Microbes store carbon in soils not only through their dead cells but also through the mucus-like substances they release while alive, a previously underappreciated pathway emerging from soil surveys a...

Arctic observations over 2003–2024 identify three aerosol regimes with contrasting responses to warming and cloud condensation nuclei trends. Model projections suggest that the aerosol–cloud feedbacks...

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Rapid 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...

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, according to benthic foraminif...

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Humble 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...

Opinions grounded in evidence and expertise play an important role in scientific discourse. The most effective opinion pieces do not simply express a viewpoint — they acknowledge limitations, nuance, ...

Europe’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...

Satellite observations reveal accelerating aboveground biomass loss across Europe’s forests since 2018, increasingly driven by natural disturbances. These trends weaken the forest carbon sink and chal...

Eukaryotic microorganisms within a subglacial brine-fed system in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are largely of marine origin, a legacy of past incursions of seawater into the area, according to RNA sequencing and metatranscriptomic analyses.

LA JOLLA, California—August 3, 2026—Blood Falls has long been one of Antarctica’s strangest landmarks: a red-stained outflow that spills from...

Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions, scientists suggest.

Co-occurring atmospheric and river heatwaves have tripled since the 1980s across the USA and Europe, and are projected to become the norm by 2100, according to model simulations.

The towering formations appearing over severe wildfires in France and Oregon loft smoke so high they have global consequences.

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

Climate model ensembles suggest tropical cyclones will bring more rain as the world warms, but increases may be smaller than expected. Atmospheric dryness reduces how much rain storms produce, offsett...

Comparisons between thermomechanical models and Venusian rift morphologies indicate that rifts on Venus are still, or were recently, active and may have undergone faster extension than usually assumed...

A sudden rise in aerosols makes clouds more active for about a day. Then the effect fades as the atmosphere adjusts and warms aloft, reducing the contrast that helps clouds grow, according to cloud-re...

Shifting atmospheric circulation patterns over Europe since the 1980s have been the major cause of increasingly severe droughts on the continent, according to nudged circulation climate model simulati...

Fern savannahs spread rapidly following the collapse of the forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction, setting the conditions for widespread wildfires, according to an analysis of the d...

Opposing wet and dry conditions in Central and mainland Southeast Asia over the past millennium were controlled by climate variability over the Pacific and Indian oceans, a pattern likely to become mo...

Krypton and xenon in lunar farside soils are derived from solar wind and suggest deeper penetration because the solar wind is not slowed by Earth’s magnetosphere. This contrasts with the nearside, acc...

Deep-sea drilling ships, sea-floor sensors and repurposed Internet cables are helping scientists to study the last unmapped area on Earth.

A strong seasonal cycle shifts the tropical rain band towards symmetry by amplifying southern rainfall during austral summer through heating and ocean–atmosphere feedback, helping to explain persisten...

New evidence suggests that key differences in the geographical nature of the Tibetan Plateau can be explained by how far the Indian tectonic plate has been pushed beneath the plateau.

The extent of Indian continental underthrusting beneath Western Tibet influences its moderate-to-rapid exhumation, relative to slow exhumation in Central Tibet, according to thermochronological data a...

This cross-journal collection invites manuscripts examining how soil microbial communities interact with changing environments to regulate carbon sequestration.

Very Large Telescope observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS indicate that the carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios are consistent with formation in the outer disk of an older low-metallicity star.

The oxygen surplus from carbon burial in Congo peatlands reached 83 petagrams of net atmospheric oxygen equivalents during the Holocene, suggesting global peatlands may have offset 40–95% of continent...

Recent research suggests that most forms of volcanism within oceanic plates are influenced by plate tectonics, particularly via the involvement of tectonics in whole-mantle dynamics. Investigating oce...

Quentin Bollaert and colleagues explore pyrochlore from its fiery name to its role as the primary source of the world’s niobium, a vital element in steel manufacturing and battery technology.