Nature Geoscience, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01420-6 Changes in anvil clouds with warming do not produce a negative feedback on climate sensitivity as previously thought, according to an ensemble of cloud-resolving models ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01419-z The size and shape of the North American ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum was set by atmospheric moisture transport feedbacks during summer, not by the geometry of the earlier intermediate-sized ice sheet, according to a coupled climate–ice sheet model ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01416-2 Advances in seismological observational and modelling techniques are needed to constrain complex lowermost mantle structures and understand their influence on the global dynamics and evolution of Earth’s interior ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01432-2 Compositional and structural variations within Earth’s lower mantle are a complex puzzle to which seismic data hold clues ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01410-8 Burbankite is a rare sodium carbonate mineral that is easily dissolved away in its host igneous rocks. Its formation and dissolution can help concentrate rare earth elements that are vital for a low-carbon future, as Sam Broom-Fendley explains ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 11 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01427-z Satellite observations from volcanic eruptions suggest that aerosols induce substantial cooling due to the reflectivity of increased tropical marine cloud cover, implying a high climate sensitivity ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 11 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01429-x There are no good models for the chemical evolution of the Earth’s surface over the planet’s lifetime, because models typically overlook the progressive build-up of carbonate rocks in the crust. A new model that includes this accumulation enables the reconstruction of major oxygen and temperature trends throughout Earth’s history ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 10 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01417-1 The accumulation and subsequent recycling of carbonate in the crust may have helped to drive the oxygenation of the early Earth, according to an ocean and atmosphere box model incorporating the inorganic carbon cycle ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 09 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01406-4 Neoproterozoic banded iron formations formed in partially glaciated oceans where iron-rich and oxygenated water masses met, according to ocean modelling ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 09 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01405-5 Human activities have altered the production, transport and fate of mud and associated organic carbon, with important implications for global carbon cycling ..read more