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  • Exceptional climate conditions in 2023

    In this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions that investigate at a local, regional or global scale how the climate or climate impacts of the year 2023 were remarkable or unexpected.
    • Seung-Ki Min, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 2024

  • Food security and resilience

    In this cross-journal Collection, we invite contributions that use holistic approaches to understand the distribution and economics of food systems and provide solutions to build resilience and make food systems more sustainable and equitable.
    • Ariel Soto-Caro, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

  • Ending plastic pollution

    Plastics are a crucial part of modern life, however tens of millions of tonnes of plastic waste is disposed of each year, much of which ultimately ends up in the ocean. In this Collection we showcase studies on understanding and mitigating (micro)plastic pollution, with a special focus on reducing plastic waste in the environment to coincide with 2024's upcoming binding UN treaty on Ending Plastic Pollution.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 October 2024

    • Early Earth’s oxygenation

      This Collection presents articles that enhance our understanding of the two primary oxygenation events that occurred on the Early Earth, as well as the weaker events that preceded and followed them. The articles in this Collection show the connection between the oxygenation events and the changes happening in the solid Earth, its atmosphere, oceans, and all biogeochemical cycles within these systems.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 02 October 2024

      • Carbon dioxide removal, capture and storage

        In this cross-journal Collection, we bring together studies that address novel and existing carbon dioxide removal and carbon capture and storage methods and their potential for up-scaling, including critical questions of timing, location, and cost. We also welcome articles on methodologies that measure and verify the climate and environmental impact and explore public perceptions.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 March 2025

        • Research to address the global sanitation crisis

          This collection welcomes submissions of articles that can help further our understanding and/or offer solutions to address the global sanitation crisis.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 June 2024

          • Experimental Ecology

            This Collection welcomes primary research articles from any branch of ecology that focus on new experimental findings.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

            • Weather and Climate Extremes

              In this Collection, Nature Communications and Communications Earth & Environment welcome submissions on all types of weather and climate extremes, with a special focus, but not exclusively, on the Global South. Case studies, methodological approaches, impact studies, but also studies on the natural and anthropogenic drivers of weather and climate extremes will be considered.
              • Efi Rousi
              • Aliénor Lavergne
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024

            • Materials and devices for separation, sensing, and protection

              In this Collection, the editors of Nature Communications and Communications Materials welcome the submission of primary research articles that highlight the development and application of functional materials in the areas of separation, sensing, and protection.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024