期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (7)
African forests suffer from severe fragmentation that further causes forest degradation near forest edges. The impact of fires used for slash-and-burn......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (9)
Rivers transport about 1,000 Mg mercury annually to coastal oceans, which is threefold greater than the amount delivered by atmospheric deposition, ac......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (5)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere from running waters are estimated to be four times greater than the total carbon (C) flux to the ocea......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (8)
Enabling public sharing of scientific data in China not only needs top-down mandates but also incentive mechanisms that boost confidence and willingne......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (9)
Emission controls avoided some 870,000 deaths in China between 2002 and 2017 but further air quality improvements need energy-climate policies and cha......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (5)
Mantle heterogeneity beneath subducting plates may influence giant megathrust earthquakes, according to seismic tomography of the subslab structure be......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (6)
The concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across China has decreased by 30-50% over the period 2013-2018 due to stringent emission controls......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (4)
Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas that plays a major role in controlling the Earth's climate. The causes of the renewed increase of metha......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (6)
Greenhouse gas-induced warming intensifies atmospheric variability associated with the El Nino/Southern Oscillation, according to an analysis of globa......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (5)
The transition between the locked and slowly slipping regions of the southern Cascadia megathrust has a lower porosity than these regions, according t......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (6)
Environmental contamination by mercury in its organometallic form, methylmercury, remains a major global concern due to its neurotoxicity, environment......
期刊: NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (8)
A synthesis of intervals of rapid climatic change evident in the geological record reveals some of the Earth system processes and tipping points that ......