{"title":"Challenges and next steps in climate disaster communication","authors":"J. Brian Houston, Jennifer M. First","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02714-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02714-w","url":null,"abstract":"Communication is essential for keeping communities safe when climate disasters occur. Here, we explore how disaster communication informs protective actions and examine five challenges: false information, exhaustion from repeated disasters, unequal access to information, polarized climate attitudes and mental health.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"866-868"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667557","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":"Promoting effective and inclusive communication","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02729-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02729-3","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change communication shapes how societies perceive risks and respond to them. In this issue of Nature Climate Change we examine the evolving content and methods of climate communication, the challenges of urgency and injustice, and the strategies for building effective and inclusive communication channels.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"865-865"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02729-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667555","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}
{"title":"Challenges and next steps in climate disaster communication","authors":"J. Brian Houston, Jennifer M. First","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02714-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02714-w","url":null,"abstract":"Communication is essential for keeping communities safe when climate disasters occur. Here, we explore how disaster communication informs protective actions and examine five challenges: false information, exhaustion from repeated disasters, unequal access to information, polarized climate attitudes and mental health.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"866-868"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667553","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":"Social media and the changing landscape of climate change communication","authors":"Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02680-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02680-3","url":null,"abstract":"Social media have become central to climate change communication, shaping how information circulates, how publics engage and who participates. We synthesize research about the prevalence and dominant forms of climate-related content on social media, as well as the documented effects of social media on attitudes, knowledge and behaviour, which exist but are context dependent and vary with platform affordances, governance regimes and sociopolitical conditions. We also examine how social media reshape the broader landscape of climate change communication by enabling outreach and diverse voices, while fostering fragmentation, ideological bias and misinformation, as well as marginalizing traditional media. Finally, we identify key gaps, including restricted data access, limited cross-regional research, and the underrepresentation of non-Western contexts and region-specific platforms, and call for an expanded, reflexive research agenda in future work. Social media have become an important arena for climate change communication. This Review synthesizes climate-related content on social media, its effects on climate attitudes, knowledge and behaviour, and its role in reshaping the broader communication landscape.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"897-906"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667562","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":"Promoting effective and inclusive communication","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02729-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02729-3","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change communication shapes how societies perceive risks and respond to them. In this issue of Nature Climate Change we examine the evolving content and methods of climate communication, the challenges of urgency and injustice, and the strategies for building effective and inclusive communication channels.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"865-865"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02729-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667582","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}
{"title":"Social media and the changing landscape of climate change communication","authors":"Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02680-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02680-3","url":null,"abstract":"Social media have become central to climate change communication, shaping how information circulates, how publics engage and who participates. We synthesize research about the prevalence and dominant forms of climate-related content on social media, as well as the documented effects of social media on attitudes, knowledge and behaviour, which exist but are context dependent and vary with platform affordances, governance regimes and sociopolitical conditions. We also examine how social media reshape the broader landscape of climate change communication by enabling outreach and diverse voices, while fostering fragmentation, ideological bias and misinformation, as well as marginalizing traditional media. Finally, we identify key gaps, including restricted data access, limited cross-regional research, and the underrepresentation of non-Western contexts and region-specific platforms, and call for an expanded, reflexive research agenda in future work. Social media have become an important arena for climate change communication. This Review synthesizes climate-related content on social media, its effects on climate attitudes, knowledge and behaviour, and its role in reshaping the broader communication landscape.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"897-906"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667566","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":"Social influence shapes climate attitudes and action","authors":"Sam Hampton, Briony Latter, Lorraine Whitmarsh","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02711-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02711-z","url":null,"abstract":"Social influence, which refers to how individuals and groups shape others’ attitudes and actions, plays a central role in encouraging climate-related behaviours. Here we synthesize insights from climate communication, social psychology and behavioural science to organize current evidence on how influence operates in the context of climate action. We structure this synthesis around four interacting dimensions: who is influencing, where influence is directed, how it occurs and which behaviours are targeted. Across these dimensions, we highlight strengths and gaps in the evidence, including the roles of different actors, modes of influence, and audience characteristics. We identify key priorities for future research, particularly the need to better understand how these elements interact in real-world contexts to support sustained climate action. Individuals and groups shape others’ attitudes and actions through social influence. This Perspective articulates a research agenda of social influence for climate action, synthesizes existing evidence and highlights its practical relevance for designing effective behavioural interventions.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"889-896"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667578","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":"Local stories in climate change communication","authors":"Danyang Cheng","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02694-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02694-x","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change communication differs across regions, shaped by unique political, economic, social and environmental conditions. These influence how climate messages are framed, received and acted upon by the local public. To explore this diversity, Nature Climate Change spoke to globally distributed scholars for their perspectives on the communication patterns, challenges and priorities in their regions.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"872-876"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667568","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":"Local stories in climate change communication","authors":"Danyang Cheng","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02694-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02694-x","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change communication differs across regions, shaped by unique political, economic, social and environmental conditions. These influence how climate messages are framed, received and acted upon by the local public. To explore this diversity, Nature Climate Change spoke to globally distributed scholars for their perspectives on the communication patterns, challenges and priorities in their regions.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 8","pages":"872-876"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667563","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":"Connected cities build mobility resilience","authors":"Wei Zhai","doi":"10.1038/s41558-026-02722-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41558-026-02722-w","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional resilience planning for extreme weather focuses on reinforcing municipal boundaries and internal infrastructure. Now, a study demonstrates how a city’s socioeconomic and physical ties to external urban networks act as a critical catalyst for intra-city mobility resilience under extreme rainfall.","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"16 9","pages":"1012-1013"},"PeriodicalIF":26.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872207","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}