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Cooperative agreement between countries of the North Atlantic Ocean reduces marine plastic pollution but with unequal economic benefits. 北大西洋国家间的合作协议减少了海洋塑料污染，但经济效益不平等。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02115-5

Nicola J Beaumont, Tobias Börger, James R Clark, Nick Hanley, Robert J Johnston, Keila Meginnis, Christopher Stapenhurst, Frans P de Vries

{"title":"Cooperative agreement between countries of the North Atlantic Ocean reduces marine plastic pollution but with unequal economic benefits.","authors":"Nicola J Beaumont, Tobias Börger, James R Clark, Nick Hanley, Robert J Johnston, Keila Meginnis, Christopher Stapenhurst, Frans P de Vries","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02115-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02115-5","url":null,"abstract":"Plastic pollution in the world's oceans threatens ecosystems and biodiversity. The connected nature of the marine environment suggests that coordinated actions by countries sharing an ocean border may provide more effective pollution control than unilateral actions by any one country. However, countries often fail to cooperate, even when joint economic benefits would be higher under cooperation. Here we present a modelling framework to determine the potential economic benefits of cooperative marine plastic pollution management. The framework integrates an estimated plastic transfer matrix from a particle tracking model with game theory to derive the economic benefits of international cooperation for 16 countries bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. Subject to modelling uncertainties, a fully cooperative agreement yields aggregate annual net benefits of around $36 billion and a 64% reduction in emissions. The net benefits of cooperation persist over alternative scenarios and considering the impact of uncertainties but vary in magnitude and distribution.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"134"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11845319/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143482407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Heterogeneous thermal tolerance of dominant Andean montane tree species. 安第斯山地优势树种的异质耐热性。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02083-w

Zorayda Restrepo, Sebastián González-Caro, Iain P Hartley, Juan Camilo Villegas, Patrick Meir, Adriana Sanchez, Daniel Ruiz Carrascal, Lina M Mercado

{"title":"Heterogeneous thermal tolerance of dominant Andean montane tree species.","authors":"Zorayda Restrepo, Sebastián González-Caro, Iain P Hartley, Juan Camilo Villegas, Patrick Meir, Adriana Sanchez, Daniel Ruiz Carrascal, Lina M Mercado","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02083-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02083-w","url":null,"abstract":"In tropical montane forests, the Earth's largest biodiversity hotspots, there is increasing evidence that climate warming is resulting in montane species being displaced by their lowland counterparts. However, the drivers of these changes are poorly understood. Across a large elevation gradient in the Colombian Andes, we established three experimental plantations of 15 dominant tree species including both naturally occurring montane and lowland species and measured their survival and growth. Here we show that 55% of the studied montane species maintained growth at their survival's hottest temperature with the remaining 45% being intolerant to such levels of warming, declining their growth, while lowland species benefited strongly from the warmest temperatures. Our findings suggest that the direct negative effects of warming and increased competition of montane species with lowland species are promoting increased homogeneity in community composition, resulting in reduced biodiversity.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"117"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11832418/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143457136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Quantifying uncertainty in wave attenuation by mangroves to inform coastal green belt policies. 量化红树林对波浪衰减的不确定性，为沿海绿化带政策提供信息。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02178-4

Bregje K van Wesenbeeck, Vincent T M van Zelst, Jose A A Antolinez, Wiebe P de Boer

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Tree ring isotopes reveal an intensification of the hydrological cycle in the Amazon. 树木年轮同位素揭示了亚马逊地区水循环的加剧。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02408-9

Bruno B L Cintra, Emanuel Gloor, Jessica C A Baker, Arnoud Boom, Jochen Schöngart, Santiago Clerici, Kanhu Pattnayak, Roel J W Brienen

{"title":"Tree ring isotopes reveal an intensification of the hydrological cycle in the Amazon.","authors":"Bruno B L Cintra, Emanuel Gloor, Jessica C A Baker, Arnoud Boom, Jochen Schöngart, Santiago Clerici, Kanhu Pattnayak, Roel J W Brienen","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02408-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02408-9","url":null,"abstract":"Over recent decades the Amazon region has been exposed to large-scale land-use changes and global warming. How these changes affect Amazonia's hydrological cycle remains unclear as meteorological data are scarce. We use tree ring oxygen isotope records to confirm that the Amazon hydrological cycle has intensified since 1980. Diverging isotopic trends from terra firme and floodplain trees from distinct sites (approximately 1000 km apart) in Western Amazon indicate rainfall amounts increased during the wet season and decreased during the dry season at large-scale. Using the Rayleigh distillation model, we estimate that wet season rainfall increased by 15-22%, and dry season rainfall decreased by 8-13%. These diverging trends provide evidence, independent from existing climate records, that the seasonality of the hydrological cycle in the Amazon is increasing. Continuation of the observed trends will have a pervasive impact on Amazon forests and floodplain ecosystems, and strongly affect the livelihoods of the regional riverine communities.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"453"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12173935/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144332594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Detailed observations reveal the genesis and dynamics of destructive debris-flow surges. 详细的观测揭示了破坏性泥石流涌流的成因和动力学。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02488-7

J Aaron, J Langham, R Spielmann, J Hirschberg, B McArdell, S Boss, C G Johnson, J M N T Gray

