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Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat — is climate change making it worse?
Researchers are studying how extreme weather and rising temperatures can encourage the spread of drug-resistant infections.
- Carissa Wong
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Research Highlight |
A bounty of rice comes at a price: soaring methane emissions
The spread of rice paddies in sub-Saharan Africa helps to drive up atmospheric concentrations of a potent greenhouse gas.
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Where I Work |
How badly does climate change affect coral? I dive to find out
By putting on my scuba suit and keeping track of corals in French Polynesia, I hope to determine how much stress they’re under.
- Patricia Maia Noronha
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Nature Video |
Festive parody songs from the Nature Podcast
The Nature Podcast team have rewritten two popular holiday songs in honour of some of the biggest science stories of in 2023.
- Noah Baker
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World View |
How a surge in organized crime threatens the Amazon
The global community needs to break the web of transnational crime networks and corruption threatening one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
- Bram Ebus
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Obituary |
Saleemul Huq (1952–2023), climate visionary
A relentless climate scientist who was the voice of the voiceless in the global climate fight.
- Achala C. Abeysinghe
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Nature Podcast |
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2023
Games, seasonal science songs, and Nature’s 10.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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News |
Surge in extreme forest fires fuels global emissions
Climate change and human activities have led to more frequent and intense forest blazes over the past two decades.
- Xiaoying You
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Article |
Global population profile of tropical cyclone exposure from 2002 to 2019
A global profile of tropical cyclone population exposure for the period 2002–2019 shows a steady increase, with approximately 560 million people exposed yearly and a disproportionate exposure among those with lower socioeconomic status.
- Renzhi Jing
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Correspondence |
Short-sighted policies are fuelling Brazilian deforestation
- Richard Fuchs
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Where I Work |
How I’m protecting Clanwilliam sandfish
Cecilia Cerrilla’s PhD project is to protect a tiny species of fish from predatory bass.
- Jack Leeming
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The science events to watch for in 2024
Advanced AI tools, Moon missions and ultrafast supercomputers are among the developments set to shape research in the coming year.
- Miryam Naddaf
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| Open AccessUnequal climate impacts on global values of natural capital
Country-level changes in economic production and the value of non-market ecosystem benefits show unequal impacts on the global values of natural capital resulting from climate-change-induced shifts in terrestrial vegetation cover.
- B. A. Bastien-Olvera
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Outlook |
Water and warfare: the battle to control a precious resource
Climate change could intensify the role of this vital and strategic asset in armed conflict.
- Elie Dolgin
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Scientists drilled through 500 metres of Greenland’s ice — here’s what they found at the bottom
Bedrock extracted from beneath the island’s frozen covering offers hints of the ice sheet’s past and future.
- Alexandra Witze
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Nature’s 10: ten people (and one non-human) who helped shape science in 2023
An AI pioneer, an architect of India’s Moon mission and the world’s first global heat officer are some of the people behind this year’s big stories.
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The climate disaster strikes: what the data say
A series of impact assessments highlight India’s vulnerability to extreme weather events and the risks they pose to human health.
- Shannon Hall
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COP28 climate summit signals the end of fossil fuels — but is it enough?
As nations make historic pledge to ‘transition’ energy systems away from fossil fuels — some scientists are disappointed by the softened wording.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Amazon protector: the Brazilian politician who turned the tide on deforestation
As Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva helped to rein in rampant deforestation and rebuild institutions that were weakened by the previous government.
- Meghie Rodrigues
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How Earth’s first global heat officer is tackling climate change
Eleni Myrivili is helping the world to prepare for the threats of climate change as the United Nations chief heat officer.
- Alexandra Witze
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Editorial |
COP28: the science is clear — fossil fuels must go
Phasing out fossil fuels is not negotiable. World leaders will fail their people and the planet unless they accept this reality.
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Research Highlight |
Earth is warming but Mount Everest is getting chillier
Winds triggered by climate change sweep cold air down from the summit of Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks, leading to a cooling trend.
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The best science images of 2023 — Nature’s picks
Cosmic dust, microscopic syrup, a flying gecko and more.
- Emma Stoye
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Nature Podcast |
The low carbon cost of alleviating poverty
New modeling study suggests that reducing global poverty does not have to derail decarbonization efforts
- Alex Lathbridge
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art
Researchers who are as skilled in the studio as they are in the lab are forced to choose between disciplines.
- Julie Gould
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News |
Eat less meat: will the first global climate deal on food work?
