Communications Earth & Environment

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Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	2330
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	259
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	243
Author Correction: Field in the frame: flying over the Ocean	219
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography	212
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	211
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	183
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	167
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	162
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	149
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China	143
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation	141
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	140
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	132
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	125
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	120
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow	119
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	119
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes	111
Andean volcanism, ocean fertilization, marine ecosystem turnover, and global cooling in the Late Miocene	109
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	108
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	106
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	106
High-resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains	104
Author Correction: The source processes affect the initial chalcophile element fertility of arc magmas	103

Field in the frame: fossilised Ediacaran faunal diversity	102
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	101
Intensified annual cycle of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature regulates Pacific cooling	98
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	97
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	97
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	95
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	93
Controls of root-system overlap on hillslope stability	92
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate	90
Tidewater glacier fronts are an important foraging ground for an Arctic marine predator	89
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	87
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	87
Global mapping of potential coastal compound flood risk at 0.1∘ resolution	85
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands	85
Heatwave-attributable Parkinson’s mortality is projected to increase by the 2080s in China under a high-emissions scenario	84
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	84
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	84
Pre- and co-seismic stress loading promoted low-angle splay fault during the 2025 Mw7.1 Tingri earthquake	84
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China	83
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific	82
Field in the frame: seals as meltwater monitors	79
Bedrock-soil geochemistry dominates free-living nitrogen fixation in soils but not in litter via interspecific microbial associations	79
Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition	78
Global synthesis reveals how initial concentrations, metal types, and acidity control woody plant phytoremediation efficacy	78
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems	77
Sustainably intensified fresh-market vegetable production with compact bed plasticulture	75
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	75
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation	74
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production	74
Short-term recovery of inland and marine environments after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna flood	73
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	73
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality	72
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	72
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	71
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	71
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	70
Vertical transitions of marine heatwaves influenced by seasonally varying atmospheric forcing and coastal upwelling system	70
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting	70
Untapped mineral potential in Nevada heap-leach facilities supports pathways to strengthen United States resource security	69
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	69
Rapid revegetation after the Wenchuan earthquake offsets landslide-induced carbon losses	69
Air and soil warming have different effects on soil organic carbon storage	68
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	67
Distinct stadial-interstadial amplitudes of Asian monsoon water isotopes during the last deglaciation	66
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment	63
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	63
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	63
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	63
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	63
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability	62

Thermodynamic insights into the reliability of mineral-based thermobarometers	62
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach	62
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence	61
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining	61
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	61
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests	60
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals	59
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	59
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage	59
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability	58
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture	58
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden	57
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping	57
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	57
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2023	56
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks	56
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland	56
Contrasting evolution of the Arabian Sea and Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones during the Miocene	56
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth	56
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column	56
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene	56
A hydrologically informed agricultural land use intensity index for assessing ecological impacts on streams and rivers	56
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea	56
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy	55
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming	55
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster	55
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency	55
European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change	55
Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen	54
Precious metal enrichment during impacts on the Moon	53
Slope lineae as potential indicators of recent volatile loss on Mercury	52
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years	52
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status	52
Trace americium contamination sources in the environment can be detected using 243Am/241Am	52
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs	52
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific	51
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean	51
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants	51
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes	51
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation	51
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	50
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi	50
Target methane	50
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap	50
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks	49
Blue carbon sequestration and storage potential has increased in seagrass sediments from Northern Morocco	49
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt	49
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment	49
Nature-based solutions can mitigate climate and human-induced threats to alpine aquatic ecosystems	49
Macroalgal community transformation during successive marine heatwaves in southern California kelp forests	49
Aperture and roughness govern iron oxide passivation in olivine fractures during carbon mineralization	49
Atmospheric rivers as mediators between climate teleconnections and burned area variability in North America	48
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm	48
A market-based insurance approach aligns environmental and economic outcomes in maize nitrogen management	47
Author Correction: Tremor signals reveal the structure and dynamics of the Oldoinyo Lengai magmatic plumbing system	47
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene	47
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe	47
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	47
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic	47
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum	47
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns	46
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions	46
Timing of a future glaciation in view of anthropogenic climate change	46
Rainfall amplified sea-level control on silicate weathering in the Indo-Pacific Convergence Zone during Quaternary glacials	46
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils	46
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes	46
Fiber-optic observations capture wind wave evolution in Lake Ontario	46
Marine heatwaves are shaping the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the global ocean	46
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva	46
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins	45
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary	45
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity	45
Diverse greenhouse farming systems underpin high land‑use efficiency and food security in China	45
Inorganic carbon fixation by deep prokaryotes as an unaccounted-for CO2 sink in Antarctic waters	44
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk	44
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge	44
Sahara greening may have diminished mid-Holocene Atlantic tropical cyclones	44
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time	43
Coupled permeability–thermal conductivity framework for global reservoir suitability assessment of carbon dioxide hydrate-based carbon sequestration	43
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India	43

