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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality from all causes in 2020 varied across and within European countries. Using data for 2015–2019, we applied Bayesian spatio-temporal models to quantify the expected weekly deaths at the regional level had the pandemic not occurred in England, Gre...
EpidemiologyRisk factorsSARS-CoV-2Viral infection
10.1038/S41467-022-28157-3
ISSN:2041-1723
Anthropogenic enhancement of subsurface soil moisture droughts
Yansong Guan•Xihui Gu•Aiguo Dai•Tianjun Zhou•Xing Yuan等 15 人
Nature Climate Change
2025
•2025/11/14
•00 p.1-8
Anthropogenic climate change has exacerbated soil moisture droughts globally, yet this exacerbation in their spatiotemporal evolution in terms of soil vertical structure remains unclear. Here we propose a Lagrangian four-dimensional tracking framework to identify a type of spatial (horizontal and ve...
AttributionHydrology
10.1038/S41558-025-02458-Z
ISSN:1758-678X
A hybrid framework for sub-seasonal to seasonal streamflow prediction: integrating numerical and statistical models
Lingfeng Li•Huan Wu•Lulu Jiang•Yiwen Mei•John S. Kimball等 12 人
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
•2025/11/28
0Sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) precipitation forecasting has long been regarded as a “forecasting desert” due to limited skill beyond seven lead days, undermining downstream hydrological forecasts. However, the higher predictability of streamflow compared to precipitation, and its disproportionate i...
Hydrology
10.1038/S41612-025-01273-9
ISSN:2397-3722
Socioeconomic and energy transition disparities in air pollution-related mortality across Europe
Zhao-Yue Chen•Hicham Achebak•Wenzhong Huang•Blanca Paniello-Castillo•Hervé Petetin等 8 人
Nature Medicine
2026
•2026/3/19
•00 p.1-11
Marked socioeconomic divides and unequal advances in renewable energy transition across Europe have raised concerns about widening inequalities in air pollution exposure and related health risks. Here we analyzed 88.8 million deaths across 653 contiguous regions in 31 European countries, encompassin...
Risk factorsSocial sciences
10.1038/S41591-026-04293-X
ISSN:1078-8956
Potential for surprising heat and drought events in wheat-producing regions of USA and China
Erin Coughlan de Perez•Hamsa Ganapathi•Gibbon I. T. Masukwedza•Timothy Griffin•Timo Kelder
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2023
•2023/6/2
•Vol.6 No.1 p.1-10
Previous analyses of the possibility of global breadbasket failures have extrapolated risks based on historical relationships between climate and yields. However, climate change is causing unprecedented events globally, which could exceed critical thresholds and reduce yields, even if there is no hi...
AgricultureClimate and Earth system modellingClimate-change impacts
10.1038/S41612-023-00361-Y
ISSN:2397-3722
Ambient temperature and emergency department visits for mental disorder before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Keyu Wu•Junwei Yan•Min Yang•Qiyue Wu•Hao Zheng等 13 人
Nature Mental Health
2024
•2024/2/5
•00 p.1-9
Ambient temperature and the COVID-19 pandemic have both been increasingly associated with mental health issues in many regions of the world, but little is known about the potential role of this pandemic in modifying the association between increased temperature and effects on mental health disorders...
Risk factorsSchizophrenia
10.1038/S44220-023-00193-Y
ISSN:2731-6076
Fallowed agricultural lands dominate anthropogenic dust sources in California
Adeyemi A. Adebiyi•Md. Minhazul Kibria•John T. Abatzoglou•Paul Ginoux•Satyendra Pandey等 8 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/4/26
•Vol.6 No.1 p.1-14
Air pollution remains a major problem in many parts of California, significantly impacting public health and regional climate. However, the contribution of anthropogenic dust from agricultural sources, among major pollutants in California’s semi-arid Central Valley, remains largely unclear. Here, we...
