Nature Climate Change
Heterogeneous pressure on croplands from land-based strategies to meet the 1.5 °C target
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02294-1
Many countries are relying on land-based strategies to meet the climate targets set out in the Paris Agreement, putting pressure on land resources. Here the authors show a global reduction in cropland area under current climate pledges, with implications for trade and food security.Colonial legacies in tropical forestry hinder good management
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02288-z
Colonial legacies in tropical forestry hinder good managementLocal fossil fuel ad ban as a catalyst for global change
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02267-4
The Hague in the Netherlands was the first city in the world to enact a law prohibiting advertisements for fossil fuel products and services. Although the ban is restricted to The Hague’s jurisdiction, the decision to implement the ban challenges norms and conventions that drive fossil-fuel consumption worldwide and sets an example for other governments to follow.Improving future climate meetings
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02293-2
Improving future climate meetingsGlaciers give way to new coasts
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02275-4
Climate change is causing rapid shrinkage of high-latitude glaciers, fundamentally altering the nature of Arctic landscapes. Now, research quantifies the substantial, yet under-reported, development of new coastlines and islands that are revealed as marine-terminating glaciers fall back from the sea.New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02282-5
As marine-terminating glaciers retreat, they reveal new coastlines in many regions. Here the authors use satellite data to quantify these changes for the Northern Hemisphere, finding that between 2000 and 2020, a total of 2,466 km of new coastline has been uncovered.Drought legacies delay spring green-up in northern ecosystems
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02273-6
The authors investigate the impacts of drought legacy on springtime leaf unfolding and green-up. They show that drought delays springtime phenology, primarily through exogenous environmental memory effects, and suggest that future spring advances may be dampened by increasing drought.Microbial photosynthesis mitigates carbon loss from northern peatlands under warming
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02271-8
The authors use experimental and modelling approaches to understand the response of microbial photosynthesis to peatland warming. They show that warming amplifies microbial photosynthesis, which could offset rising CO2 emissions from northern peatlands by 6.0–13.7% in 2100 (SSP 2-4.5–SSP 5-8.5).A westward shift of heatwave hotspots caused by warming-enhanced land–air coupling
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02302-4
Heatwaves are expected to become more frequent with warming, but how their spatial patterns change is not well understood. Here the authors show that heatwave hotspots in the Northern Hemisphere have shifted westwards over the past few decades.Decreasing dynamic predictability of global agricultural drought with warming climate
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02289-y
Soil moisture droughts can have severe impacts on agriculture, which makes forecasting them crucial. Here the authors show that the dynamic predictability of these agricultural droughts decreases with climate change in many regions.Publisher Correction: Climate-driven connectivity loss impedes species adaptation to warming in the deep ocean
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02313-1
Publisher Correction: Climate-driven connectivity loss impedes species adaptation to warming in the deep oceanSmall step funding models fit better for climate research
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02281-6
Small step funding models fit better for climate researchMitigation needed to avoid unprecedented multi-decadal North Atlantic Oscillation magnitude
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02277-2
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a key pattern of climate variability for surrounding land areas during winter. Here the authors constrain projections to show that the magnitude of the NAO increases under high emissions, leading to more severe winters.The implications of climate gentrification for urban climate action
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02265-6
Urban climate actions have resulted in some progress towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting human settlements to a warmer planet. However, the long-term implications of climate gentrification threaten the continued efficacy of these actions.Adaptation gaps in airports
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02285-2
Adaptation gaps in airportsGroundwater recharge in a warming world
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02286-1
Groundwater recharge in a warming worldSouthern African flux variability
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02284-3
Southern African flux variabilityGermination timing shifts communities
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02287-0
Germination timing shifts communitiesStrength in collaboration
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02298-x
The IPCC is in its seventh assessment cycle, and international collaboration, which established this organization, is still needed to ensure successful deliverables.Avoiding misuses of energy-economic modelling in climate policymaking
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02280-7
Energy-economic models are increasingly being used to inform climate mitigation policies. This Comment describes three situations where models misinform policymakers and calls for more iterative, policy-orientated modelling exercises that maximize learning in the pursuit of long-term emissions reductions goals.