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Dominant role of vertical air flows in the unprecedented warming on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020

Min Xu, Lejiang Yu, Kaixin Liang, Timo Vihma, Deniz Bozkurt et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 133 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00203-w

A low-cost post-processing technique improves weather forecasts around the world

Timothy David Hewson & Fatima Maria Pillosu

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 132 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00185-9

Airborne geophysical surveys of the lower Mississippi Valley demonstrate system-scale mapping of subsurface architecture

Burke J. Minsley, J. R. Rigby, Stephanie R. James, Bethany L. Burton, Katherine J. Knierim et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 131 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00200-z

A glacier–ocean interaction model for tsunami genesis due to iceberg calving

Joshuah Wolper, Ming Gao, Martin P. Lüthi, Valentin Heller, Andreas Vieli et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 130 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00179-7

Environmental DNA signatures distinguish between tsunami and storm deposition in overwash sand

Wenshu Yap, Adam D. Switzer, Chris Gouramanis, Ezequiel Marzinelli, Winona Wijaya et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 129 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00199-3

Photoacclimation by phytoplankton determines the distribution of global subsurface chlorophyll maxima in the ocean

Yoshio Masuda, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Sherwood Lan Smith, Takafumi Hirata, Hideyuki Nakano et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 128 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00201-y

Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness

Christiane Voigt, Jonas Kleine, Daniel Sauer, Richard H. Moore, Tiziana Bräuer et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 114 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00174-y

Process-oriented analysis of aircraft soot-cirrus interactions constrains the climate impact of aviation

Bernd Kärcher, Fabian Mahrt & Claudia Marcolli

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 113 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00175-x

Uneven increases in racial diversity of US geoscience undergraduates

Rachel J. Beane, Eric M. D. Baer, Rowan Lockwood, R. Heather Macdonald, John R. McDaris et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 126 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00196-6

Soil texture and environmental conditions influence the biogeochemical responses of soils to drought and flooding

Kaizad F. Patel, Sarah J. Fansler, Tayte P. Campbell, Ben Bond-Lamberty, A. Peyton Smith et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 127 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00198-4

Seasonal sea ice persisted through the Holocene Thermal Maximum at 80°N

Anna J. Pieńkowski, Katrine Husum, Simon T. Belt, Ulysses Ninnemann, Denizcan Köseoğlu et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 124 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00191-x

Japanese carbon emissions patterns shifted following the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Yin Long, Yoshikuni Yoshida, Qiaoling Liu, Dabo Guan, Heran Zheng et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 125 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00194-8

Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal

Frank Schaebitz, Asfawossen Asrat, Henry F. Lamb, Andrew S. Cohen, Verena Foerster et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 123 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00195-7

Southward decrease in the protection of persistent giant kelp forests in the northeast Pacific

Nur Arafeh-Dalmau, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Hugh P. Possingham, Adrian Munguia-Vega, Gabriela Montaño-Moctezuma et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 119 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00177-9

Absolute seasonal temperature estimates from clumped isotopes in bivalve shells suggest warm and variable greenhouse climate

Niels J. de Winter, Inigo A. Müller, Ilja J. Kocken, Nicolas Thibault, Clemens V. Ullmann et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 121 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00193-9

Global coral reef ecosystems exhibit declining calcification and increasing primary productivity

Kay L. Davis, Andrew P. Colefax, James P. Tucker, Brendan P. Kelaher & Isaac R. Santos

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 105 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00168-w

Carbon dioxide fluxes increase from day to night across European streams

Katrin Attermeyer, Joan Pere Casas-Ruiz, Thomas Fuss, Ada Pastor, Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 118 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00192-w

Exogenous copper sulfide in returned asteroid Itokawa regolith grains are likely relicts of prior impacting body

Katherine D. Burgess & Rhonda M. Stroud

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 115 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00187-7

Lunar samples record an impact 4.2 billion years ago that may have formed the Serenitatis Basin

Ana Černok, Lee F. White, Mahesh Anand, Kimberly T. Tait, James R. Darling et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 120 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00181-z

Repeating earthquakes and ground deformation reveal the structure and triggering mechanisms of the Pernicana fault, Mt. Etna

Andrea Cannata, Adriana Iozzia, Salvatore Alparone, Alessandro Bonforte, Flavio Cannavò et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 116 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00188-6

Horizontal circulation across density surfaces contributes substantially to the long-term mean northern Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Rong Zhang & Matthew Thomas

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 112 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00182-y

Perceived global increase in algal blooms is attributable to intensified monitoring and emerging bloom impacts

Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff, Donald M. Anderson, Catherine Belin, Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein, Eileen Bresnan et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 117 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00178-8

Non-growing season carbon emissions in a northern peatland are projected to increase under global warming

Arash Rafat, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, William L. Quinton, Elyn R. Humphreys, Kara Webster et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 111 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00184-w

Biosignatures of ancient microbial life are present across the igneous crust of the Fennoscandian shield

Henrik Drake, Nick M. W. Roberts, Manuel Reinhardt, Martin Whitehouse, Magnus Ivarsson et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 102 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00170-2

A framework for quantifying hydrologic effects of soil structure across scales

Sara Bonetti, Zhongwang Wei & Dani Or

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 107 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00180-0

Central Asian modulation of Northern Hemisphere moisture transfer over the Late Cenozoic

Charlotte Prud’homme, Giancarlo Scardia, Hubert Vonhof, Damien Guinoiseau, Saida Nigmatova et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 106 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00173-z

Arctic open-water periods are projected to lengthen dramatically by 2100

Alex Crawford, Julienne Stroeve, Abigail Smith & Alexandra Jahn

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 109 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00183-x

Flume experiments reveal flows in the Burgess Shale can sample and transport organisms across substantial distances

Orla G. Bath Enright, Nicholas J. Minter, Esther J. Sumner, M. Gabriela Mángano & Luis A. Buatois

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 104 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00176-w

Publisher Correction: Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kīlauea, Hawai’i

Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Emily Mason, Penny E. Wieser, Lacey Holland, Emma J. Liu et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 110 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00190-y

Publisher Correction: Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava–seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i

Emily Mason, Penny E. Wieser, Emma J. Liu, Marie Edmonds, Evgenia Ilyinskaya et al.

Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 108 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00189-5