Nature Geoscience, Published online: 22 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01421-5 A global gauge-corrected monthly river flow and storage dataset suggests that residence time is a key driver of water storage and variability and indicates substantial freshwater discharge to the ocean from the Maritime Continent ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 19 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01422-4 Mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation abyssal limb has weakened over the past two decades in the North Atlantic, most likely due to reduced Antarctic Bottom Water formation rates ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 19 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01396-3 The regional geodynamic gradient controls metamorphic carbon release during mountain building and regulates the inorganic carbon budget, according to carbon estimates in two river catchments of Italy’s central Apennines ..read more

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 19 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01428-y Aerosol–cloud interactions are the largest uncertainty in radiative forcing. We combined machine learning and long-term satellite observations to quantify aerosol fingerprints on tropical marine clouds, using degassing volcanic events in Hawaii as natural experiences, and found that cloud cover increased relatively by 50% in humid and stable atmosphere, leading to strong cooling radiative forcing ..read more

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