1379 papers
This study reveals that inner-shelf mud belts in tide-dominated coastal systems function as active, toggleable sources of carbon and nitrogen rather than passive sinks, driven by tidal pumping that transports significant amounts of shelf-derived organic matter back into estuarine reaches.
Based on two decades of multi-taxa and environmental data, this study reveals that the Yangtze Estuary underwent a fundamental regime shift around 2009–2010 driven not by a single factor but by the synergistic convergence of critical thresholds in dissolved oxygen, nutrients, and their ratios, providing essential reference points for ecosystem management.
By integrating teleseismic, strong-motion, and GNSS data, this study reveals that the 1994 Mw 7.8 Sanriku-Haruka-Oki earthquake involved two distinct NW–SE aligned slip patches separated by a low-slip zone influenced by pre-existing structural heterogeneities, suggesting that such weak segmentation governs the complex recurrence patterns of large megathrust earthquakes in the region.
Based on an analysis of over 61,000 seed production records from 700 species across the Northern Hemisphere, this study demonstrates that climate warming shortens mast intervals by accelerating resource accumulation and lowering the cumulative resource thresholds required for reproductive events, with significant implications for forest regeneration and ecosystem dynamics.
This paper presents a groundbreaking experimental framework utilizing room-temperature Piezoelectric-Quantum Interference (PQI) mapping and the J.M. Resonance Function to successfully forecast a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in the Japan Trench 12 hours in advance, demonstrating a viable pathway for proactive seismic disaster mitigation through efficient, edge-computing-based precursor detection.
This study uses a 2D hydromechanical model to demonstrate that rapid fluid release from Chatham Rise pockmarks during the last deglaciation could have emitted approximately 2 Petagrams of CO2 per year, a rate significantly higher than that of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, suggesting such geologic carbon release was a major, previously underappreciated driver of deglacial atmospheric CO2 trends.
This paper demonstrates that carbon-weighted building energy ratings can artificially inflate perceived retrofit progress by crediting grid decarbonization rather than physical building improvements, as evidenced by a UK policy change that triggered widespread rating upgrades without corresponding energy savings, prompting a call to separate carbon accounting from physical performance standards.
A controlled nursery experiment in Bolivia's tropical montane forest demonstrates that saplings of native tree species exhibit enhanced growth and leaf production in soils from recently burned, bracken-dominated areas due to elevated nutrient levels, suggesting that reforestation efforts should prioritize planting soon after fires rather than waiting for soil recovery.
This study synthesizes evidence from 194 European studies to demonstrate that biodiversity acts as a dynamic nexus component linking climate, food, water, energy, transport, and health systems, arguing that effective governance must shift from fragmented sectoral approaches to integrative policies that amplify positive feedbacks and interrupt harmful cascades.
This study reveals a previously unexplored positive feedback mechanism where local sea level drops, caused by ice sheet mass loss, reduce hydrostatic pressure at calving fronts to accelerate further calving and ice loss, ultimately increasing projected ice sheet mass loss by 86% over 200 years and highlighting the necessity of coupling local sea level dynamics with calving processes in future projections.