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Concurrent increases in winter precipitation and summer wildfire risk in a warming Alaska

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0491

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

Alaska is experiencing simultaneous trends of increased winter wetness and heightened summer fire risk due to global warming, leading to more frequent wildfires and greater unpredictability in fire behavior in recent decades. Large-ensemble simulations…

The co-evolution of collective groundwater management: understanding the interdependencies between user-based organizations, remote sensing and state agency support in the La Mancha Oriental Aquifer, Spain

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf3cd

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

Groundwater governance is a challenge in most arid and semi-arid areas of the world. In many aquifers, groundwater extraction exceeds natural recharge, leading to steady aquifer declines with negative consequences for the social, agricultural and…

International trade and groundwater depletion: an econometric analysis

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae02a8

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

We contribute to the debate on trade and the environment by investigating the relationship between countries’ international trade and their groundwater use. We go beyond the virtual water literature that calculates the virtual water content of trade to…

Interaction between Super Typhoon Yagi (2024) and a marine heatwave in the northern South China Sea

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0501

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

Statistical analyses have long suggested that the South China Sea (SCS) is generally unfavorable for super typhoons, primarily due to its shallow thermocline and the strong interaction between typhoon-induced near-inertial oscillations and internal tides,…

Greening depletes soil moisture while enhancing atmospheric humidity in global drylands

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf862

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

Investigating the bidirectional causal relationships between climate and vegetation is essential for understanding ecosystem dynamics in drylands under global warming. Previous studies have largely focused on the influence of climate on vegetation, with…

Towards a remote-sensing-driven model of isoprene emissions from Alpine tundra

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae02a9

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

This study investigates isoprene emissions in a high-latitude Alpine tundra ecosystem, focusing on using near-field remote sensing of surface temperatures, the photochemical reflectance index (PRI) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and…

Predictors of pro-environmental behavior of political actors and residents in small German towns

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae00de

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

Understanding what drives pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in understudied settings such as the rural areas of industrialized nations is essential for advancing sustainable development and mitigating climate change. This study examined the effects of…

Beyond the bite: a 22‐year analysis of climate and social interventions in malaria reduction

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf761

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

This study aims to identify the relative impact of meteorological and socio-demographic variables on malaria incidence in India, as their combined role is crucial for achieving the 2030 elimination target. While climate change influences the spatial and…

Direct cooling effect of artificial upwelling dominates over its marine carbon dioxide removal potential

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0054

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

Artificial upwelling (AU) is investigated as a marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR) method with a strong focus on its potential impact on Earth’s carbon cycle, in particular enhanced air-sea CO2 flux. The overarching goal of marine CDR methods is to…

Under what conditions and why is carbon pricing effective? A realist synthesis of ex-post evidence

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae03d8

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

To get on track for the rapid emissions reductions required to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goal, we need to understand what climate policies work, under what conditions, and why. In this review, we study how carbon pricing policies lead to…

Long-term prediction of the influence of sudden stratospheric warmings on the electricity consumption and wind power generation in Finland

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0503

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

Electricity consumption (EC) is highly dependent on outside temperatures in regions where electricity is used for heating, for example in northern Europe during winter. Wind power generation also heavily depends on weather conditions, which affect wind…

The consequences of trade for agricultural water use: evidence from subnational trade flows

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae00df

Published: September 22, 2025 23:00

We investigate the subnational impact of trade on water use in the contiguous United States (CONUS). We develop an econometric model employing the instrumental variable (IV) approach to understand the causal impact of previous-year trade on current-year…

Latitudinal differences of changes in Northern Hemisphere clear-sky outgoing longwave radiation over the past 4 decades (1979–2021)

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0500

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Earth’s energy budget is modulated by climate forcings and feedbacks. Outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) is a critical component of the Earth’s energy budget, and the balance between absorbed solar radiation and OLR determines the net gain of energy of the…

Effects of climate change on marine ecosystems in the southeastern Pacific: multiple ocean stressors assessed through climate velocities

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adff96

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Anthropogenic climate change (CC) has triggered a cascade of impacts on marine ecosystems, often referred to as the ‘deadly trio’: warming, acidification, and deoxygenation. While these stressors will globally lead to the compression of marine habitats,…

Changing seasonality and advanced mean date of annual maximum daily precipitation in major river basins of China (1960–2018)

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf97f

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Extreme rainfall seasonality plays a critical role in vegetation growth, agricultural production, and water resource management. Under global warming, increasing attention has been paid to its seasonal shifts and nonstationarity characteristics. In our…

Landscape-scale analysis of shrub encroachment unveils the complexity of greening in the Carpathian Mountains

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae05b2

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Over recent decades, cold-climate ecosystems have exhibited a pronounced increase in vegetation greenness, and shrub encroachment is a major ecological process underlying these changes. Our knowledge of these dynamics remains limited in the temperate…

Earth system responses under a global 2 °C-target scenario aligned with China’s carbon neutrality pledge

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adfbfb

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Achieving the Paris Agreement’s 2 °C target demands regionally tailored climate policies and proven negative emission strategies. Here, we use a novel SSP2-com scenario that integrates updated emissions trajectories, China’s carbon neutrality pledge, and…

Low-hanging fruit? Identifying opportunities to enhance crop diversity in the United States

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adfaf5

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

The benefits of crop diversification for key agro-environmental outcomes are well-established, yet the pathways to realizing this diversification at larger scales remain murky. We propose a framework to evaluate possible spatial and temporal crop…

Mortality reduction despite changing climate extremes requires better understanding of human behavioral response to warnings

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Sustainability issues of deep-sea mining: a bibliometric review and research priorities

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae013f

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Deep-sea mining (DSM) has gained attention due to the growing demand for critical minerals considered to be essential for green energy transitions as well as geopolitical drives to secure their supply. It has become a high-stakes issue involving divergent…

Towards system-aware governance of marine carbon dioxide removal: a review of interdependent challenges

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0493

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) is increasingly discussed as a potential climate response, yet its governance remains underdeveloped. This study conducts a structured literature review, following the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews…

Co-benefits of aerosol pollution mitigation in enhancing solar photovoltaic power generation in China

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0502

Published: September 18, 2025 23:00

Solar photovoltaic (PV) power provides low-carbon renewable energy to reach ambitious carbon neutrality goals. Atmospheric aerosol-induced changes in surface solar radiation and air temperature have profoundly influenced solar energy in China in recent…

Seasonal evolution patterns of Arctic sea ice and their connection to tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae03da

Published: September 15, 2025 23:00

This study applies the self-organizing map method to identify the primary modes of seasonal evolution in Arctic sea ice concentration anomalies from 1979 to 2023. The resulting patterns fall into two broad categories: negative sea ice anomalies, occurring…

Constraining decadal climate predictions with seasonal forecasts: a step toward seamless multi-year climate information

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adfd73

Published: September 15, 2025 23:00

The increasing demand for climate information that spans seasonal to multi-annual time scales poses a challenge for current prediction systems, which are traditionally designed for specific forecast horizons. This study addresses this gap by proposing a…

IOD-driven seesaw mode of upper-ocean salinity variability in the central and eastern tropical Indian Ocean

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0056

Published: September 15, 2025 23:00

Understanding the mechanisms behind interannual salinity variability in the tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) is crucial for interpreting its role in regional and global climates. While localized salinity anomalies—particularly in the central and eastern TIO…