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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 17d
🚨New Collection Alert: Ecosystems under marine heatwaves

With this cross-journal Collection, we invite manuscripts that highlight impacts of marine heatwaves on ecological systems.

👉Submission is open now.

👉Deadline: 22 October 2026

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Ecosystems under marine heatwaves
With this cross-journal Collection, we invite manuscripts that highlight impacts of marine heatwaves on ecological systems.
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In Asia, #climate pledges and their implementation fall short of meeting 1.5 degree centigrade and #SDG targets, and countries need tailored mitigation strategies to balance ambition, #sustainability, and #economic impacts.

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Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia requires ambitious climate targets combined with sustainability-focused measures - Communications Earth & Environment
In Asia, climate pledges and their implementation fall short of meeting the 1.5 degree centigrade and SDG targets, and countries need tailored mitigation strategies to balance ambition, sustainability...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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New publication: 🐘🌎📺Wildlife content on YouTube rarely includes conservation calls to action despite high engagement. A look at millions of videos shows what's missing for meaningful action.🧪

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YouTube content on wildlife engages audiences but rarely drives meaningful conservation action - Communications Sustainability
Wildlife content on YouTube rarely includes conservation calls to action despite high engagement, according to machine learning and human-guided concept analysis of thousands of videos and user commen...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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🌑A significant but short-lived dust storm during the Northern hemisphere summer of Mars Year 37 drove substantial vertical transport of water vapor into the upper Martian atmosphere.

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Schematic illustrating the atmospheric response to a localized dust storm in the northern hemisphere during the local summer season. High dust loadings significantly increase the absorption of solar radiation, leading to enhanced atmospheric heating, particularly in the middle atmosphere. This thermal response in turn affects the water ice cloud deck, which becomes more vertically extended and less opaque due to reduced water vapor condensation. Additionally, the enhanced atmospheric circulation associated with the dust storm strengthens vertical transport of water vapor from the lower atmosphere, favoring the injection of water to higher altitudes and enhancing the hydrogen escape at the exobase.
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Tapping into risk in America’s drinking water
A new Drinking Water Utilities Climate Risk Index finds utilities serving 67 million people face high climate risk. Yet 36% of their bonds omit climate change, revealing gaps in preparedness.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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🚨The latest article published @commssustain.nature.com suggests how microplastic pollution boosts harmful algae blooms.

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Plastic pollution may be supercharging algae blooms
Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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New article: a national look at U.S. stream protection shows a clear gap between what’s protected on paper and what’s truly sheltered from disturbance. Freshwater #biodiversity still needs stronger safeguards. 🌊🛡️

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Protection of U.S. streams is insufficient to safeguard stream diversity and prevent habitat impairment - Communications Sustainability
Although 30% of streams in the contiguous United States have some protection status, only 5% of stream diversity is represented and as little as 9% of streams are effectively protected from human dist...
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January 30, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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🌍🌎🌏 #OneHealth connects human, animal & environmental health to protect us all.
👉 Submit your work to the One Health 2026 collection here or at @natcomms.nature.com @commsearth.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
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One Health 2026
This Collection welcomes submissions that highlight novel insights, methodologies, and applications of One Health. We also encourage contributions that ...
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January 29, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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🔭Slope lineae on Mercury are preferentially oriented towards the equator on the sun-facing slopes of impact craters, suggesting they form through volatile release due to insolation.
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Slope lineae as potential indicators of recent volatile loss on Mercury - Communications Earth & Environment
A comprehensive mapping approach using MESSENGER data finds that slope lineae on Mercury are preferentially oriented towards the equator on the sun-facing slopes of impact craters, suggesting they for...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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👉Digital industries were responsible for 4.1% of global #greenhousegasemissions in 2021, and 42% of #digital emissions actually land in non-digital industries' value chains due to limitations in accounting methods.

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January 28, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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🌧️Too Much Rain is Now a Bigger Price Driver Than Drought in Midwest US. Excessive #precipitation became a statistically significant driver of #agricultural commodity prices in 2000-2019, whereas it had NO impact in 1971-1990.

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January 28, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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commssustain.nature.com Communications Sustainability @commssustain.nature.com · 14d
🌎Discover featured articles and curated collections at Communications Sustainability and stay connected to the conversations driving global change.

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January 26, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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📢Australia's emissions accounting can affect the accuracy of certified #emissions and the cost of #hydrogen. Geographic and relaxed temporal correlation requirements for the use of renewable #energy certificates keep emissions and costs low.

