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Global evidence that cold rocky landforms support icy springs in warming mountains

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf07f

Published: September 1, 2025 23:00

Climate change is reducing the extent of cold aquatic habitats and their unique biodiversity in mountain areas. However, a variety of cold rocky landforms (CRLs) are thermally buffered and feed cold springs (<2 °C) that may represent climate refugia for…

Uneven impacts of divergent El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole on Equatorial Asian fires

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf869

Published: September 1, 2025 23:00

Equatorial Asian fires are strongly influenced by teleconnections associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Additionally, fire intensity in this region varies depending on the specific type of El Niño event, namely…

Soil moisture in the Anthropocene: a tipping component in planetary boundary transgressions

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

Published: September 1, 2025 23:00

In the Anthropocene, soil moisture emerged as a critical tipping component in the stability of Earth’s systems. Within the planetary boundary framework, which defines safe operational limits for human activity to sustain the stability of the Earth system,…

Stability of alkalinity in the land-ocean transition zone: a geochemical CDR perspective for the Elbe River, Germany

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

Published: August 28, 2025 23:00

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies like enhanced weathering and river/ocean alkalinity enhancement have been suggested to increase alkalinity in rivers, coastal areas, and eventually oceans. The effectiveness and sustainability of these CDR approaches…

Assessing innovation in the nascent value chains of climate-mitigating technologies

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf763

Published: August 28, 2025 23:00

Accelerating climate-mitigating technology, or climate-tech, innovation in the formative phase of the technology life cycle is crucial to meeting climate policy goals. During this period, firms create value across a broad set of products related to…

Climate change and federal aid disbursements after Hurricane Harvey: an extreme event attribution analysis

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf978

Published: August 27, 2025 23:00

The role climate change plays in increasing the burden placed on governments and insurers to pay for recovery has not been extensively explored and is the focus of this study. This study examines the impacts of climate change attributed flooding on federal…

Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adfa3b

Published: August 27, 2025 23:00

Several, more recent global warming projections in the coupled model intercomparison project 6 contain extensions beyond year 2100–2300/2500. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) in these projections shows transitions to extremely weak…

Water scarcity challenges water security: a case for Spain’s freshwater ecosystems

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

Published: August 27, 2025 23:00

Water scarcity is an escalating environmental challenge, particularly in semi-arid regions like Spain, where balancing human and ecosystem needs is critical for sustainable development. Freshwater ecosystems are vital for biodiversity, water security, and…

Anthropogenic and natural influence on vegetation ecosystems from 1982 to 2023

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf980

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

Vegetation greening trends are a critical and direct indicator to reflect photosynthetic activity of plants at the ecosystem scale. The monitoring of vegetation greening is crucial for assessing ecosystem health, sustaining biodiversity, improving soil…

Vegetation patterning can both impede and trigger critical transitions from savanna to grassland

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adc3ab

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

Tree-grass coexistence is a defining feature of savanna ecosystems, which play an important role in supporting biodiversity and human populations worldwide. While recent advances have clarified many of the underlying processes, how these mechanisms…

Beyond redistribution: a framework for reparative just transitions

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf905

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

Prevailing just transition proposals often assume the continuity of colonial land relations and see ‘greener’ industrial development as a pathway to prosperity for all. Our paper aligns with and aims to contribute to emerging scholarship that questions…

Anthropogenic influence on fixed threshold-based heatwave in China and constrained future projection

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adfaa5

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

The 35 °C threshold-based heatwave (HW) holds particular significance for human health, energy supply and animal welfare, serving as a critical criterion for issuing high-temperature warnings in China. However, the quantified influence of greenhouse gases…

Not just a climate problem: the safety and health risks of methane super-emitter events

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

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

Methane super-emitter events (>100 kg methane hr−1) are prevalent across the oil and gas supply chain and are being targeted for methane mitigation policies due to their climate impacts; however, few studies have evaluated the air quality impacts and…

Climate change threatens old-growth forests in the Northern Alps

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf861

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

Old-growth forests are of high habitat value for many forest-dwelling species and of high cultural value for society. In areas with a long history of human land-use, such as in Central Europe, few old-growth forests remain, located predominately in…

Austrian nitrogen budget following UNECE guidance

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf2bd

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

Human activity over the past century has greatly disrupted the natural nitrogen (N) balance, harming health and the environment. Sustainable nitrogen management requires cross-sectoral governance, but studies tracking nitrogen flows across sectors are…

Understanding the unique step-like annual cycle of South China Sea tropical cyclone genesis

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf7c0

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

This study examines the unique annual cycle characteristics of tropical cyclone (TC) genesis in the South China Sea (SCS). In contrast to the TC bimodal structure in the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and its unimodal pattern in the Northwestern Pacific (WNP), the…

Tree seed dispersal modes affect forest resilience along savanna-forest boundaries

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf907

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

The effects of global changes on tropical forests and savannas are manifested primarily at their boundaries. The dynamics at these forest-savanna boundaries depend on their shapes, which influence the spread of fires through the savanna landscape. How…

Toward sustainability of territorial agro-food systems in Europe: indicators for assessing alternative scenarios

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf97e

Published: August 21, 2025 23:00

Describing territorial agro-food systems through nitrogen flows between agriculture, livestock farming, human consumption, and external trade represents a useful basis for assessing the environmental sustainability of these systems. The concepts of…

Change in convection and thunderstorm occurrences over the Indian subcontinent during the COVID-19 pandemic

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf863

Published: August 19, 2025 23:00

The unprecedented emission reductions during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 provided a natural experiment to elucidate aerosol–radiation-cloud interactions and their effect on convective weather phenomena, particularly thunderstorm occurrence and lightning…

The economics of a circular urban water system

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ade904

Published: August 18, 2025 23:00

In many water-scarce locations, cities will need to reduce their freshwater withdrawals in order to adapt to the changing climatic conditions of the Anthropocene, reduce the risks of ‘Day Zeros,’ and reduce the disruption to the global hydrological cycle.…

Future river exports of nutrients, plastics, and chemicals worldwide under climate-driven hydrological changes

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf860

Published: August 18, 2025 23:00

Future climate-driven hydrological changes may strongly affect river exports of multiple pollutants to coastal waters. In large-scale water quality (WQ) models the effects are, however, associated with uncertainties that may differ in space and time but…