Nature Climate Change
Nature Climate Change is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research on the causes, impacts and wider implications of global climate change. The journal publishes climate research across the physical, biological and social sciences and strives to integrate and communicate interdisciplinary research. The journal aims to play a leading role in: providing accessibility to a broad audience to research published both within and outside the journal; raising the visibility of climate change research in related research communities as well as the mainstream media; and offering a forum for discussion of the challenges faced by researchers and policy makers (and other interested parties) in understanding the complex mechanisms and impacts associated with the Earth’s changing climate.
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Contemporary trends in planetary photosynthetic production
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02390-2
Terrestrial and marine photosynthetic production are typically studied separately. Now, an integrated analysis of land and ocean net primary production for 2003–2021 reveals that land and ocean net primary production show contrasting trends. Enhanced biospheric primary production is predominantly driven by an increase over land, partially offset by an oceanic decrease.Contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02375-1
The authors jointly assess the changes in land and ocean net primary production from 2003 to 2021. They show contrasting trends, with overall planetary increases (0.11 ± 0.13 PgC yr−1) driven by terrestrial enhancement and offset by oceanic decline.Shifting hotspot of tropical cyclone clusters in a warming climate
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 31 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02397-9
Tropical cyclones can occur concurrently in the same basins in clusters, potentially resulting in greater damage. Here the authors show that global warming causes a shift in hotspots of such clusters towards the North Atlantic.Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02392-0
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading not just in the magnitude but in the direction of effects, explain why, and make suggestions for improving the reliability of ecological forecasts.Green backlash and right-wing populism
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02384-0
This Review considers research on the politics of climate policies. Climate policies, through their economic and cultural repercussions, impact public climate attitudes and voting behaviour, which in turn affect election outcomes and future policies.Wind droughts threaten energy reliability
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02383-1
Wind energy is helping to mitigate climate change. But now a study shows that climate change may make wind power less reliable.Reduction of methane emissions through improved landfill management
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02391-1
Solid waste disposal is a major source of anthropogenic methane, yet estimating these emissions is difficult. Here the authors use satellite data to assess emissions from high-emitting landfills and find that transforming open sites to sanitary landfills could offer a large mitigation potential.Prolonged wind droughts in a warming climate threaten global wind power security
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02387-x
Prolonged low wind speeds can lead to a strong reduction in wind power generation. Here, the authors show that such wind drought events become more frequent and extended under global warming, threatening energy security in some regions.