The differential impact of air pollution on insect chemical communication - Communications Earth & Environment

Insect airborne communication, especially sex pheromone signaling, is vulnerable to anthropogenic air pollution, according to an integrated model of gas phase oxidation and gas-to-aerosol partitioning...

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Committed and irreversible humid heat stress risk in China despite carbon dioxide removal - Communications Earth & Environment

Severe humid heat stress threatens over 0.2 billion people in China during carbon dioxide removal, driven by unequal temperature/humidity adjustments, as sustained warm moisture transport prevents rap...

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Ubiquitous and expanding glacier algal blooms modelled around the Greenland Ice Sheet - Communications Earth & Environment

Glacier algal growth could occur around the entirety of the Greenland Ice Sheet margins regardless of the magnitude and duration of the melt season, suggests a Greenland-wide simulation of glacier alg...

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Ambient concrete carbonation is a trivial contributor in mitigating carbon dioxide emissions from cement production - Communications Sustainability

By 2030, ambient carbonation will capture about 0.23 gigatons of carbon dioxide each year, under 10 percent of cement emissions, indicating minor impact, according to thermodynamic and diffusion analy...

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Multifunctional hybrid shoreline framework enhances coastal resilience and infrastructure sustainability - Communications Sustainability

A framework that integrates climate change into design, supports multiple performance objectives, and evaluates trade offs and co benefits across ecological scales to prevent unintended impacts on bio...

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Potential gains from a half-century of genetic engineering in rice production - Communications Earth & Environment

Global adoption of genetically engineered rice either benefits food production or maintains current production levels with a reduction in cultivated land and global fertilizer use, as revealed by a me...

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Iceberg-driven constraints on colony–foraging connectivity result in severe decline in chick counts for the Coulman Island emperor penguin colony - Communications Earth & Environment

A calved iceberg that obstructed the primary feeding corridor of an emperor penguin colony on Coulman Island during the 2025 breeding season resulted in a 69% decline in chick counts, according to int...

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International trade substantially reshapes methane emissions from rice cultivation - Communications Sustainability

Considering international trade in methane emissions accounting substantially reshapes the geographical distribution of methane emissions from rice cultivation, according to a global assessment of tra...

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Vector-borne disease co-occurrence is shaped by agrarian economy and socioenvironmental contexts in the Brazilian Amazon - Communications Earth & Environment

In the Brazilian Amazon, vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, and leishmaniasis cluster across distinct agrarian, environmental, and socioeconomic settings, according to an analysis using jo...

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Plastisphere: plastic-microbial interactions in the environment

The collection covers, but is not limited to, how microorganisms, by colonizing plastics, may influence ecosystems, nutrient cycling and biodegradation ...

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Managing cascading and non-linear climate risks

This cross-journal Collection focuses on complex climate risks, including cascading impacts, compound events and tipping-point risks.

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The science of climate heat risks has a metric problem - Communications Earth & Environment

Heat stress risk is increasingly assessed using composite indices that were derived for narrowly defined applications and then extrapolated far beyond those use cases. This Comment argues that users m...

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Speeding incurs substantial environmental and economic costs nationwide for negligible travel time savings - Communications Sustainability

Obeying speed limits can save over six million gallons of fuel and fifty thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide per day with minimal delay, based on analysis of more than one hundred twenty million vehicle trajectories assessing speed limit interventions across the United States.

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Support for climate and biodiversity policies differs across cultural worldviews in Japan - Communications Sustainability

Climate policy support varied more across cultural worldviews than biodiversity policy support, according to a nationwide survey of 1,133 people in Japan measuring cultural worldviews, values of natur...

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Global irrigation reservoirs are at a higher risk of water shortages - Communications Earth & Environment

Nearly one in four reservoirs studied faces high water-shortage risk, rising to about 37% among irrigation reservoirs, according to a study assessing drought propagation, recovery, and severity across...

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Inland Antarctic plastispheres harbour unique and diverse antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements - Communications Earth & Environment

Plastic debris in Antarctic lakes and soils are hotspots for antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes, according to high throughput qPCR and 16S rRNA sequencing.

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Stricter protected areas in China coincide with more firm openings and closures and higher nature benefits - Communications Sustainability

More firms open and close near stricter protected areas and ecosystem services tend to be higher with local trade-offs, according to a study of 50 million Chinese firm records using multivariate regre...

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Retreaded tires are an overlooked source of microplastics with distinct additive leaching and ecotoxicity - Communications Earth & Environment

Retreaded-tire wear particles show higher leaching of high-risk additives and distinct ecotoxicity than both new and used tires, a risk exacerbated by model projections based on tire sampling and soci...

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Public support for climate action is underestimated in the German political domain - Communications Earth & Environment

In Germany, public support for climate action is underestimated in the political sphere, especially regarding taxes, laws, and financial contributions, according to surveys of legislative offices and ...

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The Carbon Community publishes first results from its landmark carbon sequestration research.

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Hotspots of Arctic and sub-Arctic marine sediment organic carbon are dominated by the Baltic, Barents and Chukchi Seas - Communications Earth & Environment

The Baltic, Barents, and Chukchi Seas play a significant role in the area-normalised global sedimentary carbon stock, dominating high latitudes, according to analysis of quantile regression forests us...

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Coffee is under threat: how scientists are fighting to save it from extinction

Nature - Coffee plants are critically endangered by climate change. Researchers are finding solutions to keep scientists supplied with their favourite discovery fuel.

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Advancing nature-based insurance to protect people and nature - Communications Earth & Environment

Nature-based insurance combines the risk-transfer benefits of insurance with the risk-reduction benefits of nature-based solutions, unlocking critical funding for climate adaptation and conservation, ...

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Emergent reorganization and increased persistence of meteorological drought across Africa - Communications Earth & Environment

Anthropogenic warming is associated with increasing drought frequency, duration and severity across Africa, while future projections indicate worsening drought conditions and substantial rises in comp...

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An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 could impact the dairy cattle sector and the broader economy in the United States - Communications Earth & Environment

In the United States, the avian influenza outbreak in dairy cattle could impact the economy and public health, with estimated losses to global domestic product of 0.9 percent and dairy output losses o...

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Interactions of emerging contaminants with endogenous hair components can help detect exposure - Communications Sustainability

The hair of female e-waste dismantlers based in southern China shows an association of hair biocomponents with selective contaminants, including PFAS, and organophosphate esters, according to quarterl...

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Flash droughts reduce national-scale crop yields in the United States - Communications Earth & Environment

Intensified and prolonged flash droughts reduce summer crop yields in the United States, mainly via soil moisture stress, according to a study that integrates multiple data sources and structural equa...

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A positive phase of the winter North Atlantic oscillation is associated with drought in Central Europe the following summer - Communications Earth & Environment

Positive winter NAO phases are associated with drier summers in a Central European catchment, leading to coupled deficits in soil moisture, streamflow and groundwater, suggests a study using an isotop...

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Interim Associate/Senior Editor, Communications Earth & Environment

Job Title: Interim Associate/Senior Editor, Communications Earth & Environment Location(s): New York or Pune - Hybrid Working Model Application Deadline: July 10th About Springer Nature Springer N...

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