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Tracking the path to cleaner cities using global urban NO2 monitoring from space

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5e97

Published: April 27, 2026 23:00

Tracking air pollution is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of urban air quality and emission-control policies and their impact on public health. Unlike previous satellite-based urban NO₂ studies that typically rely on linear trends, aggregated…

Neighborhood privilege and environmental conditions in urban parks: an analysis across the 24 most populated urban areas in the United States

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5e93

Published: April 27, 2026 23:00

Urban parks provide mental and physical health benefits by mitigating harmful environmental exposures, including heat and air pollution. Urban parks often cluster in more privileged neighborhoods. Health burdens from harmful environmental exposures are…

The influence of waves and bubbles on oxygen in the ocean interior

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae612b

Published: April 27, 2026 23:00

Bubble-mediated exchange during wave breaking is an essential pathway for oxygen transfer at the ocean–atmosphere interface. Conventional wind-dependent gas transfer velocity formulations generally ignore wave-bubble effects and use local wind speed alone…

What do we know about the albedo effect of afforestation and reforestation? A systematic synthesis of the scientific literature

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae608b

Published: April 27, 2026 23:00

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will play a crucial role in mitigating climate change and achieving net zero CO2 emissions. As one technique of the CDR portfolio, afforestation and reforestation (A/R) is heavily relied on in both climate change mitigation…

Evidence gaps in tropical plant responses to climate change

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae6129

Published: April 27, 2026 23:00

Tropical plant species are highly vulnerable to climate change but remain underrepresented in global syntheses of species responses to climate change. Here, we systematically reviewed and synthesised evidence from 309 studies reporting tropical plant…

A systematic review of the voluntary governance landscape for an urgent, high-integrity, and equitable transition to net zero

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5c21

Published: April 27, 2026 23:00

This article systematically reviews guidance for non-state entities on transitioning to net zero. The voluntary governance system for corporate climate action consists of a competitive landscape with many documents setting the rules for alignment with ‘net…

Factors shaping the siting of utility-scale solar and wind projects in the United States

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5faa

Published: April 27, 2026 23:00

The location of a wind or solar project is one of the most consequential decisions a renewable energy developer can make when planning a new project, as it shapes numerous aspects of project economics and local impacts on ecosystems and host communities.…

Persistent voluntary halving of academic flying suggests new mobility norms

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5e94

Published: April 27, 2026 23:00

Global passenger air traffic has rapidly rebounded after the lifting of COVID-19 travel restrictions, often exceeding pre-pandemic levels. However, evidence on whether business travel has undergone lasting, sector-specific reconfigurations remains scarce.…

Impact of the northern polar vortex and geomagnetic activity on solar radiation at surface and solar power production in Europe

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5faf

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

Energy production by solar panels depends directly on the amount of incoming solar radiation at the surface. During winter, the weather in Europe is strongly influenced by the polar vortex, a westerly wind system circulating around the polar region in the…

Framework for global emulation of extreme precipitation along global warming trajectories

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5fad

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

Extreme precipitation events can cause catastrophic flooding and damage, with climate change projected to intensify associated risks. For reliable impact assessments, it is crucial to account for rare and unprecedented events that produce the most severe…

Mass incarceration as a climate justice issue

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5f35

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

The climate crisis and mass incarceration are deeply intertwined. While climate change has intensified worldwide, incarcerated populations are disproportionately at risk of experiencing poor health related to climate change through multiple hazards…

Arctic sea ice loss drives enhanced East Asian summer temperature variability

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5fb0

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

This study investigates the link between enhanced Arctic sea ice (ASI) variability and increased summer temperature variability over East Asia since the early 2000s. We find that the rate of ASI decline has accelerated during this period, accompanied by a…

Could artificial reoxygenation revitalize dying coastal seas?

