Nature Geoscience

Nature Geoscience is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original research papers across all areas of the geosciences. The journal’s content reflects all the disciplines within the geosciences, including studies of the Earth’s climate system, the solid Earth and the planets. Nature Geoscience covers studies based on all the methods used by geoscientists, ranging from field work and numerical modelling on regional and global scales to theoretical studies and remote sensing. Physical, chemical and biological investigations that contribute to our understanding of the Earth system or the planets are all represented.

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Solid Earth forcing of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events

Thu, 08/29/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01496-0

Enhanced chemical weathering following continental breakup may have driven a succession of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events, according to tectonic and biogeochemical modelling.

Global ocean carbon uptake enhanced by rainfall

Thu, 08/29/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01517-y

About 6% of the total uptake of carbon dioxide by the ocean is due to rainfall, according to an analysis of satellite observations and ERA5 reanalysis data from 2008 to 2018.

Walker circulation strengthening driven by sea surface temperature changes outside the tropics

Thu, 08/29/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01510-5

Subtropical and extratropical sea surface temperature changes can explain recent observed Walker circulation strengthening, according to climate model experiments.

Author Correction: Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical land

Wed, 08/28/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01536-9

Author Correction: Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical land

Glacier-preserved Tibetan Plateau viral community probably linked to warm–cold climate variations

Mon, 08/26/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 26 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01508-z

Genomes recovered from a Tibetan Plateau ice core extending back 41,000 years show that preserved viral communities varied substantially with cold-to-warm climate cycles.

Global patterns and drivers of post-fire vegetation productivity recovery

Fri, 08/23/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 23 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01520-3

More than 80% of vegetation burned globally regained its pre-fire level of productivity within 2 years, according to an assessment of post-fire vegetation productivity from 2004 to 2021.

Widespread longitudinal snow dunes in Antarctica shaped by sintering

Fri, 08/23/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 23 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01506-1

Linear aeolian dunes aligned in the direction of snow drift are widespread across Antarctica, indicating a limited supply of mobile snow particles controlled by snow sintering, according to an analysis of satellite imagery.

Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors

Fri, 08/23/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 23 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01518-x

Increasing the number of global changes reduces the resistance of ecosystem services worldwide, according to an analysis of global available observational data and field experiments.

Dry air in the lower-free troposphere intensifies humid heatwaves

Tue, 08/20/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 20 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01507-0

Humid heatwaves are often limited by the onset of convective rain, such as thunderstorms. Observational reanalysis data and climate models indicate that dry air 1–3 km above the Earth’s surface can curtail convective storms, allowing humid heatwaves to intensify on the ground. This effect is likely to be exacerbated by increasing global temperatures.

Nuna supercontinent assembly linked to carbon cycling in shear zones 1.9–1.7 billion years ago

Tue, 08/20/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 20 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01519-w

Graphitic carbon was hydrothermally cycled through shear zones during late-stage orogenesis associated with Nuna supercontinent assembly, according to a coupled rhenium–osmium and uranium–lead dating study.

Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest

Tue, 08/20/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 20 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01512-3

Soil moisture greatly affects the response of soil respiration to warming, according to 13 years of warming experiments in a boreal forest.

Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion

Mon, 08/19/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 19 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01534-x

Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion

Facilitating code peer review

Fri, 08/09/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01523-0

Authors can now choose to use Code Ocean upon submission to make the peer review of code easier.

The problem with dolomite

Fri, 08/09/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01490-6

The formation of dolomite eluded mineralogists for years. Jennifer Roberts explains why ‘the dolomite problem’ matters, and how it may now be closer to resolution.

Multifaceted aerosol effects on precipitation

Fri, 08/09/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01482-6

A consensus is emerging regarding the influence of aerosols on global precipitation patterns, although smaller-scale effects remain uncertain, according to a synthesis of recent work.

Substantial contribution of transported emissions to organic aerosol in Beijing

Thu, 08/08/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 08 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01493-3

Secondary organic aerosols in Beijing are driven by emissions from outside of the city, with seasonally different emission sources, according to molecular chemical characterization of particulate air pollution.

Unmasking Antarctica’s biodiversity

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 06 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01502-5

Tracking biodiversity potential is time-sensitive under climate change, especially in the most remote areas. A new analysis fulfils a long-standing need to map the terrestrial vegetation across Antarctica — a crucial step to identify carbon and nutrient cycling hotspots.

Plateau formation on Venus similar to early continent formation on Earth

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 06 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01486-2

Computational simulations of Venus’s geodynamics show the formation of large tessera plateaus. Matching of the models with spacecraft orbiter data constrains the mechanism that may have formed the topography of Ishtar Terra and other plateaus on Venus, suggesting that these features might have formed by a mechanism similar to that of the early continents on Earth.

A satellite-derived baseline of photosynthetic life across Antarctica

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 06 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01492-4

Satellite-based mapping of vegetation shows that photosynthetic life occupies a total area of 44.2 km2 across Antarctica.

Evidence for subsea permafrost in subarctic Canada linked to submarine groundwater discharge

Mon, 08/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 05 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01497-z

Observations from the Labrador Coast indicate the presence of subsea permafrost landforms outside of the Arctic, suggesting a potential underestimation of subsea permafrost in the world’s oceans.