Global Environmental Change

The climate change–armedconflict interaction creates a reinforcing cycle where conflict increases vulnerability to climate change, and climate change impacts increase the risk of armed conflict, locking communities in a cycle of violence, vulnerability and climate change. To help break the cycle, we propose a new framework that integrates climate change adaptation and peacebuilding concepts to bu…

• Small-scale forest loss and post-loss recovery from 2001 to 2021 were quantified in the Congo Basin. • The tracking of small-scale forest loss and post-loss recovery was enhanced by yearly maximal rNBR. • 76.5% of forest loss was small-scale clearing and 93.6% occurred within 4 km of human settlements. • Gross forest loss was 24.54 ± 1.70 Mha in Congo Basin and only 13.21% showed high-quality r…

• Intersectional climate litigation has been on the rise in the last five years. • Ontological tensions arise between plaintiffs and courts in climate litigation. • Intersectional plaintiffs mostly target states, on mitigation and adaptation issues. • A subnational court in Australia is redefining evidence in climate litigation. • Intersectional lived experiences of plaintiffs are dismissed in co…

• Artificial structures (AS) and natural reefs (NRs) have similar richness of invasives. • AS support significantly higher abundance of invasive species than NRs. • Inadequate study designs and scarce data create persistent knowledge gaps. • Anticipating invasions through planning and monitoring is the best strategy. Artificial structures, both coastal (e.g. piers, seawalls) and offshore (e.g. pl…

• Analysis of the potential and limitations of Living Labs in contributing to transformative change. • Featuring 10 Living Labs across diverse geographical settings, contexts, and key focus areas. • Living Labs foster shifts in views, support shifts in practices, but rarely shift structures. • Currently, Living Labs enable innovation but have limited ability to drive transformative change. • Inst…

• Integrating five dimensions of wildfire enables the delineation of pyro‑socioecological zones. • The pyro-socioecological zones show distinctive wildfire dynamics. • Global climatic drivers may obscure local wildfire mechanisms. • Understanding dominant wildfire drivers improve global fire management strategies. Tropical dry forests (TDFs) are among the most extensive and threatened ecosystems …