Land aridification persists in vulnerable drylands under climate mitigation scenarios	43
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 2021	43
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes	43
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades	42
Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau	42
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves	42
Scalable flood-risk analysis for New York State culvert infrastructure reveals patterns of dependence	42
Drivers of the summer 2024 marine heatwave and record salmon lice outbreak in northern Norway	41
Irrigation cooling effect reduced by water-saving practices	41
Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China	41
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice	41
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga	41
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte	40
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change	40
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations	40
Marine darkwave as an event-based framework to assess unusual periods of reduced underwater light availability	40
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review	40
Sustainable aviation for a greener future	40
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice	40
Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea	40
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta	40
Fire risk mitigation underpins durable Nature-based Climate Solutions in the Amazon	40
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures	40
Mass flowering of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica after 2022 record-breaking marine heatwaves, a Pan-Mediterranean study	40
Tropical Indian Ocean forcing on North American terrestrial and agricultural productivity decline under greenhouse warming	39
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea	39
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities	39
Synergistic effect of abalone and macroalgae on carbon storage in a co-culture ecosystem	39
Abundant surface resins present on Middle Devonian land plants	39
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau	39
Redox evolutions of planetary mantle reservoirs constrained by titanium isotopes	39
Forced changes in Atlantic overturning are distinctly fingerprinted by South Atlantic western boundary transports	39
End-of-century Arctic Ocean phytoplankton blooms start a month earlier due to anthropogenic climate change	39
The impact of polar lows on the underlying ocean varies significantly by location	38
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event	38
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline	38
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core	38
Dormant microbes dominate soils across China and are regulated by water and resource availability	38
Fault-controlled magma pathways driving seismicity and eruption risk in Eastern Turkey	38
Warming overwhelms CO2-driven drought mitigation in alpine vegetation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	38
Arctic sea-ice ridges are biomass hotspots harboring diverse microbial communities	38
Root uptake dominates mercury accumulation in permafrost plants of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	37
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK	37
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America	37
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	37
Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China	37
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	37
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion	37
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation	37
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity	37
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming	37
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain	37
Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans	36
Atmospheric rivers emerge as future freshwater reserves and heat stocks	36
A framework to assess permafrost thaw threat for land transportation infrastructure in northern Canada	36
Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore	36
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity	36
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline	36
Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization	36
Ice-marginal proglacial lakes enhance outlet glacier velocities across Greenland	36
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems	36
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps	36
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon	36
Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests	36
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes	36
Detrital zircon–apatite fingerprinting challenges glacial transport of Stonehenge’s megaliths	35
Extreme heat and humidity reduce the recreational value of urban green spaces	35
Accumulation of rare earth elements in common vine leaves is achieved through extraction from soil and transport in the xylem sap	35
Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration	35
Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface	35
Climate-driven transition in microbial deterioration and protection of stone surfaces at cultural heritage sites	35
National-scale datasets underestimate vegetation recovery in Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon sequestration projects	35
River-lake ecosystems exhibit a strong seasonal cycle of greenhouse gas emissions	35
Sub-millimeter molybdenum and uranium isotopes track millennial redox events in the Cambrian ocean	34
The role of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation for millennial-scale climate variability during the penultimate glacial	34
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea	34
A lingering legacy of leaded gasoline in Southeast Asia	34
Deep learning-based forecasting provides a pathway to closing wildfire information gaps in underserved regions	34
Arctic sea ice decline, increasing successive sudden stratospheric warmings and cold northern hemisphere continents	34
Compound atmospheric and soil droughts amplify the global loss of vegetation productivity	34
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda	34
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade	34
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States	34
Overlooked ammonium assimilation during sulfur autotrophic dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium	34
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh	34
Stand structure of tropical forests is strongly associated with primary productivity	33
Atmospheric river activity during the late Holocene exceeds modern range of variability in California	33
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems	33
Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments	33
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 2023	33
Far-reaching effects of Tibetan warming amplification on polar sea‑ice retreat	33
A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event	33
Subsurface Archaea associated with rapid geobiological change in a model Yellowstone hot spring	33
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state	33
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide	33