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2019
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2019
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2024
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2022
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ISSN:2398-9629
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2024
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2025
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ISSN:2661-8001
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ISSN:2398-9629
Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation
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2023
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Nature Communications
2023
•2023/10/26
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Machine learning approaches using satellite imagery are providing accessible ways to infer socioeconomic measures without visiting a region. However, many algorithms require integration of ground-truth data, while regional data are scarce or even absent in many countries. Here we present our human-m...
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ISSN:2041-1723
Inter-decadal climate variability induces differential ice response along Pacific-facing West Antarctica
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Nature Communications
2023
•2023/1/16
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-11
West Antarctica has experienced dramatic ice losses contributing to global sea-level rise in recent decades, particularly from Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. Although these ice losses manifest an ongoing Marine Ice Sheet Instability, projections of their future rate are confounded by limited obs...
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10.1038/S41467-022-35471-3
ISSN:2041-1723
Multi-decadal collapse of East Antarctica’s Conger–Glenzer Ice Shelf
Catherine C. Walker•Joanna D. Millstein•Bertie W. J. Miles•Sue Cook•Alexander D. Fraser等 11 人
Nature Geoscience
2024
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Antarctica is currently losing net mass to the ocean primarily from West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, which together hold ~5.5 m of sea level rise potential. Yet, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet stores almost ten times more ice, and its evolution contributes significant uncertainty to sea le...
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10.1038/S41561-024-01582-3
ISSN:1752-0894
More urbanization, more polarization: evidence from two decades of urban expansion in China
Yi’na Hu•Dylan Shane Connor•Michelle Stuhlmacher•Jian Peng•B. L. Turner II
Npj Urban Sustainability
2024
•2024/7/11
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This article examines whether the patterns of urbanization in China over the past twenty years have resulted in a more balanced or increasingly polarized city size distribution. China is an important study area due to the immense scale of its urbanization and the substantial role of its planners in ...
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ISSN:2661-8001
Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods
Tellman B.•Sullivan J. A.•Kuhn C.•Kettner A. J.•Doyle C. S.等 8 人
Nature
2021
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ISSN:0028-0836
Carbon response of tundra ecosystems to advancing greenup and snowmelt in Alaska
Kim JiHyun•Kim Yeonjoo•Zona Donatella•Oechel Walter•Park Sang-Jong等 9 人
Nature Communications
2021
•2021/11/25
•Vol.12 No.1 p.1-10
The ongoing disproportionate increases in temperature and precipitation over the Arctic region may greatly alter the latitudinal gradients in greenup and snowmelt timings as well as associated carbon dynamics of tundra ecosystems. Here we use remotely-sensed and ground-based datasets and model resul...
Ecological modellingPhenology
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ISSN:2041-1723
Vegetation recovery following retrogressive thaw slumps across northern tundra regions
Zhuoxuan Xia•Lin Liu•Ingmar Nitze•Nina Nesterova•Jurjen Van der Sluijs等 12 人
Nature Climate Change
2026
•2026/3/30
•00 p.1-7
Warming permafrost is driving widespread terrain destabilization and collapse through retrogressive thaw slumps, stripping vegetation and releasing soil carbon. Despite increasing thaw slump disturbances in permafrost regions, the time and patterns of vegetation recovery remain uncertain. Here we es...
BiogeographyClimate-change ecologyCommunity ecologyEcological modelling
10.1038/S41558-026-02603-2
ISSN:1758-678X
Direct measurements of ice-shelf flexure caused by surface meltwater ponding and drainage
Alison F. Banwell•Ian C. Willis•Grant J. Macdonald•Becky Goodsell•Douglas R. MacAyeal
Nature Communications
2019
•2019/2/13
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Global sea-level rise is caused, in part, by more rapid ice discharge from Antarctica, following the removal of the restraining forces of floating ice-shelves after their break-up. A trigger of ice-shelf break-up is thought to be stress variations associated with surface meltwater ponding and draina...
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ISSN:2041-1723
Colonial-era settlements and post-colonial legacies have increased the loss of montane forests in the central highlands of Kenya
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Communications Earth & Environment
2025
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Long-term historical studies of montane tropical forest loss in eastern Africa have been relatively neglected compared to other world regions, despite ramifications for biodiversity, climate crises, and knock-on effects on the African continent. Moreover, there has been a relative lack of historical...
