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Article: Disturbance characteristics and forest properties regulate surface warming and recovery across Europe. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comDisturbance characteristics and forest properties regulate surface warming and recovery across Europe - Nature GeoscienceForest disturbances drive substantial surface warming across Europe, with magnitude and recovery shaped by disturbance severity, size and forest characteristics, as inferred from combining satellite-d...
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Article: An enormous ice shelf spanned Baffin Bay during the last #glacial period, and its rapid retreat during the last deglaciation likely destabilized surrounding ice sheets www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comThe Baffin Bay Ice Shelf stabilized three adjacent ice sheets during the last glacial period - Nature GeoscienceAn enormous ice shelf spanned Baffin Bay during the last glacial period, and its rapid retreat during the last deglaciation probably destabilized the surrounding ice sheets, according to an analysis o...
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Article: Forecasts of future Arctic Ocean sea ice loss can be substantially improved using Holocene proxy records www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comTrade-offs between soil inorganic and organic carbon driven by multiple global environmental changes - Nature GeoscienceGlobal environmental changes can induce contrasting responses of soil organic and inorganic carbon, according to an 8-year field experiment in a semi-arid grassland and a meta-analysis.
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Article: Forecasts of future Arctic Ocean sea ice loss can be substantially improved using Holocene proxy records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @camunigeography.bsky.social @scottpolar.bsky.social

nature.comPalaeoclimate constraints narrow uncertainty in future Arctic winter sea ice projections - Nature GeoscienceForecasts of future Arctic Ocean sea ice loss can be substantially improved using Holocene proxy records by applying a model weighting approach.
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Article: Drought disturbances are reducing the recovery capacity of tropical forests, but soil phosphorus can mitigate this impact. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comPrecipitation and soil phosphorus regulate post-drought resilience in tropical forests - Nature GeoscienceDrought disturbances are reducing the recovery capacity of tropical forests, especially in drier conditions, but soil phosphorus can mitigate this impact, according to a satellite-based analysis of ec...
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Article: Progressive oxidative weathering in the Archaean may have raised the proportion of oxidised sulphur recycled during subduction. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comProgressive oxidative weathering raised sub-arc mantle fugacity on the Archaean Earth - Nature GeoscienceProgressive oxidative weathering in the Archaean may have raised the proportion of oxidized sulfur recycled during subduction, suggesting a feedback between the surface and increasingly oxidized arc m...
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Article: Dense iron oxyhydroxide phases may form from an early basal magma ocean, trapping water and potentially contributing to the formation of thermochemical anomalies in the deep mantle. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comDense iron oxyhydroxides as possible reservoirs of water under deep mantle conditions - Nature GeoscienceDense iron oxyhydroxide phases may form from an early basal magma ocean, trapping water and potentially contributing to the formation of thermochemical anomalies in the deep mantle, according to high-...
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Article: Maximum earthquake magnitude unlikely to be controlled by subduction interface roughness. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @eseimperial.bsky.social

nature.comMaximum earthquake magnitude unlikely to be controlled by subduction interface roughness - Nature GeoscienceAn analysis of data from 15 subduction zones finds no relationship between metrics of the topography of the plate interface and the largest earthquake it can generate, implying that this topography is...
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Brief Communication: The frequency and amplitude of Milanković cycles preserved in a ~1.2 billion-year-old Grand Canyon section were markedly different than the present. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comEarth–Moon and Solar System history recorded in Mesoproterozoic Grand Canyon strata - Nature GeoscienceCyclostratigraphic analysis of a ~1.2 billion-year-old rhythmically bedded mudstone formation in the Grand Canyon shows that the frequency and amplitude of Milanković cycles were markedly different th...
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There's still time to apply for the Interim Geophysics Editor role at Nature Geoscience. More information can be found,here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/Spring...

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Article: Melts generated at the Martian core-mantle boundary would be enriched in iron and have high densities favouring the formation of a molten silicate layer. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comExperimental constraints on a long-lived magma layer at the Martian core–mantle boundary - Nature GeoscienceMelts generated at the Martian core–mantle boundary would be strongly enriched in iron and have high densities favouring the formation of a molten silicate layer previously suggested from InSight seis...
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Article: Climate models that don’t consider the influence of rainfall on surface ocean CO2 uptake are underestimating the ocean carbon sink by about 10%. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comGlobal carbon dioxide flux into the surface ocean intensified by rain-induced dilution - Nature GeoscienceClimate models that do not consider the influence of rainfall on surface ocean CO2 uptake are underestimating the ocean carbon sink by about 10%, according to a reassessment of rainfall-related diluti...
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Article: Reanalysis data and model climate simulations show that Western Eurasian Steppe serves as an early warning signal for Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude drylands. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comAn abrupt shift towards a hotter and drier climate regime in the Western Eurasian Steppe - Nature GeoscienceThe Western Eurasian Steppe has undergone an abrupt and persistent transition to a hotter and drier summer climate that exceeds the range of natural variability, driven by external climate forcing and...
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Article: Single-cell Hadley circulation drives pole-to-pole atmospheric connection on Mars but inhibits material mixing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comHadley circulation drives material isolation and pole-to-pole teleconnection on Mars - Nature GeoscienceSingle-cell Hadley circulation drives pole-to-pole connection on Mars but also inhibits material mixing between the cell’s interior and exterior, according to a study of the Martian atmosphere using L...
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Article: Vertically compound soil moisture droughts—when all soil layers are depleted—have intensified worldwide www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comMultilayer soil moisture depletion intensifies drought impacts on global ecosystems - Nature GeoscienceVertically compound soil moisture droughts—when all soil layers are depleted—have intensified worldwide, driving sharper ecosystem losses than single-layer droughts, according to global analyses of mu...
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Article: Global marine oxygen levels likely peaked right after the start of the Last Interglacial before declining www.nature.com/articles/s41... @whoi.edu

