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Latest Climate & Environment Breakthroughs

Climate science, carbon, ecosystems, and the planet's changing systems. Every Climate & Environment result in the index, each scored against work of its own kind and ranked by Frontier Score.

Every Climate & Environment breakthrough

Ranked by live Frontier Score. Search, filter by date, or sort by any pillar.

23 breakthroughs
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01
Climate & Environment· Notable
Regional climate risk assessment from climate models using probabilistic machine learning
E 85I 51N 85
76
02
Climate & Environment· Notable
Agricultural liming is a carbon sink in the Mississippi River Basin
E 92I 40N 79
72
03
Climate & Environment· Notable
The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases
E 89I 50N 69
69
04
Climate & Environment· Notable
Uneven attention to climate tipping points
E 89I 48N 68
68
05
Climate & Environment· Notable
Rewriting the history of the invasive spiny water flea in North America
E 94I 40N 69
68
06
Climate & Environment· Notable
Scale-dependent effects of species richness and asynchrony regulate the temporal stability of consumer-mediated nutrient dynamics
E 94I 37N 70
66
07
Climate & Environment· Notable
Evolution of flowering phenology over 44 years of climate change
E 94I 35N 70
65
08
Climate & Environment· Notable
Seasonally asymmetric warming reshapes grassland stability across timescales
E 94I 36N 69
65
09
Climate & Environment· Notable
Compound and heterogeneous relationships between climate extremes and global net migration
E 88I 41N 66
63
10
Climate & Environment· Notable
Divergence between physical and emotional heat resilience in Chinese cities
E 88I 36N 65
62
11
Climate & Environment· Notable
Increasing risk of vapor pressure deficit exceeding critical thresholds for tree growth
E 94I 35N 63
62
12
Climate & Environment· Notable
Public support for novel carbon removal hinges on procedural and distributive fairness
E 86I 38N 57
59
13
Climate & Environment· Major
Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils
E 92I 72N 54
51
14
Climate & Environment· Notable
Permafrost Thaw and Arctic Fires Shrink the Paris Carbon Budget
E 88I 48N 58
47
15
Climate & Environment· Notable
MethaneSAT Maps the World's Oil and Gas Methane Super-Emitters
E 86I 50N 51
46
16
Climate & Environment· Notable
Aurora: one foundation model for the whole Earth system
E 94I 89N 53
45
17
Climate & Environment· Notable
Secondary organic aerosol in urban China: A distinct chemical regime for air pollution studies
E 94I 70N 49
43
18
Climate & Environment· Notable
The Southern Ocean Surface Is Getting Saltier, and the Sea Ice Is Collapsing
E 96I 58N 52
41
19
Climate & Environment· Emerging
A Cloud-Feedback Constraint That Points Climate Sensitivity Higher
E 88I 3N 56
38
20
Climate & Environment· Emerging
A Deep-Ocean Fingerprint Says the AMOC Is Already Slowing
E 88I 41N 47
38
21
Climate & Environment· Emerging
Why 2023 and 2024 Ran Hotter Than the Models Expected
E 88I 58N 40
34
22
Climate & Environment· Emerging
Betting on Climate 'Overshoot' Is Riskier Than Models Imply
E 96I 75N 37
34
23
Climate & Environment· Emerging
Catching Enhanced Weathering Pull Down Carbon, in Real Time
E 86I 33N 38
31
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