Communications Earth & Environment

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The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979	639
Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia	338
Perceived global increase in algal blooms is attributable to intensified monitoring and emerging bloom impacts	187
Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat	149
The 2019/20 Australian wildfires generated a persistent smoke-charged vortex rising up to 35 km altitude	140
Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere	132
Contribution of climatic changes in mean and variability to monthly temperature and precipitation extremes	116
Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production	111
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints	102
Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch	101
Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites	100
Country-based rate of emissions reductions should increase by 80% beyond nationally determined contributions to meet the 2 °C target	98
Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness	94
Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization	83
More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change	79
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria	75
Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis	72
Microplastics distribution in the Eurasian Arctic is affected by Atlantic waters and Siberian rivers	72
Stop blaming the climate for disasters	70
The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management	69
An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes	69
Stratospheric drivers of extreme events at the Earth’s surface	66
Successful ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill should address uncertainties in krill recruitment, behaviour and ecological adaptation	63
Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship	60
Global patterns of nitrate isotope composition in rivers and adjacent aquifers reveal reactive nitrogen cascading	56

Accelerating land cover change in West Africa over four decades as population pressure increased	56
Success of coastal wetlands restoration is driven by sediment availability	55
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	54
Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf	54
Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China	54
Surface rupture and shallow fault reactivation during the 2019 Mw 4.9 Le Teil earthquake, France	52
Ice dynamics will remain a primary driver of Greenland ice sheet mass loss over the next century	51
An integrated approach to quantifying uncertainties in the remaining carbon budget	51
Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales	49
Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes	49
Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea	48
Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario	46
Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula	46
Global urban growth between 1870 and 2100 from integrated high resolution mapped data and urban dynamic modeling	46
Acceleration of ocean warming, salinification, deoxygenation and acidification in the surface subtropical North Atlantic Ocean	45
Distinct influences of large-scale circulation and regional feedbacks in two exceptional 2019 European heatwaves	45
Training machine learning models on climate model output yields skillful interpretable seasonal precipitation forecasts	44
The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 2022	43
Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts	43
Increase in sea level variability with ocean warming associated with the nonlinear thermal expansion of seawater	42
Mineral-enriched biochar delivers enhanced nutrient recovery and carbon dioxide removal	41
Assessing seafood nutritional diversity together with climate impacts informs more comprehensive dietary advice	41
Carboxyl-richness controls organic carbon preservation during coprecipitation with iron (oxyhydr)oxides in the natural environment	40
Transformation of abundant magnesium silicate minerals for enhanced CO2 sequestration	40
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas	40
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production	40
Extent of impact of deep-sea nodule mining midwater plumes is influenced by sediment loading, turbulence and thresholds	38
Complex rupture dynamics on an immature fault during the 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake, Turkey	38
Projections of salt intrusion in a mega-delta under climatic and anthropogenic stressors	37
Microplastics and nanoplastics barely enhance contaminant mobility in agricultural soils	37
Advanced analysis of satellite data reveals ground deformation precursors to the Brumadinho Tailings Dam collapse	37
Northern hemisphere cold air outbreaks are more likely to be severe during weak polar vortex conditions	36
The vulnerability of lakes to climate change along an altitudinal gradient	36
Reductions in the deposition of sulfur and selenium to agricultural soils pose risk of future nutrient deficiencies	36
Probabilistic projections of increased heat stress driven by climate change	36
Soil texture and environmental conditions influence the biogeochemical responses of soils to drought and flooding	36
Increased extreme precipitation challenges nitrogen load management to the Gulf of Mexico	36
Extreme precipitation in the tropics is closely associated with long-lived convective systems	35
Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula	35
Extended life cycle assessment reveals the spatially-explicit water scarcity footprint of a lithium-ion battery storage	35
Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption	33
Towards a business case for CO2 mineralisation in the cement industry	33
Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption	33
Near-complete loss of fire-resistant primary tropical forest cover in Sumatra and Kalimantan	33
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry reveals widespread soil phosphorus limitation to microbial metabolism across Chinese forests	32
Future changes in the frequency of temperature extremes may be underestimated in tropical and subtropical regions	32
Rock glaciers throughout the French Alps accelerated and destabilised since 1990 as air temperatures increased	32
An emission pathway classification reflecting the Paris Agreement climate objectives	32
Accounting for tropical cyclones more than doubles the global population exposed to low-probability coastal flooding	31
Ocean warming and acidification uncouple calcification from calcifier biomass which accelerates coral reef decline	31

Atmospheric convection, dynamics and topography shape the scaling pattern of hourly rainfall extremes with temperature globally	31
Chemical transport models often underestimate inorganic aerosol acidity in remote regions of the atmosphere	31
The season for large fires in Southern California is projected to lengthen in a changing climate	31
Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal	31
Rewetting strategies to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from European peatlands	30
Runup of landslide-generated tsunamis controlled by paleogeography and sea-level change	30
A multi-model assessment of the Global Warming Potential of hydrogen	30
Record high solar irradiance in Western Europe during first COVID-19 lockdown largely due to unusual weather	30
Environmentally persistent free radicals are ubiquitous in wildfire charcoals and remain stable for years	29
Reduced resilience of terrestrial ecosystems locally is not reflected on a global scale	28
The other side of sea level change	28
Rupture of wet mantle wedge by self-promoting carbonation	28
A shift in the ocean circulation has warmed the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean since 2016	28
Arctic open-water periods are projected to lengthen dramatically by 2100	27
Observation-based selection of climate models projects Arctic ice-free summers around 2035	27
Natural variability is a large source of uncertainty in future projections of hypoxia in the Baltic Sea	26
The mining industry as a net beneficiary of a global tax on carbon emissions	26
Transport and coarsening of gold nanoparticles in an orogenic deposit by dissolution–reprecipitation and Ostwald ripening	26
Reduced methane recovery at high pressure due to methane trapping in shale nanopores	26
Ryder Glacier in northwest Greenland is shielded from warm Atlantic water by a bathymetric sill	26
Climate benefit of a future hydrogen economy	26
El Niño/Southern Oscillation response to low-latitude volcanic eruptions depends on ocean pre-conditions and eruption timing	26
Trans-lithospheric diapirism explains the presence of ultra-high pressure rocks in the European Variscides	25
Exceptional ground motion during the shallow Mw 4.9 2019 Le Teil earthquake, France	25
A framework for quantifying hydrologic effects of soil structure across scales	25
Single extreme storm sequence can offset decades of shoreline retreat projected to result from sea-level rise	25
Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava–seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i	25
Ubiquitous karst hydrological control on speleothem oxygen isotope variability in a global study	24
A severe landslide event in the Alpine foreland under possible future climate and land-use changes	24
Responsibility of major emitters for country-level warming and extreme hot years	24
Diverse climate actors show limited coordination in a large-scale text analysis of strategy documents	24
A case for transparent net-zero carbon targets	24
Past climate conditions predict the influence of nitrogen enrichment on the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration	24
Sedimentation strategies provide effective but limited mitigation of relative sea-level rise in the Mekong delta	24
Permafrost degradation increases risk and large future costs of infrastructure on the Third Pole	24
Amazon methane budget derived from multi-year airborne observations highlights regional variations in emissions	24
Current extinction rate in European freshwater gastropods greatly exceeds that of the late Cretaceous mass extinction	24
Thresholds in aridity and soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio govern the accumulation of soil microbial residues	23
Absolute seasonal temperature estimates from clumped isotopes in bivalve shells suggest warm and variable greenhouse climate	23
Closure of the Proterozoic Mozambique Ocean was instigated by a late Tonian plate reorganization event	23
Modern arsenotrophic microbial mats provide an analogue for life in the anoxic Archean	23
Offshore wind farms are projected to impact primary production and bottom water deoxygenation in the North Sea	23
Projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate underestimate internal variability and associated uncertainty	23
An increase in food production in Europe could dramatically affect farmland biodiversity	23
Decision support systems halve fungicide use compared to calendar-based strategies without increasing disease risk	23
Sustainability of emerging energy and transportation technologies is impacted by the coexistence of minerals in nature	23
Geothermal energy as a means to decarbonize the energy mix of megacities	23
Distinct response of gross primary productivity in five terrestrial biomes to precipitation variability	22
Poirierite, a dense metastable polymorph of magnesium iron silicate in shocked meteorites	22
Weak orogenic lithosphere guides the pattern of plume-triggered supercontinent break-up	22
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state	22
Arsenic mobilization by anaerobic iron-dependent methane oxidation	22
An anomalous warm-season trans-Pacific atmospheric river linked to the 2021 western North America heatwave	22
Horizontal circulation across density surfaces contributes substantially to the long-term mean northern Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	22
Bacteria-plant interactions synergistically enhance biodegradation of diesel fuel hydrocarbons	21
Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	21
Effects of natural and experimental drought on soil fungi and biogeochemistry in an Amazon rain forest	21
Interannual oxygen isotope variability in Indian summer monsoon precipitation reflects changes in moisture sources	21
Ecological resilience of restored peatlands to climate change	21
Exceptional warmth and climate instability occurred in the European Alps during the Last Interglacial period	21
Active microbial sulfate reduction in fluids of serpentinizing peridotites of the continental subsurface	21
Direct measurements of atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere using terahertz heterodyne spectroscopy	21
ENSO diversity shows robust decadal variations that must be captured for accurate future projections	20
Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change	20
Patterns and frequency of projected future tropical cyclone genesis are governed by dynamic effects	20
A chemical threshold controls nanocrystallization and degassing behaviour in basalt magmas	20
Vegetation and microbes interact to preserve carbon in many wooded peatlands	20
Accelerated sea ice loss in the Wandel Sea points to a change in the Arctic’s Last Ice Area	20
Conservation agriculture increases the soil resilience and cotton yield stability in climate extremes of the southeast US	20
Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble	20
The Toba supervolcano eruption caused severe tropical stratospheric ozone depletion	19
Variability in historical emissions trends suggests a need for a wide range of global scenarios and regional analyses	19
Carbon dioxide fluxes increase from day to night across European streams	19
Ice viscosity is more sensitive to stress than commonly assumed	19
Airborne geophysical surveys of the lower Mississippi Valley demonstrate system-scale mapping of subsurface architecture	19
Photoacclimation by phytoplankton determines the distribution of global subsurface chlorophyll maxima in the ocean	19
Summertime low clouds mediate the impact of the large-scale circulation on Arctic sea ice	19
Inspiration, inoculation, and introductions are all critical to successful mentorship for undergraduate women pursuing geoscience careers	18
A big data approach to assess progress towards Sustainable Development Goals for cities of varying sizes	18
Seismic evidence for a thermochemical mantle plume underplating the lithosphere of the Ontong Java Plateau	18

Surprising chiral composition changes over the Amazon rainforest with height, time and season	18
The conterminous United States are projected to become more prone to flash floods in a high-end emissions scenario	18
Global warming at near-constant tropospheric relative humidity is supported by observations	18
A nutrient control on expanded anoxia and global cooling during the Late Ordovician mass extinction	18
Fracture dolomite as an archive of continental palaeo-environmental conditions	18
Manure amendment can reduce rice yield loss under extreme temperatures	18
Regional asymmetry in the response of global vegetation growth to springtime compound climate events	18
Environmental and health impacts of atmospheric CO2 removal by enhanced rock weathering depend on nations’ energy mix	18
Non-growing season carbon emissions in a northern peatland are projected to increase under global warming	18
Modest flooding can trigger catastrophic road network collapse due to compound failure	18
Magmatic flare-up causes crustal thickening at the transition from subduction to continental collision	18
Rarest rainfall events will see the greatest relative increase in magnitude under future climate change	17
Severe atmospheric pollution in the Middle East is attributable to anthropogenic sources	17
Liquid-liquid phase separation reduces radiative absorption by aged black carbon aerosols	17
Process-oriented analysis of aircraft soot-cirrus interactions constrains the climate impact of aviation	17
The influence of emissions scenarios on future Antarctic ice loss is unlikely to emerge this century	17
Positive, global, and health or environment framing bolsters public support for climate policies	17
Future Antarctic snow accumulation trend is dominated by atmospheric synoptic-scale events	17
Quaternary landscape dynamics boosted species dispersal across Southeast Asia	17
Sustained coral reef growth in the critical wave dissipation zone of a Maldivian atoll	17
The rebirth and evolution of Bezymianny volcano, Kamchatka after the 1956 sector collapse	17
The largest plagiogranite on Earth formed by re-melting of juvenile proto-continental crust	17
Country-level conditions like prosperity, democracy, and regulatory culture predict individual climate change belief	17
Growing prevalence of heat over cold extremes with overall milder extremes and multiple successive events	17
Fractional crystallization causes the iron isotope contrast between mid-ocean ridge basalts and abyssal peridotites	17
Varying influence of phytoplankton biodiversity and stoichiometric plasticity on bulk particulate stoichiometry across ocean basins	17
Large-scale variation in seismic anisotropy in the crust and upper mantle beneath Anatolia, Turkey	17
Seasonal sea ice persisted through the Holocene Thermal Maximum at 80°N	16
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has been slowed by indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Ground vibrations recorded by fiber-optic cables reveal traffic response to COVID-19 lockdown measures in Pasadena, California	16
Biological nitrous oxide consumption in oxygenated waters of the high latitude Atlantic Ocean	16
Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse	16
Direct measurements reveal instabilities and turbulence within large amplitude internal solitary waves beneath the ocean	16
Recent marine heatwaves in the North Pacific warming pool can be attributed to rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases	16
Japanese carbon emissions patterns shifted following the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake	16
The stop-start control of seismicity by fault bends along the Main Himalayan Thrust	16
Global coral reef ecosystems exhibit declining calcification and increasing primary productivity	16
Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA	16
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality	16
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations	16
Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia	16
A globally robust relationship between water table decline, subsidence rate, and carbon release from peatlands	16
A century of decoupling size and structure of urban spaces in the United States	16
Eruption chronology of the December 2021 to January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption sequence	16
Mafic magma feeds degassing unrest at Vulcano Island, Italy	16
Dominant role of vertical air flows in the unprecedented warming on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020	16
Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed	16
Final closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean basin in the early Triassic	16
Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago	15
Interactions between snow cover and evaporation lead to higher sensitivity of streamflow to temperature	15
Long-term national climate strategies bet on forests and soils to reach net-zero	15
Climate variability and multi-decadal diatom abundance in the Northeast Atlantic	15
Creating measurement-based oil and gas sector methane inventories using source-resolved aerial surveys	15
Precession cycles of the El Niño/Southern oscillation-like system controlled by Pacific upper-ocean stratification	15
Enhanced Arctic warming amplification revealed in a low-emission scenario	15
Feasibility of gasifying mixed plastic waste for hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage	15
Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods	15
Havre 2012 pink pumice is evidence of a short-lived, deep-sea, magnetite nanolite-driven explosive eruption	15
Deglacial bottom water warming intensified Arctic methane seepage in the NW Barents Sea	15
Planetary limits to soil degradation	15
Improved dryland carbon flux predictions with explicit consideration of water-carbon coupling	15
Modulation of ocean acidification by decadal climate variability in the Gulf of Alaska	15
Arrival and magnetization of carbonaceous chondrites in the asteroid belt before 4562 million years ago	15
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk	15
Large diatom bloom off the Antarctic Peninsula during cool conditions associated with the 2015/2016 El Niño	15
Massive earthquake swarm driven by magmatic intrusion at the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica	15
Amplified warming from physiological responses to carbon dioxide reduces the potential of vegetation for climate change mitigation	15
Nuclear Niño response observed in simulations of nuclear war scenarios	15
Arctic riparian shrub expansion indicates a shift from streams gaining water to those that lose flow	15
Nature-based solutions in mountain catchments reduce impact of anthropogenic climate change on drought streamflow	15
Statistically bias-corrected and downscaled climate models underestimate the adverse effects of extreme heat on U.S. maize yields	15
Dust arriving in the Amazon basin over the past 7,500 years came from diverse sources	14
Nontarget mass spectrometry and in silico molecular characterization of air pollution from the Indian subcontinent	14
Highlighting altruism in geoscience careers aligns with diverse US student ideals better than emphasizing working outdoors	14
Observation-based trajectory of future sea level for the coastal United States tracks near high-end model projections	14
Black carbon emissions from traffic contribute substantially to air pollution in Nairobi, Kenya	14
Wildfire aerosol deposition likely amplified a summertime Arctic phytoplankton bloom	14
Plastics can be used more sustainably in agriculture	14
Chemolithotrophy on the Noachian Martian breccia NWA 7034 via experimental microbial biotransformation	14
Elastic deformation plays a non-negligible role in Greenland’s outlet glacier flow	14
Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate	14
Skilful prediction of cod stocks in the North and Barents Sea a decade in advance	14
Isotopic variability in tropical cyclone precipitation is controlled by Rayleigh distillation and cloud microphysics	14
Summer and winter precipitation in East Asia scale with global warming at different rates	14
Continuous borehole optical televiewing reveals variable englacial debris concentrations at Khumbu Glacier, Nepal	14
Poleward eddy-induced warm water transport across a shelf break off Totten Ice Shelf, East Antarctica	14
The hadal zone is an important and heterogeneous sink of black carbon in the ocean	14
Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kīlauea, Hawai’i	14
Winter seal-based observations reveal glacial meltwater surfacing in the southeastern Amundsen Sea	14
Shifts in flood generation processes exacerbate regional flood anomalies in Europe	14
The radius of the umbrella cloud helps characterize large explosive volcanic eruptions	14
Aerosol absorption has an underappreciated role in historical precipitation change	14
Fossilized anaerobic and possibly methanogenesis-fueling fungi identified deep within the Siljan impact structure, Sweden	14
Conjugate faulting and structural complexity on the young fault system associated with the 2000 Tottori earthquake	14
Wildfire activity enhanced during phases of maximum orbital eccentricity and precessional forcing in the Early Jurassic	14