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January 26, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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🌱Sustainability is about the people who care for the land. Javier Montoya-Zumaeta et al. show that #farmers in Peru who participate in sustainability governance report higher levels of well-being than those operating independently.

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January 26, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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💧67 million customers across the US rely on drinking water utilities facing higher climate risk than is currently being accounted for, which exposes major gaps in climate adaptation and resilience planning.

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Climate change risk index and municipal bond disclosures of United States drinking water utilities - Communications Earth & Environment
67 million customers across the US rely on drinking water utilities that face higher climate risk than accounted for, which exposes major gaps in climate adaptation and resilience planning, suggests a...
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January 26, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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🚨New Collection Alert: Ecosystems under marine heatwaves

With this cross-journal Collection, we invite manuscripts that highlight impacts of marine heatwaves on ecological systems.

👉Submission is open now.

👉Deadline: 22 October 2026

Details here: www.nature.com/collections/...
Ecosystems under marine heatwaves
With this cross-journal Collection, we invite manuscripts that highlight impacts of marine heatwaves on ecological systems.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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🪨Salisbury Plain detrital zircon ages align with southern British rocks from the London Basin, indicating local sedimentary recycling without glaciogenic evidence, negating glacial transport of the Stonehenge blocks.

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The Timescales of Mineral Systems Research Group at Curtin University, Western Australia, seeks to resolve geoscience problems related to mineral systems and Earth evolution. curtin.edu/timescales
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January 23, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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🪸Reduced sulfate aerosols due to ship fuel regulation may increase shortwave radiation on the Great Barrier Reef, exacerbating the impact of marine heatwaves on coral bleaching

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Ship fuel sulfur content regulations may exacerbate mass coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef - Communications Earth & Environment
Reduced sulfate aerosols due to ship fuel regulation may increase shortwave radiation on the Great Barrier Reef, exacerbating the impact of marine heatwaves on coral bleaching, according to model anal...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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🐾Naturally mummified cheetah remains in a Saudi Arabian cave system with radiocarbon-calibrated ages between about 4,200 and 100 years cluster with both Asian & African sub-species, with implications for rewilding efforts, suggests a genomic analysis of the remains.

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January 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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✈️Air transport currently operates inefficiently, with a theoretical carbon dioxide emission reduction potential of more than 50 percent.

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Large carbon dioxide emissions avoidance potential in improved commercial air transport efficiency - Communications Earth & Environment
Air transport currently operates inefficiently, with a theoretical carbon dioxide emission reduction potential of more than 50 percent, according to an efficiency model developed using global operatio...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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🌲Private forest owners in Canada can better adapt to climate change through locally relevant information and technical assistance.
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A graph demonstrating private forest owners' preferences for different forest adaptation strategies. 'Laissez-faire' was the most favoured, and 'prescribed burning' the least. Most respondents intend to implement multiple strategies, hence strategies are not exclusive.
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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🏆Our sister journal @commssustain.nature.com just published its first batch of articles. 🎉🥳

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January 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Long-term monitoring reveals that rising sodium concentrations in a large One Water drinking water supply arise from road salts, reclaimed water, and treatment chemicals, highlighting freshwater salinization as a social-ecological-technological challenge.

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Social-ecological-technological drivers of freshwater salinization in the Occoquan Reservoir, United States - Communications Earth & Environment
Long-term monitoring reveals that rising sodium concentrations in a large One Water drinking water supply arise from road salts, reclaimed water, and treatment chemicals, highlighting freshwater&...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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🌊Modelling the water column as two distinct depth regimes captures particle attenuation in the Southern Ocean, reducing particulate organic carbon flux into the mesopelagic.

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An improved model of particle attenuation reduces estimates of Southern Ocean carbon transfer efficiency - Communications Earth & Environment
Modelling the water column as two distinct depth regimes captures particle attenuation in the Southern Ocean, reducing particulate organic carbon flux into the mesopelagic, according to particle atten...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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🌳Relatively open vegetation landscapes during the early Pleistocene facilitated hominins' evolution, with resource abundance, accessibility, and mobility playing crucial roles.

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Relatively open vegetation landscapes promoted early Pleistocene hominin evolution - Communications Earth & Environment
Relatively open vegetation landscapes during the early Pleistocene facilitated hominins’ evolution, with resource abundance, accessibility, and mobility playing crucial roles, according to pollen anal...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM