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• Article | 03 January 2024

  Relative increases in CH₄ and CO₂ emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates

  Soil carbon substrates affect how methane and CO₂ emissions from global wetlands change in response to climate warming, according to global analyses of temperature sensitivity of wetland carbon emissions.

  • Han Hu
  • , Ji Chen
  •  & Yuting Liang

• Article | 02 October 2023

  Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade

  A decade of satellite observations suggests that old, degraded and deforested tropical forests are almost carbon neutral whereas northern young forests are the biggest contributor to the rising amount of carbon stored globally in vegetation.

  • Hui Yang
  • , Philippe Ciais
  •  & Jean-Pierre Wigneron

• Research Briefing | 30 June 2022

  Daily monitoring reveals global CO₂ emission patterns

  Monitoring of the daily global CO₂ emissions in 2020 reveals the spatial–temporal pattern of the drop in emissions due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The daily CO₂ emission changes also reveal different patterns of human activities and fossil CO₂ emissions across countries, sectors and periods.

• Editorial | 11 March 2022

  Up in the aerosol

  The climatic impacts of aerosols are highly uncertain but critical to understanding human-driven climate change. Monitoring of emissions and a better understanding of the varied pathways through which aerosols can influence climate is vital for reducing these uncertainties.

• Article | 10 February 2022

  Pyrogenic carbon decomposition critical to resolving fire’s role in the Earth system

  Vegetation plays an important role in the aggregate carbon balance of fires, according to a 1901 to 2010 land surface model study that, assuming steady state, shows potentially greater pyrogenic carbon production than legacy losses at global scale, due mostly to grassland adaptations to fire.

  • Simon P. K. Bowring
  • , Matthew W. Jones
  •  & Samuel Abiven

• Article | 18 October 2021

  Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

  Anthropogenic climate change is impacting the temperature and ice cover of lakes across the globe, according to an attribution analysis based on hindcasts and projections from lake models.

  • Luke Grant
  • , Inne Vanderkelen
  •  & Wim Thiery

• Article | 05 July 2021

  Conservation slows down emission increase from a tropical peatland in Indonesia

  During a period of drought, an intact tropical peatland in Indonesia released half the amount of greenhouse gases as was released from a degraded site, according to a direct comparison of eddy covariance measurements at a pair of peatland sites in Sumatra.

  • Chandra S. Deshmukh
  • , Dony Julius
  •  & Chris D. Evans

• Article | 26 October 2020

  Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation

  Intensive irrigation in India cools the land surface, but increases the moist heat stress in South Asia, according to an analysis of observational datasets and meteorological models.

  • Vimal Mishra
  • , Anukesh Krishnankutty Ambika
  •  & Matthew Huber

• Editorial | 29 September 2020

  Up in smoke

  Where there is smoke, there are radiative feedbacks. With wildfires becoming a growing problem in the Anthropocene, we need to better understand the influence of fire on the climate system.

• Perspective | 03 February 2020

  Transparency on greenhouse gas emissions from mining to enable climate change mitigation

  Direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from mining for green technologies need to be accurately and transparently accounted for, as highlighted by a case study of Chilean copper mining.

  • Mehdi Azadi
  • , Stephen A. Northey
  •  & Mansour Edraki

• Article | 18 November 2019

  Heat accumulation on coral reefs mitigated by internal waves

  Internal waves can relieve coral reef heat stress, according to an analysis that isolates the effect at different depths using a compilation of high-resolution temperature records.

  • Alex S. J. Wyatt
  • , James J. Leichter
  •  & Toshi Nagata

• Article | 21 September 2015

  Coastal vulnerability across the Pacific dominated by El Niño/Southern Oscillation

  The dynamic components of coastal water level can add metres to water levels during extreme events. A data synthesis reveals that Pacific regional wave and water level fluctuations are closely related to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation.

  • Patrick L. Barnard
  • , Andrew D. Short
  •  & Derek K. Heathfield