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Heinrich Stadial aridity forced Mediterranean-wide glacier retreat in the last cold stage
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Nature Geoscience
2021
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Throughout the last cold stage, the North Atlantic region was punctuated by abrupt climate shifts and atmospheric processes propagated their effects to adjacent continents. During Heinrich Stadials, the ocean was chilled by icebergs calved from the great ice sheets. The impact of multiple temperatur...
GeochemistryGeomorphologyPalaeoclimate
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ISSN:1752-0894
Large sinuous rivers are slowing down in a warming Arctic
Ielpi Alessandro•Lapôtre Mathieu G. A.•Finotello Alvise•Roy-Léveillée Pascale
Nature Climate Change
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10.1038/S41558-023-01620-9
ISSN:1758-678X
Bathymetry constrains ocean heat supply to Greenland’s largest glacier tongue
Janin Schaffer•Torsten Kanzow•Wilken-Jon von Appen•Luisa von Albedyll•Jan Erik Arndt等 6 人
Nature Geoscience
2020
•2020/2/3
•Vol.13 No.3 p.227-231
Mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet has increased over the past two decades, currently accounting for 25% of global sea-level rise. This is due to increased surface melt driven by atmospheric warming and the retreat and acceleration of marine-terminating glaciers forced by oceanic heat transport....
Cryospheric scienceOcean sciencesPhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41561-019-0529-X
ISSN:1752-0894
Seasonal catchment memory of high mountain rivers in the Tibetan Plateau
Haiting Gu•Yue-Ping Xu•Li Liu•Jingkai Xie•Lu Wang等 7 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/6/1
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-14
Rivers originating in the Tibetan Plateau are crucial to the population in Asia. However, research about quantifying seasonal catchment memory of these rivers is still limited. Here, we propose a model able to accurately estimate terrestrial water storage change (TWSC), and characterize catchment me...
Hydrology
10.1038/S41467-023-38966-9
ISSN:2041-1723
Enhanced glacial lake activity threatens numerous communities and infrastructure in the Third Pole
Taigang Zhang•Weicai Wang•Baosheng An•Lele Wei
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/12/12
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-12
Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are among the most severe cryospheric hazards in the Third Pole, encompassing the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding Himalayas, Hindu Kush, and Tianshan Mountains. Recent studies on glacial lake changes and GLOF characteristics and risks in this region have shown sc...
GeographyNatural hazards
10.1038/S41467-023-44123-Z
ISSN:2041-1723
Human expansion into Asian highlands in the 21st Century and its effects
Yang Chao•Liu Huizeng•Li Qingquan•Wang Xuqing•Ma Wei等 21 人
Nature Communications
2022
•2022/8/24
•Vol.13 No.1 p.1-12
Most intensive human activities occur in lowlands. However, sporadic reports indicate that human activities are expanding in some Asian highlands. Here we investigate the expansions of human activities in highlands and their effects over Asia from 2000 to 2020 by combining earth observation data and...
Environmental impactInterdisciplinary studiesSustainability
10.1038/S41467-022-32648-8
ISSN:2041-1723
Hybrid nature–infrastructure adaptation shapes multidecadal mangrove–shoreline dynamics in a tropical delta
Thuong V. Tran•Ruth Reef•Xuan Zhu•Phuong D. Dao
Communications Earth & Environment
2026
•2026/3/19
0Coastal deltas are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to sea-level rise, sediment deprivation, and human intervention, threatening both ecological stability and millions of lives. Ensuring their long-term sustainability requires understanding how natural ecosystems interact with engineered infrast...
Environmental impactForestryNatural hazards
10.1038/S43247-026-03402-5
ISSN:2662-4435
Monsoon-driven waves induce a prevailing recession in mangrove forests across the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta
Yuan Xiong•Zhijun Dai•Chuqi Long•Xuefei Mei•Jinping Cheng等 8 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2026
•2026/3/24
0The role of monsoon-induced wave action in driving mangrove loss in deltaic settings remains underexplored in comparison with the role of anthropogenic activities. Here, we reveal that the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta (GBMD), the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem within a monsoon-dominated regio...