nature.comTransient variability in global oceanic oxygen during the Last Interglacial Period - Nature GeoscienceGlobal marine oxygen levels probably peaked after the start of the Last Interglacial before declining, reflecting the influence of shifts in Southern Ocean temperature and sea-ice extent, based on a g...
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Article: The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud on Mars likely forms by homogeneous ice nucleation, with implications for other planets including Earth and Venus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comHomogeneous ice nucleation from water vapour suggested by elongated clouds on Mars - Nature GeoscienceThe Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud on Mars probably forms by homogeneous ice nucleation, with implications for other planets including Earth and Venus, according to a model of homogeneous ice nucleation f...
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Article: Oyster reefs in North Carolina have grown vertically as sea level has risen in recent centuries, though this has not led to an increase in carbon sequestration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comSea level-induced oyster reef accretion causes minimal net carbon burial change - Nature GeoscienceOyster reefs in North Carolina have grown vertically as sea level has risen in recent centuries, although this has not led to an increase in carbon sequestration, according to an analysis of oyster re...
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Ocean acidification can reduce phytoplankton phosphorus content, especially under phosphate limitation, which could reshape marine nutrient balance and phosphorus cycling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comOcean acidification reshapes phytoplankton phosphorus metabolism under phosphate-limited conditions - Nature GeoscienceOcean acidification can reduce phytoplankton phosphorus content, especially under phosphate limitation, which could reshape marine nutrient balance and phosphorus cycling, according to long-term exper...
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Article: Oxygen that sustains deep-sea life in the North Atlantic comes from the turbulent waters of the Labrador Sea. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jaimepalter.bsky.social

nature.comCentral role of Labrador Sea convection for transport of oxygen into the deep North Atlantic Ocean - Nature GeoscienceThe Labrador Sea plays a crucial role in transporting oxygen into the deep limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, despite its limited contribution to density transformation, accordin...
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Article: A young ultrahigh-pressure eclogite suggests ultra-high pressure metamorphism does not always indicate cold subduction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comGeothermal gradient change during subduction recorded by ultrahigh-pressure eclogite - Nature GeoscienceA young ultrahigh-pressure eclogite records an initially warm then cold subduction path, suggesting that ultrahigh pressure metamorphism does not always indicate cold subduction, according to a thermo...
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Article: A young ultrahigh-pressure eclogite suggests ultra-high pressure metamorphism does not always indicate cold subduction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comGeothermal gradient change during subduction recorded by ultrahigh-pressure eclogite - Nature GeoscienceA young ultrahigh-pressure eclogite records an initially warm then cold subduction path, suggesting that ultrahigh pressure metamorphism does not always indicate cold subduction, according to a thermo...
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Rapid submarine caldera collapse during the 2022 climactic eruption of Hunga volcano (Tonga) - @natgeosci.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comRapid submarine caldera collapse during the 2022 climactic eruption of Hunga volcano (Tonga) - Nature GeoscienceRapid caldera collapse during submarine eruptions could increase tsunami magnitude, suggests an analysis of the geomorphological evolution of the caldera formed in the climactic eruption of Hunga volc...
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Article: Deep-sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean responded differently to the expansion of the Antarctic ice sheet at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comDivergent deep-sea temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic during the onset of Antarctic glaciation - Nature GeoscienceDeep-sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean responded differently to the expansion of the Antarctic ice sheet at the Eocene–Oligocene transition, according to benthic foraminif...
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⚒️ #AllMineralsConsidered: Yongjie Lin (Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences) and @ianpower.bsky.social (@trentuniversity.bsky.social) explore the potential of hydromagnesite on both Earth and Mars www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comHydromagnesite on Earth and Mars - Nature GeoscienceHumble hydromagnesite is a hydrated carbonate with outsized importance. Yongjie Lin and Ian Power explore its potential for both carbon sequestration and unlocking the secrets of potential past microb...

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Europe's forests are losing more biomass than previously thought. A study published in @natgeosci.nature.com and supported by ESA's Climate Change Initiative found that biomass losses per hectare have increased by 46% since 2018, with drought and insect outbreaks driving increasingly severe losses.

esa.intEurope’s forests losing more biomass since 2018Europe’s forests are losing more biomass than previously thought, with disturbances such as drought and pests causing increasingly large losses from some of the oldest forests in Europe. This situatio...