493 papers
This study demonstrates that while food-system transformation and ecosystem stewardship individually mitigate the decline in global protected area connectivity caused by agricultural expansion, only their integrated application can simultaneously enhance biodiversity conservation, food security, and public health.
This study reveals that a severe multi-year drought in boreal North America facilitated overwintering fires, which, combined with subsequent drought conditions, drove unprecedented consecutive extreme fire seasons in 2023–2025 and challenges current fire danger systems that fail to account for multi-year hydrological carryover effects.
This study reveals that the selective anchoring of new organic matter to either mineral surfaces or native organic matter, rather than the abundance of fine mineral particles, primarily governs the chemical composition and long-term stabilization of soil organic carbon.
By leveraging machine learning and decades of scientific data to overcome confidentiality barriers, this study estimates that the global seafloor contains vast reserves of strategic metals (nickel, copper, and cobalt) concentrated in a small fraction of the ocean floor, primarily outside ecologically sensitive habitats, thereby providing critical evidence to guide the governance of these common heritage resources and the protection of deep-sea ecosystems.
This study utilizes WAM2layers driven by ERA5 and two regional climate models to characterize the summer precipitation recycling ratio over eastern China, revealing a southwest-to-northeast decreasing spatial pattern, systematic model differences, and a strong dependence on local evaporation efficiency modulated by large-scale moisture advection and monsoon transport.
This study demonstrates that integrating cool pavements, green roofs, and urban biodiversity in Douala, Cameroon, can reduce near-surface air temperatures by up to 2.42°C, while emphasizing the critical need to address socio-economic feasibility and governance challenges for equitable climate resilience in Sub-Saharan African cities.
This study utilizes remote sensing to analyze the 2024 Thame, Nepal GLOF event, revealing a rare cascading breach between two glacial lakes that caused significant downstream destruction and arguing for a shift in hazard assessment frameworks from size-based prioritization to consequence-based, catchment-scale evaluations that include smaller, high-risk water bodies.
This study reveals that the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland, is undergoing a critical shift from ignition-limited to climate-amplified fire dynamics, where megafires are increasingly driven by extreme hydroclimatic conditions that amplify the spread of fewer ignition sources rather than by an increase in fire frequency alone.
This study develops and validates a spatially explicit multi-hazard exposure framework for Iran's Zagros mountain forests, revealing that declining canopy structure significantly amplifies vulnerability to interacting climatic and socio-ecological stressors, thereby offering a critical decision-support tool for forest conservation and climate adaptation.
This study provides the first experimental evidence that biochemicals derived from California harvester ants directly and rapidly accelerate calcium-silicate dissolution, suggesting a significant role for ants in the global carbon cycle and potential applications for bioengineered CO2 mitigation.