BiogeographyEnvironmental impactGeographyTropical ecologyWetlands ecology
10.1038/S43247-026-03397-Z
ISSN:2662-4435
Resolving the changing pace of Arctic rivers
Emily C. Geyman•Michael P. Lamb
Nature Climate Change
2025
•2025/12/24
•00 p.1-10
Arctic rivers mobilize vast stocks of permafrost carbon as they migrate across floodplains. However, there is no consensus about whether Arctic rivers are responding to regional warming by speeding up or slowing down. Here we reconstruct migration rates over the period 1972–2020 for Arctic and sub-A...
Cryospheric scienceHydrology
10.1038/S41558-025-02512-W
ISSN:1758-678X
Assessing half a century of asymmetric geomorphological change in the Sino-Vietnamese International Boundary River: challenges and pathways for sustainable management
Guanhai Gu•Shengquan Lu•Bin Wu•Wenzhu Zhang
Humanities And Social Sciences Communications
2026
•2026/3/21
0International Boundary Rivers (IBRs) are politically sensitive natural resources, with dynamic evolution that can cause water resource conflicts and territorial disputes between nations. However, due to insufficient attention, quantitative analysis of the long-term dynamics of IBRs and their impacts...
Environmental studiesGeography
10.1057/S41599-026-06599-0
ISSN:2662-9992
Climate change accelerates the evolution of reorganized river-lake systems on the Tibetan Plateau
Xinya Kuang•Shanlong Lu•Liping Zhu•Jiahua Wei•Yuxiang Cui等 9 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/10/29
•Vol.6 No.1 p.1-12
Climate change is increasingly destabilizing hydrological systems in cold regions, driving lake and river drainage reorganization with profound ecological and socio-economic impacts. Here we investigate intensified hydrological changes in the Zonag and Yanhu Lake drainage basins, located in the Hoh ...
Climate sciencesEcologyHydrologyLimnology
10.1038/S43247-025-02865-2
ISSN:2662-4435
Ocean-bottom and surface seismometers reveal continuous glacial tremor and slip
Evgeny A. Podolskiy•Yoshio Murai•Naoya Kanna•Shin Sugiyama
Nature Communications
2021
•2021/6/24
•Vol.12 No.1 p.1-11
Shearing along subduction zones, laboratory experiments on analogue faults, and sliding along glacier beds are all associated with aseismic and co-seismic slip. In this study, an ocean-bottom seismometer is deployed near the terminus of a Greenlandic tidewater glacier, effectively insulating the sig...
Cryospheric scienceSeismology
10.1038/S41467-021-24142-4
ISSN:2041-1723
Co-seismic eruption and intermittent turbulence of a subglacial discharge plume revealed by continuous subsurface observations in Greenland
Evgeny A. Podolskiy•Naoya Kanna•Shin Sugiyama
Communications Earth & Environment
2021
•2021/3/25
•Vol.2 No.1 p.1-16
In the Arctic, subglacial discharge plumes have been recently recognised as a key driver of fjord-scale circulation. However, owing to the danger that accompanies prolonged observations at plumes, no time-series data are available. Here, we present results showing the chaotic and irregular dynamics ...
Cryospheric scienceLimnologyPhysical oceanographySeismology
10.1038/S43247-021-00132-8
ISSN:2662-4435
Enhancing watershed management through adaptive source apportionment under a changing environment
Wenzhuo Wang•Guowangcheng Liu•Yuhan Zhang•Mingjing Wang•Yan Pan等 9 人
Npj Clean Water
2024
•2024/4/11
•Vol.7 No.1 p.1-11
Effective watershed management hinges on understanding water sources and pollution origins. In the Hangbu Watershed of Chaohu Lake, China, we analyze pollution source patterns and propose an adaptive strategy. This adaptive strategy is defined as a flexible and dynamic approach that adjusts manageme...
Environmental sciencesHydrologyWater resources
10.1038/S41545-024-00325-6
ISSN:2059-7037
Subglacial discharge controls seasonal variations in the thermal structure of a glacial lake in Patagonia
Sugiyama Shin•Minowa Masahiro•Fukamachi Yasushi•Hata Shuntaro•Yamamoto Yoshihiro等 8 人
Nature Communications
2021
•2021/11/2
•Vol.12 No.1 p.1-9
Water temperature in glacial lakes affects underwater melting and calving of glaciers terminating in lakes. Despite its importance, seasonal lake temperature variations are poorly understood because taking long-term measurements near the front of calving glaciers is challenging. To investigate the t...
