🌍Recurring supply security narratives have constrained politically feasible demand side reduction options in European Union raw materials governance over 25 years. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🦌The suitable habitat for mule deer, black bears and cougars shrank by 10-20% during severe drought in the American West, with higher trophic levels more severely affected. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A new paper is out from our group in @commsearth.nature.com that reconstructs the history of oxygen loss in the oceans around the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME). The ETME is one of of the "Big 5" mass extinction that occurred in the Earth in the past half billion years (1/5). ⚒️🧪

Will climate change increase global forest deadwood carbon stocks (because of increasing tree productivity and mortality) or decrease it (because of increased deadwood decomposition)? Find out in the new paper by Edelmann et al., out now in @commsearth.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Solar power can fight poverty and pollution. China’s PV program boosted GDP ~3% and cut SO₂ by ~4 μg/m³ — showing targeted solar projects can spark growth and cleaner air. 🌞📉🌍 🧪🔗Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

▶️AI‑generated #climate #disaster images look persuasive but don’t boost climate action. Across 3 experiments, they raised emotions but also reactance, lower trust, and reduced willingness to act when people suspected the images were AI‑made. 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00092-0

A new cross-journal @natureportfolio.nature.com collection on extreme events in high-latitude regions is now open for submissions (deadline: 20 March 2027). We welcome research on physical mechanisms, environmental impacts, and policy dimensions. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/collections/...

🌊Cyanobacterial blooms don’t just happen — they move with the water. New study from Lower #Yangtze River shows that #DNA‑informed modeling can guide safer water‑diversion strategies and smarter bloom management. 🔗🧪Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

⛅Incorporating regional diversity of aerosol hygroscopicity provides a more accurate representation of aerosol hygroscopicity in climate models. 📽️Check out this video produced by the authors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifx-... 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

💻Developments in generative Artificial Intelligence and society’s perception of its safety shape four distinct scenarios of genAI use, from fast adoption to public backlash, that will shape socio-political challenges for the IPCC. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

💊Antibiotic contamination in global aquatic environment exhibits significant regional disparities with low-and-middle income countries experiencing higher levels of antibiotic pollution. 💧 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌱Natural plant communities undergo a community-scale self‑thinning, with efficient space occupation, intensified competition, and water‑mediated interactions. #biodiversityday @ccmar.bsky.social @marescience.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌠A distinctive osmium isotopic signature linked to the Chicxulub impact marks the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in East Asia, despite partial stratigraphic loss. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📣 New paper from the lab in @commsearth.nature.com: A bacterial-to-fungal richness ratio as a scalable indicator of soil health across Australia — built with autoencoders, explainable AI & structural equation modelling. 🌏🌐🧪🔬 #SoilHealth #SoilScience #Microbiome 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03398-y

🌳The atmosphere over the Amazon rainforest shifts to lower-volatility, potentially more reactive compounds during severe drought, as a defence mechanism. @josephcbyron.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📣 Just out in @commsearth.nature.com Our paper explores the role of tillage in agroecological systems, discussing the trade-offs between carbon, climate and pest management. We recommend moving beyond the simplistic view of 'tillage bad, no-till good'. Open access ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s432...

🤒🥶🌱📉 California’s winter chill problem isn’t “future risk” anymore. Year-to-year temperature swings are already driving crop-damaging chill shortfalls, earlier than expected. 🧪🌍 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌱Location-specific hyperaccumulator plants for rare earth elements that require no deliberate planting, or intensive management can maximize phytoextraction, while converting enriched biomass into products improves commercial viability. 👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🦠Soil microorganisms form a self-organizing planetary life-support system that drives nutrient cycling, stabilizes carbon, supports food production, and generates chemical diversity essential for environmental resilience. 👉Read the latest review article: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide upregulates Calvin cycle and accelerates ferrous iron oxidation, intensifying acidification and mobilization of cadmium and zinc in acid mine drainage by 0.6-2% per 100 ppm increase in carbon dioxide.🧪 👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A new cross-journal @natureportfolio.nature.com collection on carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) is now open for submissions until 16 January 2027. Bringing together science on risks, opportunities, and accountability. Edited by Jay Fuhrman and me go.nature.com/48dU6V8 #CDR #ClimateScience #mCDR 🌊

🌲Climate‑driven shifts in competitive strength show declining dominance of evergreen conifers and rising competitiveness of broadleaved species across Europe. 🌳 Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌊New Paper out!! A red tide in Patagonia moved toxins up the food web —from plankton 🔬🧪🦐 to whales 🐋and sea lions 🦭— causing mortality and showing maternal transfer. The study reveals ecosystem-wide impacts and growing risks under changing ocean conditions.🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📢Direct air capture is often promoted as a climate solution; our resources are limited and where we invest matters ❗ New analysis finds - investing in wind and solar delivers far greater climate and public‑health benefits than investing in DAC. 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00068-0

