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    • Lake ice has witnessed considerable changes in its phenology, but less is known about ice quality — the ratio of black ice to white ice. This Review assesses the changes in lake ice quality and its ecosystem services, noting diminished ice quality in observations and projections.

      • Joshua Culpepper
      • Ellinor Jakobsson
      • Sapna Sharma
      Review Article

    • The fringes of extensive flat-topped sedimentary or volcanic plateaus, called tablelands, host the largest coalescent landslide areas of the Earth. This Review highlights the factors contributing to extensive landslide fringes and emphasizes how climate change and cryosphere degradation could increase their hazard potential.

      • Tomáš Pánek
      • Kristian Svennevig
      • Piotr Migoń
      Review Article

    • Climate variability can strongly influence species evolution and survival via environmental niche adaptation and selection. This Review outlines the methods of modelling past climate variations and their impact on human evolution.

      • Axel Timmermann
      • Pasquale Raia
      • Kyung-Sook Yun
      Review Article

    • Decarbonization strategies can perturb the nitrogen cycle through elevating nitrogen inputs to the environment, potentially driving increased eutrophication. This Review explores the potential synergistic and antagonistic impacts on carbon and nitrogen emissions from five major decarbonization strategies.

      • Xin Zhang
      • Robert Sabo
      • Eric A. Davidson
      Review Article

    • The cold-adapted communities on the seafloor around Antarctica are vulnerable to environmental changes. This Review summarizes the regional variations in present and future benthic ecological changes driven by the impacts of climate change and acidification.

      • Huw J. Griffiths
      • Vonda J. Cummings
      • Catherine L. Waller
      Review Article

News & Comment

  • Since 2001, the IPCC has utilized ‘burning embers’ to visualize risk at different levels of anthropogenic warming. An ethnoclimatological approach offers an opportunity to expand these figures, aligning the assessment of risk with the lived realities of vulnerable populations.

    • James D. Ford
    • Santiago Clerici
    • Sherilee Harper
    Comment

  • Quantifying progress towards sustainability goals in food systems requires a universal, threshold-based Food Sustainability Index. Integrating artificial intelligence, remote sensing and empirical observations with system dynamics modelling can help guide sustainable transformations.

    • Asim Biswas
    • Isabel Maddocks
    • Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam
    Comment

  • To explore career opportunities outside of academia, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Tom Pickerell about their career path from PhD student to Global Director of the Ocean Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI).

    • Clare Davis
    • Tom Pickerell
    Q&A

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