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Linking leaf hyperspectral reflectance to gene expression. 叶片高光谱反射率与基因表达的关联。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02696-1

Yanni Chen, Logan Monks, Vanessa E Rubio, Alexander J Cox, Nathan G Swenson

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Private investments in climate change adaptation are increasing in Europe, although sectoral differences remain. 欧洲在气候变化适应方面的私人投资正在增加，尽管行业差异依然存在。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02454-3

Ignasi Cortés Arbués, Theodoros Chatzivasileiadis, Servaas Storm, Olga Ivanova, Tatiana Filatova

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Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago. 一百万年前，直立人适应了极端的草原-沙漠气候。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01919-1

Julio Mercader, Pamela Akuku, Nicole Boivin, Alfredo Camacho, Tristan Carter, Siobhán Clarke, Arturo Cueva Temprana, Julien Favreau, Jennifer Galloway, Raquel Hernando, Haiping Huang, Stephen Hubbard, Jed O Kaplan, Steve Larter, Stephen Magohe, Abdallah Mohamed, Aloyce Mwambwiga, Ayoola Oladele, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts, Palmira Saladié, Abel Shikoni, Renzo Silva, María Soto, Dominica Stricklin, Degsew Z Mekonnen, Wenran Zhao, Paul Durkin

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Strong polar vortex favoured intense Northern European storminess in February 2022. 2022年2月，强大的极地涡旋有利于强烈的北欧风暴。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02175-7

Ryan S Williams, Amanda C Maycock, Vincent Charnay, Jeff Knight, Inna Polichtchouk

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Dolomite luminescence thermochronometry reconstructs the low-temperature exhumation history of carbonate rocks in the central Apennines, Italy. 白云石发光热时法重建了意大利亚平宁山脉中部碳酸盐岩的低温发掘历史。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02216-1

Junjie Zhang, Giorgio Arriga, Federico Rossetti, Valentina Argante, Dennis Kraemer, Mariana Sontag-González, Domenico Cosentino, Paola Cipollari, Sumiko Tsukamoto

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Seasonal regimes of warm Circumpolar Deep Water intrusion toward Antarctic ice shelves. 暖环极深水侵入南极冰架的季节变化。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02091-w

Joshua Lanham, Matthew Mazloff, Alberto C Naveira Garabato, Martin Siegert, Ali Mashayek

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Poor air quality raises mortality in honey bees, a concern for all pollinators. 恶劣的空气质量提高了蜜蜂的死亡率，这是所有传粉媒介都关心的问题。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02082-x

Nico Coallier, Liliana Perez, Maxime Fraser Franco, Yenny Cuellar, Julien Vadnais

{"title":"Poor air quality raises mortality in honey bees, a concern for all pollinators.","authors":"Nico Coallier, Liliana Perez, Maxime Fraser Franco, Yenny Cuellar, Julien Vadnais","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02082-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02082-x","url":null,"abstract":"Human well-being relies on the presence and role of pollinators, as they contribute to the vitality of ecosystems, support the reproduction of wild plants, increase crop yields, and strengthen overall food security. While wild bee populations are dwindling due to climate and environmental change, there has been a notable 45% rise globally in the number of managed honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies over the past five decades. Given their economic significance and their relative ease of tracking, honey bees have the potential to serve as bioindicators of global pollinator health. Consequently, honey bees have emerged as a keystone species requiring protection and conservation efforts. Here, we investigate the intricate relationship between air quality, environmental factors, and honey bee mortality across Canada and the United States. Using statistical and machine learning modeling, our findings underscore the honey bee's role as a bioindicator. We found that air quality is an important predictor of honey bee mortality. The risk of honey bee mortality increased with poor air quality (ozone and Air Quality Health Index) but was substantially reduced in regions with greater vegetation availability (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index). Therefore, our study offers a beacon of hope: improving management practices by increasing greenery can significantly mitigate the impact of deteriorating air quality on honey bees, providing a vital solution to safeguard our essential pollinators.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"126"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11845317/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143482411","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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Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO₂ uptake in Earth system models. 在地球系统模型中，氮沉降的增加只会导致二氧化碳吸收量的轻微增加。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01943-1

Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, Vivek K Arora, Chris D Jones, Victor Brovkin, Tomohiro Hajima, Michio Kawamiya, Spencer K Liddicoat, Alexander J Winkler, Sönke Zaehle

{"title":"Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO2 uptake in Earth system models.","authors":"Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, Vivek K Arora, Chris D Jones, Victor Brovkin, Tomohiro Hajima, Michio Kawamiya, Spencer K Liddicoat, Alexander J Winkler, Sönke Zaehle","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01943-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01943-1","url":null,"abstract":"Current frameworks for evaluating biogeochemical climate change feedbacks in Earth System Models lack an explicit consideration of nitrogen cycling in the land and ocean spheres despite its vital role in limiting primary productivity. As coupled carbon-nitrogen cycling becomes the norm, a better understanding of the role of nitrogen cycling is needed. Here we develop a new framework for quantifying carbon-nitrogen feedbacks in Earth System Models and show that rising nitrogen deposition acts as a negative feedback over both land and ocean, enhancing carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilisation in a model ensemble. However, increased CO2 uptake due to rising nitrogen deposition is small relative to the large reduction in CO2 uptake when coupled carbon-nitrogen cycling is implemented in Earth System Models. Altogether, rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO2 uptake but also enhances nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions over land and ocean, contributing only marginally to mitigating climate change.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"216"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11922751/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143691176","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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An interpretable machine learning model for seasonal precipitation forecasting. 季节降水预报的可解释机器学习模型。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02207-2

Enzo Pinheiro, Taha B M J Ouarda

{"title":"An interpretable machine learning model for seasonal precipitation forecasting.","authors":"Enzo Pinheiro, Taha B M J Ouarda","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02207-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02207-2","url":null,"abstract":"Seasonal climate forecasting is important for societal welfare, as it supports decision-makers in taking proactive steps to mitigate risks from adverse climate conditions or to take advantage of favorable ones. Here, we introduce TelNet, a sequence-to-sequence machine learning model for short-to-medium lead seasonal precipitation forecasting. The model takes past seasonal precipitation values and climate indices to predict an empirical precipitation distribution for every grid point of the target region for the next six overlapping seasons. TelNet has a simple encoder-decoder-head architecture, allowing the model to be trained with a limited amount of data, as is often the case in climate forecasting. Its deterministic and probabilistic performance is thoroughly evaluated and compared with state-of-the-art dynamical and deep learning models in a prominent region for seasonal forecasting studies due to its high climate predictability. The training, validation, and test sets are resampled multiple times to estimate the uncertainty associated with a small dataset. The results show that TelNet ranks among the most accurate and calibrated models across multiple initialization months and lead times, especially during the rainy season when the predictable signal is strongest. Moreover, the model allows instance- and lead-wise forecast interpretation through its variable selection weights.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"222"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11928313/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143691156","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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Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system. 不断上升的大气湿度加剧了未来大气河流对南极气候系统的影响。

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02333-x

Michelle L Maclennan, Andrew C Winters, Christine A Shields, Rudradutt Thaker, Léonard Barthelemy, Francis Codron, Jonathan D Wille

{"title":"Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system.","authors":"Michelle L Maclennan, Andrew C Winters, Christine A Shields, Rudradutt Thaker, Léonard Barthelemy, Francis Codron, Jonathan D Wille","doi":"10.1038/s43247-025-02333-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-025-02333-x","url":null,"abstract":"Despite their relative rarity, atmospheric rivers are key contributors to the surface mass balance of Antarctica. However, the future role of atmospheric rivers in modulating Antarctic sea-level contributions is a major area of uncertainty. Here, we leverage high-resolution climate simulations to show that Antarctic atmospheric rivers are highly sensitive to future increases in atmospheric moisture, leading to a doubling of atmospheric river frequencies and 2.5 × increase in precipitation from 2066-2100 under present-day thresholds for atmospheric river detection. However, future precipitation impacts are critically dependent on the detection threshold: accounting for moisture increases in the threshold produces smaller, regional changes in atmospheric river frequency, primarily resulting from an eastward shift in the polar jet maximum wind speeds. Our results underscore the importance of using large ensembles to quantify Antarctic atmospheric river responses to variability in projected moisture, which may not be captured when using only a few ensemble members.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"369"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12078180/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144093014","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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