❄️Cold-region riverbeds erode faster than unfrozen ones as early thaw season water injections enhance subsurface thawing and increase bed erosion, suggesting an increased sensitivity to extreme weather events. 🌡️ 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Our Chief Editor, Heike Langenberg, is at #EGU26 from 4–8 May 🌍 If you're around, please drop by and say hi. She'd be delighted to meet you! 👋 www.egu26.eu

🚢 Ammonia can be part of the solution for cleaner shipping. A new study in our journal shows how the right emissions controls unlock reductions in reactive nitrogen pollution. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌱🫘vs 🍖🥛 We often assume meat and dairy alternatives are better by default. Many studies look at the environment or nutrition, this one looks at both. Important insights to pursue sustainable dietary transitions. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

👩‍🎓Drawing on classroom experience and student feedback, Wang et al argue that grounded inquiry sharpens judgement in Earth science teaching by limiting #AI to set sources and auditing its claims. @yimingvwang.bsky.social @uni-jena.de 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌍Circumpolar Deep Water is increasing in thickness towards Antarctica in the upper 2000m of the Southern Ocean, according to analyses of ship-based observations. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Global research prioritization for peatland science engaged 467 participants from 54 countries, identifying 50 priority research questions across carbon dynamics, climate impacts, restoration and management, technological innovation, and community & policy engagement. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🗻Beneath Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica lies a highly heterogeneous bed of elevated ridges and sediment‑filled basins as well as an active lake, which presents a level of complexity that current models do not fully capture. @olezsng.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌋Advancements in modeling, proxy integration, geochronology, and clarity on the nature of Paleoproterozoic glaciations are essential to improve understanding of the Great Oxidation Event. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🪸Alkalinity enhancement through tile-based local pH modulation can improve early coral recruit survivorship. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌊Icebergs shape Southern Ocean productivity by triggering blooms through micronutrient delivery and sustaining biomass via deep nutrient resupply. 🧪 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

⚒️🌋🌊🦠(🐋)📉❄️ In a new paper we hypothesize that explosive volcanism in the Andes, some ~10–6 million years ago, “fertilized” the nutrient-starved Southern Ocean, with nutrient-rich ash that may have stimulated enormous plankton blooms & marine ecosystem changes. Link: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌊Earthquake‑driven sediment flows deliver anthropogenic pollutants to the Japan Trench, according to geochemical analyses of sediments from seven hadal basins to trace contaminant transport and deposition. 🧪 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌋The presence of a vast magma reservoir, with an estimated 6,000 cubic kilometers of magma, in the continental crust of central Tuscany in Italy, is comparable to the crustal reservoirs found below super volcanos such as Yellowstone. 🧪 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

☀️Only half of atmospheric heatwaves trigger riverine ones because high discharge and meltwater act as buffers while low discharge strengthens the air–river temperature link. @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social @slfdavos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🏞️Nature-positive financial instruments help scale ecosystem-based interventions for climate resilience 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🚨 Submit your work to our open collection on Sustainable strategies for low carbon cement, concrete, and steel. Cross-journal collection with @natcomms.nature.com @commsmat.nature.com @commsearth.nature.com and npj Materials Sustainability @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/collections/...

A collapse of the #AMOC could flip the Southern Ocean from carbon sink to source, potentially adding ~0.2°C of extra global warming, PIK scientists find. In their new study @commsearth.nature.com, they simulated such a collapse under stable climate conditions: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

New Collection Alert: Sustainable strategies for low carbon cement, concrete, and steel In this cross-journal collection, manuscripts advancing efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of cement, concrete, and steel, are welcome. Deadline: 3 January 2027 Details here: www.nature.com/collections/...

🌊The collapse of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation would result in increase of 47–83 ppm of global mean atmospheric carbon dioxide and 0.2°C of additional global warming at higher carbon dioxide background levels.🧪 @pik-potsdam.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌋A large, shallow magma reservoir existed beneath Kikai Caldera after its giant eruption, with evidence that new melt was re-injected into the same reservoir as part of what may be a common post-caldera process at large volcanoes. 🧪 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

⚡💸 Electrification = lower bills? A new paper shows it’s not that simple: modeling 10,000 buildings across 28 US cities 🏙️finds heat pumps can raise energy burdens in cold climates, even as they lower them for homes using resistance heat. 🧪@natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🦖Jurassic Science Friday 🦕Microbial redox activity within microniches around ichthyosaur carcasses enabled their exceptional three-dimensional preservation within carbonate concretions during the Early Jurassic. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The one-year postponed adaptation window until October 2026 of the International Maritime Organization’s Net Zero Framework must be used to address outstanding challenges, and the success can turn the maritime sector into a model for achieving the Paris climate goals. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Following on from #COP30, integrating nature‑based indicators into into climate policy processes- such as Global Stocktake and Nationally Determined Contributions- would strengthen coherence between climate governance and Earth system stability. 👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...