Fire governance must move beyond uniform suppression toward legitimate, adaptive, and context-specific policies aligned with ecological dynamics and local livelihoods, based on evidence from Madagasca...

European snow-cover extent has undergone an unprecedented seasonal reorganization since around 1850, with monthly declines of up to 30%, according to a 600-year reconstruction combining reanalysis dat...

A joint inversion of sea-surface and satellite data suggests the 2025 Mw 8.8 Kamchatka megathrust earthquake exhibited only limited shallow slip and seafloor deformation which explains the suppressed ...

Recycled steel slag pavements could cut emissions by 19%, reduce fine particle pollution by 13%, prevent up to 128,980 premature deaths and deliver major economic gains, according to a national high-r...

Ocean alkalinity enhancement displays critical thresholds, beyond which phytoplankton bloom development is delayed and organic matter concentrations are reduced, according to results of mesocosm exper...

Data from Belize document a shift from wetland-adjacent maize farming at 6,000 BP to upland maize farming by 3,500 BP correlating with climate change and population growth, as shown by multiproxy pala...

Combining Indigenous Knowledge with Arctic Ocean modeling can strengthen climate science while supporting community needs, creating ongoing, two-way partnerships.

Textural, mineralogical, and chemical analyses of the Jezero crater Margin unit from Perseverance’s SuperCam identify multiple episodes of aqueous alteration driven by early carbon-rich fluids, paleol...

Communications Sustainability - The Nepal floods re-destroyed a repaired hydropower plant following contractual siting lock-in

AI data centers could consume 239 to 295 terawatt hours by 2030, about 1% of global electricity demand, with capacity concentrated in North America, Western Europe and Asia-Pacific, according to a fra...

Long-term drought exposure enhances Amazon tree resilience to extreme drought through structural adjustments at ecosystem and tree levels, which reduces transpiration declines and enables full recover...

Severe droughts reduce streamflow and increase water temperature and specific conductance in the Upper Colorado River Basin, according to a data-driven study analysing meteorological drought impacts o...

Mediterranean woodlands persisted in coastal Lebanon for hundreds of millennia, supporting diverse ungulates and shaping distinct hominin foraging strategies, highlighting ecological contrasts with th...

The central Levant maintained stable Mediterranean seasonality and resource-rich C3 woodlands across multiple glacial-interglacial cycles, acting as a persistent ecological refugium for hominins, base...

Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Sustainability Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Madrid, New Delhi or Pune (Hybrid) Application Deadline: September 27, 2026 About Springer Natur...

Modelling future wildfires across the world is highly uncertain despite improvements in fire-process representation and the introduction of hybrid frameworks integrating observations, process-based mo...

Indigenous communities and ancestral heritage in Alaska face escalating climate threats. This Perspective argues that, by validating Indigenous knowledge systems, archaeology can help sustain intergen...

Seismic, geomorphological and geotechnical observations combined with numerical modelling suggest the failure happened in four kinematic stages preceded by over two weeks of escalating precursory acti...

Fire occurrences are a major driver of severe, seasonally intense nitrogen dioxide pollution in West Africa, necessitating urgent policy interventions to mitigate the significant risks to human health...

Climate change impacts in the Amazon, particularly heat and drought extremes, are increasing faster than average climate trends, with especially rapid changes in the central-northern region that has s...

U.S. estuaries show widespread warming, eutrophication, and oxygen declines, with increasing temperature and chlorophyll-a together contributing to declining oxygen levels, based on two decades of hig...

Pollen, charcoal, and biomarkers from the 90-million-year-old peatland sediments in Antarctica reveal that fire dynamics in the earliest peatlands of the warm, CO₂-rich Cretaceous world closely resemb...

Central Pacific El Niño activity increased between the first and second millennia of the Common Era, while volcanic eruptions likely drove cooling episodes and thermal stress impacted calcification on...

