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A critique of climate objectivity in the context of global injustice

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae301b

Published: January 7, 2026 00:00

As climate science intersects with rising political urgency and global ecological crisis, calls for ‘neutrality’ risk obscuring the field’s entanglement with systems of power, historical dispossession, and structural inequality. This article challenges…

Accelerating increases in soil heatwaves and cropland exposure in China

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2ca5

Published: January 6, 2026 00:00

While heatwaves in the atmosphere and oceans are well documented, soil heatwaves under climate change remain largely unknown. This gap is critical as soil provides a host of vital ecosystem services, which are highly vulnerable to soil heat extremes. Here,…

Intercity-scale linkage of cold-season PM2.5 and emissions over South Korea: structural diagnostics from scalable spatial decomposition

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2ee9

Published: January 6, 2026 00:00

Although national emission control policies have contributed to long-term reductions in PM2.5 levels, responses across neighboring cities remain heterogeneous, complicating the evaluation of policy effectiveness. This study diagnoses the spatial structure…

Forced response and internal variability changes in the hydrological cycle and general circulation in a hot world beyond 2100 in the Community Earth System Model

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2f73

Published: January 6, 2026 00:00

Climate change affects both the mean state and its variability. Hence, the decomposition of climate variability into a forced response and internal variability is essential to understand climate change. Especially how the hydrological cycle will change is…

Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae1bbc

Published: January 6, 2026 00:00

Climate simulations of the industrial era typically start in 1850, using the first fifty years as a baseline for ‘pre-industrial’ climate. However, the period immediately prior to 1850 is of particular interest due to early human influence and heightened…

Rising heavy precipitation amid decreasing typhoon contribution in Southeast Asia

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2e1a

Published: January 5, 2026 00:00

Understanding long-term precipitation changes in Southeast Asia (SEA) is important because the region is highly vulnerable to precipitation-related disasters. This study examines typhoon and non-typhoon heavy precipitation over SEA during 1960–2024 using a…

Simulated Earth system response to acid downwelling as a form of ocean alkalinity enhancement

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2105

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

‘Acid downwelling’ (AD) is a proposed marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR) method, which describes the idea of electrochemically splitting open ocean surface water into an alkaline solution to remain at the surface ocean and cause additional ocean CO2…

Cumulative environmental burdens and vulnerable populations: taking into account the intensity and count of burdens in environmental justice analyses

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2c0d

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Most studies examining demographic disparities in the distribution of environmental burdens have examined only one burden at a time. Few have examined how multiple burdens are concentrated and distributed among the American population. The objective of…

Limited microclimatic buffering capacity in boreal forests calls for sustainable management strategies

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2d79

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Forest canopies regulate the energy exchange between the atmosphere and Earth’s surface, creating microclimates that are often buffered from open-air temperature extremes and are critical for forest species under climate warming. However, the magnitude of…

Uncertainty in Antarctic precipitation projections under global warming

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2ca9

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is a critical driver of global sea level rise, yet future projections of Antarctic precipitation remain highly uncertain, posing challenges to modeling ice sheet changes. This study examines uncertainties in Antarctic precipitation…

Quantifying the hidden carbon cost of floods: a stochastic and uncertainty-based valuation framework

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2d76

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Flood damage repairs to the built environment generate substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet these indirect climate impacts are rarely integrated into flood consequence assessments. In this study, we present a fragility-based modeling framework…

Contextualising seasonal forecasts to accelerate their uptake for agricultural decision-making

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2a52

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Assessing corporate social responsibility pressures in lithium mining: a topic modeling analysis approach

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2af6

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays a critical role in mitigating the negative impacts of critical mineral mining. Yet research offers limited insight into how societal pressures shape the responsiveness and effectiveness of CSR in this sector.…

Increasing glacial lake outburst flood hazard on the eastern Tibetan Plateau and implications for the Sichuan–Tibet Railway

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2e19

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are a severe natural hazard on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, posing a risk to infrastructure safety (e.g. the Sichuan–Tibet Railway) and regional socioeconomic development. However, previous GLOF studies often neglected…

Boosting solar efficiency: the unforeseen benefit of China’s clean air action plan

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2e16

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

China has been vigorously developing the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry to address climate change and air pollution. While aerosols constitute a significant air pollutant that impairs PV generation efficiency, few studies have examined how China’s clean…