Climate sciencesEnvironmental sciences
10.1038/S43247-025-02306-0
ISSN:2662-4435
Energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs
Jin Yubin•Hu Shijie•Ziegler Alan D.•Gibson Luke•Campbell J. Elliott等 12 人
Nature Sustainability
2023
•2023/3/13
•00 p.1-10
Growing global energy use and the adoption of sustainability goals to limit carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning are increasing the demand for clean energy, including solar. Floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems on reservoirs are advantageous over traditional ground-mounted solar systems in terms...
HydrologySolar energyWater resources
10.1038/S41893-023-01089-6
ISSN:2398-9629
Northern ecosystem productivity reduced by Rossby-wave-driven hot–dry conditions
Xu Lian•Yangmingkai Li•Jiangong Liu•Kai Kornhuber•Pierre Gentine
Nature Geoscience
2025
•2025/6/16
•00 p.1-9
Large-scale quasi-stationary Rossby waves in the tropospheric jet stream favour spatially compounding hot–dry and cold–wet weather across the northern hemisphere. However, how this circumglobal circulation pattern affects northern hemisphere ecosystem productivity remains unexplored. Here, using sat...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate-change impactsEcosystem ecology
10.1038/S41561-025-01722-3
ISSN:1752-0894
Super-resolution wind mapping with deep learning for scalable renewable energy planning
Jun-Wei Ding•I-Yun Lisa Hsieh
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/12/11
0Accurate wind information is crucial for expanding renewable energy, yet achieving high spatial resolution and accuracy simultaneously remains challenging. This challenge is intensified in regions with sparse surface observations, where uneven station coverage can bias model assessment. Here we pres...
Energy managementEnergy supply and demand
10.1038/S43247-025-03072-9
ISSN:2662-4435
High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s
Atanu Bhattacharya•Tobias Bolch•Kriti Mukherjee•Owen King•Brian Menounos等 9 人
Nature Communications
2021
•2021/7/5
•Vol.12 No.1 p.1-13
Knowledge about the long-term response of High Mountain Asian glaciers to climatic variations is paramount because of their important role in sustaining Asian river flow. Here, a satellite-based time series of glacier mass balance for seven climatically different regions across High Mountain Asia si...
Climate sciencesCryospheric science
10.1038/S41467-021-24180-Y
ISSN:2041-1723
Regulation of humid heat by urban green space across a climate wetness gradient
Yichen Yang•Chang Cao•Ivan Bogoev•Cosima Deetman•Grace Dietz等 15 人
Nature Cities
2024
•2024/11/12
•00 p.1-9
Green spaces are a common strategy for adaptation to urban warming. Whereas they have been demonstrated to reduce air temperature, much less is known about their effect on air humidity. Because human heat stress is contributed by both temperature and humidity, it is important to quantify the relatio...
Climate sciencesEnvironmental sciences
10.1038/S44284-024-00157-Y
ISSN:2731-9997
Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs
Achille Jouberton•Thomas E. Shaw•Evan Miles•Marin Kneib•Stefan Fugger等 13 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/9/2
•Vol.6 No.1 p.1-12
Central Asia hosts some of the world’s last relatively healthy mountain glaciers and is heavily dependent on snow and ice melt for downstream water supply, though the causes of this stable glacier state are not known. We combine recent in-situ observations, climate reanalysis and remote sensing data...
Cryospheric scienceHydrology
10.1038/S43247-025-02611-8
ISSN:2662-4435
Large contribution of antecedent climate to ecosystem productivity anomalies during extreme events
Jinghao Qiu•Yao Zhang•Mengyang Cai•Trevor F. Keenan•Hongying Zhang等 10 人
Nature Geoscience
2025
•2025/11/21
•00 p.1-8
Ecosystems are not only affected by current climate but are also shaped by antecedent climate through their influences on vegetation growth and environmental conditions. These lagged responses, known as memory effects, can either exacerbate or mitigate the impacts of climate extremes on ecosystem fu...
Climate-change impactsEcosystem ecology
10.1038/S41561-025-01856-4
ISSN:1752-0894
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 2021
Yulong Zhong•Baoming Tian•Hyunglok Kim•Xing Yuan•Xinyue Liu等 9 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/1/27
•Vol.6 No.1 p.1-10
The crucial role of precipitation as a primary driver for terrestrial water cycle is well-established. However, quantifying the transformation of daily precipitation into terrestrial water storage remains a challenge. Here we address this by introducing a quantitative metric, average daily fraction ...
