daily life.UNFCCC carbon trading could undermine global climate action
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02517-5
Recent United Nations policymaking on international emissions trading fails to reconcile longstanding flaws that could jeopardize the integrity of these programmes. We call for urgent action by policymakers to safeguard the future of the Paris Agreement.Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02487-8
Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matching could minimize intertemporal welfare trade-offs and avoid various risks for permanent removal.Author Correction: Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02524-6
Author Correction: Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recurMicroclimates slow and alter the direction of climate velocities in tropical forests
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02496-7
The authors model near-ground and within-canopy microclimates in a tropical montane rainforest. They show that short-distance shifts towards dense vegetation or vertically downwards in canopies reduce velocities, highlighting that structurally complex ecosystems may provide short-term climate refuges.Widespread revisions of self-reported emissions by major US corporations
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02494-9
Self-reported emissions data are widely used to evaluate corporations’ climate performance, yet concerns exist regarding their credibility. By examining major US companies, researchers find that more than half of them revise, and mainly understate, their emissions data after first report.