Categorie: Nature

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02455-2 Impacts from a climate event can cascade through natural, anthropogenic and socio-economic systems. Here the authors assess cascading climate impacts on the EU and identify intervention points for adaptation related to water, livelihoods, agriculture, infrastructure and economy, and violent conflict.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02462-3 Scenarios, generated by integrated assessment models in model intercomparison projects (MIPs), play a central role in climate decision-making. This Perspective discusses the challenges of the current approach and proposes a new MIP platform with a transparent and inclusive process.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02448-1 Glacier microclimates can decouple glacier temperatures from ongoing climatic warming, slowing down melting. However, these microclimates will decay as glaciers retreat. A statistical model indicates that by the latter half of the twenty-first century, the temperature of glaciers will be increasingly sensitive to fluctuations in atmospheric…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02461-4 Climate risk increasingly threatens World Heritage sites, yet its integration into conservation planning remains underexplored. By analysing 1,868 World Heritage documents, this study reveals regional disparities of climate awareness and highlights the gap between awareness and action.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02438-3 The rise of generative AI presents both risks and opportunities for shaping climate discourse. New findings suggest it can help lower climate scepticism and bolster support for climate action.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02424-9 Climate sceptics tend to avoid climate information, making it even harder to reduce scepticism. This study shows that generative AI can enhance sceptics’ engagement with climate news by tailoring headlines to their existing perspective and shift their beliefs towards the scientific consensus.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02449-0 It has been argued that air temperatures over mountain glaciers are decoupled from surrounding warming, which could slow down melting. Here the authors show that this effect will weaken with future glacier retreat, leading to a recoupling of temperatures from the 2030s onwards.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02457-0 Unclear emissions and ice-sheet processes drive uncertainties in future sea-level rise. The authors show that the timing of emissions reductions drives the uncertainties during the twenty-first century, but geophysical uncertainties become more important with time, especially under optimistic scenarios.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 01 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02463-2 Across five coastal regions over a four-year period, nearly 300,000 businesses invested a total of €8.7 billion in climate adaptation. An econometric analysis of these data shows that this private sector investment in adaptation modestly boosts regional economic performance, although the extent of the boost varies…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02427-6 River floods that occur simultaneously in multiple locations can lead to higher damages than individual events. Here, the authors show that the likelihood of concurrent high river discharge has increased over the last decades.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02442-7 Home to roughly a quarter of the world’s population, South Asia is a hotspot for global warming impacts. In this Viewpoint, nine researchers from South Asia discuss the progress made in understanding and responding to climate change in the region.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02421-y Reducing the wildfire risk of electric grids requires assessing and comparing various adaptation measures. A study shows that a grid technology innovation cuts the risk more cost-effectively than conventional approaches such as burying power lines.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02436-5 Extreme events are increasingly becoming severe risks to the electric grid, yet there is limited understanding of the cost-effectiveness of adaptation investments. This research demonstrates that dynamic grid management could reduce large capital spending and limit wildfire risks in the USA.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02444-5 Wildland fires in snow-dominated regions such as the Arctic can have profound effects on snowpack characteristics. Satellite observations reveal a delay in snow cover formation in the Arctic following major wildland fires. Machine learning and causal analyses suggest that this delay is linked to fire-induced reductions…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02418-7 Future exposure to coastal flooding in China is driven more by growing populations and economic activity rather than by rising seas and intensifying storm surges. Policymakers must anticipate these multiple risk drivers to better inform spatial planning and development strategies and to ensure effective, sustainable coastal…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02439-2 Coastal risk assessment under future climate change is important for effective adaptation, but multidimensional analyses are still rare. Here the researchers find that inappropriate development policies could have a greater effect on exposure to flooding than sea-level rise up to 2100 in China.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02429-4 Causal approaches employed at the scale of commercial agriculture are required to build high-quality evidence that climate-smart agricultural interventions result in real emissions reductions and removals. Such project-scale empirical data are additionally required to demonstrate and advance the viability of process-based models and digital measurement, reporting…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02443-6 Wildland fires are becoming more frequent in high-latitude regions. Here the authors show that these fires delay the formation of snow cover in the Arctic, which will be exacerbated under future warming due to increases in burned areas.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02409-8 Natural disturbances, such as windthrows, pest outbreaks and wildfires, pose a major economic threat for the forestry sector. By coupling spatially explicit ecological and economic forest models, this study assesses the costs of natural disturbances under current and future climate conditions for all of Europe.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02435-6 Coastal settlement retreat reflects human behavioural adaptation to increasing coastal climate hazards. Using night-time light data over 1992–2019, this study finds that over half of global coastal settlements have retreated, driven by insufficient infrastructure protection and adaptive capacity.