Cryospheric scienceHydrologyLimnology
10.1038/S41467-021-26578-0
ISSN:2041-1723
Accelerating glacier volume loss on Juneau Icefield driven by hypsometry and melt-accelerating feedbacks
Bethan Davies•Robert McNabb•Jacob Bendle•Jonathan Carrivick•Jeremy Ely等 10 人
Nature Communications
2024
•2024/7/2
•Vol.15 No.1 p.1-19
Globally, glaciers and icefields contribute significantly to sea level rise. Here we show that ice loss from Juneau Icefield, a plateau icefield in Alaska, accelerated after 2005 AD. Rates of area shrinkage were 5 times faster from 2015–2019 than from 1979–1990. Glacier volume loss remained fairly c...
Climate changeCryospheric science
10.1038/S41467-024-49269-Y
ISSN:2041-1723
A framework for tracing the sources of nitrate in surface water through remote sensing data coupled with machine learning
Di Tian•Xinfeng Zhao•Lei Gao•Tao Jiang•Zuobing Liang等 16 人
Npj Clean Water
2025
•2025/5/21
•Vol.8 No.1 p.1-13
As an integral component of the global nitrogen cycle, nitrate are readily transferred from urban sewage discharge, agricultural activities, and atmospheric sedimentation to surface water. This paper introduces an innovative framework that combines multi-source remote sensing technology with stable ...
Environmental monitoringGeochemistry
10.1038/S41545-025-00473-3
ISSN:2059-7037
Climate-driven decoupling of wetland and upland biomass trends on the mid-Atlantic coast
Chen Yaping•Kirwan Matthew L.
Nature Geoscience
2022
•2022/10/6
•Vol.15 No.11 p.913-918
Coastal ecosystems represent a disproportionately large but vulnerable global carbon sink. Sea-level-driven tidal wetland degradation and upland forest mortality threaten coastal carbon pools, but responses of the broader coastal landscape to interacting facets of climate change remain poorly unders...
Carbon cycleClimate-change impacts
10.1038/S41561-022-01041-X
ISSN:1752-0894
Satellite record reveals 1960s acceleration of Totten Ice Shelf in East Antarctica
Rongxing Li•Yuan Cheng•Tian Chang•David E. Gwyther•Martin Forbes等 11 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/7/10
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-9
Wilkes Land and Totten Glacier (TG) in East Antarctica (EA) have been losing ice mass significantly since 1989. There is a lack of knowledge of long-term mass balance in the region which hinders the estimation of its contribution to global sea level rise. Here we show that this acceleration trend in...
Cryospheric scienceHydrology
10.1038/S41467-023-39588-X
ISSN:2041-1723
Increasing river sediment concentration and flux across the pan-Arctic
Shang Tian•Dongfeng Li•Ting Zhang•James W. McClelland•Irina Overeem等 14 人
Nature Geoscience
2026
•2026/4/13
•00 p.1-8
Arctic rivers transport water, sediment and carbon, playing a central role in coastal stability and biogeochemical cycling. Although freshwater discharge to the Arctic Ocean has increased in recent decades, limited observations have hindered system-wide assessment of long-term, reach-level sediment ...
BiogeochemistryHydrology
10.1038/S41561-026-01960-Z
ISSN:1752-0894
Daily air temperature estimates at 30-meter resolution in the Chongqing Metropolitan Area, China, 2016–2024
Wan Zhou•Shiqi Yang•Hao Zhu•Zhiqiang Liu•Meiyan Zhao等 6 人
Scientific Data
2026
•2026/4/22
0High-resolution air temperature (Ta) data are essential for environmental monitoring, public health evaluation, and urban climate adaptation, particularly in mountainous megacities with sharp spatial gradients. This study presents a gridded daily Ta dataset at 30 m resolution for the Chongqing Metro...
Atmospheric scienceClimate sciencesEnvironmental sciences
10.1038/S41597-026-07256-6
ISSN:2052-4463
Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake
Gen K. Li•A. Joshua West•Zhangdong Jin•Hongrui Qiu•Fei Zhang等 13 人
Nature
2025
•2025/8/13
•Vol.644 No.8076 p.398-403
Large earthquakes induce widespread landslides that fill river channels with sediment1,2, generating long-lasting fluvial hazards and reshaping mountain topography. However, riverine sediment fluxes after earthquakes remain poorly resolved, mostly because of a lack of data on bedload flux3,4. Here w...
