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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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🏆Our sister journal @commssustain.nature.com just published its first batch of articles. 🎉🥳

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January 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Long-term monitoring reveals that rising sodium concentrations in a large One Water drinking water supply arise from road salts, reclaimed water, and treatment chemicals, highlighting freshwater salinization as a social-ecological-technological challenge.

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Social-ecological-technological drivers of freshwater salinization in the Occoquan Reservoir, United States - Communications Earth & Environment
Long-term monitoring reveals that rising sodium concentrations in a large One Water drinking water supply arise from road salts, reclaimed water, and treatment chemicals, highlighting freshwater&...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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🌊Modelling the water column as two distinct depth regimes captures particle attenuation in the Southern Ocean, reducing particulate organic carbon flux into the mesopelagic.

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An improved model of particle attenuation reduces estimates of Southern Ocean carbon transfer efficiency - Communications Earth & Environment
Modelling the water column as two distinct depth regimes captures particle attenuation in the Southern Ocean, reducing particulate organic carbon flux into the mesopelagic, according to particle atten...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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🌳Relatively open vegetation landscapes during the early Pleistocene facilitated hominins' evolution, with resource abundance, accessibility, and mobility playing crucial roles.

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Relatively open vegetation landscapes promoted early Pleistocene hominin evolution - Communications Earth & Environment
Relatively open vegetation landscapes during the early Pleistocene facilitated hominins’ evolution, with resource abundance, accessibility, and mobility playing crucial roles, according to pollen anal...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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🌋Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which in turn are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates.

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Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari Volcano driven by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input - Communications Earth & Environment
Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates, according to 3-dimensional numerical modelling of volcanic hydrothermal systems.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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🌊Sea-level rise in African large marine ecosystems has accelerated markedly since 2010, mostly due to ice sheet loss and land subsidence, with the Red Sea and Guinea Current rising fastest.

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Accelerating sea level rise in Africa and its large marine ecosystems since the 1990s - Communications Earth & Environment
Sea-level rise in African large marine ecosystem has accelerated markedly since 2010, mostly due to ice sheet loss and land subsidence, with the Red Sea and Guinea Current rising fastest, according to...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🌕Numerical simulations using present-day solar wind properties suggest the transfer of Earth’s atmosphere to the Moon is more efficient in the presence of a geomagnetic field.

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Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the nearside lunar regolith during the history of Earth’s dynamo - Communications Earth & Environment
Numerical simulations reveal that the transfer of ions from Earth’s atmosphere to the Moon is efficient only in the sustained presence of a geomagnetic field, suggesting that lunar soils may record th...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🗻🏘️On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic meters of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. The disaster underlines the impact of climate warming on people and heritage.

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The 2025 Blatten disaster in the Swiss Alps followed exceptional warming and highlights the vulnerability of people and heritage in glaciated landscapes - Communications Earth & Environment
On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic metres of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. In the wake of the warmest decade since at least...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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☀️🌵Severe summer aridification caused freshwater scarcity and the decline of Homo floresiensis and its prey at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago.

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Onset of summer aridification and the decline of Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago - Communications Earth & Environment
Severe summer aridification caused freshwater scarcity and the decline of Homo floresiensis and its prey at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago, as revealed by a rainfall record based on speleothem geochemical...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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🌋Post-volcanic climate downtown in Southern Europe around 1345-1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas carrying the Black Death.

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Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe - Communications Earth & Environment
Post-volcanic climate downtown in southern Europe around 1345–1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas ca...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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🔭Aluminium-rich "float" rocks at the Jezero crater on Mars are more geochemically similar to weathered palaeosols on Earth than to hydrothermal deposits.

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Alteration history of aluminum-rich rocks at Jezero crater, Mars - Communications Earth & Environment
Aluminum-rich float rocks at Jezero crater display geochemical characteristics that are more similar to terrestrial weathered palaeosols than to hydrothermal deposits, according to a comparison of Per...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, says a paper in @commsearth.nature.com. The findings highlight how environmental factors could shape ancient societies: spklr.io/63328BXqvQ
River drought forcing of the Harappan metamorphosis - Communications Earth & Environment
Hydroclimatic variations significantly influenced the Indus Valley Civilization's rise and fall, with warmer, drier conditions during pre-Harappan to late-Harappan periods leading to human migration and settlement, according to analysis of paleoclimate and palaeohydrological simulations.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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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