2455 papers
This study presents the first continent-wide map of the Antarctic Ice Sheet's internal structure, revealing that its stratification and anisotropy are shaped by thermomechanical coupling, specifically the onset of dislocation creep and basal temperature variations, which collectively govern the ice sheet's dynamics and future evolution.
This study reveals that global lake surface water temperatures significantly influence atmospheric river frequency, with a critical 4.0°C threshold triggering a non-linear surge in AR activity through intensified evaporation and moisture pre-conditioning, thereby establishing lakes as active drivers rather than passive responders in regional hydro-thermal cycles.
This study demonstrates that a 20-year enclosure period in the Karkheh River Watershed significantly enhanced floristic richness and vegetation diversity in a semiarid ecosystem, despite persistent water stress, thereby underscoring the critical role of long-term protection in restoring fragile arid landscapes.
This study investigates the dynamic migration and adsorption characteristics of fluoride in five representative soil types using ash-sluicing water from a coal-fired power plant, revealing that Tianshengqiao laterite exhibits the highest adsorption capacity due to its clay mineral composition and establishing key parameters like dispersion coefficients and hysteresis factors for simulating fluoride migration under varying water conditions.
This study demonstrates that climate change will significantly displace high seas habitats prioritized for marine protection, with effectiveness heavily dependent on emission reductions and the adoption of dynamic management strategies rather than static boundaries.
This study utilizes historical data and CMIP6 model projections to demonstrate that the Borana Zone in Ethiopia is experiencing and will continue to face significant warming trends characterized by increased warm extremes, decreased cold extremes, and a narrowing diurnal temperature range, all of which are influenced by large-scale climate indices and have critical implications for pastoral adaptation strategies.
This study demonstrates that forest communities are increasingly mismatched with climate change when the direction of environmental shifts diverges from the "line of least resistance" defined by the dominant axis of variation in species' climatic niche optima, making them vulnerable even without extreme values in individual climate variables.
By integrating sedimentary ancient DNA with rock-art and bone records from northern Fennoscandia over the last 16,000 years, this study provides the first long-term empirical evidence that shifts in biotic interactions, rather than climate alone, are the primary drivers shaping animal niches and ecosystem development.
This study documents an efficient, previously underappreciated pathway for continental crust recycling in Paleozoic Japan, where back-arc extension and subduction of extended arcs and margins led to the destruction and mantle return of fragmented continental crust, as evidenced by a shift from evolved to juvenile isotopic signatures in granitoids.
This study characterizes the Palopo and Masamba granitoids in South Sulawesi as high-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic I-type rocks derived from distinct crustal sources that underwent significant magmatic evolution through magma mixing and fractional crystallization, resulting in the enrichment of incompatible elements.