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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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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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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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Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps. 高岭石诱导未埋虾体内快速自生矿化。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01983-7

Nora Corthésy, Farid Saleh, Jonathan B Antcliffe, Allison C Daley

{"title":"Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps.","authors":"Nora Corthésy, Farid Saleh, Jonathan B Antcliffe, Allison C Daley","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01983-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01983-7","url":null,"abstract":"Fossils preserving soft tissues and lightly biomineralized structures are essential for the reconstruction of past ecosystems and their evolution. Understanding fossilization processes, including decay and mineralisation, is crucial for accurately interpreting ancient morphologies. Here we investigate the decay of marine and freshwater shrimps deposited on the surface of three different clay beds. In experimental set ups containing kaolinite, cryogenic scanning electron microscopy shows a black film comprised of newly formed anhedral and cryptocrystalline aluminosilicates on marine shrimp cuticles, which stabilise the overall morphology. This is the first experimental evidence for the replication of arthropod lightly biomineralized structures in aluminosilicates shortly after death, while carcasses are not buried by sediments. The preservation of morphology through aluminosilicates could result in carcasses persisting on the seafloor for weeks without losing much external anatomical information. In this context, instantaneous burial capturing animals alive may not be a prerequisite for exceptional preservation as usually thought.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11698689/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142930043","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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Plastics matter in the food system. 塑料在食品系统中很重要。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02105-7

Joe Yates, Megan Deeney, Jane Muncke, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Marie-France Dignac, Arturo Castillo Castillo, Winnie Courtene-Jones, Suneetha Kadiyala, Eva Kumar, Peter Stoett, Mengjiao Wang, Trisia Farrelly

{"title":"Plastics matter in the food system.","authors":"Joe Yates, Megan Deeney, Jane Muncke, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Marie-France Dignac, Arturo Castillo Castillo, Winnie Courtene-Jones, Suneetha Kadiyala, Eva Kumar, Peter Stoett, Mengjiao Wang, Trisia Farrelly","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02105-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02105-7","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture and food systems are major sources of plastic pollution but they are also vulnerable to their diverse lifecycle impacts. However, this problem is not well-recognized in global policy and scientific discourse, agendas, and monitoring of food systems. The United Nations-led Global Plastics Treaty, which has been under negotiation since 2022, is a critical opportunity to address pollution across the entire plastics lifecycle for more sustainable and resilient food systems. Here, we offer aspirational indicators for future monitoring of food systems' plastics related to (1) plastic polymers and chemicals, (2) land use, (3) trade and waste, and (4) environmental and human health. We call for interdisciplinary research collaborations to continue improving and harmonising the evidence base necessary to track and trace plastics and plastic chemicals in food systems. We also highlight the need for collaboration across disciplines and sectors to tackle this urgent challenge for biodiversity, climate change, food security and nutrition, health and human rights at a whole systems level.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"176"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11885153/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143585026","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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The January 2022 Hunga eruption cooled the southern hemisphere in 2022 and 2023. 2022年1月的亨加火山喷发使南半球在2022年和2023年降温。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02181-9

Ashok Kumar Gupta, Tushar Mittal, Kristen E Fauria, Ralf Bennartz, Jasper F Kok

{"title":"The January 2022 Hunga eruption cooled the southern hemisphere in 2022 and 2023.","authors":"Ashok Kumar Gupta, Tushar Mittal, Kristen E Fauria, Ralf Bennartz, Jasper F Kok","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02181-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02181-9","url":null,"abstract":"The 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption injected a significant quantity of water vapor into the stratosphere while releasing only limited sulfur dioxide. It has been proposed that this excess water vapor could have contributed to global warming, potentially pushing temperatures beyond the 1.5 °C threshold of the Paris Climate Accord. However, given the cooling effects of sulfate aerosols and the contrasting impacts of ozone loss (cooling) versus gain (warming), assessing the eruption's net radiative effect is essential. Here, we quantify the Hunga-induced perturbations in stratospheric water vapor, sulfate aerosols, and ozone using satellite observations and radiative transfer simulations. Our analysis shows that these components induce clear-sky instantaneous net radiative energy losses at both the top of the atmosphere and near the tropopause. In 2022, the Southern Hemisphere experienced a radiative forcing of -0.55 ± 0.05 W m⁻² at the top of the atmosphere and -0.52 ± 0.05 W m⁻² near the tropopause. By 2023, these values decreased to -0.26 ± 0.04 W m⁻² and -0.25 ± 0.04 W m⁻², respectively. Employing a two-layer energy balance model, we estimate that these losses resulted in cooling of about -0.10 ± 0.02 K in the Southern Hemisphere by the end of 2022 and 2023. Thus, we conclude that the Hunga eruption cooled rather than warmed the Southern Hemisphere during this period.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"240"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11949836/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143751291","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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