GeomorphologyNatural hazards
10.1038/S41586-025-09354-8
ISSN:0028-0836
Sea-level-driven land conversion amplified by coastal agriculture
Grace D. Molino•Yaping Chen•Grace C. Levins•Matthew L. Kirwan
Nature Sustainability
2026
•2026/5/18
•00 p.1-9
Sea-level rise (SLR) and saltwater intrusion are driving large-scale ecosystem retreat along economically valuable coasts. However, it remains unclear how human interventions influence climate-driven processes, especially in rural areas. Sea-level-driven land use change is typically modelled as a bi...
AgroecologyAgricultureClimate change
10.1038/S41893-026-01835-6
ISSN:2398-9629
Half a century of dynamic instability following the ocean-driven break-up of Wordie Ice Shelf
Mads Dømgaard•Romain Millan•Jonas K. Andersen•Bernd Scheuchl•Eric Rignot等 8 人
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/4/29
•Vol.16 No.1 p.1-11
Ice shelves restrain grounded ice discharge into the ocean, and their break-up contributes significantly to Antarctica’s sea level rise. Using aerial imagery from the 1960s and modern satellite data, we construct a long-term record of Wordie Ice Shelf’s disintegration and its effects on tributary gl...
Climate-change impactsCryospheric science
10.1038/S41467-025-59293-1
ISSN:2041-1723
Mapping the forest disturbance regimes of Europe
Cornelius Senf•Rupert Seidl
Nature Sustainability
2020
•2020/9/14
•Vol.4 No.1 p.63-70
Changes in forest disturbances can have strong impacts on forests, yet we lack consistent data on Europe’s forest disturbance regimes and their changes over time. Here we used satellite data to map three decades of forest disturbances across continental Europe, and analysed the patterns and trends i...
Forest ecologyGeography
10.1038/S41893-020-00609-Y
ISSN:2398-9629
Forest disturbance decreased in China from 1986 to 2020 despite regional variations
Liu Zhihua•Wang Wen J.•Ballantyne Ashley•He Hong S.•Wang Xugao等 17 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2023
•2023/1/16
•Vol.4 No.1 p.1-9
Human activities have altered disturbance patterns in many parts of world, but there is no quantitative information on patterns and trends of forest disturbance regimes in China. We applied a spectral-temporal segmentation approach over all available Landsat data to map individual disturbance patche...
Climate changeEcology
10.1038/S43247-023-00676-X
ISSN:2662-4435
Variability in interseismic strain accumulation rate and style along the Altyn Tagh Fault
Lin Shen•Andrew Hooper•John R. Elliott•Tim J. Wright
Nature Communications
2024
•2024/8/11
•Vol.15 No.1 p.1-12
Major strike-slip faults that develop between strong and weaker regions are thought to focus along narrow shear zones at the rheological boundary. Here we present the InSAR-derived velocity field spanning almost the entire length of one such fault, the 1600 km-long Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF), and analys...
GeologyGeophysicsNatural hazardsTectonics
10.1038/S41467-024-51116-Z
ISSN:2041-1723
Late Cenozoic climate change paces landscape adjustments to Yukon River capture
Adrian M. Bender•Richard O. Lease•Lee B. Corbett•Paul R. Bierman•Marc W. Caffee等 6 人
Nature Geoscience
2020
•2020/7/20
•Vol.13 No.8 p.571-575
Late Cenozoic cooling and changes in glacial–interglacial cycle tempo are thought to increase global rates of erosion starting ~3 million years ago (Ma). Bedrock rivers set rates and patterns of erosion in most landscapes, but constraints on river response to late Cenozoic climate change remain elus...
GeochemistryGeomorphologyHydrologyPalaeoclimateTectonics
10.1038/S41561-020-0611-4
ISSN:1752-0894
Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ocean warming
Jamison M. Gove•Gareth J. Williams•Joey Lecky•Eric Brown•Eric Conklin等 20 人
Nature
2023
•2023/8/9
•00 p.1-7
Coral reef ecosystems are being fundamentally restructured by local human impacts and climate-driven marine heatwaves that trigger mass coral bleaching and mortality1. Reducing local impacts can increase reef resistance to and recovery from bleaching2. However, resource managers lack clear advice on...
