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Detecting famine from space

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 31 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0748-6 Detecting famine from space

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Bats seek cold roosts

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 31 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0750-z Bats seek cold roosts

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Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 31 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0738-8 In order to limit warming and the most severe consequences of climate change, net global carbon emissions must reach zero by 2050. Many ecosystems contain carbon that would be irrecoverable on this timescale if lost and must be protected to meet climate goals.

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A Climate Fluctuation That Could Improve Forecasts Remains a Mystery

The unknown influence of climate change has thrown a wrench into efforts to understand the Madden-Julian Oscillation

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Methane-eating microbes

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0736-x Future Arctic methane emissions depend partly on interactions between soil carbon released during permafrost thaw and microbial physiology. Now, a model shows potential increased methane produced from thawing permafrost carbon could be offset by increased consumption by upland methanotrophs.

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Reduced net methane emissions due to microbial methane oxidation in a warmer Arctic

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0734-z Models overestimate Arctic methane emissions compared to observations. Incorporating microbial dynamics into biogeochemistry models helps reconcile this discrepancy; high-affinity methanotrophs are an important part of the Arctic methane budget and double previous estimates of methane sinks.

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Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0731-2 Climate change detection is confounded by internal variability, but recent initial-condition large ensembles (LEs) have begun addressing this issue. This Perspective discusses the value of multi-model LEs, the challenges of providing them and their role in future climate change research.

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