Communications Earth & Environment

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The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979	928
Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia	401
Perceived global increase in algal blooms is attributable to intensified monitoring and emerging bloom impacts	238
Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere	155
Contribution of climatic changes in mean and variability to monthly temperature and precipitation extremes	141
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints	129
Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness	119
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria	117
Country-based rate of emissions reductions should increase by 80% beyond nationally determined contributions to meet the 2 °C target	115
The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management	107
More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change	106
Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis	97
Microplastics distribution in the Eurasian Arctic is affected by Atlantic waters and Siberian rivers	87
Stop blaming the climate for disasters	85
An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes	82
Stratospheric drivers of extreme events at the Earth’s surface	73
Accelerating land cover change in West Africa over four decades as population pressure increased	73
Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China	69
Training machine learning models on climate model output yields skillful interpretable seasonal precipitation forecasts	67
Global patterns of nitrate isotope composition in rivers and adjacent aquifers reveal reactive nitrogen cascading	67
Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship	65
Success of coastal wetlands restoration is driven by sediment availability	64
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	64
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas	64
Global urban growth between 1870 and 2100 from integrated high resolution mapped data and urban dynamic modeling	63

Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf	62
Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula	62
A multi-model assessment of the Global Warming Potential of hydrogen	59
Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes	59
An integrated approach to quantifying uncertainties in the remaining carbon budget	58
Transformation of abundant magnesium silicate minerals for enhanced CO2 sequestration	58
Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario	57
Carboxyl-richness controls organic carbon preservation during coprecipitation with iron (oxyhydr)oxides in the natural environment	57
Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea	57
Distinct influences of large-scale circulation and regional feedbacks in two exceptional 2019 European heatwaves	56
Ice dynamics will remain a primary driver of Greenland ice sheet mass loss over the next century	56
Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales	54
The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 2022	53
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production	52
Mineral-enriched biochar delivers enhanced nutrient recovery and carbon dioxide removal	51
Extent of impact of deep-sea nodule mining midwater plumes is influenced by sediment loading, turbulence and thresholds	50
Probabilistic projections of increased heat stress driven by climate change	50
Assessing seafood nutritional diversity together with climate impacts informs more comprehensive dietary advice	50
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry reveals widespread soil phosphorus limitation to microbial metabolism across Chinese forests	50
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state	50
Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts	49
Soil texture and environmental conditions influence the biogeochemical responses of soils to drought and flooding	49
Projections of salt intrusion in a mega-delta under climatic and anthropogenic stressors	47
The vulnerability of lakes to climate change along an altitudinal gradient	47
Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula	46
Advanced analysis of satellite data reveals ground deformation precursors to the Brumadinho Tailings Dam collapse	45
Towards a business case for CO2 mineralisation in the cement industry	44
Microplastics and nanoplastics barely enhance contaminant mobility in agricultural soils	44
Extended life cycle assessment reveals the spatially-explicit water scarcity footprint of a lithium-ion battery storage	43
An emission pathway classification reflecting the Paris Agreement climate objectives	43
Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption	43
Reductions in the deposition of sulfur and selenium to agricultural soils pose risk of future nutrient deficiencies	42
Northern hemisphere cold air outbreaks are more likely to be severe during weak polar vortex conditions	42
Climate benefit of a future hydrogen economy	41
Arctic open-water periods are projected to lengthen dramatically by 2100	39
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has been slowed by indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic	39
Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal	38
Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption	38
The other side of sea level change	38
Plastics can be used more sustainably in agriculture	38
Ocean warming and acidification uncouple calcification from calcifier biomass which accelerates coral reef decline	37
Accounting for tropical cyclones more than doubles the global population exposed to low-probability coastal flooding	37
Rock glaciers throughout the French Alps accelerated and destabilised since 1990 as air temperatures increased	37
Permafrost degradation increases risk and large future costs of infrastructure on the Third Pole	36