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5e96

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

Eutrophication and global warming are key drivers of oxygen loss, also termed deoxygenation, in coastal ecosystems worldwide. Artificial reoxygenation has been suggested as a local or regional solution to increase oxygen concentrations and improve water…

How does the Global South embrace nature-based solutions? A systematic review

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5e95

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

This systematic review focuses on analyzing the application of nature-based solutions (NbS) with the patterns and motivations in the Global South literature. The analysis of the study was conducted in accordance with preferred reporting items of systematic…

Cloud feedback overestimated in coupled CESM2 simulations relative to AMIP simulations and satellite observations: importance of the pattern effect and implications for climate sensitivity

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5fab

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

The community earth system model 2 (CESM2) has a high equilibrium climate sensitivity due to a large cloud feedback. Understanding whether its cloud feedback is realistic is thus of scientific and societal importance. We show that when CESM2 is prescribed…

Restoring organic soils under agriculture: cost-effective portfolios in the context of European climate and biodiversity policies

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5fae

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

Drained organic soils in agricultural use in the European Union (EU) contribute approximately 80% of Cropland and Grassland greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released to the atmosphere, which makes their restoration highly relevant for achieving climate…

Advancing early warning systems: AI applications, challenges and emerging insights

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5f7f

Published: April 23, 2026 23:00

The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events driven by climate change lead to stronger impacts and fatalities, affecting more communities every year. Early warning systems (EWS) are essential adaptation tools designed to provide timely…

National-scale field delineation in Mozambique refines our understanding of cropland distribution, field size, and deforestation actors

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5cb4

Published: April 22, 2026 23:00

The design of science-based policies to improve the sustainability of smallholder agriculture is challenged by a limited understanding of fundamental system properties, such as the spatial distribution of active cropland and field size. We integrate 1.5 m…

Prospective site-specific life cycle assessment of ocean alkalinity enhancement

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5a4e

Published: April 22, 2026 23:00

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a promising marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR) option, but its net climate benefit and wider environmental implications depend strongly on where, and how it is implemented as well as on decarbonized energy and…

Satellite monitoring of coral reef responses to the 2022 volcanic ash deposition of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5e98

Published: April 22, 2026 23:00

Volcanic ash deposition can influence coral reef ecosystems, yet its impacts remain poorly quantified due to the rarity and limited field observations. Here, we combined Sentinel-2 imagery with a shallow-water radiative transfer model to retrieve bottom…

The emergence of snow droughts as drivers of negative extremes in plant productivity over the past decades

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5a4a

Published: April 22, 2026 23:00

Hydroclimatic extremes such as droughts cause significant anomalies in the global carbon cycle, e.g. via reductions in ecosystem gross primary production (GPP), and hamper the storage capacity of the terrestrial carbon sink. At the same time, across snow…

Industrial to investment: pathways and outcomes of timberland financialization in the United States

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5a4d

Published: April 22, 2026 23:00

Timberland ownership in the United States underwent a major transformation in the late 20th century, driven by changing tax policies, availability of timber raw materials, and generally accepted accounting principles. These shifts played an important role…

Street green space is relevant but not sufficient for adapting to growing urban heat in world cities

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5c20

Published: April 22, 2026 23:00

Cities face multiple growing climate-related risks. Identifying adaptation strategies and quantifying their effectiveness and limits is hence crucial. Street green space (SGS) receives significant attention in the urban heat adaptation space due to its…

Comment on ‘National temperature neutrality, agricultural methane and climate policy: reinforcing inequality in the global food system’

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5a49

Published: April 19, 2026 23:00

The correct formulation of climate policy targets in countries with a high share of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is contested. A recent article in ERL argues that 2050 Net Zero (NZ) GHG targets using GWP100 equivalents is the appropriate…

Reply to Comment on ‘National temperature neutrality, agricultural methane and climate policy: reinforcing inequality in the global food system’

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae53fc

Published: April 19, 2026 23:00

This paper responds to a comment on our study of national “temperature neutrality” (TN) as a basis for climate policy, using Ireland as a case study. The comment mischaracterises our original analysis in several respects; we correct these…

Broadening net-zero strategies to address multiple environmental impacts

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5d56

Published: April 16, 2026 23:00

The hidden costs of plastic pollution: a call to value its unpriced externalities

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae57c1

Published: April 16, 2026 23:00

Increasing extremity and accelerating expansion of heatwaves across Eurasia

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5990

Published: April 16, 2026 23:00

Heatwaves have increased globally under climate warming. However, quantitative assessments regarding their spatial expansion and extremity evolution at the continental scale remain limited. In this study, we used multiple datasets and a unified framework…

The water available for industrial sector (WAIS) framework for assessing the industrial water deficit risk while securing downstream availability

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae583a

Published: April 16, 2026 23:00

Amid growing environmental awareness among manufacturers and consumers, a rising need has emerged to minimize the impacts of industrial water withdrawal (IWW) on shared water systems and safeguard business continuity. These dual concerns represent the core…