HydrologyWater resources
10.1038/S43247-024-01967-7
ISSN:2662-4435
Airborne eDNA captures three decades of ecosystem biodiversity
Alexis R. Sullivan•Edvin Karlsson•Daniel Svensson•Björn Brindefalk•Jose Antonio Villegas等 18 人
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/12/18
•Vol.16 No.1 p.112810
Biodiversity loss threatens ecosystems and human well-being, making accurate, large-scale monitoring crucial. Environmental DNA (eDNA) has enabled species detection from substrates such as water, without the need for direct observation. Lately, airborne eDNA has been showing promise for tracking org...
BiodiversityMolecular ecology
10.1038/S41467-025-67676-7
ISSN:2041-1723
Increased early-season productivity drives earlier peak of vegetation photosynthesis across the Northern Hemisphere
Zunchi Liu•Yongshuo H. Fu•Deliang Chen•Thomas W. Crowther•Ruiqiang Ding等 10 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/2/27
•Vol.6 No.1 p.1-11
Changes in vegetation carbon uptake are largely influenced by the timing and magnitude of the peak of the growing season (POS), when vegetation photosynthesis reaches its maximum. However, the factors controlling the timing of POS remain poorly understood, leaving us uncertain about its future traje...
Carbon cyclePhenology
10.1038/S43247-025-02104-8
ISSN:2662-4435
Constrained Earth system models show a stronger reduction in future Northern Hemisphere snowmelt water
Yuanfang Chai•Chiyuan Miao•Pierre Gentine•Lawrence Mudryk•Chad W. Thackeray等 11 人
Nature Climate Change
2025
•2025/3/28
•00 p.1-7
Although Earth system models (ESMs) tend to overestimate historical land surface warming, they also overestimate snow amounts in the Northern Hemisphere. By combining ground-based datasets and ESMs, we find that this paradoxical phenomenon is predominantly driven by an overestimation of light snowfa...
Climate and Earth system modellingCryospheric science
10.1038/S41558-025-02308-Y
ISSN:1758-678X
Extreme terrestrial heat in 2024
Roshan Jha•Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick•Deepti Singh•Joyce Kimutai•Renata Libonati等 6 人
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/4/11
•Vol.6 No.4 p.234-236
2024 shattered temperature records, surpassing 2023’s historic highs to become the warmest year ever recorded. Extreme heatwaves hit West Africa in February, South America and Eastern Europe in March, Southeast Asia in April, and Mexico in June.
Atmospheric scienceClimate change
10.1038/S43017-025-00661-2
ISSN:2662-138X
Heat-related mortality in Europe during 2024 and health emergency forecasting to reduce preventable deaths
Tomáš Janoš•Marcos Quijal-Zamorano•Natalia Shartova•Elisa Gallo•Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates等 8 人
Nature Medicine
2025
•2025/9/22
•00 p.1-10
Successive record-breaking summer temperatures, both globally and in Europe, raise the urgent question of how to better protect vulnerable populations. Here we quantified the heat-related mortality burden during the summers of 2022–2024, and assessed the forecast skill of a new generation of contine...
EpidemiologyHealth policyRisk factors
10.1038/S41591-025-03954-7
ISSN:1078-8956
Widespread global exacerbation of extreme drought induced by urbanization
Shuzhe Huang•Siqi Wang•Yuan Gan•Chao Wang•Daniel E. Horton等 10 人
Nature Cities
2024
•2024/8/7
•00 p.1-13
Urbanization exerts considerable impact on ecological, environmental and meteorological processes and systems. However, the effects of urbanization on local drought remain under-explored. Here we characterize the effects of urbanization on drought across the world’s cities using global weather stati...