Climate-change ecologyCommunity ecology
10.1038/S41586-023-06394-W
ISSN:0028-0836
Incorporating compound temporal precipitation dynamics to enhance landslide susceptibility modeling
Jingjing Wang•Jidong Wu•Hao Fang•Ming Wang
Npj Natural Hazards
2026
•2026/2/20
•Vol.3 No.1 p.180
Precipitation plays a crucial role in landslides, which most studies have disregarded the impact of compound temporal precipitation. Here, we developed models that incorporate compound temporal precipitation, constructed by jointly characterizing long-term accumulated precipitation and short-term pr...
Climate sciencesEnvironmental sciencesHydrologyNatural hazards
10.1038/S44304-026-00181-Z
ISSN:2948-2100
Biodiversity regulates the asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature
Ziyin Liao•Chaoqun Zhang•Yixiao Wang•Jianping Wu•Wenting Yan等 6 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/12/6
0Land surface temperature (LST) responses to forest gain and loss are highly asymmetric, with stronger cooling per unit gain than warming per unit loss, particularly in tropical and temperate regions. Although this asymmetry has been documented, the mechanisms underlying its spatial heterogeneity rem...
Climate-change ecologyForest ecology
10.1038/S43247-025-03048-9
ISSN:2662-4435
Progressively smaller glacier lake outburst floods despite worldwide growth in lake area
Georg Veh•Björn G. Wang•Anika Zirzow•Christoph Schmidt•Natalie Lützow等 11 人
Nature Water
2025
•2025/2/18
•00 p.1-13
Glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) may originate from larger lakes as these continue to grow with ongoing glacier retreat; however, this perception remains poorly supported in available GLOF databases. Here we mapped the areas of 1,686 glacier lakes, just before they drained, across 13 glaciated m...
Cryospheric scienceHydrologyNatural hazards
10.1038/S44221-025-00388-W
ISSN:2731-6084
Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure
Nathan J. Teder•Luke G. Bennetts•Phillip A. Reid•Robert A. Massom•Jordan P. A. Pitt等 7 人
Nature Geoscience
2025
•2025/7/1
•Vol.18 No.7 p.599-606
The retreat of Antarctic ice shelves due to calving and the subsequent reduction in buttressing of the Antarctic Ice Sheet are of major concern for future sea-level rise. Sudden, widespread calving of weakened ice shelves has been linked to fracture amplification forced by ocean swell following regi...
Climate changeCryospheric sciencePhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41561-025-01713-4
ISSN:1752-0894
Widespread longitudinal snow dunes in Antarctica shaped by sintering
Marine Poizat•Ghislain Picard•Laurent Arnaud•Clément Narteau•Charles Amory等 6 人
Nature Geoscience
2024
•2024/8/23
•00 p.1-7
The surface of Antarctica is continuously shaped by erosion, blowing snow and deposition, resulting in diverse aeolian bedforms akin to those observed in subtropical sand deserts. However, although dunes are universally recognized as a climate and environmental proxy, the properties of snow dunes ar...
Cryospheric scienceGeomorphology
10.1038/S41561-024-01506-1
ISSN:1752-0894
Evidence of supershear during the 2018 magnitude 7.5 Palu earthquake from space geodesy
Anne Socquet•James Hollingsworth•Erwan Pathier•Michel Bouchon
Nature Geoscience
2019
•2019/2/4
•Vol.12 No.3 p.192-199
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit the city of Palu in Sulawesi, Indonesia on 28 September 2018 at 10:02:43 (coordinated universal time). It was followed a few minutes later by a 4–7-m-high tsunami. Palu is situated in a narrow pull-apart basin surrounded by high mountains of up to 2,000 m altitude. Thi...
Natural hazardsSeismologyTectonics
10.1038/S41561-018-0296-0
ISSN:1752-0894
Iceberg-driven constraints on colony–foraging connectivity result in severe decline in chick counts for the Coulman Island emperor penguin colony
Jinku Park•Jong-U Kim•Youmin Kim•Yongsik Jeong•Younggeun Oh等 7 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2026
•2026/7/23
•Vol.7 No.1 p.5980
Emperor penguin populations are vulnerable not only to regional sea-ice variability but also to localized physical disturbances that affect access to breeding colonies. Here we document an approximate 69% decline in springtime chick counts at Coulman Island in 2025, based on integrated multi-satelli...
