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People need to feel that climate change is affecting them now or that taking action is a patriotic act for their country to overcome apathy towards environmental efforts, a new global study published in Communications Psychology today (Wednesday 5 November).

Journal: Communications Psychology

5-Nov-2025

New modelling shows difficult future for the GBR under climate change

University of Queensland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The most sophisticated modelling to date forecasts that under the current global emissions pathway the Great Barrier Reef could lose most of its coral by the end of the century, but curbing climate change and strategic management will help coral resilience.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Reef Restoration and Adaption Program

5-Nov-2025

More polar ocean turbulence due to planetary warming

Institute for Basic Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists, from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea, presents new evidence that ocean turbulence and a process known as “horizontal stirring” will increase dramatically in the Arctic and Southern Oceans due to human-induced Global Warming and decreasing sea ice coverage.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: Institute for Basic Science

5-Nov-2025

The chilling effect of air pollution

University of Washington
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New University of Washington-led research attributes accelerated warming to reduced cloud reflectivity. As efforts to improve air quality have reduced pollution, clouds became less mirror-like, letting more solar radiation reach Earth and revealing the true impact of greenhouse gases.

Journal: Nature Communications

5-Nov-2025

Climate change and well-being: Science academies publish recommendations for G20 summit

Leopoldina
Reports and Proceedings

Ahead of the G20 summit in Johannesburg/South Africa, on 22 and 23 November 2025, the science academies of the G20 countries, including the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, have issued science-based recommendations developed in the Science20 process. The joint statement “Climate Change and Well-Being”, recommends measures to address the consequences of climate change and to adapt in the areas of health, ecology and technology.

5-Nov-2025

Predicted CO2 levels cause marked increase in forest temperatures

University of Plymouth
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by researchers from the UK, Ghana and the USA - and led by the University of Plymouth (UK) used thermal imaging technology and other sensors to measure the leaf temperatures found at CO₂ levels forecast to occur in 2050. It found that temperatures within the forest canopies rose by around 1.3°C as a direct consequence of increases in CO₂– from an average of 21.5°C under current conditions to 22.8°C at the predicted 2050 CO₂levels. They believe that as well as having a direct impact on leaf pore structure, it could impact trees’ ability to transmit water back into the environment, which would have a knock-on effect on the water cycle globally.

Journal: Global Change Biology
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council, Jabbs Foundation