New Papers (Nature, Science, etc.) 08/17/2020
Nature
Heat and carbon coupling reveals ocean warming due to circulation changes
Ben Bronselaer & Laure Zanna
Soil carbon loss by experimental warming in a tropical forest
Andrew T. Nottingham, Patrick Meir, Esther Velasquez & Benjamin L. Turner
Science
Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests
Christopher D. Philipson, Mark E. J. Cutler, Philip G. Brodrick, Gregory P. Asner, Doreen S. Boyd, Pedro Moura Costa, Joel Fiddes, Giles M. Foody, Geertje M. F. Van Der Heijden, Alicia Ledo, Philippa R. Lincoln, James A. Margrove, Roberta E. Martin, Sol Milne, Michelle A. Pinard, Glen Reynolds, Martijn Snoep, Hamzah Tangki, Yap Sau Wai, Charlotte E. Wheeler, David F. R. P. Burslem
PNAS
COVID-19 lockdowns cause global air pollution declines
Zander S. Venter, Kristin Aunan, Sourangsu Chowdhury, and Jos Lelieveld
Seismic refraction tracks porosity generation and possible CO2 production at depth under a headwater catchment
Xin Gu, Gary Mavko, Lisa Ma, David Oakley, Natalie Accardo, Bradley J. Carr, Andrew A. Nyblade, and Susan L. Brantley
Geology
Using speleothems to constrain late Cenozoic uplift rates in karst terranes
John Engel; Jon Woodhead; John Hellstrom; Susan White; Nicholas White; Helen Green
Late Miocene sediment delivery from the axial drainage system of the East Carpathian foreland basin to the Black Sea
Arjan de Leeuw; Stephen J. Vincent; Anton Matoshko; Andrei Matoshko; Marius Stoica; Igor Nicoara
Evidence for glacial geological controls on the hydrology of Maine (USA) peatlands
Xi Chen; Xavier Comas; Andrew Reeve; Lee Slater
Late Ordovician mass extinction caused by volcanism, warming, and anoxia, not cooling and glaciation
David P.G. Bond; Stephen E. Grasby
Onset of permanent Taklimakan Desert linked to the mid-Pleistocene transition
Weiguo Liu; Zhonghui Liu; Jimin Sun; Chunhui Song; Hong Chang; Huanye Wang; Zheng Wang; Zhisheng An
A 1000-yr-old tsunami in the Indian Ocean points to greater risk for East Africa
Vittorio Maselli; Davide Oppo; Andrew L. Moore; Aditya Riadi Gusman; Cassy Mtelela; David Iacopini; Marco Taviani; Elinaza Mjema; Ernest Mulaya; Melody Che; Ai Lena Tomioka; Elisante Mshiu; Joseph D. Ortiz
A sub-centennial-scale optically stimulated luminescence chronostratigraphy and late Holocene flood history from a temperate river confluence
Ben Pears; Antony G. Brown; Phillip S. Toms; Jamie Wood; David Sanderson; Richard Jones
Northern-sourced water dominated the Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum
F. Pöppelmeier; P. Blaser; M. Gutjahr; S.L. Jaccard; M. Frank; L. Max; J. Lippold
Toxic mercury pulses into late Permian terrestrial and marine environments
Stephen E. Grasby; Xiaojun Liu; Runsheng Yin; Richard E. Ernst; Zhuoheng Chen
Rapid cooling of the Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Bushveld Complex (South Africa): Insights from biotite 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Jacob B. Setera; Jill A. VanTongeren; Brent D. Turrin; Carl C. Swisher, III
Nature Communications
Likely weakening of the Florida Current during the past century revealed by sea-level observations
Christopher G. Piecuch