Three of Antarctica’s largest emperor penguin colonies were monitored year-round from 2017–2024, overcoming historical winter observation limitations and demonstrating lower winter than summer movemen...

Regenerative agriculture spreads through international influencers, shaping shared principles, while local peers tailor practices to context, according to a social network analysis of interviews with ...

Coastal marshes along the United States Atlantic and Gulf Coasts mobilize substantial quantities of buried coastal carbon, representing a lateral flux to the coastal ocean as high as 0.66 Tg carbon pe...

Thermal degradation of plastics during wildfires, structural fires, and waste burning releases airborne particles containing altered polymers, combustion pollutants, and additives, highlighting the cl...

A climate-sensitive framework integrating urban microclimate, indoor monitoring, and building energy simulation reveals how urban morphology shapes household energy poverty. Applied in Temuco, Chile, ...

Satellite-derived ammonia emissions exceed inventory estimates most strongly in warm-season croplands or low-input and rainfed systems, revealing inventories’ limited sensitivity to weather and manage...

Active-layer thickness increased at 55% and 38% of Arctic and Antarctic sites, and >90% in European, Asian, and South American mountains, driven by increasing thawing degree-days and rainfall, acco...

Counting climate responses alone may overstate resilience, according to a qualitative interview study of land managers in northern Sweden.

This cross-journal Collection brings together research that explores the social and economic challenges associated with nature-based solutions.

Along China’s coasts photovoltaic arrays hinder detection and removal of invasive cordgrass Spartina alterniflora, while the cordgrass degrades array operation, resulting in a green-on-green conflict ...

Permafrost may limit the suitability of up to 29% of newly suitable agricultural land in high latitudes under global warming, according to simulations integrating permafrost degradation and crop suita...

Human-caused climate change drove large decreases in snowpack and streamflow as well as increases in irrigation demand in the western US (2014-2024), with roughly half attributable to the Carbon Major...

Gymnosperm diversity in eastern and southern Asia is highly threatened by climate change, with most current hotspots projected to lose suitable habitat and face extinctions by 2100, based on ecologica...

Integrating agentic AI within a shared governance framework for wildfire management would help overcome cooperation problems and improve collaboration and coordination in decision-making across agenci...

United States domestic lithium production is likely to be limited by water scarcity in the future, which could make the United States more reliant on imports, suggests an analysis of water use, climat...

Algal biomass declined while eukaryotic diversity increased and cyanobacterial diversity decreased after the 2000s as wetlands expanded, shown by reconstructing multi decadal algal communities using s...

Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Earth & Environment Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Madrid (Hybrid) Application Deadline: 6th September, 2026 About Springer Nature Springe...

Growing seasons start earlier under climate change across southern Scandinavia and the Baltic region, whereas the timing of the last spring frost is projected to be more stable, which heightens exposu...

Ocean warming can influence both the quantity and composition of dissolved organic carbon released from large coastal macrophytes such as seagrasses and eelgrasses, according to analyses of cross-ecos...

Urban surface temperature and exposure to extreme heat are rising due to climate warming and population growth, strongest in cold and arid cities, according to satellite observations and population da...

United Kingdom Parliament members underestimate support for climate policies, yet the patterns reveal a correctable pathway to stronger advocacy, according to a survey experiment comparing their estim...

Western Amazonia and the tropical Andes experienced a long-term trend toward wetter conditions over the past 1.93 million years, with greater variability during glacial periods, as revealed by geochem...

Large scale offshore wind may reduce coastal precipitation by 10–15 percent and wind speeds by 2–3 meters per second while increasing rainfall over farms, according to decade long simulations of scena...

With this cross-journal collection, we invite contributions that examine tectonic and magmatic controls on carbon-cycle evolution through Earth history.

Extreme rainfall is rising with warming, and low-income nations face 1.5-3.4 times higher probability of unprecedented extreme precipitation events than high-income countries, according to an analysis...