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📄 earth science

Wildlife Exclusion and Resource Deprivation: The Socio-Ecological Paradox of Electric Fencing around Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

While the 44-km electric fence around Murchison Falls National Park has significantly reduced human-wildlife conflict and is highly preferred by local communities, it creates a socio-ecological paradox by severing access to essential natural resources, thereby threatening long-term conservation sustainability unless integrated with community-led resource-access frameworks.

Henry Batenda, Vincent Muwanika, Mnason Tweheyo, Enock Ssekuubwa, Onan Mulumba, Joel T. Heinen2026-10-06
📄 earth science

Bias-corrected upper-ocean data for impact assessments of global warming and assimilation into climate models

This study presents a novel framework for generating bias-corrected monthly upper-ocean datasets representing non-warming and future climate scenarios by decomposing observational data into climatological, forced, and internal variability components, thereby enabling more accurate impact assessments and climate model simulations.

Yusuke Ushijima, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Ryo Mizuta, Hideyuki Nakano, Hirokazu Endo, Hideo Shiogama, Yukiko Imada, Osamu Araka (…)2026-10-06
📄 earth science

Bigger cities have larger heat islands, denser ones do not, and growing ones get hotter

Analyzing 8,637 weather records across 910 cities over five decades, the study reveals that while larger cities consistently experience stronger night-time heat islands regardless of density, urban growth within existing boundaries further intensifies heat specifically in North America, challenging the conventional single-metric approach to assessing urban heat impacts.

In Chang Hwang2026-10-06
📄 earth science

A VAR(1)-Regularized Spatial Pattern Regression for Temporally Coherent Reconstruction of High-Resolution Meteorological Fields

This paper introduces Temporally-constrained Spatial Pattern Regression (T-SPR), a method that combines anomaly-based spatial interpolation with temporal regularization to robustly and accurately reconstruct high-resolution meteorological fields from sparse station networks while ensuring temporal coherence and reducing sensitivity to station configuration.

Vihotogbé Houssou, Julie Carreau2026-10-06
📄 earth science

Persistent Enhanced Southwest Monsoon (Habagat) Rains over Luzon in July and August 2026: The Combined Role of a Stalled Madden–Julian Oscillation and El Niño

This study attributes the severe and prolonged southwest monsoon rains over Luzon in July–August 2026 to a stalled Madden–Julian Oscillation in Phases 6–7, which was anchored by a perturbed Walker circulation and subsequently generated a stationary monsoon gyre that drove intense moisture convergence and orographic lifting over the Zambales Range.

Gerry Bagtasa2026-10-06
📄 earth science

Decadal shifts of organic contaminants in oceanic plankton

This study reveals that global oceanic plankton act as a sentinel for decadal shifts in organic contaminants, showing a decline in regulated chemicals like PFASs and pharmaceuticals alongside an increasing diversity of tire and plastic-associated substitutes that threaten to transport novel pollutants to the deep sea.

Pablo Gago-Ferrero, Jessica Patrone, Jordi Dachs, Maria Vila-Costa, Naiara Berrojalbiz-Castrillejo, Cristóbal Galbán-Mal (…)2026-10-06
📄 earth science

Rapid Loss of the Sierra Nevada’s Largest Trees Driven by Fire

This study utilizes deep learning and satellite imagery to map over 6.5 million large trees across the Sierra Nevada, revealing that wildfires, particularly during the extreme 2020–2021 fire seasons, were the primary driver responsible for killing 10% of these ecologically vital trees.

Fabien H. Wagner, Dan J. Dixon, Christopher W. Woodall, Mayumi C. M. Hirye, Felipe Saad, Griffin Carter, Ricardo Dalagno (…)2026-10-06
📄 earth science

Colonisation-driven mercury cycling overrode industrial pollution in sub-Antarctic lakes

Lake sediment records from sub-Antarctic islands reveal that colonisation-driven ecological changes, particularly the introduction of invasive species, significantly altered mercury cycling and locally overrode the global industrial pollution signature in the Southern Hemisphere.

Stephen Roberts, Margot Schneider, Ruoyu Sun, Krystyna Saunders, James Latimer, Simon Haberle, Stewart Fallon, Narelle H (…)2026-10-06