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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 08/10/2026

October issue: Atmospheric lessons from Mars, Permafrost carbon from land to sea, Agulhas Leakage impacts on Atlantic circulation, Whitlockite traces ancient impacts in space, Martian Hadley ciculation and more. www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 23/09/2026

September issue: A Focus on forests in a warming world alongside content on rainfall, soil carbon, Himalayan dynamics, and more www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Photo of tall, grey lifeless tree trunks against a colorful background of blue skies and green and red shrubs

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 06/08/2026

⚒️ August issue out now: including content on stratospheric circulation, end-Triassic wildfires, rifting on Venus, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Recent Venusian rifting

Computer-generated perspective view from Magellan radar data of Atahensik Corona (foreground) and the rift valley Dali Chasma (middle background) on Venus

Image: NASA/JPL
Cover design: Alex Wing

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 05/08/2026

⚒️ Article: Arctic cloud condensation nuclei enhanced by iodine, sulfur and organic precursors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic representation of natural nucleation and growth of new particles to cloud condensation nuclei in the Arctic marine boundary layer

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 03/08/2026

⚒️ Article: Eukaryotic microbes 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 @jcvi.org @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Photos representative of the Blood Falls discharge fan and sample types at the Taylor Glacier terminus

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 03/08/2026

⚒️ Article: Northward movement of the Southern Ocean subtropical front diminished salt transport by Agulhas Leakage in the Late Pliocene, with no apparent impact on AMOC strength www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Conceptual oceanographic changes of the Agulhas Leakage, North Atlantic Deep Water, and North Atlantic Current across Marine Isotope Stage M2

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 31/07/2026

⚒️ Article: Only about ten percent of organic carbon from thawing Pleistocene permafrost in the Arctic that is buried in marine sediments ends up re-entering the active carbon cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the parameters in estimating remineralization efficiency

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 31/07/2026

⚒️ Article: Temperature outweighs anthropogenic emissions and actinic flux in controlling seasonal variations in ozone sensitivity over China www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the synergetic effects of temperature, actinic flux, humidity, and aerosols on ozone precursor sensitivity

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 20/07/2026

⚒️ Article: The Eastern Himalayan orogenic corner (syntaxis) is largely formed by flattening of the Indian slab and shear localization in weak crust, which may affect the development of the orogenic system @eth-eaps.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 09/07/2026

⚒️ July issue out now: including content on fire-driven peat carbon loss, ice sheet regime shifts with warming, as well as a Focus on oceanic intraplate volcanism, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Oceanic intraplate volcanism

3D view of computer-simulated present-day mantle dynamic structures, with deep-rooted plumes rising from the core-mantle boundary and sinking slabs below subduction zones

Image: courtesy of Dr. Hao Dong, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cover design: Alex Wing

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 06/07/2026

⚒️ Perspective: Permafrost thaw alters iron-organic carbon interactions, impacting carbon cycling through microbial processes and hydrological changes across Arctic landscapes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the scales of iron–organic carbon interactions in permafrost regions

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 29/06/2026

⚒️ Article: Satellite observations suggest an approximate 20% increase in global riverine particulate organic carbon export to the ocean over the past four decades, driven primarily by tropical deforestation and Arctic permafrost thaw @geolidf.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Framework and global map showing the potential drivers of changes in global river particulate organic carbon flux

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 16/06/2026

⚒️ Article: Vigorous mantle convection triggered the Cretaceous Pacific large igneous provinces www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 12/06/2026

⚒️ Brief Communication: Carbon dioxide hydrates on the seafloor are sustained by the venting of liquid CO2 associated with volcanic activity near Mayotte Island www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 11/06/2026

⚒️ June issue out now: including content on lake sediment heatwaves, basin formation in East Antarctica, oxic methane production, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Rhythmic methane release

Photo of rice terraces in Congjiang County of China, where daytime radial oxygen loss from rice roots is actively driving oxic, abiotic methane production

Image: Zhongnan Lu, Chaoyang Zhao, and Guoqiang Zhao
Cover design: Alex Wing

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 11/06/2026

⚒️ Article: Magmatism induced by a mantle plume bearing a relatively high proportion of a dense fusible mantle component may have formed the Ontong Java Plateau www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of a conceptual model for the spread of a thermochemical plume head

