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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 20h

🌊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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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 4d

🐄Indigenous and crossbred bovines produce less methane and consume nitrogen more efficiently than improved bovines.

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Methane emissions from indigenous nitrogen-efficient bovidae are overestimated - Communications Earth & Environment

Indigenous and crossbred bovines produce less methane and consume nitrogen more efficiently than improved bovines, according to a meta-analysis combined with measurements of methane emissions from yaks in China.

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 5d

UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is evident among the public in Britain, Canada, Chile, and Germany.

John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 6d

New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com

UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023.

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Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions

Communications Earth & Environment - UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is...

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Communications Sustainability @commssustain.nature.com · 6d

🚨New @natureportfolio.nature.com cross-journal collection with @commsearth.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com and Scientific Reports on Climate adaptation and resilience in urban and rural communities, with Guest Editors Chenghao Wang and Edmond Totin www.nature.com/collections/...

Climate adaptation and resilience in urban and rural communities

In this cross-journal collection, we showcase studies that focus on adaptation in urban and rural areas.

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 6d

💻The Climate Action Simulation exercise increased participants' knowledge about high-impact climate actions and policies, and those gains persisted for at least six months.

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Interactive role-play with climate policy simulation can motivate evidence-based climate action - Communications Earth & Environment

The climate action simulation exercise increased participants’ knowledge about high-impact climate actions and policies, and those gains persisted for at least 6 months, according to survey data and statistical analysis.

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Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com · 8d

🚨 We are hiring - Nature Climate Change is recruiting for a full time editor to join our team. This is a great opportunity for a PhD trained researcher to move into editorial. Applications close 23 October
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Climate Change - Shanghai (CN) /Beijing/New York job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12845336

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Nature Climate Change) Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: Shanghai, Beijing, New York, New Jersey - hy...

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Communications Sustainability @commssustain.nature.com · 8d

🚨New @natureportfolio.nature.com cross-journal collection on managing cryospheric landscape, with @commsearth.nature.com @natcomms.nature.com and Scientific Reports ❄️ #openscience #natureportfolio #sustainability
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Managing Cryospheric Landscapes

This cross-journal collection highlights a wide range of research spanning geopolitical and territorial claims, cultural heritage and Indigenous communities, ...

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 12d

🚨New Collection Alert: Microbial strategies to support environmental goals

🦠This collection explores the role that microbes in climate mitigation, environmental bioremediation, and advanced microbial technologies designed for sustainable management applications.

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Microbial strategies to support environmental goals

Microbes have significant potential to improve environmental health - they can degrade persistent pollutants, convert waste into less harmful substances, and ...

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 12d

💣🍀🌊Sea-dumped munitions from the second world war can provide a habitat for epifauna.

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Sea-dumped munitions in the Baltic Sea support high epifauna abundance and diversity - Communications Earth & Environment

Sea-dumped munitions from the Second World War can provide a habitat for epifauna, according to an analysis of footage from a remotely operated vehicle in the Baltic Sea.

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Aliénor Lavergne @alielave.bsky.social · 14d

🌍🌡️I'm excited to share my latest editorial for @commsearth.nature.com on how to avoid Earth System tipping points and trigger more positive change.

Thanks to @exeter.ac.uk for organising two vibrant events on the topic

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Pathways for prevention of cascading tipping points - Communications Earth & Environment

Strong governance, accelerated action, and empowered communities are essential to avoid cascading Earth system tipping points and achieve lasting, transformative change.

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 14d

🥕In Sweden, dietary changes simulated under four food futures pathways reduced environmental impacts by 30 percent, but waste and fossil fuel emissions reductions are necessary to meet the climate target. @cazamazac.bsky.social

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Diet changes in food futures improve Swedish environmental and health outcomes - Communications Earth & Environment

In Sweden, dietary changes simulated under four food futures pathways reduced environmental impacts by 30 percent, but waste and fossil fuel emissions reductions are necessary to meet the climate target, according to an analysis that combines food items, nutrients, health, and environmental data.

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 18d

The whole Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is not a uniform mirror-like surface in which anything above it is reflected specularly, instead the smoothness of the water surface evolves spatially and temporally.

Watch this interesting Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3qX...

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Is this really the world's largest mirror? Researchers put it to the test

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 19d

🏦💶The economy and banks in the euro area contribute and are exposed to nature-related risks.

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European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change - Communications Earth & Environment

The economy and banks in the euro area contribute and are exposed to nature-related risks, according to an analysis of data on 2500 banks’ dependence and impact on biodiversity, ecosystem degradation,...

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Benjamin Swift @benjaminrswift.bsky.social · 22d

For @theguardian.com , I wrote about a new @commsearth.nature.com @nature.com study that found that preserving the Amazon keeps communities safe from the health risks of wildfires and deforestation.

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‘When the forests burn, the sickness comes’: how protecting trees shields millions from disease

Preserving the Amazonian rainforest keeps communities safe from the health risks of wildfires and deforestation, research has found

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 22d

🦖Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene.
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Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary - Communications Earth & Environment

Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, acc...

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 26d

🌳🦟Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases in humans.

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Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status - Communications Earth & Environment

Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, but only in certain contexts, according to an analysis of disease incidence...

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 26d

🌊🌱Mangrove soil organic matter pools across different geomorphic settings vary more strongly than across all terrestrial biomes.

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The nature of soil blue carbon varies across mangrove geomorphic settings - Communications Earth & Environment

Mangrove soil organic matter pools across different geomorphic settings vary more strongly than across all terrestrial biomes, according to soil core analysis of multiple mangrove geomorphic settings.

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Sep 8

📢JOB OPPORTUNITY 📢

Join our team at CommsEarth! We are currently seeking an Associate/Senior Editor with experience in environmental research to be based at our New York, Jersey City, Beijing, or Shanghai offices. Closing date is 22/09/25

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Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Earth & Environment

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Earth & Environment Locations: New York, New Jersey, Shanghai or Beijing – Hybrid Working Model. Application Deadline: September 22nd, 2025 Ab...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Sep 5

Congratulations @commsearth.nature.com!! 🎉🧪

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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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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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Sep 3

🏔️The recent decline in glacier health and reduced runoff generation in the Northwestern Pamirs is primarily driven by substantially lower snowfall and snow depth since 2018. @istaresearch.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social

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Snowfall decrease in recent years undermines glacier health and meltwater resources in the Northwestern Pamirs - Communications Earth & Environment

The recent decline in glacier health and reduced runoff generation in the Northwestern Pamirs is primarily driven by substantially lower snowfall and snow depth since 2018, according to land-surface m...

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Sep 1

🌳🪓Logging and agricultural conversions led to the loss of 46% of montane forests in Kenya's Central Highlands between 1910 and 1975, while legacies of postcolonial resettlement resulted in a further 20% loss between 1975 and 2024.

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Colonial-era settlements and post-colonial legacies have increased the loss of montane forests in the central highlands of Kenya - Communications Earth & Environment

Logging and agricultural conversions led to the loss of 46% of montane forests in Kenya’s Central Highlands between 1910 and 1975, while legacies of postcolonial resettlement resulted in a further 20% loss between 1975 and 2024, according to historical maps, satellite imagery, and resettlement datasets.

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Aug 29

❄️🌧️Reduced snowmelt dominates changes in Northern Europe's largest floods, while heavy precipitation dominates Western Europe flood events.

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Diverging trends in large floods across Europe in a warming climate - Communications Earth & Environment

Reduced snowmelt dominates northern Europe’s largest floods variation while heavy precipitation dominates western Europe flood events, according to a joint assessment of changes in the timing, spatial...

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Rob Bellamy @drrobbellamy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Carbon removal support is tempered by concerns over whether biological methods are worth it

New @co2rehub.bsky.social paper in Communications Earth & Environment with Emily Cox, @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social and myself

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Aug 27

🌲Microplastic entering forest soil primarily originates from atmospheric deposition and litter fall, suggesting high diffuse input of microplastics in forest ecosystems.

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Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition - Communications Earth & Environment

Microplastic entering forest soil primarily originates from atmospheric deposition and litter fall, suggesting high diffuse input of microplastics in forest ecosystems, according to an analysis of soi...

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