China > Sinking Cities (UEA Story on Paywalled Science Paper):

UEA News: A third of China’s urban population at risk of city sinking, new satellite data shows

Science (Paywall): A national-scale assessment of land subsidence in China’s major cities

Science Perspective (Paywall): Earth’s sinking surface; China’s major cities show considerable subsidence from human activities

US > Identity Fusion (Royal Society):

Why care for humanity?

Antarctic Sea-Ice Dynamics (Nature):

Last Interglacial subsurface warming on the Antarctic shelf triggered by reduced deep-ocean convection

Risks To Critical Infrastructure (One Earth):

Infrastructure failure cascades quintuple risk of storm & flood-induced service disruptions across the globe

Human Displacement & Migration (One Earth):

Research priorities for climate mobility

East Africa > Soda Lakes & Flamingos At Risk (Current Biology):

Productivity declines threaten East African soda lakes & the iconic Lesser Flamingo

Global Record Warmth & Extreme Events (Adv. Atmos. Sci.)

2023: Weather & Climate Extremes Hitting the Globe with Emerging Features

European Bison = Ecological Restoration (Forest Ecology & Mgmt):

European bison (Bison bonasus) increase plant species richness in forest habitats

San Francisco Bay > Marsh Restoration (Nature):

The value of marsh restoration for flood risk reduction in an urban estuary

European Forest Diversity (Global Change Biology):

‘How to adapt forests?’—Exploring the role of leaf trait diversity for long-term forest biomass under new climate normals

New England > Forest Composition & Conservation (Ecology & Evolution):

Frequent & strong cold-air pooling drives temperate forest composition

Global Lake Health (Earth's Future):

Global Lake Health in the Anthropocene: Societal Implications & Treatment Strategies

Amazon Fire Crises (Nature):

Emergency policies are not enough to resolve Amazonia’s fire crises

Sweden > Warming Boreal Forests (Nature):

Restricted plant diversity limits carbon recapture after wildfire in warming boreal forests

Southern Ocean Carbon Fixation & Macroalgae (Nature):

Deep-living & diverse Antarctic seaweeds as potentially important contributors to global carbon fixation

West Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss (Science):

Antarctic Slope Undercurrent & onshore heat transport driven by ice shelf melting

Antarctic Desert Ecosystems (Conservation Biology):

Effects of increasing soil moisture on Antarctic desert microbial ecosystems

Tundra Carbon Stock (Nature):

Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra

Tracking Global Mitigation Efforts (Nature):

Revisiting Copenhagen climate mitigation targets

Impact of Lawsuits (Nature News Explainer):

Do climate lawsuits lead to action? Researchers assess their impact; Litigation can lead governments to strengthen their climate policies & curb companies’ greenwashing, say scientists.

Europe's Plant Communities (Global Change Biology):

Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, & grasslands

Antarctic Sea Ice (Nature):

Weakened western Indian Ocean dominance on Antarctic sea ice variability in a changing climate

Global Economic Damages (Nature):

Climate damage projections beyond annual temperature

Los Angeles > Flood Exposure Inequality (Multidiscip. J. Civ. Eng.):

Quantifying Social Inequalities in Flood Risk

Canada > Oil Sands & Greenwashing (ERSS):

Greenwashing, net-zero, & the oil sands in Canada: The case of Pathways Alliance

Global Emissions & Temp Probabilities (Climate Risk Mgmt):

Literature-informed likelihoods of future emissions & temperatures

New Book (Princeton U Press):

Long Problems: Climate Change & the Challenge of Governing across Time

Sea-Level Rise & Infrastructure (Annual Review Of Marine Science):

Hidden Threat: The Influence of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater & the Convergence of Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure

China > Soil CO2 Emissions (Nature):

Soil respiration & its response to climate change & anthropogenic factors in a karst plateau wetland, southwest China

Brazil > Forest Restoration & Role Of Birds In Seed Dispersal (Nature):

Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes

Atlantic Hurricane Dynamics (GRL):

The Influence of Climate Variability & Future Climate Change on Atlantic Hurricane Season Length