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 10/06/2026

⚒️ Article: Most oceanic intraplate volcanism, including seamounts far from mantle hotspots, originates from deep-rooted mantle plumes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 10/06/2026

⚒️ Article: Seamount volcanism associated with Earth’s basal mantle structures @clintconrad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of seamount accumulation above large low shear velocity provinces

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 04/06/2026

⚒️ Article: Day–night shifts in microbial activity affecting arsenic and iron in the rice rhizosphere www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of As/Fe diel fluctuations in rice rhizosphere

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 01/06/2026

⚒️ Article: Global mineral constraints on dust shortwave radiative effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the dust shortwave direct radiative effects constrained by orbital mineral mapping

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 01/06/2026

⚒️ Article: Two river systems that drained into the desiccated Late Miocene Mediterranean later coalesced into the modern Euphrates River as regional uplift redirected drainage to the Persian Gulf www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temporal evolution and formation model for the Euphrates River

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 15/05/2026

⚒️ Article: Opposing meltwater feedbacks on Antarctic ice shelf melt www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration summarizing the Forced Response and Melt Feedback Response around Antarctica

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 14/05/2026

⚒️ Article: Gas hydrate dissolution triggered by subglacial groundwater flushing during deglaciation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of a conceptual model of local groundwater flow driven by freshened water during the melt and retreat of an ice sheet

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 13/05/2026

⚒️ May issue out now: including content on ice core temperature proxies, post-collisional magmatism, changes in river connectivity, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Changes in river connectivity

Aerial photo of a delta depicting the exchange between river channels and their surrounding floodplains

Image courtesy of Lian Feng, Wuhan University, based on Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
Cover design: Alex Wing

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 05/05/2026

⚒️ Article: Methane in modern subglacial meltwater coming from the western Greenland ice sheet largely dates back to the period following the Holocene Thermal Maximum, when a smaller ice sheet allowed for organic matter accumulation @ukceh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of a conceptual model of ice sheet margin fluctuations leading to methane production and export of Holocene-aged dissolved methane

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 05/05/2026

⚒️ Article: Post-collisional calc-alkaline magmatism has originated from mixing and hybridisation of relaminated continental crust and mantle peridotite since the Archean @mncn-csic.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 28/04/2026

⚒️ Article: Managing nutrient levels can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from lakes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of an integrated mitigation framework for reducing anthropogenic nutrient discharges and its impacts on lake eutrophication and greenhouse gas emissions

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 24/04/2026

⚒️ Article: Human activities like dredging and land reclamation have pervasively altered the ways in which tides propagate through large estuaries, with negative ecological impacts www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the changes in tidal dynamics due to human interventions in an estuary

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 14/04/2026

⚒️ April issue out now: including content on the lunar magnetic field, subduction-related mantle oxidation, synthetic chemicals in marine ecosystems, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Oceanwide synthetic chemicals

Underwater image depicting the spread of xenobiotics through marine ecosystems

Image: Daniel Petras, University of California Riverside; underwater image: Giordano Cipriani / The Image Bank / Getty Images
Cover design: Alex Wing

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 13/04/2026

⚒️ Article: Total sediment flux from land to ocean across the pan-Arctic has risen by 15% since 1980 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the drivers and impacts of increasing suspended sediment concentration and land–ocean sediment flux across pan-Arctic

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 13/04/2026

⚒️ Article: A deep learning framework enables observation oceanic surface currents down to submesoscale spatial and temporal resolutions from thermal imagery routinely collected by geostationary satellites www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 31/03/2026

⚒️ Perspective: A new paradigm for understanding the Earth's marine ice sheets www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of a conceptual model of Earth’s marine ice sheets

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 16/03/2026

⚒️ Analysis: Synthetic chemicals can make up substantial proportions of dissolved organic matter in the ocean, with major differences in compound classes depending on the distance from coastlines www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A global map of sampling sites and a schematic illustration of the analytical workflow

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 13/03/2026

⚒️ Review: The critical role of soil moisture in compound hazards www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of soil moisture-driven mechanisms underlying compound drought, heatwaves, and wildfires