Ecosystem ecologyEnvironmental impact
10.1038/S43247-026-03764-W
ISSN:2662-4435
Quantifying land-use metrics for solar photovoltaic projects in the western United States
Siyuan Hu•Yinong Sun•Rebecca R. Hernandez•Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu•Vishal M. Patel等 6 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/12/15
•Vol.6 No.1 p.10060
Growth in solar photovoltaic capacity supports grid decarbonization but can result in land transformation. Quantifying land–solar interactions is hampered by inconsistent methods and data. We develop a consistent, replicable framework to quantify land-solar interactions and apply it t...
Energy supply and demandEnvironmental impactSustainability
10.1038/S43247-025-02862-5
ISSN:2662-4435
An assessment of urbanization sustainability in China between 1990 and 2015 using land use efficiency indicators
Huiping Jiang•Zhongchang Sun•Huadong Guo•Qihao Weng•Wenjie Du等 7 人
Npj Urban Sustainability
2021
•2021/7/5
•Vol.1 No.1 p.1-13
The sustainability of China’s rapid urbanization is of significance in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Here we integrated Earth observation and census data to estimate the relationship between land, population and economic domains of urbanization in 433 cities over...
Environmental impactSustainability
10.1038/S42949-021-00032-Y
ISSN:2661-8001
Development of ice-shelf estuaries promotes fractures and calving
Boghosian Alexandra L.•Pitcher Lincoln H.•Smith Laurence C.•Kosh Elena•Alexander Patrick M.等 7 人
Nature Geoscience
2021
•2021/12/3
•Vol.14 No.12 p.899-905
As the global climate warms, increased surface meltwater production on ice shelves may trigger ice-shelf collapse and enhance global sea-level rise. The formation of surface rivers could help prevent ice-shelf collapse if they can efficiently evacuate meltwater. Here we present observations of the e...
Cryospheric scienceHydrologyLimnologyOcean sciences
10.1038/S41561-021-00837-7
ISSN:1752-0894
Heterogeneous changes in global glacial lakes under coupled climate warming and glacier thinning
Taigang Zhang•Weicai Wang•Baosheng An
Communications Earth & Environment
2024
•2024/7/13
•Vol.5 No.1 p.1-9
Global glacial lakes have expanded markedly in recent decades, accompanied by many catastrophic glacial lake outburst floods. However, our understanding of glacial lake evolution and connections with global warming and glacier thinning remains insufficient due to fragmented studies and a lack of sta...
Cryospheric scienceNatural hazards
10.1038/S43247-024-01544-Y
ISSN:2662-4435
The state of rock debris covering Earth’s glaciers
Sam Herreid•Francesca Pellicciotti
Nature Geoscience
2020
•2020/8/3
•Vol.13 No.9 p.621-627
Rock debris can accumulate on glacier surfaces and dramatically reduce glacier melt. The structure of a debris cover is unique to each glacier and sensitive to climate. Despite this, debris cover has been omitted from global glacier models and forecasts of their response to a changing climate. Funda...
Cryospheric scienceGeomorphologyProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41561-020-0615-0
ISSN:1752-0894
Rapid iceberg calving following removal of tightly packed pro-glacial mélange
Surui Xie•Timothy H. Dixon•David M. Holland•Denis Voytenko•Irena Vaňková
Nature Communications
2019
•2019/7/19
•Vol.10 No.1 p.1-15
Iceberg calving is a major contributor to Greenland’s ice mass loss. Pro-glacial mélange (a mixture of sea ice, icebergs, and snow) may be tightly packed in the long, narrow fjords that front many marine-terminating glaciers and can reduce calving by buttressing. However, data limitations have hampe...
Cryospheric sciencePhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41467-019-10908-4
ISSN:2041-1723
High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming
Taigang Zhang•Weicai Wang•Ioannis Kougkoulos•Simon J. Cook•Sihan Li等 9 人
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/12/17
•Vol.16 No.1 p.111730
Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) represent a major hazard in mountain regions, yet considerable uncertainty persists regarding whether their frequency has increased in recent decades and to what extent this trend is linked to climate change. Here, we developed a new inventory of GLOFs from morai...
Cryospheric scienceNatural hazards
10.1038/S41467-025-67650-3
ISSN:2041-1723