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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Author Correction: Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02524-6
Author Correction: Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recurMicroclimates slow and alter the direction of climate velocities in tropical forests
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02496-7
The authors model near-ground and within-canopy microclimates in a tropical montane rainforest. They show that short-distance shifts towards dense vegetation or vertically downwards in canopies reduce velocities, highlighting that structurally complex ecosystems may provide short-term climate refuges.Widespread revisions of self-reported emissions by major US corporations
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02494-9
Self-reported emissions data are widely used to evaluate corporations’ climate performance, yet concerns exist regarding their credibility. By examining major US companies, researchers find that more than half of them revise, and mainly understate, their emissions data after first report.Funding agencies to drive future climate change research
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02501-z
Research on climate change requires continued support from funding agencies. Nature Climate Change spoke to experts from different organizations across the world to discuss how funding agencies can better promote future climate research and actions regarding interdisciplinary studies, international collaborations, supporting young scholars and more.Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02506-8
Adaptation to climate change goes beyond the migration–non-migration divide. Families and communities combine mobility with rootedness, drawing on cultural ties, intergenerational learning, and lived knowledge to navigate risks and shape long-term futures.Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02484-x
It is important to understand the combined effects of multiple changes on the ocean. Here the authors use time of emergence to highlight the increases in impacts of individual and compound changes globally from the surface to the deeper ocean, identifying areas most affected.A research agenda advancing climate change and antimicrobial resistance as interconnected issues
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02507-7
Interactions between climate change and antimicrobial resistance across terrestrial, aquatic and health systems reveal shared drivers, synergies and trade-offs that shape health and environmental outcomes. This Comment outlines a solutions-oriented research agenda to advance evidence and action that addresses climate change and antimicrobial resistance as interconnected issues.Increased efficiency of water use does not stimulate tree productivity
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02504-w
The authors theoretically delineate the maximal increases in tree growth that can be expected from increases in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency, which increases with rising CO2. They highlight environmental and physiological limits on growth in the context of experimental data.Warming increases the phenological mismatch between carbon sources and sinks in conifers
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02474-z
Measurements of carbon fluxes and wood phenology are used to assess carbon sources from photosynthesis and their sink into woody growth along a thermal gradient. The authors show that stem growth advances slower than photosynthesis per degree Celsius, creating a phenological mismatch for carbon.Global bias towards recording latitudinal range shifts
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02498-5
The authors consider studies reporting species range shifts and demonstrate a geometric bias in sampling along latitudinal, rather than longitudinal, gradients. This bias may favour the corroboration of shift expectations with warming and mask other patterns and drivers of species movements.Global warming intensifies extreme day-to-day temperature changes in mid–low latitudes
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02486-9
Climate change is expected to lead to higher day-to-day temperature variability in mid- to low latitudes. Here the authors show that extreme day-to-day temperature changes have distinct impacts on human health and become more frequent and intense in mid- to low latitudes with climate change.Misalignment between objective and perceived heat risks
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02505-9
Objective assessments indicate that extreme heat is increasing health risks; however, many of the most exposed populations do not perceive extreme heat as risky. This misperception may undermine public awareness of the need for effective cooling strategies, leaving a dangerous blind spot in adaptation and protection.Gene flow between mountainous birds buffers climate change risk
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 18 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02500-0
Climate change threatens biodiversity, but the transfer of genes between species via hybridization can enhance climate resilience. This research demonstrates that hybrid mountain birds show reduced climate vulnerability, highlighting how maintaining natural gene flow can mitigate extinction risks and is crucial for conserving species with narrow environmental tolerances.Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 18 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02480-1
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. They project tens of thousands of excess deaths, with limited attenuation from existing adaptations.Author Correction: The carbon hoofprint of cities is shaped by geography and production in the livestock supply chain
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02509-5
Author Correction: The carbon hoofprint of cities is shaped by geography and production in the livestock supply chainSouthward shift of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current upstream of Drake Passage maintains a stable circumpolar transport
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02478-9
Climate change is altering the strength and position of Southern Ocean westerly winds but the ocean transport is stable. Here the authors use sea surface height to show that a poleward shift of the northern boundary and changing dynamics maintain the circumpolar transport.Hidden deep soil moisture droughts
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02493-w
Anthropogenic climate change is exacerbating soil moisture droughts globally, but most studies only consider surface layers. Now, a study reveals that global soil moisture droughts are often also found in deeper layers, and that in a warming climate deep soil moisture droughts are projected to become longer lasting and more severe.Why longer seasons with climate change may not increase tree growth
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02476-x
In this Progress Article, the authors discuss why longer growing seasons under climate change may or may not increase tree growth. They highlight differences across fields, as well as research gaps, and propose three major open questions to guide future research.Anthropogenic enhancement of subsurface soil moisture droughts
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02458-z
How the conditions in soil layers below the surface change is not well understood. Here the authors assess changes in subsurface soil moisture, finding that these droughts also become more persistent and intense than surface droughts.Warming overpowers low-frequency North Pacific climate variability
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02495-8
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation describes the most important pattern of low-frequency climate variability in the North Pacific. An analysis of sea surface temperatures reveals that, since 2014, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation’s influence has been superseded by that of basin-wide warming, producing novel expressions of ocean variability and unexpected ecological impacts.