Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01809-x
Romain Jolivet
{"title":"Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard","authors":"Romain Jolivet","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01809-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01809-x","url":null,"abstract":"Accounting for the rheology of Earth’s mantle calls for a re-evaluation of the seismic and tsunami hazard posed by subduction zones, especially in the Lesser Antilles.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"938-939"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01804-2
Clement P. Bataille, Elliott K. Skierszkan
{"title":"Sulfur cycling in thawing permafrost landscapes","authors":"Clement P. Bataille, Elliott K. Skierszkan","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01804-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01804-2","url":null,"abstract":"A negative sulfur isotope excursion occurred across Eurasia during the last deglaciation. An analysis suggests thawing permafrost might be responsible.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"936-937"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01803-3
Augusto Nobre
{"title":"Graphite’s layered renaissance","authors":"Augusto Nobre","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01803-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01803-3","url":null,"abstract":"Graphite, a mineral made of carbon atoms arranged in layers, was long overlooked. Augusto Nobre explores how isolating these layers to create graphene sparked a wave of innovation, reviving interest in graphite across the geosciences.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"940-940"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01825-x
{"title":"Making peer review transparent","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01825-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01825-x","url":null,"abstract":"For research papers first sent for peer review from mid-August, authors will be able to choose whether to publish the reviewers’ reports and their responses with their paper.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"927-927"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01825-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248848","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}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-03DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01805-1
Ruth Mottram, Nicolaj Hansen, Anna E. Hogg, Christian B. Rodehacke, Sebastian B. Simonsen, Benjamin J. Wallis
{"title":"The Greenlandification of Antarctica","authors":"Ruth Mottram, Nicolaj Hansen, Anna E. Hogg, Christian B. Rodehacke, Sebastian B. Simonsen, Benjamin J. Wallis","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01805-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01805-1","url":null,"abstract":"Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of future Antarctic ice and climate behaviour.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"928-930"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01808-y
Asfawossen Asrat, Christopher Keane, Catherine A. Meriaux, Kombada Mhopjeni, Edmund Nickless, Maeve Boland, Ozlem Adiyaman Lopes
{"title":"Challenges and needs of African geoscience research","authors":"Asfawossen Asrat, Christopher Keane, Catherine A. Meriaux, Kombada Mhopjeni, Edmund Nickless, Maeve Boland, Ozlem Adiyaman Lopes","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01808-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01808-y","url":null,"abstract":"A survey of geoscience researchers from across Africa highlights key challenges in conducting impactful research. Improved access to skills training can boost research success.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"931-933"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01808-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248791","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}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01793-2
{"title":"Natural land disturbances are worsening but humans are not off the hook","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01793-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01793-2","url":null,"abstract":"High-resolution satellite maps of the contiguous USA spanning 35 years reveal a fundamental shift in land disturbances: the area affected by human-directed disturbances is decreasing, whereas land damaged by ‘wild’ disturbances (like fire, vegetation stress, wind, and geohazards) is surging. This work also uncovers evolving patterns in the frequency, size, and severity of disturbances.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"947-948"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01810-4
{"title":"Tectonic plate delamination could explain large earthquakes at the Iberian Margin","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01810-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01810-4","url":null,"abstract":"Geophysical observations and computer simulations suggest that a tectonic plate segment is delaminating in the area that generated a large earthquake that destroyed Lisbon in 1755. This rare oceanic delamination might be a precursor of subduction initiation, which could explain the cause of several large earthquakes in the Atlantic Ocean.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"941-942"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01787-0
Niklas Boers, Teng Liu, Sebastian Bathiany, Maya Ben-Yami, Lana L. Blaschke, Nils Bochow, Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, Andreas Morr, Da Nian, Martin Rypdal, Taylor Smith
{"title":"Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements","authors":"Niklas Boers, Teng Liu, Sebastian Bathiany, Maya Ben-Yami, Lana L. Blaschke, Nils Bochow, Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, Andreas Morr, Da Nian, Martin Rypdal, Taylor Smith","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01787-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01787-0","url":null,"abstract":"There is rising concern that several parts of the Earth system may abruptly transition to alternative stable states in response to anthropogenic climate and land-use change. Key candidates of such tipping elements include the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest. Owing to the complex dynamics and feedbacks between them via oceanic and atmospheric coupling, the levels of anthropogenic forcing at which transitions to alternative states can be expected remain uncertain. Here we demonstrate how such interactions can generate spurious signals and potentially mask genuine signs of destabilization. We further review and present observation-based evidence that the stability of these four tipping elements has declined in recent decades, suggesting that they have moved towards their critical thresholds, which may be crossed within the range of unmitigated anthropogenic warming. Our results call for better monitoring of these tipping elements and for increased efforts to stop greenhouse gas emissions and land-use change. A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"949-960"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature GeosciencePub Date : 2025-09-26DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01801-5
Eric W. Seabloom, Sarah E. Hobbie, Andrew S. MacDougall, Elizabeth T. Borer
{"title":"Multidecadal persistence of soil carbon gains on retired cropland following fertilizer cessation","authors":"Eric W. Seabloom, Sarah E. Hobbie, Andrew S. MacDougall, Elizabeth T. Borer","doi":"10.1038/s41561-025-01801-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-025-01801-5","url":null,"abstract":"Humans have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), causing major changes in global climate while concurrently increasing the supply of biologically limiting nutrients especially nitrogen (N). Despite myriad negative effects on ecosystems and human health, nutrient pollution can increase the storage of soil carbon (C) in grasslands and retired farmland, potentially reducing atmospheric CO2. However, the persistence of nutrient-induced soil carbon gains remains a knowledge gap at the heart of a potential policy dilemma: whether reducing nutrient pollution could lead to the release of soil carbon that accumulated under high nutrient supply. Here we use a four-decade experiment conducted on retired, marginal cropland to demonstrate that nutrient addition increased soil C storage after intensive tilling, and that these soil C gains persisted for at least three decades following fertilizer and tilling cessation. This occurred despite plant biomass rapidly returning to pre-fertilization levels and plant community composition recovering from the effects of fertilization. These results demonstrate that nutrient-induced increases in soil C can persist for decades following reduced nutrient pollution as long as the soil remains untilled. Nutrient-induced soil carbon gains in grasslands can persist for decades after fertilization stops as long as the soil remains untilled, according to a multidecadal field experiment on retired agricultural fields with sandy soils.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"18 10","pages":"1014-1019"},"PeriodicalIF":16.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145248849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}