{"title":"Detailed observations reveal the genesis and dynamics of destructive debris-flow surges.","authors":"J Aaron, J Langham, R Spielmann, J Hirschberg, B McArdell, S Boss, C G Johnson, J M N T Gray","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02488-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02488-7","url":null,"abstract":"Debris flows are one of the most damaging natural hazards in mountainous terrain. Their dynamics are controlled by both surging behaviour and the influence of large boulders. However, a lack of high-resolution field measurements has limited our mechanistic understanding of these important processes. Here, we provide high-resolution in situ debris-flow surge measurements that demonstrate that surges are formed by the spontaneous growth of small surface instabilities into large waves, which amplify the destructiveness of the flow by increasing peak discharge. We use our field measurements to invert for the effective basal friction experienced by the flow, and support this reconstruction using numerical simulations that reproduce the formation and propagation of the surges. Detailed analysis of the inverted frictional data further shows that large boulders in the flow can influence local flow dynamics by increasing basal resistance, but this is not required to drive the surge wave instability. Our analysis provides new insights into debris-flow dynamics and can provide the foundation for improved hazard management of these damaging processes.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"556"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12267052/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144674032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Anthropogenic climate change contributes to wildfire particulate matter and related mortality in the United States. 在美国，人为的气候变化导致了野火颗粒物和相关的死亡率。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02314-0

Beverly E Law, John T Abatzoglou, Christopher R Schwalm, David Byrne, Neal Fann, Nicholas J Nassikas

{"title":"Anthropogenic climate change contributes to wildfire particulate matter and related mortality in the United States.","authors":"Beverly E Law, John T Abatzoglou, Christopher R Schwalm, David Byrne, Neal Fann, Nicholas J Nassikas","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02314-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02314-0","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change has increased forest fire extent in temperate and boreal North America. Here, we quantified the contribution of anthropogenic climate change to human mortality and economic burden from exposure to wildfire particulate matter at the county and state level across the contiguous US (2006 to 2020) by integrating climate projections, climate-wildfire models, wildfire smoke models, and emission and health impact modeling. Climate change contributed to approximately 15,000 wildfire particulate matter deaths over 15 years with interannual variability ranging from 130 (95% confidence interval: 64, 190) to 5100 (95% confidence interval: 2500, 7500) deaths and a cumulative economic burden of $160 billion. Approximately 34% of the additional deaths attributable to climate change occurred in 2020, costing $58 billion. The economic burden was highest in California, Oregon, and Washington. We suggest that absent abrupt changes in climate trajectories, land management, and population, the indirect impacts of climate change on human-health through wildfire smoke will escalate.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"336"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12048342/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143986320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Winter stratospheric extreme events impact European storm damage. 冬季平流层极端事件影响欧洲风暴破坏。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02431-w

Hilla Afargan-Gerstman, Daniela I V Domeisen

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Conspiracy theories as engines of connection for enriched public debates on emerging technologies. 阴谋论是连接新兴技术丰富的公众辩论的引擎。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02581-x

Gabriel Dorthe

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Recent aqueous alteration associated to sedimentary volcanism on Mars. 火星上与沉积火山作用有关的近期水蚀变。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02713-3

M Pineau, J Carter, A Lagain, E Ravier, N Mangold, L Le Deit, C Quantin-Nataf, A Zanella

{"title":"Recent aqueous alteration associated to sedimentary volcanism on Mars.","authors":"M Pineau, J Carter, A Lagain, E Ravier, N Mangold, L Le Deit, C Quantin-Nataf, A Zanella","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02713-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02713-3","url":null,"abstract":"Sedimentary volcanism, whereby material is brought to the surface by fluid overpressure, has been proposed to explain some of the periglacial landforms, including pitted cones, in the Northern Plains of Mars. However, in the absence of convincing mineralogical evidence, the origin for these deposits has never been conclusively determined. Here we conduct a remote sensing-based mineralogical survey to identify hydrated minerals within the Thumbprint Terrains and neighbouring Vastitas Borealis Formation. We detect several occurrences of hydrated silica along with sulfate salts in candidate mud volcano-like morphologies which likely formed during the Early Amazonian period, supporting the sedimentary volcanism origin. Buoyancy-driven analytical modelling suggests the hydrated silica and sulfate salts are sourced from reservoirs at depths of several 10 s and 100 s of metres, respectively below the Thumbprint Terrains and Vastitas Borealis Formation. The exposed sulfates may have been derived from ancient buried evaporite deposits suggesting, at least locally, a salt-rich aqueous origin for the Vastitas Borealis Formation, and would be consistent with the presence of a past northern ocean on Mars.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"800"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12510876/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145279121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy. 闭环地热系统是一种潜在的低碳可再生能源。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02729-9

Mohammad Zargartalebi, Alireza Darzi, Amin Kazemi, David Sinton

{"title":"Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy.","authors":"Mohammad Zargartalebi, Alireza Darzi, Amin Kazemi, David Sinton","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02729-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02729-9","url":null,"abstract":"Decarbonizing the energy sector requires renewable sources that are economic and responsive to demand. Intermittency and seasonal variability, therefore, limit the potential of wind and solar. Geothermal energy can potentially provide low-carbon renewable power that is dispatchable and responsive to demand. However, conventional geothermal methods require high permeability in high-temperature subsurface zones, which restricts their application. Here, we assess the global potential of the closed-loop geothermal system (CLGS), an emerging technology that does not require high permeability. Using thermodynamic, process, and technoeconomic modeling, we analyze the potential for CLGS in 12,000 candidate regions to estimate global viability. With the base case of water as the working fluid in a Rankine cycle, we estimate the global potential to be 9 TWe, equivalent to 70% of current electricity production. We assess using phase change working fluids to broaden applicability and improve efficiency, and evaluate the remaining technological barriers to closed-loop geothermal energy production.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"812"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12532597/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145328362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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