A declaration on reducing the eye-watering emissions from food production is a start, say researchers — but it sidesteps contentious issues in the role of food production in global climate change.
- Carissa Wong
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Nature Podcast |
The world’s smallest light-trapping silicon cavity
Researchers exploit intermolecular forces to carve a nanoscale hole, and investigating whether poverty can be reduced without increasing emissions.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says
Polar ice, coral reefs and other Earth systems could cross irrevocable thresholds soon, but urgent action could stave off the worst effects.
- Jeff Tollefson
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India and climate: what does the world’s most populous nation want from COP28?
India wants to be the voice of the global south at the climate conference. It is also massively dependent on coal.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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Correspondence |
Nature-based climate solutions: align policy with science
- Trevor F. Keenan
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Correspondence |
A system-transitions report for the next IPCC assessment cycle
- Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
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Editorial |
Combat corporate greenwashing with better science
Companies must be transparent about how they calculate their emissions goals. Researchers must help to clear up doubts about the system.
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World View |
Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators
Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.
- Daniel Swain
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Scientists skip COP28 to demand climate action at home
Concerned about safety at the global climate summit and wanting to make their protests count, researchers stage demonstrations elsewhere.
- Anil Oza
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Comment |
Approaching 1.5 °C: how will we know we’ve reached this crucial warming mark?
Assessing global mean temperature rise using the average warming over the previous one or two decades will delay formal recognition of when Earth breaches the Paris agreement’s 1.5 °C guard rail. Here is what’s needed to avoid the wait.
- Richard A. Betts
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News Explainer |
Climate change is also a health crisis — these 3 graphics explain why
Health is on the agenda at the COP28 climate meeting. Rising temperatures increase the spread of infectious diseases, claim lives and drive food insecurity.
- Carissa Wong
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News |
Microbiologists at COP28 push for a seat at the climate-policy table
At this week’s big climate summit and beyond, scientists are campaigning for microbes to be included in climate models and solutions.
- Katherine Bourzac
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First cash pledged for countries devastated by climate change: COP28 starts with historic decision
Draft resolution on a ‘loss and damage fund’ has attracted more than $400 million, but climate-vulnerable countries say more cash is needed.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Editorial |
Global science is splintering into two — and this is becoming a problem
The United States and China are pursuing parallel scientific tracks. To solve crises on multiple fronts, the two roads need to become one.
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News & Views |
Tackling extreme poverty around the world need not impede climate action
A study has revealed that eliminating extreme poverty would result in a relatively small increase in global greenhouse-gas emissions, dispelling the idea that efforts to combat climate change and poverty are incompatible.
- Katharine L. Ricke
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Nature Podcast |
Why COP28 probably won’t keep the 1.5 degree dream alive
We discuss the challenges of the upcoming climate-change conference, and a way to make stable plasma using hairy blocks.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Shamini Bundell
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| Open AccessEnding extreme poverty has a negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions
Global emissions associated with the economic growth needed to alleviate extreme poverty are limited.
- Philip Wollburg
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World View |
China and California are leading the way on climate cooperation. Others should follow
California governor Gavin Newsom’s delegation is building on existing research and policy initiatives with China, showing that effective climate action can happen below the national level.
- Fan Dai
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Comment |
How effective are climate protests at swaying policy — and what could make a difference?
Why people take to the streets to march against global heating is relatively well documented. But it’s unclear why certain tactics work better than others in reaching the public and policymakers.
- Dana R. Fisher
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- & Colin J. Davis
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News & Views |
California wildlife pays the cost of megafires
Increasingly intense wildfires in the United States could have profound impacts on natural habitats — potentially leaving hundreds of animal species struggling to recover.
- Holly Smith
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Spotlight |
Réunion’s search for energy self-sufficiency
Whether the French island succeeds in producing all of its electricity depends not only on technology, but also on social and political will.
- Rachel Nuwer
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Editorial |
‘Loss and damage’ — the most controversial words in climate finance today
Crucial talks on how richer countries should compensate poorer countries for the effects of climate-related extreme weather are stuck. The COP28 climate summit must make a breakthrough.
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Comment |
Climate loss-and-damage funding: how to get money to where it’s needed fast
Finance for coping with the harms of climate change must be disbursed swiftly and pragmatically. The world’s largest existing climate fund for supporting climate mitigation and adaptation provides lessons.
- Laura Kuhl
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- & Saleemul Huq