Climate sciencesEnvironmental impactNatural hazards
10.1038/S44284-024-00102-Z
ISSN:2731-9997
Disproportionate impact of atmospheric heat events on lake surface water temperature increases
Xiwen Wang•Kun Shi•Boqiang Qin•Yunlin Zhang•R. Iestyn Woolway
Nature Climate Change
2024
•2024/9/17
•00 p.1-6
Hot temperature extremes (HTEs) in the atmosphere can also affect lake surface water temperature, but how this impact changes with global warming is not well understood. Here we use numerical modelling and satellite observations to quantify the contribution of HTEs to variations in summer lake surfa...
Limnology
10.1038/S41558-024-02122-Y
ISSN:1758-678X
Streamflow seasonality in a snow-dwindling world
Juntai Han•Ziwei Liu•Ross Woods•Tim R. McVicar•Dawen Yang等 10 人
Nature
2024
•2024/5/29
•Vol.629 No.8014 p.1075-1081
Climate warming induces shifts from snow to rain in cold regions1, altering snowpack dynamics with consequent impacts on streamflow that raise challenges to many aspects of ecosystem services2–4. A straightforward conceptual model states that as the fraction of precipitation falling as snow (snowfal...
Cryospheric scienceHydrology
10.1038/S41586-024-07299-Y
ISSN:0028-0836
Mortality from short-term exposure to particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone across Europe
Zhao-Yue Chen•Hicham Achebak•Hervé Petetin•Wenzhong Huang•Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates等 10 人
Nature Health
2026
•2026/5/13
•00 p.1-12
While the long-term health impacts of air pollution are well documented, the combined short-term mortality burden of multiple pollutants at the continental scale remains insufficiently quantified. Previous assessments typically assume uniform risks, overlooking geographic and demographic heterogenei...
Environmental studiesRisk factors
10.1038/S44360-026-00124-Y
ISSN:3005-0693
Warming leads to both earlier and later snowmelt floods over the past 70 years
Yuhan Guo•Yuting Yang•Dawen Yang•Lu Zhang•Hongxing Zheng等 9 人
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/4/17
•Vol.16 No.1 p.1-9
Climate warming reduces snow cover in cold regions, altering snowmelt flood regimes with significant hydrological and ecological consequences. Existing evidence indicates that as climate warms, snowmelt tends to begin earlier in the season, leading to earlier snowmelt floods. Here we show that the t...
Hydrology
10.1038/S41467-025-58832-0
ISSN:2041-1723
Flash drought impacts on global ecosystems amplified by extreme heat
Lei Gu•Dominik L. Schumacher•Erich M. Fischer•Louise J. Slater•Jiabo Yin等 9 人
Nature Geoscience
2025
•2025/6/2
•00 p.1-7
Flash droughts—characterized by their rapid onset—can cause devastating socioeconomic and agricultural damage. During such events, soil moisture depletion is driven not only by precipitation shortages but also by the elevated atmospheric moisture demand arising due to extreme heat. However, the role...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate-change ecologyEnvironmental impactHydrologyNatural hazards
10.1038/S41561-025-01719-Y
ISSN:1752-0894
A framework for quantifying hydrologic effects of soil structure across scales
Sara Bonetti•Zhongwang Wei•Dani Or
Communications Earth & Environment
2021
•2021/6/3
•Vol.2 No.1 p.1-10
Earth system models use soil information to parameterize hard-to-measure soil hydraulic properties based on pedotransfer functions. However, current parameterizations rely on sample-scale information which often does not account for biologically-promoted soil structure and heterogeneities in natural...
GeophysicsHydrology
10.1038/S43247-021-00180-0
ISSN:2662-4435
Socio-economic factors impact vulnerability to and burden of heat- and cold-related mortality in Europe
Blanca Paniello-Castillo•Zhao-Yue Chen•Natalia Shartova•Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates•Nadia Beltrán等 9 人
Nature Health
2026
•2026/5/8
•00 p.1-10
Non-optimal temperatures disproportionally affect disadvantaged populations. However, evidence remains limited on how socio-economic disparities differently shape the vulnerability and the associated burden to heat and cold across Europe. We analysed the format-homogeneous daily mortality database o...
