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Overlooked bedload transport in Himalayan rivers threatens regional security - Nature Geoscience
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (358+ words) Bedload transport in high Himalayan rivers has been overlooked, hindering the development of morphodynamic models that explicitly couple river hydraulics, sediment transport, and channel morphology to predict responses to extreme floods under global warming. This knowledge gap increases risks to…...
Pervasive underreporting of harmful field interactions hampers intervention efforts - Nature Geoscience
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (248+ words) Harmful interactions are prevalent in geoscience fieldwork but often go unreported, hindering efforts to build welcoming and collaborative field cultures. Wadman, M. Science 358, 162165 (2017). Jha, N. The Smithsonian's #MeToo moment. Buzzfeed News (9 December 2021). Smith, I. A. & Griffiths, A. Hum. Resour. Dev. Rev. 21, 275299 (2022). Williams, M. T., Skinta, M. D. & Martin-Willett, R. Perspect....
Nitrogen management to achieve China’s Sustainable Development Goals - Nature Geoscience
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (1716+ words) Zhang, X. et al. The economic and environmental consequences of implementing nitrogen-efficient technologies and management practices in agriculture. J. Environ. Qual. 44, 312324 (2015. Morseletto, P. Confronting the nitrogen challenge: options for governance and target setting. Glob. Environ. Change 54, 4049 (2019). Sutton, M. A. et al. The nitrogen decade: mobilizing…...
Millennial-aged peat carbon outgassed by large humic lakes in the Congo Basin - Nature Geoscience
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (987+ words) Water samples in lake Mai Ndombe (n=13) were collected at various depths using a custom-built, gas-tight Van Dorn sampler during expeditions in August 2022 (dry season) and January 2024 (wet season). For Lake Tumba (n=3) and the Fimi (n=2) and Ruki (n…...
Emergence of Antarctic mineral resources in a warming world - Nature Climate Change
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1751+ words) Nature Climate Change (2026)Cite this article Thorp, A. Antarctica: The Treaty System and Territorial Claims (House of Commons Library, 2012). Antarctica. In The World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency, 2025). Burton-Johnson, A., Black, M., Fretwell, P. T. & Kaluza-Gilbert, J. An automated methodology for differentiating rock from snow, clouds and…...
Deep-time preservation of amino acids in mammalian fossil tooth enamel - Communications Biology
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1492+ words) The data and results that support the findings of this study are available within the Supplementary Information and Supplementary Data files. Cappellini, E. et al. Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny. Nature 574, 103107 (2019). Welker, F. et al. Ancient proteins resolve…...
Ice sheets big and small - Nature Geoscience
2+ week, 5+ day ago (112+ words) Ice sheets can be extremely sensitive, or remarkably resilient, to environmental perturbations. Reconstructions of past ice sheet variability help identify what controls their stability and how they may fare in a warming future. These studies highlight how ice sheet behaviour…...
Structural and textural characterization of Brassica carinata biochar to investigate its potential industrial applications - Scientific Reports
3+ week, 9+ hour ago (601+ words) where VC is the volatile matter content, W1 is the initial weight of sample, W2 is the final weight of sample. where FC is the fixed carbon content, MC is the total moisture content, AC is the total ash content, and VM…...
Stratigraphic and structural architecture of the inner ramp carbonates in the Northern Galala Plateau, Egypt: synergizing remote sensing and field data - Scientific Reports
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1475+ words) The Northern Galala Plateau is located approximately 800 km north of the African craton and has been influenced by tectonic uplift along the Syrian Arc fold belt. Such uplift has created diverse sedimentary environments, including inner ramp, mid-ramp, and outer ramp…...
Renewability of fossil groundwaters affected by present-day climate conditions - Nature Geoscience
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1729+ words) Gleeson, T., Befus, K. M., Jasechko, S., Luijendijk, E. & Cardenas, M. B. The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater. Nat. Geosci. 9, 161167 (2016). Jasechko, S. et al. Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination. Nat. Geosci. 10, 425429 (2017). Sherwood Lollar, B., Warr, O. & Higgins, P. M. The hidden hydrogeosphere: the…...