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 12/03/2026

March issue out now: including content on hydrofluorocarbon emissions, coastal hazard prediction, nitrogen management, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Nitrogen and the Sustainable Development Goals

Tractor spreading manure on a field in Klaaswaal, the Netherlands, a country facing severe nitrogen pollution from agriculture

Image: ANP / Alamy
Cover design: Alex Wing

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 04/03/2026

⚒️ Article: Mariana-type subduction redox is controlled by sulphide oxidation enabling fluids to carry redox budgets from the slab to the mantle wedge, and iron-rich slab sediment melts that oxidise the back-arc mantle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sketch and plots showing the redox dynamics and mass transfer of the Mariana subduction system and globally

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 26/02/2026

⚒️ Perspective: Microplastics affect terrestrial soil carbon dynamics, altering carbon storage www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Illustration of the fate of microplastic-derived carbon and its influence on soil organic carbon storage

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 26/02/2026

⚒️ Article: Strong magnetic fields on the Moon between 3.854 and 3.580 Ga correlate with the titanium content of lunar basalts, suggesting a link between dynamo generation and the eruption of high-Ti basalts @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic cross-sections of the Moon showing its structure and dynamics at the end of magma ocean solidification and during the Intermittent High Intensity Epoch

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 23/02/2026

⚒️ Brief Communication: Millennial-aged peat carbon outgassed by large humic lakes in the Congo Basin www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 19/02/2026

⚒️ Brief Communication: Climate feedback of forest fires amplified by atmospheric chemistry www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stylized box diagram showing the effects of increasing forest fires on global atmospheric oxidation, methane budgets and climate forcings

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 13/02/2026

⚒️ Article: Urban black carbon radiative heating intensified by biogenic-anthropogenic interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the conceptual framework of black carbon secondary organic coating formation in the total particle population under biogenic–anthropogenic interactions

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 11/02/2026

February issue online now: Including content on tropical cyclones, fault rupture speed controls, ice sheet variability, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Past disappearance of a Greenland ice dome

Wind erosion features formed around footprints in the snow in front of the ASIG drill camp at Prudhoe Dome, northwestern Greenland

Image: courtesy of Jason Briner, University at Buffalo
Cover design: Alex Wing

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 03/02/2026

⚒️ Article: CO₂-driven warming reduces phosphorus bioavailability in rice paddies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of a conceptual model of phosphorus cycling regulated by crop–soil–microbe interactions under elevated CO2 and warming

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 27/01/2026

⚒️ Article: Landfalling tropical cyclones generally accelerate as they approach coastlines due to changes in surface roughness and thermal properties www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the physical mechanisms for the acceleration of landfalling tropical cyclones

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 14/01/2026

⚒️ Article: Emerging hotspots of agricultural drought under climate change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global map of regions defined by the IPCC Special Report on Extremes coloured by their projected increase in soil-moisture-defined drought

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 13/01/2026

⚒️ Article: Transport of aerosols from distant fires in deforested and savannah regions supplies phosphorus to undisturbed Amazon rainforest and influences its productivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plots showing the influence of phosphorus on gross primary productivity in the Amazon rainforest

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 12/01/2026

January issue online now: Including content on sugars on asteroid Bennu, post-wildfire erosion, extreme weather events, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...

Extreme weather on the rise

A hailstorm striking Nebraska’s high plains in the USA in September 2018, during which large hailstones damaged property

Image: John Finney Photography / Moment / Getty Images
Cover design: Alex Wing

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 09/01/2026

⚒️ Article: The Arctic-boreal fire regime is greatly affected by the biophysical and biological feedbacks from permafrost degradation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of a conceptual framework of the permafrost–fire–climate feedback in northern high latitudes

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 09/01/2026

⚒️ Article: Overestimation of past and future increases in global river flow by Earth system models www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of the water cycle showing its partitioning using the emergent constraint approach

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 07/01/2026

⚒️ Article: Halving nitrogen waste could help meet a broad array of Sustainable Development Goals, with associated benefits topping 1.3 trillion USD www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schematic illustration of nitrogen waste streams across four main systems in 2020

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