Research Highlights

An article in Nature Communications finds that age and education are important demographic factors influencing migration responses to climate change.

An article in Nature Communications finds that low-income countries will face greater exposure to future climate extremes than high-income countries.

An article in Environmental Research Letters finds that natural aerosols contribute to over half of the excess deaths attributed to fine particulate matter exposure in Africa.

An article in Nature Climate Change finds mineral shortage risks could delay solar photovoltaic and nuclear power deployments in some developing regions.

An article in Science Advances demonstrates that fire onset has shifted ~45 days earlier on average in California owing to anthropogenic warming.

An article in Geophysical Research Letters outlines that a positive trend in the Southern Annular Mode is unlikely to have caused observed cooling in Southern Ocean sea surface temperatures.

An article in Soil & Environmental Health finds ghost forests are distinct from freshwater forested wetlands and salt marshes.

An article in Marine Policy assessed the abundance and causes of discarded fishing gear in Kerala, India, to help inform fishing debris management practices.

An article in Space Weather estimates that an event like the Halloween solar storm of 2003 could cause large economic losses in the aviation sector if it occurred in the present day.

An article in Atmos. Chem. Phys. found that reductions in maritime sulfur emissions led to less reflective clouds above a major shipping corridor, with potential implications for regional warming.

An article in Science Advances models the noise reduction potential of slowing down marine vessels and how this can mitigate impacts on marine mammals.

An article in Nature Climate Change analyzes the operational and economic risks of climate-related disruptions at ports.

An article in Nature Geoscience uses nitrogen isotope values as a proxy for the availability of lightning-fixed nitrogen over geological time.

Articles in PNAS and Nature Communications describe abiotic reactions that could have produced oxygen and methane on early Earth.

An article in Science Advances uses Si and O isotopes of Earth’s oldest rocks to identify the onset of crustal recycling, with potential implications for the onset of subduction-like tectonics.

An article in Global Change Biology quantifies the cooling effects from trees across 800 global cities.

An article in The Lancet quantifies changes in urban mortality with expanded green infrastructure.

An article in Sustainable Cities and Society finds that urban tree cover tends to lower surface temperatures across 44 cities in the USA, with an even larger magnitude of cooling in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

An article in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews highlights improvements in air quality and resulting reduced mortality across 30 metropolitan areas in the USA with widescale adoption of electric vehicles.

An article in Nature Sustainability shows where air pollution, and its associated health impacts, will be highest in year 2100 under a range of global change scenarios.