Future changes in the frequency of temperature extremes may be underestimated in tropical and subtropical regions	36
Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	36
Environmentally persistent free radicals are ubiquitous in wildfire charcoals and remain stable for years	36
Reduced resilience of terrestrial ecosystems locally is not reflected on a global scale	36
Chemical transport models often underestimate inorganic aerosol acidity in remote regions of the atmosphere	35
Runup of landslide-generated tsunamis controlled by paleogeography and sea-level change	35

Near-complete loss of fire-resistant primary tropical forest cover in Sumatra and Kalimantan	35
Observation-based selection of climate models projects Arctic ice-free summers around 2035	34
Ecological resilience of restored peatlands to climate change	34
Rupture of wet mantle wedge by self-promoting carbonation	34
Diverse climate actors show limited coordination in a large-scale text analysis of strategy documents	33
The season for large fires in Southern California is projected to lengthen in a changing climate	33
Thresholds in aridity and soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio govern the accumulation of soil microbial residues	33
Natural variability is a large source of uncertainty in future projections of hypoxia in the Baltic Sea	33
Rarest rainfall events will see the greatest relative increase in magnitude under future climate change	33
Offshore wind farms are projected to impact primary production and bottom water deoxygenation in the North Sea	33
A shift in the ocean circulation has warmed the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean since 2016	33
The mining industry as a net beneficiary of a global tax on carbon emissions	32
Patterns and frequency of projected future tropical cyclone genesis are governed by dynamic effects	32
Transport and coarsening of gold nanoparticles in an orogenic deposit by dissolution–reprecipitation and Ostwald ripening	32
Positive, global, and health or environment framing bolsters public support for climate policies	31
Geothermal energy as a means to decarbonize the energy mix of megacities	31
Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate	31
Sedimentation strategies provide effective but limited mitigation of relative sea-level rise in the Mekong delta	30
Decision support systems halve fungicide use compared to calendar-based strategies without increasing disease risk	30
A nutrient control on expanded anoxia and global cooling during the Late Ordovician mass extinction	30
Record high solar irradiance in Western Europe during first COVID-19 lockdown largely due to unusual weather	30
Long-term national climate strategies bet on forests and soils to reach net-zero	30
A severe landslide event in the Alpine foreland under possible future climate and land-use changes	30
An anomalous warm-season trans-Pacific atmospheric river linked to the 2021 western North America heatwave	29
Past climate conditions predict the influence of nitrogen enrichment on the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration	29
A case for transparent net-zero carbon targets	29
Reduced methane recovery at high pressure due to methane trapping in shale nanopores	29
Closure of the Proterozoic Mozambique Ocean was instigated by a late Tonian plate reorganization event	29
Carbon dioxide fluxes increase from day to night across European streams	29
Single extreme storm sequence can offset decades of shoreline retreat projected to result from sea-level rise	29
A big data approach to assess progress towards Sustainable Development Goals for cities of varying sizes	28
Global mining footprint mapped from high-resolution satellite imagery	28
Interannual oxygen isotope variability in Indian summer monsoon precipitation reflects changes in moisture sources	28
Exceptional warmth and climate instability occurred in the European Alps during the Last Interglacial period	28
Trans-lithospheric diapirism explains the presence of ultra-high pressure rocks in the European Variscides	28
Exceptional ground motion during the shallow Mw 4.9 2019 Le Teil earthquake, France	28
Bacteria-plant interactions synergistically enhance biodegradation of diesel fuel hydrocarbons	27
Sustainability of emerging energy and transportation technologies is impacted by the coexistence of minerals in nature	27
Amazon methane budget derived from multi-year airborne observations highlights regional variations in emissions	27
Absolute seasonal temperature estimates from clumped isotopes in bivalve shells suggest warm and variable greenhouse climate	27
Direct measurements of atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere using terahertz heterodyne spectroscopy	27
Responsibility of major emitters for country-level warming and extreme hot years	27
Landslide susceptibility modeling by interpretable neural network	27
Ryder Glacier in northwest Greenland is shielded from warm Atlantic water by a bathymetric sill	27
Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava–seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i	27
Environmental and health impacts of atmospheric CO2 removal by enhanced rock weathering depend on nations’ energy mix	26
A framework for quantifying hydrologic effects of soil structure across scales	26
An increase in food production in Europe could dramatically affect farmland biodiversity	26
Current extinction rate in European freshwater gastropods greatly exceeds that of the late Cretaceous mass extinction	26
Ubiquitous karst hydrological control on speleothem oxygen isotope variability in a global study	26
Creating measurement-based oil and gas sector methane inventories using source-resolved aerial surveys	26
Heavy metal concentrations in rice that meet safety standards can still pose a risk to human health	26
Arsenic mobilization by anaerobic iron-dependent methane oxidation	26
