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Climate change and human behaviour
Anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact. Without immediate action, we are unlikely to meet the target goal of minimizing global warming to 1.5° C. This collection highlights the importance of human behaviour in climate action, mitigation and adaptation.
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Megathrusts
Megathrusts, faults at the interface between one tectonic plate overriding another, can generate large earthquakes and tsunamis.
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Soil organic carbon
Soil organic carbon is a large component of the global carbon cycle.
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Icy worlds
Ice-rich planetary objects are geologically complex and diverse. Some harbour potentially habitable subsurface water oceans, so these bodies are a priority for further exploration.
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Carbon budgets and the 1.5 °C target
Budgets of carbon emissions that are consistent with limiting warming to no more than 1.5 °C over preindustrial temperatures have been hotly debated, following the Paris Agreement on climate change targets. Read more on these discussions in our web focus.
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10th Anniversary Focus
Nature Geoscience launched a decade ago, in January 2008. We are celebrating our 10th anniversary with this web focus, where we collect a series of articles that reflect on progress in a few selected areas of the Earth and planetary sciences and on changes in the field and its relationship to society.
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Ocean conveyor and climate
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Phosphorus cycling
Inland waters under threat
Core science
Marine iron cycling
Groundwater