Urban green space inequality and its socio-economic, geographical, and climate determinants in 11 528 cities

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2d74

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Inequality in the provision of urban green spaces (UGS) poses a growing obstacle to achieving sustainable development goals and building inclusive and resilient urban environments. However, the key drivers of UGS development and the extent to which their…

Predicting net primary productivity response to multiple extreme climate drivers in Inner Mongolia

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2d78

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Extreme climate events (ECEs) are increasingly frequent in Inner Mongolia (IM), threatening vegetation productivity. While previous studies have examined vegetation responses to individual historical ECEs, knowledge of future vegetation dynamics under…

Afforestation reduces fire occurrence in Colombia’s tropical savannas

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2ca7

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Changes in land use, climate, and socio-ecology drive altered fire regimes that in turn reshape global ecosystems. Rapid afforestation with commercial tree plantations is transforming fire-prone savannas and grasslands globally and particularly in tropical…

Assessing groundwater sustainability across high mountain Asia using remote sensing

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2e1b

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Understanding long-term evolution of groundwater storage (GWS) is critical for water security in high mountain Asia (HMA), where hydrological systems are heavily dependent on glacier-fed recharges. However, the impacts of climate changes and human…

Satellite observations reveal a significant poleward expansion of the multiyear sea ice replenishment in the heart region of Arctic Ocean

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2b88

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Multiyear sea ice replenishment due to first-year ice aging at the end of the summer is a key factor in maintaining the overall Arctic sea ice mass balance. Utilizing satellite observations from 2000 to 2023, here we show that a significant poleward shift…

Drawing the line: how levee accreditation shapes flood insurance winners and losers

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2495

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Millions of Californians live behind levees constructed to redirect water and prevent floods. Accurate assessments of these levees are crucial in flood hazard maps, which underpin federal floodplain regulations and insurance rates provided by the National…

High-resolution mountain topography can inform global snow vulnerability estimates

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2d73

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

Snow is changing globally. Computationally intensive snow reanalysis products and downscaled climate model projections allow for the estimation of historical and projected changes in snow over ∼4–10 km resolutions, but these resolutions are coarse relative…

Mining expansion as new driver of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae23e6

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

Mining is a rapidly expanding driver of tropical deforestation, yet the scale of its offsite impacts on deforestation and degradation at biome scale remain poorly quantified, especially across sub-Saharan Africa. We focus on understanding these…

Disentangling the drivers of vegetation change in a mobility-constrained pastoral landscape in Laikipia Kenya

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2491

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

Dryland ecosystems around the world support high biodiversity and extensive pastoralism, but the drivers of landscape change are often poorly understood. Reductionistic understandings have tended to overemphasize livestock impacts and support restrictive…

Unraveling the anisotropic pattern of track uncertainty in tropical cyclones

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae20a9

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

The position uncertainty of tropical cyclones (TCs) may stretch along specific directions, yet the global pattern of the dominant direction of uncertainty remains unclear. This study proposes an analogue ensemble algorithm based on historical best-track…

Super typhoon triggers severe ozone pollution in Pearl River Delta via stratospheric intrusion

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae23e7

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

Surface ozone (O₃) pollution poses well-documented threats to global ecosystems and public health. While stratospheric intrusion is regarded as an important source of surface O₃, its contribution to O₃ concentrations is typically small compared to local…

Climate as the primary moderator: towards context-driven design and implementation of vertical greenery systems for stormwater management

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2b86

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

Urbanisation intensifies stormwater management challenges by expanding impervious surfaces, increasing flood risk and degrading water quality. Vertical greenery systems (VGS) are increasingly promoted as nature-based solutions for space-constrained cities,…

Compound weather systems of cyclones, fronts and thunderstorms in global reanalysis

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2527

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

Many studies have examined the climatology of individual types of impactful weather systems such as cyclones, fronts and thunderstorms, with some recent studies also considering compound weather systems where more than one type occur at the same time and…

Global warming weakens Maritime Continent barrier effect on MJO propagation

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae23e8

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

As the Indo-Pacific warm pool expands in a warming climate, the probability of an MJO event successfully propagating through the Maritime Continent (MC) is projected to increase by 29.3% by the late 21st century under the SSP5-8.5 scenario. This enhanced…