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Announcing Nature Climate Change

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) will launch a new primary research journal, Nature Climate Change, in October 2009.

Climate change is one of the key issues of the twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change will bring together scientific observation and models with work reporting on our understanding of how human society affects climate change, and vice versa. The journal’s coverage will extend into socio-economic research as well as the natural sciences, with the aim of putting the research it publishes into a wider scientific, economic and political context.

Like its sister titles, Nature Climate Change will seek to publish the best research from around the world and will have a strong online component. The journal will provide in-depth coverage of all aspects of the Earth’s changing climate, including studies of the impacts of climate change as well as climate change itself.

Publishing Director David Swinbanks said that the journal “will for the first time extend the reach of a Nature-branded journal into the social as well as natural sciences and provide authoritative, much needed, information on climate change to a broad public audience as well as to the many research communities studying climate change and its impact".

Nature Climate Change will be the newest journal in physical-sciences titles launched by NPG over the past five years. Nature Geoscience, which launched in January 2008, covers the entire spectrum of the Earth Sciences, and will continue to include research on understanding the complex scientific mechanisms behind a planet’s changing climate.

The Nature physical-science journals, like their sister titles in life sciences and medicine, provide a home for high quality research and commentary, many in fast-growing fields such as climate change and nanotechnology.

NPG is currently recruiting for a Chief Editor for Nature Climate Change and will announce further information about the journal before the end of the year.

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