{"title":"The impact of Antarctic ice-shelf cavities on Earth system dynamics","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02307-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02307-z","url":null,"abstract":"An Earth system model including Antarctic ice-shelf cavities is used to explore the response and feedback of Antarctic basal melt in various climate scenarios. The inclusion of ice-shelf cavities provides more comprehensive insight into Southern Ocean dynamics and could improve future climate models.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":30.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143836967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingwen Liu, Blesson M. Varghese, Alana Hansen, Keith Dear, Geoffrey Morgan, Timothy Driscoll, Ying Zhang, Vanessa Prescott, Vergil Dolar, Michelle Gourley, Anthony Capon, Peng Bi
{"title":"Increasing burden of poor mental health attributable to high temperature in Australia","authors":"Jingwen Liu, Blesson M. Varghese, Alana Hansen, Keith Dear, Geoffrey Morgan, Timothy Driscoll, Ying Zhang, Vanessa Prescott, Vergil Dolar, Michelle Gourley, Anthony Capon, Peng Bi","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02309-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02309-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-temperature exposure has important implications for mental and behavioural disorders (MBDs), which could lead to increased risks under climate change. However, knowledge gaps exist in quantifying the attributable burden. Here we assessed the burden of MBDs attributable to temperatures above the location-specific thresholds from 2003 to 2018 using disability-adjusted life years and projected future burdens under the climate scenarios representative concentration pathways RCP 4.5 and 8.5 across Australia, considering various climatic, demographic and adaptation scenarios. We show that high temperatures contributed to an annual loss of 8,458 disability-adjusted life years, representing 1.8% of total MBD burden in Australia. Our findings project a consistent upward trend in the high-temperature-attributable burden of MBDs over time. Specifically, this burden is expected to increase by 11.0–17.2% in the 2030s and by 27.5–48.9% in the 2050s compared to the baseline. Our study underscores the need for both adaptation and mitigation strategies to counteract the adverse effects of warming climate on mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":30.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143827217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zunchi Liu, Philippe Ciais, Josep Peñuelas, Jianyang Xia, Sha Zhou, Yao Zhang, Yongshuo H. Fu
{"title":"Enhanced vegetation productivity driven primarily by rate not duration of carbon uptake","authors":"Zunchi Liu, Philippe Ciais, Josep Peñuelas, Jianyang Xia, Sha Zhou, Yao Zhang, Yongshuo H. Fu","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02311-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02311-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change is altering both the duration and the rate of carbon uptake in plants, thereby affecting terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP). However, little is known about the relative strengths of these processes or underlying mechanisms. Here, using satellite and carbon-flux data, we show that the duration and mean daily rate of carbon uptake (GPP<sub>rate</sub>) have both increased in recent decades, enhancing total GPP with a rate of ~0.56% per year during the growing season across the Northern Hemisphere. Notably, the mean daily GPP<sub>rate</sub>, driven primarily by rising CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations and temperatures, contributed ~65% to the changes in total GPP during the growing season over time, with higher contributions in early season (~83%) compared with late season (~55%). These findings highlight the importance of vegetation physiology in driving temporal changes in terrestrial GPP and suggest that the asymmetric changes in productivity across seasons will exacerbate under ongoing climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"377 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":30.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Iestyn Woolway, Miraj B. Kayastha, Yan Tong, Lian Feng, Haoran Shi, Pengfei Xue
{"title":"Subsurface heatwaves in lakes","authors":"R. Iestyn Woolway, Miraj B. Kayastha, Yan Tong, Lian Feng, Haoran Shi, Pengfei Xue","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02314-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02314-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lake heatwaves (extreme hot water events) can substantially disrupt aquatic ecosystems. Although surface heatwaves are well studied, their vertical structures within lakes remain largely unexplored. Here we analyse the characteristics of subsurface lake heatwaves (extreme hot events occurring below the surface) using a spatiotemporal modelling framework. Our findings reveal that subsurface heatwaves are frequent, often longer lasting but less intense than surface events. Deep-water heatwaves (bottom heatwaves) have increased in frequency (7.2 days decade<sup>−1</sup>), duration (2.1 days decade<sup>−1</sup>) and intensity (0.2 °C days decade<sup>−1</sup>) over the past 40 years. Moreover, vertically compounding heatwaves, where extreme heat occurs simultaneously at the surface and bottom, have risen by 3.3 days decade<sup>−1</sup>. By the end of the century, changes in heatwave patterns, particularly under high emissions, are projected to intensify. These findings highlight the need for subsurface monitoring to fully understand and predict the ecological impacts of lake heatwaves.</p>","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":30.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pengyang Song, Patrick Scholz, Gregor Knorr, Dmitry Sidorenko, Ralph Timmermann, Gerrit Lohmann
{"title":"Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection","authors":"Pengyang Song, Patrick Scholz, Gregor Knorr, Dmitry Sidorenko, Ralph Timmermann, Gerrit Lohmann","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02306-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02306-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Antarctic basal melt is crucial for the future evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet and ocean circulation. However, few Earth system models explicitly simulate ice-shelf cavities. Here, using an Earth system model with interactive Antarctic ice-shelf cavities, we show that regional hydrography and topography determine a cavity tipping point. The Filchner–Ronne ice-shelf cavity will encounter such a tipping point with abrupt warm-water intrusion, rapid basal melt increase and massive freshwater release in response to increasing CO<sub>2</sub> levels within this century. Conversely, the Ross Ice Shelf shows a more gradual response. Our results also suggest that previous ice-sheet modelling overestimated future ice-shelf melt, highlighting the need for comprehensive Earth system models with interactive ice-sheet dynamics and cavities for better climate projections.</p>","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":30.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decarbonization can improve energy security","authors":"Constantine Samaras","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02317-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02317-x","url":null,"abstract":"Moving towards net-zero carbon emissions reduces reliance on fossil fuels but requires geographically concentrated materials for clean energy technologies. Now research finds countries can reduce emerging materials risks by expanding trading partnerships.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":30.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143805826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Hongyan Zhao, Ruochong Xu, Yue Qin, Qiang Zhang, Karan Bhuwalka, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis
{"title":"Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios","authors":"Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Hongyan Zhao, Ruochong Xu, Yue Qin, Qiang Zhang, Karan Bhuwalka, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02305-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02305-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Secure access to energy services is a prerequisite to economic productivity and a chief strategic concern of national governments, yet it is unclear how the trade in fuels and critical materials in scenarios with net-zero emissions relates to energy security risks. Here we find that overall trade risks decrease in most countries (70%) in net-zero scenarios due to reduced reliance on imported fossil fuels, but trade risks to either electricity or transportation systems increase in the majority (82%) of countries that become more dependent on imported materials. Countries with abundant mineral reserves (for example, Australia and China) become much less dependent on imports, but the opposite is true of countries with large fossil fuel reserves (for example, Russia and the Middle East). We further evaluate the sensitivity of countries’ trade risks to differences in trading networks, energy systems, the material intensities of technologies and recycling rates, highlighting opportunities for technological innovation and policy changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":30.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143805827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data under duress","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02323-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-025-02323-z","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change and climate action are socially and politically divisive topics in many countries. In addition to contributing to political disparity, climate research is also affected by political context, with consequences not only for scientists but for society as well.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"15 4","pages":"337-337"},"PeriodicalIF":29.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02323-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}