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🔭Slope lineae on Mercury are preferentially oriented towards the equator on the sun-facing slopes of impact craters, suggesting they form through volatile release due to insolation.
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Slope lineae as potential indicators of recent volatile loss on Mercury - Communications Earth & Environment
A comprehensive mapping approach using MESSENGER data finds that slope lineae on Mercury are preferentially oriented towards the equator on the sun-facing slopes of impact craters, suggesting they for...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
🔭Slope lineae on Mercury are preferentially oriented towards the equator on the sun-facing slopes of impact craters, suggesting they form through volatile release due to insolation.
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👉Digital industries were responsible for 4.1% of global #greenhousegasemissions in 2021, and 42% of #digital emissions actually land in non-digital industries' value chains due to limitations in accounting methods.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:10 PM
👉Digital industries were responsible for 4.1% of global #greenhousegasemissions in 2021, and 42% of #digital emissions actually land in non-digital industries' value chains due to limitations in accounting methods.
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🌧️Too Much Rain is Now a Bigger Price Driver Than Drought in Midwest US. Excessive #precipitation became a statistically significant driver of #agricultural commodity prices in 2000-2019, whereas it had NO impact in 1971-1990.
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January 28, 2026 at 1:57 PM
🌧️Too Much Rain is Now a Bigger Price Driver Than Drought in Midwest US. Excessive #precipitation became a statistically significant driver of #agricultural commodity prices in 2000-2019, whereas it had NO impact in 1971-1990.
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🚨Call for papers! #criticalmaterials supply chains face rising pressure from climate, extreme weather, scarcity & geopolitics. Share your research on strengthening their resilience with us or @commsearth.nature.com @natcomms.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🧪
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Critical materials supply chain sustainability
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January 27, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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📢Australia's emissions accounting can affect the accuracy of certified #emissions and the cost of #hydrogen. Geographic and relaxed temporal correlation requirements for the use of renewable #energy certificates keep emissions and costs low.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:42 PM
📢Australia's emissions accounting can affect the accuracy of certified #emissions and the cost of #hydrogen. Geographic and relaxed temporal correlation requirements for the use of renewable #energy certificates keep emissions and costs low.
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🌱Sustainability is about the people who care for the land. Javier Montoya-Zumaeta et al. show that #farmers in Peru who participate in sustainability governance report higher levels of well-being than those operating independently.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:07 PM
🌱Sustainability is about the people who care for the land. Javier Montoya-Zumaeta et al. show that #farmers in Peru who participate in sustainability governance report higher levels of well-being than those operating independently.
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💧67 million customers across the US rely on drinking water utilities facing higher climate risk than is currently being accounted for, which exposes major gaps in climate adaptation and resilience planning.
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Climate change risk index and municipal bond disclosures of United States drinking water utilities - Communications Earth & Environment
67 million customers across the US rely on drinking water utilities that face higher climate risk than accounted for, which exposes major gaps in climate adaptation and resilience planning, suggests a...
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January 26, 2026 at 1:33 PM
💧67 million customers across the US rely on drinking water utilities facing higher climate risk than is currently being accounted for, which exposes major gaps in climate adaptation and resilience planning.
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🚨New Collection Alert: Ecosystems under marine heatwaves
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With this cross-journal Collection, we invite manuscripts that highlight impacts of marine heatwaves on ecological systems.
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Ecosystems under marine heatwaves
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January 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM
🚨New Collection Alert: Ecosystems under marine heatwaves
With this cross-journal Collection, we invite manuscripts that highlight impacts of marine heatwaves on ecological systems.
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With this cross-journal Collection, we invite manuscripts that highlight impacts of marine heatwaves on ecological systems.
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🪨Salisbury Plain detrital zircon ages align with southern British rocks from the London Basin, indicating local sedimentary recycling without glaciogenic evidence, negating glacial transport of the Stonehenge blocks.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:54 AM
🪨Salisbury Plain detrital zircon ages align with southern British rocks from the London Basin, indicating local sedimentary recycling without glaciogenic evidence, negating glacial transport of the Stonehenge blocks.
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🪸Reduced sulfate aerosols due to ship fuel regulation may increase shortwave radiation on the Great Barrier Reef, exacerbating the impact of marine heatwaves on coral bleaching
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Ship fuel sulfur content regulations may exacerbate mass coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef - Communications Earth & Environment
Reduced sulfate aerosols due to ship fuel regulation may increase shortwave radiation on the Great Barrier Reef, exacerbating the impact of marine heatwaves on coral bleaching, according to model anal...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:56 AM
🪸Reduced sulfate aerosols due to ship fuel regulation may increase shortwave radiation on the Great Barrier Reef, exacerbating the impact of marine heatwaves on coral bleaching
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🐾Naturally mummified cheetah remains in a Saudi Arabian cave system with radiocarbon-calibrated ages between about 4,200 and 100 years cluster with both Asian & African sub-species, with implications for rewilding efforts, suggests a genomic analysis of the remains.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
🐾Naturally mummified cheetah remains in a Saudi Arabian cave system with radiocarbon-calibrated ages between about 4,200 and 100 years cluster with both Asian & African sub-species, with implications for rewilding efforts, suggests a genomic analysis of the remains.
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✈️Air transport currently operates inefficiently, with a theoretical carbon dioxide emission reduction potential of more than 50 percent.
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Large carbon dioxide emissions avoidance potential in improved commercial air transport efficiency - Communications Earth & Environment
Air transport currently operates inefficiently, with a theoretical carbon dioxide emission reduction potential of more than 50 percent, according to an efficiency model developed using global operatio...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:37 AM
✈️Air transport currently operates inefficiently, with a theoretical carbon dioxide emission reduction potential of more than 50 percent.
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🌲Private forest owners in Canada can better adapt to climate change through locally relevant information and technical assistance.
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🌲Private forest owners in Canada can better adapt to climate change through locally relevant information and technical assistance.
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Long-term monitoring reveals that rising sodium concentrations in a large One Water drinking water supply arise from road salts, reclaimed water, and treatment chemicals, highlighting freshwater salinization as a social-ecological-technological challenge.
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Social-ecological-technological drivers of freshwater salinization in the Occoquan Reservoir, United States - Communications Earth & Environment
Long-term monitoring reveals that rising sodium concentrations in a large One Water drinking water supply arise from road salts, reclaimed water, and treatment chemicals, highlighting freshwater&...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Long-term monitoring reveals that rising sodium concentrations in a large One Water drinking water supply arise from road salts, reclaimed water, and treatment chemicals, highlighting freshwater salinization as a social-ecological-technological challenge.
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🌊Modelling the water column as two distinct depth regimes captures particle attenuation in the Southern Ocean, reducing particulate organic carbon flux into the mesopelagic.
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An improved model of particle attenuation reduces estimates of Southern Ocean carbon transfer efficiency - Communications Earth & Environment
Modelling the water column as two distinct depth regimes captures particle attenuation in the Southern Ocean, reducing particulate organic carbon flux into the mesopelagic, according to particle atten...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
🌊Modelling the water column as two distinct depth regimes captures particle attenuation in the Southern Ocean, reducing particulate organic carbon flux into the mesopelagic.
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🌳Relatively open vegetation landscapes during the early Pleistocene facilitated hominins' evolution, with resource abundance, accessibility, and mobility playing crucial roles.
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Relatively open vegetation landscapes promoted early Pleistocene hominin evolution - Communications Earth & Environment
Relatively open vegetation landscapes during the early Pleistocene facilitated hominins’ evolution, with resource abundance, accessibility, and mobility playing crucial roles, according to pollen anal...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🌳Relatively open vegetation landscapes during the early Pleistocene facilitated hominins' evolution, with resource abundance, accessibility, and mobility playing crucial roles.
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🌋Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which in turn are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates.
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Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari Volcano driven by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input - Communications Earth & Environment
Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates, according to 3-dimensional numerical modelling of volcanic hydrothermal systems.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🌋Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which in turn are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates.
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🌊Sea-level rise in African large marine ecosystems has accelerated markedly since 2010, mostly due to ice sheet loss and land subsidence, with the Red Sea and Guinea Current rising fastest.
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Accelerating sea level rise in Africa and its large marine ecosystems since the 1990s - Communications Earth & Environment
Sea-level rise in African large marine ecosystem has accelerated markedly since 2010, mostly due to ice sheet loss and land subsidence, with the Red Sea and Guinea Current rising fastest, according to...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🌊Sea-level rise in African large marine ecosystems has accelerated markedly since 2010, mostly due to ice sheet loss and land subsidence, with the Red Sea and Guinea Current rising fastest.
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🌕Numerical simulations using present-day solar wind properties suggest the transfer of Earth’s atmosphere to the Moon is more efficient in the presence of a geomagnetic field.
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Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the nearside lunar regolith during the history of Earth’s dynamo - Communications Earth & Environment
Numerical simulations reveal that the transfer of ions from Earth’s atmosphere to the Moon is efficient only in the sustained presence of a geomagnetic field, suggesting that lunar soils may record th...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🌕Numerical simulations using present-day solar wind properties suggest the transfer of Earth’s atmosphere to the Moon is more efficient in the presence of a geomagnetic field.
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🗻🏘️On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic meters of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. The disaster underlines the impact of climate warming on people and heritage.
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The 2025 Blatten disaster in the Swiss Alps followed exceptional warming and highlights the vulnerability of people and heritage in glaciated landscapes - Communications Earth & Environment
On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic metres of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. In the wake of the warmest decade since at least...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🗻🏘️On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic meters of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. The disaster underlines the impact of climate warming on people and heritage.
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☀️🌵Severe summer aridification caused freshwater scarcity and the decline of Homo floresiensis and its prey at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago.
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Onset of summer aridification and the decline of Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago - Communications Earth & Environment
Severe summer aridification caused freshwater scarcity and the decline of Homo floresiensis and its prey at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago, as revealed by a rainfall record based on speleothem geochemical...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
☀️🌵Severe summer aridification caused freshwater scarcity and the decline of Homo floresiensis and its prey at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago.
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🌋Post-volcanic climate downtown in Southern Europe around 1345-1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas carrying the Black Death.
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Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe - Communications Earth & Environment
Post-volcanic climate downtown in southern Europe around 1345–1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas ca...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🌋Post-volcanic climate downtown in Southern Europe around 1345-1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas carrying the Black Death.
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🔭Aluminium-rich "float" rocks at the Jezero crater on Mars are more geochemically similar to weathered palaeosols on Earth than to hydrothermal deposits.
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Alteration history of aluminum-rich rocks at Jezero crater, Mars - Communications Earth & Environment
Aluminum-rich float rocks at Jezero crater display geochemical characteristics that are more similar to terrestrial weathered palaeosols than to hydrothermal deposits, according to a comparison of Per...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🔭Aluminium-rich "float" rocks at the Jezero crater on Mars are more geochemically similar to weathered palaeosols on Earth than to hydrothermal deposits.
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