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⚒️ Article: Methane emissions from mangrove tree stems offset about 17% of the carbon buried in sediments in global mangroves

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Doughnut and bar charts and a global map showing the spatial distribution of mangrove stem methane emissions
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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⚒️ Article: The 2025 Mw 7.7 Sagaing earthquake in Myanmar breached and propagated beyond a long-quiescent segment due to a mechanically weak barrier at the segment boundary and distant nucleation

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Plots showing the final fault displacement along strike from a) kinematic Bayesian finite-fault inversion and b) dynamic rupture simulation (plus a plot of the calculated stress drop)
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Convective erosion and lateral transport of metasomatized continental keels may generate enriched mantle geochemical domains

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November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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November issue out now: featuring Articles on a record retreat rate of a grounded glacier, carbon transport during drought and a proto-Earth component in the mantle, a Focus on volcanic hazards & risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster, and more!

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40 years after the Armero tragedy Photo taken from the International Space Station showing Nevado del Ruiz during an eruption in April 2010 Image: NASA Image Collection / Alamy Cover design: Alex Wing
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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⚒️ Article: Analyses of Chang'e-6 lunar farside samples suggest solar-wind implanted surface water varies with latitude and regolith maturity

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Plot of water content versus hydrogen isotope ratio measurements of the Apollo, Chang’e-5, and Chang’e-6 lunar samples
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Record grounded glacier retreat caused by an ice plain calving process

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November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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⚒️ Article: Stabilization of continental crust requires temperatures of over 900°C, establishing a link between ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism and craton formation

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Schematic illustration of ultra-high temperature differentiation of continental crust
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Particles produced by intense biomass burning can be transported, potentially by deep convection, in large numbers to the lower stratosphere

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Schematic representation of stratospheric dynamics and particles
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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October issue out now: including content on soil nitrogen loss from thawing permafrost, oceanic plate delamination, land disturbances in the USA, and more!

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Wild forces at the city's edge Map of 35 years of land disturbance around Los Angeles in California derived from Landsat imagery Image: courtesy of Shi Qiu & Zhe Zhu, University of Connecticut Cover design: Alex Wing
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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⚒️ Article: Modelling suggests the carbon cost for nitrogen assimilation by plants will rise substantially under future climate change with greater increases at higher latitudes

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Schematic illustration of the effects of the 2.0 °C climate warming on the carbon costs for nitrogen assimilation in global terrestrial plants
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: The onset of Southern Ocean convection following a slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during Heinrich Events can help explain rapid CO2 increases and Antarctic warming during these events

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Plots illustrating the bipolar convection seesaw mechanism
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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⚒️ Comment: The Greenlandification of Antarctica

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Antarctica surrounded by time-series comparing the temporal evolution of parameters of Greenland and Antarctica
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Presence of continental slivers in oceanic transform faults determined by rift inheritance

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Snapshots of a numerical simulation of continental sliver entrapment in an oceanic transform fault
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Reduced nickel-rich metal and oxidized nickel carbonate inclusions within diamonds provide evidence of metasomatic redox reactions

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Schematic illustration of the proposed conceptual model of deep-mantle metasomatic redox reaction involving Ni-rich phases and diamond formation in the deep upper mantle
September 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Aerosol deposition onto the surface of the ocean has been underestimated, suggesting that aerosol lifetime over ocean is longer than previously appreciated

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Schematic illustration of aerosol behaviour and its role in the Earth system
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: The proposed basal magma ocean within the early Earth may have been contaminated by oxides exsolved from the core, which could explain seismic velocity anomalies observed in the lowermost mantle

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Schematic illustration of the formation and evolution of a basal exsolution contaminated magma ocean
September 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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September issue out now: including content on the India-Eurasia collision, methane production in peatland, samples from asteroid Bennu, and more!

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Microscopic view of asteroid Bennu Scanning electron microscope image of a micrometeoroid impact crater on a particle from Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission Image: Laura B. Seifert (NASA Johnson Space Center) and Lisette Melendez (Purdue University) Cover design: Alex Wing
September 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Enhanced West Antarctic ice loss triggered by polynya response to meridional winds

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Schematic illustration of the northerly wind driven mechanism of enhanced ice-shelf melt in Antarctica
September 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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⚒️ Article: Nitrogen and Phosphorus fertilization is an effective pathway to increase soil carbon sequestration

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Schematic illustration of the different magnitudes and mechanisms of soil organic carbon (SOC) increase resulting from 180-year nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization
September 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Experiments suggest vulnerability of permafrost soil nitrogen stocks to climate warming

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Schematic illustration of the fate of soil nitrogen stocks upon decadal warming in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem
September 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia

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August 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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⚒️ Article: Widespread changes to regional flood response were observed worldwide following three large explosive eruptions at tropical latitudes

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Global maps showing the responses of the 2-year return interval discharges and seasonal precipitation to tropical volcanic eruptions
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Interseismic secondary zone of subsidence during earthquake cycles in subduction zones

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Plots of the results of 2D viscoelastic earthquake cycle models for the four subduction zones and the associated GNSS uplift rate observations
August 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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⚒️ Article: Ancient sedimentary DNA evidence shows that large blooms of the haptophyte algae 𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘤𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 enhanced marine carbon uptake during the Antarctic Cold Reversal

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Schematic illustrations of seasonal and long-term ecosystem reconstructions of the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR) and post-ACR warming periods inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA shotgun metagenomics
August 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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⚒️ Article: Mantle-lithosphere interactions may initiate global-scale tectonic plate reorganisations affecting the entire mantle

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3-D views of the model over the global plate reorganisation event
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM