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Low-cost sensor networks improve neighborhood-scale AQI representation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae90c7
Published: August 5, 2026 23:00
Air quality information is commonly communicated through the air quality index (AQI), which residents often access through the nearest available monitoring site. Motivated by this real-world use pattern, we evaluated how well different monitoring networksā¦
A mix of policies is needed to close the climate ambition gap
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8a6a
Published: August 5, 2026 23:00
We compare eight integrated assessment models to analyze the effects of additional climate policies targeting production and energy supply, consumption and energy demand, and the land sector on top of a moderate carbon price. We find that the combinationā¦
Synergistic multiāpollutant controls yield major reductions in air pollution and acute mortality across South Asia
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae916d
Published: August 5, 2026 23:00
South Asia (SA) faces the worldās highest burden of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), yet accurately characterizing the extent of PM2.5 pollution remains challenging due to substantial uncertainties in global emission inventories, which hinder effectiveā¦
Differential impacts of irrigation on precipitation across the United States
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae929d
Published: August 5, 2026 23:00
Irrigation is a major anthropogenic modification of the land surface that can influence regional precipitation patterns. Its effects vary across regions and seasons, yet previous studies show no consensus on whether irrigation enhances or suppressesā¦
Making coal mine repurposing āfit for purposeā in the Global South: why methodological flexibility is paramount
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9329
Published: August 5, 2026 23:00
Climate variability introduces uncertainty into future emissions pathways
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8f5a
Published: August 5, 2026 23:00
Uncertainty in long-term climate outcomes arises not only from physical processes but also from societal responses to climate variability and change. Here we embed a range of temperature anomalies into an empirically-informed, coupled climateāsocial modelā¦
High-resolution emission source mapping: a bottleneck for understanding urban climate and air quality
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8feb
Published: August 4, 2026 23:00
Recent advances in high-resolution urban climate and air quality modeling have enabled more explicit representation of fine-scale meteorology and pollutant transport within cities. However, the emission data used to drive these models have not kept pace.ā¦
Emerging aridification of the Congo River Basin driven by rainfall decline, moisture-source shifts and rising atmospheric demand
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae916f
Published: August 4, 2026 23:00
The Congo River Basin is one of the worldās major tropical rainfall centres, sustaining dense rainforests, river discharge, regional climate regulation and millions of people. Here, we show that a spatially coherent aridification hotspot has emerged withinā¦
The effects of climate change and population dynamics on new Brunswickās energy demand
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae91fe
Published: August 4, 2026 23:00
This study analyses the combined impact of climate change and population dynamics on energy demand in New Brunswick, Canada. We identify the regions where changes in energy demand are expected to be most pronounced and examine how the spatial concentrationā¦
Geographically differentiated strategies for limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) deployment rapidly enable low-carbon cement globally
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae90c3
Published: August 4, 2026 23:00
The effective utilization of abundant low-grade clay resources is critical for reducing carbon emissions in the cement industry. Limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) offers a promising pathway, but its performance and carbon reduction potential dependā¦
How national nuclear energy plans frame small modular reactors (SMRs): evidence from natural language processing of global policy documents
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8e92
Published: August 4, 2026 23:00
Conventional nuclear power plants continue to face persistent challenges related to public safety perceptions, siting constraints, and water requirements, particularly in or near urban areas. In this context, small modular reactors (SMRs)ācharacterized byā¦
Scale dependency for estimating the cooling effect of urban green spaces on air temperature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae90c5
Published: August 4, 2026 23:00
Urban blue and green spaces play a critical role in mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect, yet the comparative air-temperature-based cooling performance of green versus blue spaces, their scale dependency, and their response to heat waves (HWs)ā¦
Global and regional performance of the aurora foundation model for surface PM2.5 prediction
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae90c2
Published: August 3, 2026 23:00
Accurate global forecasts of surface fine particulate matter (PM2.5) are important for environmental early warning, but operational atmospheric composition models remain computationally expensive. Although deep learning foundation models offer aā¦
Alaskaās boreal-tundra resolved with vegetation height from commercial imagery and a foundation model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8e8f
Published: August 3, 2026 23:00
A reconfiguration of vegetation structure patterns in the boreal forest-tundra ecotone and Low Arctic tundra is underway, driven by shrubification, tree expansion, permafrost thaw, and disturbance regimes linked to rapid warming. The short-staturedā¦
Structural patterns in SDG assessment research: a systematic scoping review
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae90c6
Published: August 3, 2026 23:00
Assessment is central to translating the sustainable development goals (SDGs) from a normative agenda into actionable governance, yet it remains unclear whether the rapidly expanding SDG assessment literature has developed into a balanced andā¦
Global drifter observations show ocean-surface pathways of wind-driven beaching
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8e93
Published: August 3, 2026 23:00
While millions of tons of plastic are predicted to enter the ocean each year from land, some of this plastic will wash back onshore. In this study we use observations from NOAAās Global Drifter Program to study the pathways by which surface-floatingā¦
A heavier tail accelerates the intensification of extreme summer mesoscale convective systems precipitation rate in East Asia during 2000ā2024
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8f59
Published: August 2, 2026 23:00
The East Asian Summer Monsoon region is frequently threatened by severe floods induced by mesoscale convective systems (MCSs). Understanding historical changes in MCS precipitation rate (MCS-PR), particularly in the extreme upper tail, is thereforeā¦
The impacts of concurrent heatwaves and droughts on global wheat production and trade
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8609
Published: August 2, 2026 23:00
Concurrent climate extremes in major crop-producing regions, such as synchronised droughts or heatwaves, threaten food security by causing simultaneous harvest failures. Such multi-breadbasket failures disrupt global food trade, particularly affectingā¦
Enhanced seasonal soil moisture forecasts by integrating APCC multi-model ensemble predictions into a land surface model framework
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8c54
Published: July 30, 2026 23:00
Soil moisture is a key driver of climate variability and extremes such as heatwaves and wildfires, and accurate prediction at seasonal timescales is therefore essential. Skillful forecasts at these scales, however, remain a significant challenge. Whileā¦
Multi-variable remote sensing data assimilation for winter wheat water footprint: a case study in Shijiazhuang, North China
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae803d
Published: July 29, 2026 23:00
As climate warming intensifies extreme weather, efficient agricultural water resource management is crucial. The unit crop water footprint (CWF), defined as the total volume of freshwater consumed and contaminated per unit harvested crop yield, serves as aā¦
Emergent constraint indicates forced decline in European winter windstorm frequency
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae845f
Published: July 29, 2026 23:00
Windstorms are among the most damaging natural hazards during western Europe winter, yet large inter-model spread limits robust assessment of future frequency changes. We show that the historical Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude meridional pressureā¦
Satellite-detected nitrogen oxides emission changes from power plant dynamics in North China
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae860b
Published: July 29, 2026 23:00
Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) pose a significant challenge to air quality. In China, although policies like āPromoting the Big and Quashing the Smallā and the adoption of ultra-low emission (ULE) technologies haveā¦
When vulnerability becomes strategy: a stakeholder-driven approach to climate adaptation in Colombiaās dry Caribbean
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8c53
Published: July 29, 2026 23:00
Smallholder agriculture across the Global South faces escalating climate risks driven by the compound interaction of biophysical exposure, socio-economic fragility, and institutional constraintsāyet adaptation planning remains largely fragmented andā¦