Communications Earth & Environment

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The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979	333
Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia	262
Perceived global increase in algal blooms is attributable to intensified monitoring and emerging bloom impacts	157
Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat	128
The 2019/20 Australian wildfires generated a persistent smoke-charged vortex rising up to 35 km altitude	126
Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere	100
Contribution of climatic changes in mean and variability to monthly temperature and precipitation extremes	90
Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production	89
Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch	85
Country-based rate of emissions reductions should increase by 80% beyond nationally determined contributions to meet the 2 °C target	84
Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites	79
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints	77
Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness	73
More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change	60
Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization	55
Microplastics distribution in the Eurasian Arctic is affected by Atlantic waters and Siberian rivers	54
Successful ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill should address uncertainties in krill recruitment, behaviour and ecological adaptation	53
Stratospheric drivers of extreme events at the Earth’s surface	53
Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis	53
Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship	49
An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes	48
Stop blaming the climate for disasters	47
Surface rupture and shallow fault reactivation during the 2019 Mw 4.9 Le Teil earthquake, France	46
Accelerating land cover change in West Africa over four decades as population pressure increased	43
Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf	43

Global patterns of nitrate isotope composition in rivers and adjacent aquifers reveal reactive nitrogen cascading	42
An integrated approach to quantifying uncertainties in the remaining carbon budget	41
Success of coastal wetlands restoration is driven by sediment availability	41
Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea	41
The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management	38
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	38
Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China	37
Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales	37
Distinct influences of large-scale circulation and regional feedbacks in two exceptional 2019 European heatwaves	36
Training machine learning models on climate model output yields skillful interpretable seasonal precipitation forecasts	36
Increase in sea level variability with ocean warming associated with the nonlinear thermal expansion of seawater	35
Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts	35
Ice dynamics will remain a primary driver of Greenland ice sheet mass loss over the next century	35
Acceleration of ocean warming, salinification, deoxygenation and acidification in the surface subtropical North Atlantic Ocean	34
Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes	34
Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula	33
Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario	33
Carboxyl-richness controls organic carbon preservation during coprecipitation with iron (oxyhydr)oxides in the natural environment	31
Extended life cycle assessment reveals the spatially-explicit water scarcity footprint of a lithium-ion battery storage	30
Advanced analysis of satellite data reveals ground deformation precursors to the Brumadinho Tailings Dam collapse	30
Northern hemisphere cold air outbreaks are more likely to be severe during weak polar vortex conditions	29
The vulnerability of lakes to climate change along an altitudinal gradient	29
The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 2022	29
Mineral-enriched biochar delivers enhanced nutrient recovery and carbon dioxide removal	28
Atmospheric convection, dynamics and topography shape the scaling pattern of hourly rainfall extremes with temperature globally	28
Microplastics and nanoplastics barely enhance contaminant mobility in agricultural soils	28
Global urban growth between 1870 and 2100 from integrated high resolution mapped data and urban dynamic modeling	28
Extent of impact of deep-sea nodule mining midwater plumes is influenced by sediment loading, turbulence and thresholds	27
Transformation of abundant magnesium silicate minerals for enhanced CO2 sequestration	27
Reductions in the deposition of sulfur and selenium to agricultural soils pose risk of future nutrient deficiencies	27
Assessing seafood nutritional diversity together with climate impacts informs more comprehensive dietary advice	27
Extreme precipitation in the tropics is closely associated with long-lived convective systems	27
Chemical transport models often underestimate inorganic aerosol acidity in remote regions of the atmosphere	27
Complex rupture dynamics on an immature fault during the 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake, Turkey	27
The other side of sea level change	26
Near-complete loss of fire-resistant primary tropical forest cover in Sumatra and Kalimantan	26
Rock glaciers throughout the French Alps accelerated and destabilised since 1990 as air temperatures increased	26
Increased extreme precipitation challenges nitrogen load management to the Gulf of Mexico	26
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production	25
El Niño/Southern Oscillation response to low-latitude volcanic eruptions depends on ocean pre-conditions and eruption timing	25
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas	25
Future changes in the frequency of temperature extremes may be underestimated in tropical and subtropical regions	24
Towards a business case for CO2 mineralisation in the cement industry	24
An emission pathway classification reflecting the Paris Agreement climate objectives	24
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria	23
Environmentally persistent free radicals are ubiquitous in wildfire charcoals and remain stable for years	23
Accounting for tropical cyclones more than doubles the global population exposed to low-probability coastal flooding	23
Rupture of wet mantle wedge by self-promoting carbonation	23
Record high solar irradiance in Western Europe during first COVID-19 lockdown largely due to unusual weather	23
Reduced methane recovery at high pressure due to methane trapping in shale nanopores	23

Closure of the Proterozoic Mozambique Ocean was instigated by a late Tonian plate reorganization event	22
Exceptional ground motion during the shallow Mw 4.9 2019 Le Teil earthquake, France	22
Transport and coarsening of gold nanoparticles in an orogenic deposit by dissolution–reprecipitation and Ostwald ripening	22
A shift in the ocean circulation has warmed the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean since 2016	21
Projections of salt intrusion in a mega-delta under climatic and anthropogenic stressors	21
Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula	21
Ocean warming and acidification uncouple calcification from calcifier biomass which accelerates coral reef decline	21
Modern arsenotrophic microbial mats provide an analogue for life in the anoxic Archean	21
Natural variability is a large source of uncertainty in future projections of hypoxia in the Baltic Sea	21
Amazon methane budget derived from multi-year airborne observations highlights regional variations in emissions	21
Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava–seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i	20
Arctic open-water periods are projected to lengthen dramatically by 2100	20
A case for transparent net-zero carbon targets	20
Rewetting strategies to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from European peatlands	20
The season for large fires in Southern California is projected to lengthen in a changing climate	20
Trans-lithospheric diapirism explains the presence of ultra-high pressure rocks in the European Variscides	20
Ryder Glacier in northwest Greenland is shielded from warm Atlantic water by a bathymetric sill	20
Soil texture and environmental conditions influence the biogeochemical responses of soils to drought and flooding	19
Interannual oxygen isotope variability in Indian summer monsoon precipitation reflects changes in moisture sources	19
Poirierite, a dense metastable polymorph of magnesium iron silicate in shocked meteorites	19
Weak orogenic lithosphere guides the pattern of plume-triggered supercontinent break-up	19
A framework for quantifying hydrologic effects of soil structure across scales	18
Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption	18
Surprising chiral composition changes over the Amazon rainforest with height, time and season	18
Single extreme storm sequence can offset decades of shoreline retreat projected to result from sea-level rise	18
Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal	18
Sustainability of emerging energy and transportation technologies is impacted by the coexistence of minerals in nature	18
Responsibility of major emitters for country-level warming and extreme hot years	18
A severe landslide event in the Alpine foreland under possible future climate and land-use changes	18
Reduced resilience of terrestrial ecosystems locally is not reflected on a global scale	18
The mining industry as a net beneficiary of a global tax on carbon emissions	18
Effects of natural and experimental drought on soil fungi and biogeochemistry in an Amazon rain forest	17
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry reveals widespread soil phosphorus limitation to microbial metabolism across Chinese forests	17