Eruption chronology of the December 2021 to January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption sequence	26
Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields	26
Weak orogenic lithosphere guides the pattern of plume-triggered supercontinent break-up	25
Final closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean basin in the early Triassic	25
Soil moisture−atmosphere feedbacks have triggered the shifts from drought to pluvial conditions since 1980	25
Planetary limits to soil degradation	25
Regional asymmetry in the response of global vegetation growth to springtime compound climate events	25
Projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate underestimate internal variability and associated uncertainty	25
Poirierite, a dense metastable polymorph of magnesium iron silicate in shocked meteorites	25
Conservation agriculture increases the soil resilience and cotton yield stability in climate extremes of the southeast US	25
Hydrological impact of widespread afforestation in Great Britain using a large ensemble of modelled scenarios	24
ENSO diversity shows robust decadal variations that must be captured for accurate future projections	24
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations	24
Global warming at near-constant tropospheric relative humidity is supported by observations	24
Modest flooding can trigger catastrophic road network collapse due to compound failure	24
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality	24
Airborne geophysical surveys of the lower Mississippi Valley demonstrate system-scale mapping of subsurface architecture	24
Horizontal circulation across density surfaces contributes substantially to the long-term mean northern Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	24
The conterminous United States are projected to become more prone to flash floods in a high-end emissions scenario	24
Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia	23
Vegetation and microbes interact to preserve carbon in many wooded peatlands	23
Accelerated sea ice loss in the Wandel Sea points to a change in the Arctic’s Last Ice Area	23
Shifts in flood generation processes exacerbate regional flood anomalies in Europe	23
Effects of natural and experimental drought on soil fungi and biogeochemistry in an Amazon rain forest	23
Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change	23
A chemical threshold controls nanocrystallization and degassing behaviour in basalt magmas	23
Feasibility of gasifying mixed plastic waste for hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage	23

Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble	23
Manure amendment can reduce rice yield loss under extreme temperatures	23
A globally robust relationship between water table decline, subsidence rate, and carbon release from peatlands	23
Mafic magma feeds degassing unrest at Vulcano Island, Italy	23
Photoacclimation by phytoplankton determines the distribution of global subsurface chlorophyll maxima in the ocean	23
Severe atmospheric pollution in the Middle East is attributable to anthropogenic sources	22
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production	22
Active microbial sulfate reduction in fluids of serpentinizing peridotites of the continental subsurface	22
Ice viscosity is more sensitive to stress than commonly assumed	22
Isotopic variability in tropical cyclone precipitation is controlled by Rayleigh distillation and cloud microphysics	22
Vegetation resilience does not increase consistently with greening in China’s Loess Plateau	22
Multidimensional economic complexity and inclusive green growth	22
Enhanced Arctic warming amplification revealed in a low-emission scenario	21
Global patterns and predictors of C:N:P in marine ecosystems	21
Growing prevalence of heat over cold extremes with overall milder extremes and multiple successive events	21
Climate delay discourses present in global mainstream television coverage of the IPCC’s 2021 report	21
Benchmarking satellite-derived shoreline mapping algorithms	21
Amplified warming from physiological responses to carbon dioxide reduces the potential of vegetation for climate change mitigation	21
The largest plagiogranite on Earth formed by re-melting of juvenile proto-continental crust	21
Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA	21
Country-level conditions like prosperity, democracy, and regulatory culture predict individual climate change belief	21
Soil organic carbon models need independent time-series validation for reliable prediction	21
Varying influence of phytoplankton biodiversity and stoichiometric plasticity on bulk particulate stoichiometry across ocean basins	21
Seismic evidence for a thermochemical mantle plume underplating the lithosphere of the Ontong Java Plateau	21
Poleward eddy-induced warm water transport across a shelf break off Totten Ice Shelf, East Antarctica	21
The relative role of the subsurface Southern Ocean in driving negative Antarctic Sea ice extent anomalies in 2016–2021	21
Summertime low clouds mediate the impact of the large-scale circulation on Arctic sea ice	21
Quaternary landscape dynamics boosted species dispersal across Southeast Asia	21
Process-oriented analysis of aircraft soot-cirrus interactions constrains the climate impact of aviation	21
Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s	21
Japanese carbon emissions patterns shifted following the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake	21
Substantial burial of terrestrial microplastics in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China	21
Trends in atmospheric methane concentrations since 1990 were driven and modified by anthropogenic emissions	20
Flood risk management through a resilience lens	20
Alpine rockwall erosion patterns follow elevation-dependent climate trajectories	20
