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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Sep 4
5️⃣🎂🎉In September 2025, Communications Earth & Environment celebrates its fifth anniversary. To mark this milestone, we are pleased to present a curated collection showing the continued growth of Communications Earth & Environment over the past five years.

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5th anniversary collection
To celebrate Communications Earth & Environment's 5th anniversary, we present a curated collection that exemplifies our mission and the journal’s evolution, ...
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✈️ In the US, the cropland and non-cropland conversion from existing uses to cellulosic feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuels reduces the net greenhouse gas emissions intensity.

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Land conversion to energy crops for sustainable aviation fuel production reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the United States - Communications Earth & Environment
In the US, the cropland and non-cropland conversion from existing uses to cellulosic feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuels reduces the net greenhouse gas emissions intensity, according to a framew...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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🌱C4 plant invasion leads to greater increases in multiple greenhouse gas emissions from soil compared with C3 plants, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

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Invasive C4 plants cause greater soil greenhouse gas emissions than C3 plants - Communications Earth & Environment
C4 plant invasion leads to greater increases in all three greenhouse gas emissions from soil, including CO2, CH4, and N2O, compared with C3 plants, according to a global meta-analysis of 104 studies.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🦠Diazotrophs (nitrogen-fixing microorganisms) display high abundances in extreme environments, such as hydrothermal vents and cold seeps.

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Global marine metagenomics reveals the functional diversity and ecological adaptations of diazotrophs across marine ecosystems - Communications Earth & Environment
Diazotrophs (nitrogen-fixing microorganisms) display high relative abundances in extreme environments, such as hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, according to analyses of globally distributed met...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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⛰️Glacier melt sustained water discharge from South American mountain basins during a recent severe drought, but glacier summer runoff could drop by 48% in future megadroughts, worsening water scarcity.

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November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🔥Wildfires' inclusion in the Loss & Damage framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is essential to support prevention, recovery and justice for the most affected communities.

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Recognition of Loss & Damage from wildfires is key for climate justice - Communications Earth & Environment
Wildfires are becoming one of the defining climate-related crises of the twenty-first century. We argue that their inclusion in the Loss & Damage framework of the United Nations Framework Conventi...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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🧬🌍Carbon can aid thermal production of polyphosphates and reduced phosphorus species from less reactive minerals, suggesting magmatic and thermal-metamorphic rocks may have provided essential phosphorus species for life origin.

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Magmatic and thermally produced reactive phosphorus 3.2 billion years ago and its implications for early life - Communications Earth & Environment
Carbon can aid thermal production of polyphosphates and reduced phosphorus species from less reactive minerals, suggesting magmatic and thermal-metamorphic rocks may have provided essential phosphorus...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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🌊👨‍👨‍👧‍👧The 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, which generated a large tsunami, resulted in the rapid evacuation of people from coastal areas, and they returned long before the cancellation of tsunami warnings.

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Large-scale geolocation data reveal evacuation behaviour during the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake and tsunami - Communications Earth & Environment
The 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, which generated a large tsunami, resulted in the rapid evacuation of people from coastal areas, and they returned long before the cancellation of tsunami warnings, ...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🌋🗻Oil and gas sourced from deep petroleum systems, seep and primarily migrate along permeable beds towards the seafloor through the water column due to glacial erosion.

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Natural hydrocarbon seepage at the Northeast Greenland continental shelf - Communications Earth & Environment
Oil and gas sourced from deep petroleum systems, seep and primarily migrate along permeable beds towards the seafloor through the water column due to glacial erosion, according to an analysis of inter...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The Nile Basin countries are experiencing a 63% and 85% increase in 100-year peak discharges from 20th to 21st century, necessitating improved data-sharing and climate-informed water policies for better hydrological forecasting and climate adaptation.

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Nile basin flow regimes under 21st century climate variability - Communications Earth & Environment
The Nile Basin countries are experiencing a 63% and 85% increase in 100-year peak discharges from 20th to 21st century, necessitating improved data-sharing and climate-informed water policies for bett...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🌱Fertilization use in Ukraine declined sharply following the Ukraine war in early 2022, associated with severe national nutrient deficits and underscoring an urgent need for an integrated nutrient management plan.

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Nutrient asymmetry challenges the sustainability of Ukrainian agriculture - Communications Earth & Environment
Fertilization use in Ukraine declined sharply following the Ukraine war in early 2022, associated with severe national nutrient deficits and underscoring an urgent need for an integrated nutrient mana...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🌏In Southeast Asia, tropical cyclone genesis is projected to shift northward with more seasonal activity and altered landfall patterns.

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November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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🌋Spatial analysis of seismicity within the Campi Flegrei caldera suggests it has become progressively clustered since 2023 around a central plane which is consistent with the development of an extensional volcanotectonic fault.

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Birth and growth of a volcanotectonic fault during the current volcanic unrest at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) - Communications Earth & Environment
Spatial analysis of seismicity within the Campi Flegrei caldera suggests it has become progressively clustered since 2023 around a central plane which is consistent with the development of an extensio...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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🌋The Lusi mega seepage system in Indonesia released around 0.3 Mt of oil over 13 years of continuous fluid discharge, emitting 10 Kt of ethane and 8 Kt of propane annually.

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Extensive oil, ethane and propane discharge at the mega seepage system of Lusi, Indonesia - Communications Earth & Environment
The Lusi mega seepage system in Indonesia released around 0.3 Mt of oil over 13 years of continuous fluid discharge, emitting 10 Kt of ethane and 8 Kt of propane annually, according to geochemical ana...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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📢New Collection Alert: Sustainable agricultural practices

In this cross-journal collection we focus on current research that contributes to the development and implementation of effective agricultural strategies.

📆Deadline: 24 July 2026
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Sustainable agricultural practices
In this cross-journal collection we focus on current research to optimize resource use and enhance ecosystem services.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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📢JOB ALERT 📢

We are currently seeking an Associate or Senior Editor to join our fast-growing Earth, planetary and environmental sciences journal, to be based in our New York, New Jersey, Shanghai or Beijing office (hybrid).

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Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Earth & Environment
Job Title: Two Associate or Senior Editors, Communications Earth & Environment Locations: New York, New Jersey, Shanghai or Beijing – Hybrid Working Model. Application Deadline: November 3rd, 2025...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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🌊Nitrogen fixation occurs under Arctic sea ice and is positively correlated with primary production.
October 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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🏢Urban buildings constitute significant carbon storing through their construction materials, according to a study of 12 major United States cities.

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Carbon storing in United States cities through biogenic storage and concrete carbonation in the built environment - Communications Earth & Environment
Urban buildings constitute significant carbon storing through their construction materials, according to a study of 12 major United States cities using satellite imagery and computer vision with stree...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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🧭Some giant magnetofossils may have acted as magnetoreceptors in motile animals, with a magnetic structure optimised to respond to magnetic field intensity variations.

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Magnetic vector tomography reveals giant magnetofossils are optimised for magnetointensity reception - Communications Earth & Environment
Some giant magnetofossils may have acted as magnetoreceptors in motile animals, according to three-dimensional vector tomography of a spearhead giant magnetofossil which identifies a magnetic structur...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Penguin poop might help cool Antarctica. A study in @commsearth.nature.com suggests ammonia from Adelie penguin guano boosts cloud formation, which could reduce surface temperatures and slow sea ice loss: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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🔁 🌡️ 🌏 🔁 Closed-looped geothermal systems can provide the global potential of 9 terawatts of electrical power, equivalent to 70% of current global electricity production.

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Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy - Communications Earth & Environment
Closed-loop geothermal system can provide the global energy potential of 9 TWe, if fully tapped, equivalent to 70% of current global electricity production, according to an analysis of 12,000 closed-l...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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🚨Job Alert: Nature Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team is looking for Associate or Senior Editor in Social Sciences.

📍Locations: New York, Jersey City, Shanghai, or Beijing - Hybrid Model
📆Application Deadline: October 28th, 2025

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October 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🪵Combined methods boost the precision of tracing illegal timber
The origin of timber was correctly identified for 94% of samples in Central Africa, a high-risk region with low tracing accuracy to date.
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Combined genetic and chemical methods boost the precision of tracing illegal timber in Central Africa - Communications Earth & Environment
The origin of timber was correctly identified for 94% of samples in Central Africa, a high-risk region with low tracing accuracy to date, according to an analysis that combined genetic, stable isotope...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🪶Diet diversity across northern hemisphere ecosystems affects seabird responses to climate change, with breeding productivity declining in the Arctic and North Atlantic but not in the Pacific from 1963 to 2020.

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Ecosystems mediate climate impacts on northern hemisphere seabirds - Communications Earth & Environment
Diet diversity across northern hemisphere ecosystems affects seabird responses to climate change, with breeding productivity declining in the Arctic and North Atlantic but not in the Pacific from 1993 to 2019, based on 138 time series of breeding success and linear mixed effects models.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🏔️The Patagonian Ice Sheet both responded to past climate change and actively influenced it regionally, with topographic forcing shaping atmospheric circulation during glacial-interglacial cycles.
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Patagonian Ice Sheet shaped regional climate during the Last Glacial Maximum - Communications Earth & Environment
The Patagonian ice sheet not only responded to climate change but also actively influenced it regionally, highlighting the role of topographic forcing in shaping atmospheric circulation during glacial-interglacial cycles, according to a modeling study.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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🌊The unprecedented June 2023 marine heatwave in north-western Europe had a 10% annual likelihood, with climate change accelerating the risk of similar events.

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Recent European marine heatwaves are unprecedented but not unexpected - Communications Earth & Environment
The unprecedented June 2023 marine heatwave in north-western Europe had a 10% annual likelihood, with climate change accelerating the risk of similar events, according to ensemble climate model simulations.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM