If the dryness persists, it would be a second consecutive season of weather-related setbacks for farmers.

The communities say the state denied their ancestral presence for decades, creating protected areas without consultation or consent.

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.

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.

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.