Environmental healthEnvironmental studiesRisk factors
10.1038/S44360-026-00106-0
ISSN:3005-0693
Flash droughts exacerbate global vegetation loss and delay recovery
Yuanfang Chai•Chiyuan Miao•Amir AghaKouchak•Yadu Pokhrel•Yongshuo Fu等 9 人
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/12/8
0The increasing incidence of flash droughts globally presents a great challenge to the agriculture sector, ecosystem resilience and water resource systems. Here we introduce a methodology that improves the accuracy of quantifying drought-induced global vegetation loss (using Normalized Difference Veg...
Climate-change ecologyClimate-change impactsHydrology
10.1038/S41467-025-67173-X
ISSN:2041-1723
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations
Martin J. Baur•Andrew D. Friend•Adam F. A. Pellegrini
Nature Geoscience
2024
•2024/11/7
•Vol.17 No.11 p.1115-1120
Wildfire activity and the hydrological cycle are strongly interlinked. While it is well known that wildfire occurrence and intensity are controlled by water availability, less is known about the effects of wildfire on plant and soil water cycling, especially at large scales. Here we investigate this...
Fire ecologyHydrology
10.1038/S41561-024-01563-6
ISSN:1752-0894
Global data-driven prediction of fire activity
Francesca Di Giuseppe•Joe McNorton•Anna Lombardi•Fredrik Wetterhall
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/4/1
•Vol.16 No.1 p.1-12
Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) have expanded the potential use across scientific applications, including weather and hazard forecasting. The ability of these methods to extract information from diverse and novel data types enables the transition from forecasting fire weather, to predic...
Environmental impactNatural hazards
10.1038/S41467-025-58097-7
ISSN:2041-1723
Reliance on fossil fuels increases during extreme temperature events in the continental United States
Wenli Zhao•Biqing Zhu•Steven J. Davis•Philippe Ciais•Chaopeng Hong等 7 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2023
•2023/12/13
•Vol.4 No.1 p.1-11
Increasing extreme climate events driven by climate change raise the question of their impacts on the power production system, and implications for renewable versus fossil power supply. Here, using climate reanalysis data and daily electricity generation (2018–2023), we systematically quantify the i...
Climate-change adaptationClimate-change mitigationClimate-change policyEnergy economics
10.1038/S43247-023-01147-Z
ISSN:2662-4435
Unraveling scale-dependent flood responses to changing climate extremes over the Tibetan Plateau
Xiang Li•Peng Cui•Pengke Shen•Xueqin Zhang
Communications Earth & Environment
2026
•2026/3/18
•Vol.7 No.1 p.2520
Understanding the dynamic interplay between floods and climate extremes in the Tibetan Plateau has long been constrained by scale fragmentation. Here, we elucidate the scale-dependent responses using historical observations and modelling. The average flood day and annual maximum daily discharge are ...
Climate-change impactsNatural hazards
10.1038/S43247-026-03413-2
ISSN:2662-4435
Risk factors associated with heatwave mortality in Chinese adults over 65 years
Di Xi•Linxin Liu•Min Zhang•Cunrui Huang•Katrin G. Burkart等 8 人
Nature Medicine
2024
•2024/3/25
•00 p.1-10
Aging populations are susceptible to heat-related mortality because of physiological factors and comorbidities. However, the understanding of individual vulnerabilities in the aging population is incomplete. In the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we assessed daily heatwave exposure in...
GeriatricsRisk factors
10.1038/S41591-024-02880-4
ISSN:1078-8956
Advancing symbolic regression for earth science with a focus on evapotranspiration modeling
Qingliang Li•Cheng Zhang•Zhongwang Wei•Xiaochun Jin•Wei Shangguan等 12 人
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2024
•2024/12/24
•Vol.7 No.1 p.1-16
Artificial Intelligence (AI) assumes a pivotal role in Earth science, leveraging deep learning’s predictive capabilities. Despite its prevalence, the impact of AI on scientific discovery remains uncertain. In Earth sciences, the emphasis extends beyond mere accuracy, striving for groundbreaking disc...
HydrologyMathematics and computing
10.1038/S41612-024-00861-5
ISSN:2397-3722