Absolute seasonal temperature estimates from clumped isotopes in bivalve shells suggest warm and variable greenhouse climate	17
Active microbial sulfate reduction in fluids of serpentinizing peridotites of the continental subsurface	17
Current extinction rate in European freshwater gastropods greatly exceeds that of the late Cretaceous mass extinction	17
Arsenic mobilization by anaerobic iron-dependent methane oxidation	17
Projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate underestimate internal variability and associated uncertainty	17
Variability in historical emissions trends suggests a need for a wide range of global scenarios and regional analyses	17
Vegetation and microbes interact to preserve carbon in many wooded peatlands	17
Sedimentation strategies provide effective but limited mitigation of relative sea-level rise in the Mekong delta	17
Distinct response of gross primary productivity in five terrestrial biomes to precipitation variability	17
Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption	17
Decision support systems halve fungicide use compared to calendar-based strategies without increasing disease risk	16
Accelerated sea ice loss in the Wandel Sea points to a change in the Arctic’s Last Ice Area	16
The Toba supervolcano eruption caused severe tropical stratospheric ozone depletion	16
Large-scale variation in seismic anisotropy in the crust and upper mantle beneath Anatolia, Turkey	16
Horizontal circulation across density surfaces contributes substantially to the long-term mean northern Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	16
Exceptional warmth and climate instability occurred in the European Alps during the Last Interglacial period	16
Seismic evidence for a thermochemical mantle plume underplating the lithosphere of the Ontong Java Plateau	16
Runup of landslide-generated tsunamis controlled by paleogeography and sea-level change	16
Inspiration, inoculation, and introductions are all critical to successful mentorship for undergraduate women pursuing geoscience careers	15
The largest plagiogranite on Earth formed by re-melting of juvenile proto-continental crust	15
Ice viscosity is more sensitive to stress than commonly assumed	15
Airborne geophysical surveys of the lower Mississippi Valley demonstrate system-scale mapping of subsurface architecture	15
An increase in food production in Europe could dramatically affect farmland biodiversity	15
Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA	15
Future Antarctic snow accumulation trend is dominated by atmospheric synoptic-scale events	15
Process-oriented analysis of aircraft soot-cirrus interactions constrains the climate impact of aviation	15
Fracture dolomite as an archive of continental palaeo-environmental conditions	15
Direct measurements of atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere using terahertz heterodyne spectroscopy	15
Magmatic flare-up causes crustal thickening at the transition from subduction to continental collision	15
Biological nitrous oxide consumption in oxygenated waters of the high latitude Atlantic Ocean	14
Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change	14
Ubiquitous karst hydrological control on speleothem oxygen isotope variability in a global study	14
The stop-start control of seismicity by fault bends along the Main Himalayan Thrust	14
Arctic riparian shrub expansion indicates a shift from streams gaining water to those that lose flow	14
Arrival and magnetization of carbonaceous chondrites in the asteroid belt before 4562 million years ago	14
Diverse climate actors show limited coordination in a large-scale text analysis of strategy documents	14
The influence of emissions scenarios on future Antarctic ice loss is unlikely to emerge this century	14
Dominant role of vertical air flows in the unprecedented warming on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020	14
Summertime low clouds mediate the impact of the large-scale circulation on Arctic sea ice	14
Japanese carbon emissions patterns shifted following the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake	14
The rebirth and evolution of Bezymianny volcano, Kamchatka after the 1956 sector collapse	14
Large diatom bloom off the Antarctic Peninsula during cool conditions associated with the 2015/2016 El Niño	13
Continuous borehole optical televiewing reveals variable englacial debris concentrations at Khumbu Glacier, Nepal	13
Non-growing season carbon emissions in a northern peatland are projected to increase under global warming	13
Geothermal energy as a means to decarbonize the energy mix of megacities	13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Formation of giant iron oxide-copper-gold deposits by superimposed, episodic hydrothermal pulses	13
Photoacclimation by phytoplankton determines the distribution of global subsurface chlorophyll maxima in the ocean	13