Nature-based solutions in mountain catchments reduce impact of anthropogenic climate change on drought streamflow	20
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland	20
Wildfire aerosol deposition likely amplified a summertime Arctic phytoplankton bloom	20
Ground vibrations recorded by fiber-optic cables reveal traffic response to COVID-19 lockdown measures in Pasadena, California	20
Nontarget mass spectrometry and in silico molecular characterization of air pollution from the Indian subcontinent	20
The Toba supervolcano eruption caused severe tropical stratospheric ozone depletion	20
Recent marine heatwaves in the North Pacific warming pool can be attributed to rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases	20
The influence of emissions scenarios on future Antarctic ice loss is unlikely to emerge this century	20
Precession cycles of the El Niño/Southern oscillation-like system controlled by Pacific upper-ocean stratification	20
Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed	20
Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago	20
Onset and termination of Heinrich Stadial 4 and the underlying climate dynamics	19
Substantial increase in future fluvial flood risk projected in China’s major urban agglomerations	19
Influence and prediction value of Arctic sea ice for spring Eurasian extreme heat events	19
Multi-hazard risk to global port infrastructure and resulting trade and logistics losses	19
Climate targets in European timber-producing countries conflict with goals on forest ecosystem services and biodiversity	19
Non-growing season carbon emissions in a northern peatland are projected to increase under global warming	19
Intracellular nitrate storage by diatoms can be an important nitrogen pool in freshwater and marine ecosystems	19
Recycled calcium carbonate is an efficient oxidation agent under deep upper mantle conditions	19
Magmatic flare-up causes crustal thickening at the transition from subduction to continental collision	19
Sustained coral reef growth in the critical wave dissipation zone of a Maldivian atoll	19
Improved global wetland carbon isotopic signatures support post-2006 microbial methane emission increase	19
Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse	19
Direct measurements reveal instabilities and turbulence within large amplitude internal solitary waves beneath the ocean	19
Large diatom bloom off the Antarctic Peninsula during cool conditions associated with the 2015/2016 El Niño	18
Sedimentary DNA and molecular evidence for early human occupation of the Faroe Islands	18
A century of decoupling size and structure of urban spaces in the United States	18
Global coral reef ecosystems exhibit declining calcification and increasing primary productivity	18
Arrival and magnetization of carbonaceous chondrites in the asteroid belt before 4562 million years ago	18
High geothermal heat flow beneath Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica inferred from aeromagnetic data	18
Liquid-liquid phase separation reduces radiative absorption by aged black carbon aerosols	18
Seasonal sea ice persisted through the Holocene Thermal Maximum at 80°N	18
Massive earthquake swarm driven by magmatic intrusion at the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica	18
Improved dryland carbon flux predictions with explicit consideration of water-carbon coupling	18
Biological nitrous oxide consumption in oxygenated waters of the high latitude Atlantic Ocean	18
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk	18
Microbial necromass carbon and nitrogen persistence are decoupled in agricultural grassland soils	18
Mangrove forests can be an effective coastal defence in the Pearl River Delta, China	18
A low-cost post-processing technique improves weather forecasts around the world	18
An integrated framework of open-source tools for designing and evaluating green hydrogen production opportunities	18
The stop-start control of seismicity by fault bends along the Main Himalayan Thrust	18
Dominant role of vertical air flows in the unprecedented warming on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020	18
Fractional crystallization causes the iron isotope contrast between mid-ocean ridge basalts and abyssal peridotites	18
Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods	18
The hadal zone is an important and heterogeneous sink of black carbon in the ocean	17
Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kīlauea, Hawai’i	17
Future Antarctic snow accumulation trend is dominated by atmospheric synoptic-scale events	17
Terrestrial and marine influence on atmospheric bacterial diversity over the north Atlantic and Pacific Oceans	17
Observation-based trajectory of future sea level for the coastal United States tracks near high-end model projections	17
Aqueous alteration of the Vastitas Borealis Formation at the Tianwen-1 landing site	17
Nuclear Niño response observed in simulations of nuclear war scenarios	17
Impact glasses from Belize represent tektites from the Pleistocene Pantasma impact crater in Nicaragua	17
Highlighting altruism in geoscience careers aligns with diverse US student ideals better than emphasizing working outdoors	17
ChatClimate: Grounding conversational AI in climate science	17
Microbial iron cycling during palsa hillslope collapse promotes greenhouse gas emissions before complete permafrost thaw	17
Tailored pathways toward revived farmland biodiversity can inspire agroecological action and policy to transform agriculture	17
Mantle plume and rift-related volcanism during the evolution of the Rio Grande Rise	17
Statistically bias-corrected and downscaled climate models underestimate the adverse effects of extreme heat on U.S. maize yields	17
CO2 outgassing during collisional orogeny is facilitated by the generation of immiscible fluids	17
Oceanic phytoplankton are a potentially important source of benzenoids to the remote marine atmosphere	17