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Colder, snow-dominated regions are more likely to experience greater changes in water availability with warming, suggests an analysis that explicitly includes snow cover in potential evaporation estimates.
Carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies entered the inner solar system earlier than 4562 million years ago and were magnetized by the solar wind rather than in differentiated objects, according to paleomagnetic analyses of Vigarano and Mighei type meteorites
Uncoupling of calcification from calcifier biomass could accelerate coral reef degradation under the combined impact of warming and ocean acidification, suggests an 18-month long mesocosm experiment.
Land cover change has accelerated in West Africa between 1975 and 2013 as human-dominated land area more than doubled, suggest analyses of Landsat based land cover data sets.
Deep-sea hydrothermal systems are episodically flushed by fluids of magmatic origin, as revealed by the chemical signatures of zoned epidote crystals from the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus
The location of orogenic belts has a strong influence on the rifting of supercontinents after mantle plumes trigger the initial break-up and contribute to lithospheric weakening, according to numerical simulations of the break-up of Pangea.
Shrub canopy height and density is greater along Arctic streams that lose water into unfrozen ground than along gaining streams, suggest analyses of field measurements from Toolik, Alaska.
Methane can increase groundwater arsenic contamination by triggering the dissolution of arsenic-bearing iron oxide minerals by methane-oxidizing microorganisms, according to microcosm experiments on arsenic-bearing sediments from the Red River Delta, Vietnam.
Concurrent coastal extremes - storm surges and flooding from precipitation - are 2.5 times as frequent in latitudes higher than 40∘N under a high emission scenario by 2100 compared to today, according to an analysis of climate and ocean model output.
Liquid-like methane could be trapped in pores of less than 2 nm, rather than recovered, when higher peak pressure is applied during shale gas drilling. This was revealed by integrated molecular simulations and high-pressure small-angle neutron scattering on Marcellus Shale samples.
Two exceptional heatwaves affected Europe in June and July 2019. Although both were driven by the large-scale circulation, the July event was also amplified by soil moisture feedback, according to an analysis of past temperatures, weather analogues and soil-atmosphere interactions.
A bathymetric sill in Sherard Osborn Fjord, northwest Greenland shields Ryder Glacier from melting by warm Atlantic water found at the bottom of the fjord, according to high-resolution bathymetric mapping and oceanographic data.
Isoprene oxidation products are deposited rapidly into poplar leaves, where they undergo detoxification, and up to 1.5% are reemitted to the atmosphere as methyl ethyl ketone, according to laboratory and field experiments and chemistry-transport model simulations.
Dissolved organic carbon in high-mountain streams respond strongly to temperature variability, peaking at snowmelt and increasing by up to three times in warm years, according to hydrological, meteorological and geochemical data from Coal Creek, Colorado.
The 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake displayed cascading rupture behavior along an immature fault with most of its energy spent fracturing the wall rock rather than displacing the surface, according to a detailed dynamic source inversion approach.
Biological productivity and carbon dynamics in Arctic ecosystems started to change prior to human-induced warming of the region, according to an investigation of coupled carbon–nitrogen cycle dynamics using stable isotope analyses of lake sediments.
Microbial necromass recycling, which can influence soil carbon stabilization, is controlled by microbial growth and precipitation, as indicated by stable isotope tracing and indicator species analysis in a range of UK grasslands.
Palaeo-environmental conditions can be recorded in low-temperature continental archives, according to geochemical and isotopic analyses of dolomitic fracture infills at Erzberg, Austria
Carbon dioxide concentrations and ocean acidification in the subtropical surface Atlantic Ocean increased fastest during the two decades of weakest atmospheric carbon dioxide level increases, according to an analysis of observations at two open-ocean hydrographic stations.
Grasslands and forests respond differently to changes in rainfall variability in a changing climate, which could affect the terrestrial carbon sink, suggests this statistical analysis of rainfall responses in five biomes.