Nature Climate Change
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02346-6
Selective migration patterns emerge in flood-prone regions in the USA. The sociodemographic profiles of individuals who were more inclined to move in or out of flood-prone areas were strikingly different. Media sentiment aggravates population replacement in these regions, leading to short-term structure changes in the housing market and long-term socioeconomic decline.Assessing risk of ecosystem collapse in a changing climate
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02324-y
In this Perspective, the authors discuss how to robustly consider climate change impacts in ecosystem risk assessments. They highlight challenges in defining impacts, indicators and thresholds, in collating data, and in estimating and reporting risk, and propose solutions to inform conservation.Unlocking genebanks for climate adaptation
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02336-8
Genebanks hold the key to crop resilience and adaptation, yet their potential remains underutilized. Now, a study demonstrates how merging genomic and environmental data can unveil the best-suited germplasm for future climates.Prioritizing parents from global genebanks to breed climate-resilient crops
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02333-x
The authors consider the future climate resilience and genomic adaptive capacity of the globally important crop sorghum using 1,937 global accessions. They identify the best potential parents and geographies for crop improvements, and underscore the need for better accessibility of plant resources.Keeping forests on the agroforestry agenda
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02344-8
Emerging agroforestry initiatives focus on planting trees rather than managing existing forestland. The result is a missed opportunity to support forest ecosystems, rural livelihoods and climate mitigation.Maintaining crop yields limits mitigation potential of crop-land natural climate solutions
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02349-3
The adoption of natural climate solutions in crop-lands, such as cover crops, no tillage and residue retention, is widely assumed to provide both climate change mitigation and crop yield benefits. We find important spatially variable trade-offs between these outcomes and demonstrate that safeguarding crop yields will substantially lower the mitigation potential of natural climate solutions.Targeted policies to break the deadlock on heating bans
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02343-9
As an important policy instrument for building sector decarbonization, bans on fossil fuel-based heating face fierce opposition with doubts over their economic viability. With a unified perspective that incorporates the views of proponents and opponents, we discuss the importance of targeted policies to break the deadlock.Post-flood selective migration interacts with media sentiment and income effects
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02345-7
A gap remains in understanding flood-induced migration across sociodemographic groups. This study quantifies the flood-induced inflow/outflow selective migration by education, employment and age in the United States, and reveals how media sentiment and income effect aggravate selective migration.Vertical climate velocity adds a critical dimension to species shifts
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02300-6
The authors combine horizontal and vertical climate velocities to understand how marine species shift in response to climate change. They show that vertical velocity, which is often overlooked, better explains climate responses, with implications for species adaptation and fishing resources.Glacier melt trough after overshoot
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02312-2
Glaciers are retreating under climate change and generating excessive meltwater. A modelling study shows that regrowing glaciers may lead to water scarcity in the centuries after overshooting the +1.5 °C temperature target.Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5 °C
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02318-w
How mountain glaciers will react to temporarily overshooting 1.5 °C of warming is poorly understood. Here the authors show irreversible global glacier loss for centuries after overshoot, implying long-term reductions in glacial water resources with amplified impacts in regions where glaciers regrow.Managing for climate and production goals on crop-lands
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02337-7
Climate mitigation through natural climate solutions in crop-lands may be a way to reconcile climate goals with food security. However, here the authors show that some natural climate solution practices tend to lower yields and that maintaining yields lowers the potential GHG mitigation.Evolution of warming tolerance alters physiology and life history traits in zebrafish
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02332-y
Using seven generations of selected zebrafish (Danio rerio), the authors consider the trade-offs and mechanisms behind evolution of warming tolerance. They show unexpected improvements in cooling tolerance in warming-adapted fish, and highlight mechanistic insights behind warming tolerance.Advancing science, policy and action in tipping points research
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02335-9
Advancing science, policy and action in tipping points researchExplaining the adaptation gap through consistency in adaptation planning
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02334-w
The gap between adaptation policy planning and actual implementation could delay effective actions. Researchers demonstrate why internal consistency checks should be the starting point to reduce the gap by applying them for city-level adaptation plans across Europe.Risks of unavoidable impacts on forests at 1.5 °C with and without overshoot
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02327-9
The authors assess the risk of overshoot beyond 1.5 °C warming, using three scenarios with minimal overshoot, brief overshoot and sustained overshoot. They show a risk of long-term Amazon dieback, which begins as early as 1.3 °C warming but is largely mitigated by reducing temperature below 1.5 °C.Expanding cracks
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02338-6
Expanding cracksResponsibility attribution in Africa
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02340-y
Responsibility attribution in AfricaPublic R&D investment
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02339-5
Public R&D investmentCarbon in river floodplains
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02341-x
Carbon in river floodplains