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The role of increased timber harvests in reaching climate mitigation targets for European countries will be limited if the protection of forest ecosystem services and biodiversity is to be achieved, suggests an empirical forest model driven by future scenarios to limit warming to 1.5 °C in 2100.
Variations in Atlantic Ocean circulation on timescales of 10 to 15 years lead the pan-Atlantic Decadal Oscillation, a pattern of north-south bands of temperature anomalies, and may exert an important influence, suggests an analysis of observations from 1900 to 2009.
About 65% of landfalling atmospheric rivers that hit India between 1985 and 2020 were linked to floods, and 7 out of India’s 10 most severe floods in this period were associated with atmospheric rivers, according to an analysis of reanalysis data and observations of rain and flooding.
The variable activity and acceleration of slow-moving active landslides observed during and after earthquakes can be explained by interactions between dynamic pore water pressure and the rate dependency of strength, according to numerical simulations
The German public prefers carbon dioxide removal strategies with low environmental side effects and implementation at home rather than abroad, despite insufficient potential domestically, according to a multifactor vignette experiment carried out in late 2020.
Development of large-scale offshore wind farms in Californian offshore waters may alter local wind stress curl and lead to reduced inshore upwelling and increased offshore upwelling, according to numerical simulations from an atmospheric-ocean circulation model.
Bedrock properties have a significant effect on ecosystem response to climatic variability due to variable degrees of water retention between different substrates, according to a compilation of global data on climate water deficit and soil properties.
Deforestation rates on private land within conservation areas have declined since policy implementation in 2012, but not as quickly as in all conservation areas, suggests an analysis of 4 million private properties from the Brazilian rural environmental cadastre between 2003 and 2020.
Differences in temperature and geochemistry linked to tectonic processes influence the microbial community composition and geochemical cycling of elements in hot springs, according to geochemical and genomic analyses conducted in 14 hot springs in the Peruvian Andes.
The areal extent of juvenile crust in orogens can be used to quantify juvenile and reworked types of orogeny by processing neodymium isotopic values from igneous rocks to produce contoured isotopic maps.
Slow, fine-grained, tide-influenced “Tortoises” and fast, coarse-grained “Hares” represent distinct types of turbidity currents observed in a one-year time series from moorings measuring current speed and sediment properties within the Manila trench.
Episodic methane leakage events from the seafloor of the Arctic–Atlantic gateway region occurred before and during the mid-Pleistocene transition, suggesting foraminiferal stable carbon isotope and source-specific biomarker analyses of borehole samples.
More than 15 million cases of respiratory and cardiovascular infections could be prevented, saving $2 billion USD each year in human health costs by protecting indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon, suggest estimates of PM2.5 health impacts between 2010 and 2019.
Crustose coralline algae can contribute equal or even larger amounts of calcium carbonate to coral reefs than corals, yet their contribution is often underrepresented or omitted in coral reef carbonate budgets, according to a conceptual model developed from a meta-analysis of calcification rates and a case study in French Polynesia.
Post-injection seismicity at the enhanced geothermal system of Basel, Switzerland, was caused by poroelastic stress relaxation of stabilized faults during injection, according to numerical simulations of the stress field applied on a fault network.
Seasonally resolved speleothem isotope and trace element records from Dharamjali Cave in the central Lower Himalaya show an increased frequency of summer and winter droughts during the period between 4.2 to 3.97 thousand years ago.
Coastal practitioners in countries with longer histories and more national support show greater assimilation of sea level rise projections in adaptation planning, according to quantitative and qualitative analysis of a global survey.
The economic implications of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the impact of lockdown restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic do not negatively affect public support for climate measures and suggest a crisis-as-opportunity perspective, according to a 2022 survey experiment with 5438 German residents.
Water-table changes in the southern Great Basin, USA, over the last 350,000 years are 3–4 times as sensitive to recharge changes during drier interglacial than wetter glacial conditions, according to modelling of groundwater flow model informed by paleo-water-level data.
Tropical seagrasses and adjacent unvegetated mudflats both emit the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, though seagrasses have lower global warming potential relative to mudflats, suggest a year of high temporal resolution measurements of air-sea gas fluxes in the Red Sea.