Manure amendment can reduce rice yield loss under extreme temperatures	13
Interactions between snow cover and evaporation lead to higher sensitivity of streamflow to temperature	13
Permafrost degradation increases risk and large future costs of infrastructure on the Third Pole	13
An anomalous warm-season trans-Pacific atmospheric river linked to the 2021 western North America heatwave	13
Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse	13
Skilful prediction of cod stocks in the North and Barents Sea a decade in advance	13
Country-level conditions like prosperity, democracy, and regulatory culture predict individual climate change belief	13
The conterminous United States are projected to become more prone to flash floods in a high-end emissions scenario	13
Neogene hyperaridity in Arabia drove the directions of mammalian dispersal between Africa and Eurasia	13
Onset and termination of Heinrich Stadial 4 and the underlying climate dynamics	13
Ground vibrations recorded by fiber-optic cables reveal traffic response to COVID-19 lockdown measures in Pasadena, California	13
ENSO diversity shows robust decadal variations that must be captured for accurate future projections	13
Direct measurements reveal instabilities and turbulence within large amplitude internal solitary waves beneath the ocean	13
Conservation agriculture increases the soil resilience and cotton yield stability in climate extremes of the southeast US	13
Fractional crystallization causes the iron isotope contrast between mid-ocean ridge basalts and abyssal peridotites	13
Winter seal-based observations reveal glacial meltwater surfacing in the southeastern Amundsen Sea	12
Massive earthquake swarm driven by magmatic intrusion at the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica	12
Bacteria-plant interactions synergistically enhance biodegradation of diesel fuel hydrocarbons	12
Nuclear Niño response observed in simulations of nuclear war scenarios	12
Conjugate faulting and structural complexity on the young fault system associated with the 2000 Tottori earthquake	12
Elastic deformation plays a non-negligible role in Greenland’s outlet glacier flow	12
Recycled calcium carbonate is an efficient oxidation agent under deep upper mantle conditions	12
Summer and winter precipitation in East Asia scale with global warming at different rates	12
Observation-based selection of climate models projects Arctic ice-free summers around 2035	12
Southern Ocean convection amplified past Antarctic warming and atmospheric CO2 rise during Heinrich Stadial 4	12
Dust arriving in the Amazon basin over the past 7,500 years came from diverse sources	12
A chemical threshold controls nanocrystallization and degassing behaviour in basalt magmas	12
Statistically bias-corrected and downscaled climate models underestimate the adverse effects of extreme heat on U.S. maize yields	12
Poleward eddy-induced warm water transport across a shelf break off Totten Ice Shelf, East Antarctica	12
The hadal zone is an important and heterogeneous sink of black carbon in the ocean	12
Improved dryland carbon flux predictions with explicit consideration of water-carbon coupling	12
Modest flooding can trigger catastrophic road network collapse due to compound failure	12
Impact glasses from Belize represent tektites from the Pleistocene Pantasma impact crater in Nicaragua	12
Precession cycles of the El Niño/Southern oscillation-like system controlled by Pacific upper-ocean stratification	11
Modulation of ocean acidification by decadal climate variability in the Gulf of Alaska	11
Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed	11
Record winter winds in 2020/21 drove exceptional Arctic sea ice transport	11
Deglacial bottom water warming intensified Arctic methane seepage in the NW Barents Sea	11
Climate variability and multi-decadal diatom abundance in the Northeast Atlantic	11
A nutrient control on expanded anoxia and global cooling during the Late Ordovician mass extinction	11
Wildfire activity enhanced during phases of maximum orbital eccentricity and precessional forcing in the Early Jurassic	11
Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kīlauea, Hawai’i	11
Past climate conditions predict the influence of nitrogen enrichment on the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration	11
Regional asymmetry in the response of global vegetation growth to springtime compound climate events	11
Global warming at near-constant tropospheric relative humidity is supported by observations	11
Typhoon-induced megarips as triggers of turbidity currents offshore tropical river deltas	11
A century of decoupling size and structure of urban spaces in the United States	11
Global coral reef ecosystems exhibit declining calcification and increasing primary productivity	11
Biosignatures of ancient microbial life are present across the igneous crust of the Fennoscandian shield	11
Denitrification is the major nitrous acid production pathway in boreal agricultural soils	11
