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A correlation between seismic tomography-derived upper mantle low-density bodies and crustal earthquake clusters in west-central Europe suggests mantle buoyancy forces may be a factor controlling the distribution of intracontinental seismicity
China’s biomass imports and consumption from lower-middle-income and low-income countries increased between 2004 and 2017 and are expected to continue to increase by 402.9% in 2050, according to an analysis of the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production metric and model projections.
Scientists’ identities, values, and sense of duty, strongly influence their perspectives and engagement in climate and environmental activism, as well as their views on the role of technology in addressing environmental challenges, according to the findings from a multinational survey.
Fluctuations of physio-chemical conditions driven by dissolution-reprecipitation of arsenopyrite and arsenian pyrite critically control gold release and re-enrichment, according to micro and nanoscale observations and geochemical analyses.
Many prolonged cold periods similar to the Little Ice Age occurred during the Holocene as a result of volcanic activity and gradual ocean–sea ice feedbacks, according to Earth system model simulations forced by external climate forcing reconstructions.
Global vulnerability to flooding did not decrease between 2000-2018 despite ongoing socio-economic development as flood adaptation remained low in less developed areas, suggests an analysis combining satellite observations and socio-economic data.
Different ways to calculate carbon footprints and the implications of choosing one option over another are visualised in an open-access web application that uses a global input-output database to produce Sankey diagrams of carbon flows for 49 world regions between 1995 and 2019.
Changes in eruption rate can be estimated through the application of plume theory and laboratory evidence to video footage of wind-blown volcanic clouds, according to analysis of a 17-minute-long recording of the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption, Iceland
An extreme rainfall event in September 2021 in northern China caused cascading ecological effects that led to unusually low turbidity, red tide blooms, and subsequent kelp mortality events offshore of the eastern Shandong Peninsula, according to field and satellite data.
The severity of hypoxia in the Yangtze Estuary has increased in the last 50 years due to anthropogenic eutrophication and may be further exacerbated by climate-driven strengthening of stratification in the future, suggests sediment core analysis and climate modelling.
Quasi-stationary and transient anticyclones contributed to the hot Argentinian summer 2022/23 through circulation and moisture feedbacks respectively, and climate change exacerbated heatwave intensity by 0.5 to 1.2 °C relative to previous decades, according to an evaluation of ERA5 reanalysis data.
Following the destruction of a bridge segment at the Kakhovka Dam on November 11, 2022, irregular operation of the spillway gates led to a prolonged overflow, causing erosion of the spillway foundation, as indicated by satellite data, meteorological reanalysis, and dam design criteria analysis.
An ultra-weak magnetic field from Earth’s core lasting for at least 26 million years may have contributed to Earth’s oxygenation and further diversification of the Ediacaran fauna, according to single-crystal paleointensity data from igneous rocks in South Africa and Brazil.
The Southern Ocean carbon sink is projected to move poleward under a high emission scenario with increases in the Revelle Factor and carbon uptake that are biologically-driven in summertime and solubility-driven in wintertime linked to sea-ice melt, suggest CMIP6 Earth system model simulations.
Four extreme hydrometeorological events in the Pacific Northwest of North America in 2021, including two cold waves, a heat wave and a major flood, impacted freshwater temperatures by as much as 8 °C in parts of the region, according to an analysis of hourly water temperatures at 554 sites.
A large algal bloom in Lake Geneva in 2021 was triggered by a sequence of heavy rainfall followed by wind-induced coastal upwelling, and a prolonged period of warm, calm weather, according to a combination of satellite remote sensing, in-situ measurements and three-dimensional numerical modeling.
Our health and active life depend critically on nutritious food. While agriculture and food production increased over the past decades, millions of people are still unable to meet their dietary needs, starkly contrasting the overconsumption and the enormous amount of food wasted daily.
Responses of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to prompts to list a country’s vulnerability to climate hazards overall agree for floods and cyclones but less for droughts, with fewer errors from GPT-4, indicating a potential to enhance climate literacy, suggests a comparison of responses to hazard risk indices based on data from the IPCC.
Drought-wildfire compound events are increasing in frequency and reduce gross primary production by double compared to drought-only events, suggests a global scale compound analysis of satellite-derived data on drought indicators, wildfire and gross primary production between 2002 and 2020.
The stability of the ice margin in Baffin Bay led to active decentering of sediments in the deep basin and slopes 25,000−15,000 years ago, but as the ice sheet retreated 13,000-11,000 years ago, deposition moved largely toward the shelf, according to radiocarbon records from 79 sediment cores.