Probabilistic projections of increased heat stress driven by climate change	11
Uneven increases in racial diversity of US geoscience undergraduates	11
Varying influence of phytoplankton biodiversity and stoichiometric plasticity on bulk particulate stoichiometry across ocean basins	11
Thresholds in aridity and soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio govern the accumulation of soil microbial residues	11
Sustained coral reef growth in the critical wave dissipation zone of a Maldivian atoll	11
Fossilized anaerobic and possibly methanogenesis-fueling fungi identified deep within the Siljan impact structure, Sweden	11
Upper troposphere dust belt formation processes vary seasonally and spatially in the Northern Hemisphere	11
Patterns and frequency of projected future tropical cyclone genesis are governed by dynamic effects	10
The Kuroshio flowing over seamounts and associated submesoscale flows drive 100-km-wide 100-1000-fold enhancement of turbulence	10
Anthropogenic influence in observed regional warming trends and the implied social time of emergence	10
Highlighting altruism in geoscience careers aligns with diverse US student ideals better than emphasizing working outdoors	10
A case for limited global contraction of Mercury	10
Growing prevalence of heat over cold extremes with overall milder extremes and multiple successive events	10
Offshore wind farms are projected to impact primary production and bottom water deoxygenation in the North Sea	10
The mantle structure below petit-spot volcanoes	10
Aerosol absorption has an underappreciated role in historical precipitation change	10
Ensemble forecasting greatly expands the prediction horizon for ocean mesoscale variability	10
Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	10
Coincident locations of rupture nucleation during the 2019 Le Teil earthquake, France and maximum stress change from local cement quarrying	10
Liquid-liquid phase separation reduces radiative absorption by aged black carbon aerosols	10
The radius of the umbrella cloud helps characterize large explosive volcanic eruptions	10
Black carbon emissions from traffic contribute substantially to air pollution in Nairobi, Kenya	10
Seasonal sea ice persisted through the Holocene Thermal Maximum at 80°N	10
Seasonality modulates wind-driven mixing pathways in a large lake	10
Water pressure fluctuations control variability in sediment flux and slip dynamics beneath glaciers and ice streams	10
Mafic magma feeds degassing unrest at Vulcano Island, Italy	10
Carbon dioxide fluxes increase from day to night across European streams	10
Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods	10
Strategic deployment of riparian buffers and windbreaks in Europe can co-deliver biomass and environmental benefits	10
Significant variability of structure and predictability of Arctic Ocean surface pathways affects basin-wide connectivity	9
Hydrological impact of widespread afforestation in Great Britain using a large ensemble of modelled scenarios	9
A Bayesian framework for deriving sector-based methane emissions from top-down fluxes	9
Chemolithotrophy on the Noachian Martian breccia NWA 7034 via experimental microbial biotransformation	9
Lunar samples record an impact 4.2 billion years ago that may have formed the Serenitatis Basin	9
Oceanic phytoplankton are a potentially important source of benzenoids to the remote marine atmosphere	9
Final closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean basin in the early Triassic	9
A vision for FAIR ocean data products	9
Colorado River water supply is predictable on multi-year timescales owing to long-term ocean memory	9
Positive, global, and health or environment framing bolsters public support for climate policies	9
Global mantle convection models produce transform offsets along divergent plate boundaries	9
Nontarget mass spectrometry and in silico molecular characterization of air pollution from the Indian subcontinent	9
Temperature and salinity extremes from 2014-2019 in the California Current System and its source waters	9
Fast and slow components of interstadial warming in the North Atlantic during the last glacial	9
The Holocene influence on the future evolution of the Venice Lagoon tidal marshes	9
Havre 2012 pink pumice is evidence of a short-lived, deep-sea, magnetite nanolite-driven explosive eruption	9
Eruption chronology of the December 2021 to January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption sequence	9
Climate benefit of a future hydrogen economy	9
Terrestrial and marine influence on atmospheric bacterial diversity over the north Atlantic and Pacific Oceans	9
Severe atmospheric pollution in the Middle East is attributable to anthropogenic sources	9
Isotopic variability in tropical cyclone precipitation is controlled by Rayleigh distillation and cloud microphysics	9
High geothermal heat flow beneath Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica inferred from aeromagnetic data	9