[Nature]
1. Net-zero commitments could limit warming to below 2 °C
Zeke Hausfather & Frances C. Moore
2. Climate effects on archaic human habitats and species successions
Axel Timmermann, Kyung-Sook Yun, Pasquale Raia, Jiaoyang Ruan, Alessandro Mondanaro, Elke Zeller, Christoph Zollikofer, Marcia Ponce de León, Danielle Lemmon, Matteo Willeit & Andrey Ganopolski
3. Realization of Paris Agreement pledges may limit warming just below 2 °C
Malte Meinshausen, Jared Lewis, Christophe McGlade, Johannes Gütschow, Zebedee Nicholls, Rebecca Burdon, Laura Cozzi & Bernd Hackmann
[Science]
4. Evidence, causes, and consequences of declining nitrogen availability in terrestrial ecosystems
RACHEL E. MASON JOSEPH M. CRAINE NINA K. LANY MATHIEU JONARD SCOTT V. OLLINGER PETER M. GROFFMAN ROBINSON W. FULWEILER JAY ANGERER QUENTIN D. READ PETER B. REICH PAMELA H. TEMPLER ANDREW J. ELMORE
[PNAS]
5. Solid organic-coated ammonium sulfate particles at high relative humidity in the summertime Arctic atmosphere
Rachel M. Kirpes, Ziying Lei, Matthew Fraund, Matthew J. Gunsch, Nathaniel W. May, Tate E. Barrett, Claire E. Moffett, Andrew J. Schauer, Becky Alexander, Lucia M. Upchurch, Swarup China, Patricia K. Quinn, Ryan C. Moffet, Alexander Laskin, Rebecca J. Sheesley, Kerri A. Pratt and Andrew P. Ault
6. Multidecadal declines in particulate mercury and sediment export from Russian rivers in the pan-Arctic basin
Scott Zolkos, Alexander V. Zhulidov, Tatiana Yu. Gurtovaya, Vyacheslav V. Gordeev, Sergey Berdnikov, Nadezhda Pavlova, Evgenia A. Kalko, Yana A. Kuklina, Danil A. Zhulidov, Lyudmila S. Kosmenko, Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Anya Suslova, Benjamin M. Geyman, Colin P. Thackray, Elsie M. Sunderland, Suzanne E. Tank, James W. McClelland, Robert G. M. Spencer, David P. Krabbenhoft, Richard Robarts and Robert M. Holmes
7. The age of the opening of the Ice-Free Corridor and implications for the peopling of the Americas
Jorie Clark, Anders E. Carlson, Alberto V. Reyes, Elizabeth C. B. Carlson, Louise Guillaume, Glenn A. Milne, Lev Tarasov, Marc Caffee, Klaus Wilcken and Dylan H. Rood
8. Exploring global changes in agricultural ammonia emissions and their contribution to nitrogen deposition since 1980
Lei Liu, Wen Xu, Xiankai Lu, Buqing Zhong, Yixin Guo, Xiao Lu, Yuanhong Zhao, Wei He, Songhan Wang, Xiuying Zhang, Xuejun Liu and Peter Vitousek
[Geology]
9. Five million years of high atmospheric CO2 in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Michael M. Joachimski; Johann Müller; Timothy M. Gallagher; Gregor Mathes; Daoliang L. Chu; Fedor Mouraviev; Vladimir Silantiev; Yadong D. Sun; Jinnan N. Tong
10. Late Holocene increase of winter precipitation in midcontinental North America from a seasonally resolved speleothem record
Cameron J. Batchelor; Shaun A. Marcott; Ian J. Orland; Kouki Kitajima
11. Looking upstream with clumped and triple oxygen isotopes of estuarine oyster shells in the early Eocene of California, USA
Julia R. Kelson; Sierra V. Petersen; Nathan A. Niemi; Benjamin H. Passey; Allison N. Curley
12. Apparent preservation of primary foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios and Mg-banding in recrystallized foraminifera
Philip T. Staudigel; Eleanor H. John; Ben Buse; Caroline H. Lear
13. Relationship between glacial CO2 drawdown and mercury cycling in the western South Atlantic: An isotopic insight
Thiago S. Figueiredo; Bridget A. Bergquist; Thiago P. Santos; Ana Luiza S. Albuquerque; Emmanoel Vieira Silva-Filho
[Nature Geoscience]
14. Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru
Adam Hastie, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, José Reyna, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Christine M. Åkesson, Timothy R. Baker, Lydia E. S. Cole, César. J. Córdova Oroche, Greta Dargie, Nállarett Dávila, Elsa Carla De Grandi, Jhon Del Águila, Dennis Del Castillo Torres, Ricardo De La Cruz Paiva, Frederick C. Draper, Gerardo Flores, Julio Grández, Kristell Hergoualc’h, J. Ethan Householder, John P. Janovec, Outi Lähteenoja, David Reyna, Pedro Rodríguez-Veiga, Katherine H. Roucoux, Mathias Tobler, Charlotte E. Wheeler, Mathew Williams & Ian T. Lawson
[Nature communications]
15. Pace of passive margin tectonism revealed by U-Pb dating of fracture-filling calcite
William H. Amidon, Andrew R. C. Kylander-Clark & David P. West Jr.
16. Trade-off between tree planting and wetland conservation in China
Yi Xi, Shushi Peng & Xutao Tang
17. Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests
Yue Li, Paulo M. Brando & James T. Randerson
18. Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change
Kevin A. Reed, Michael F. Wehner & Colin M. Zarzycki
19. The downward spiralling nature of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
Sara Berglund, Kristofer Döös & Trevor J. McDougall
[Nature Climate change]
20. Antarctic sea-ice expansion and Southern Ocean cooling linked to tropical variability
Eui-Seok Chung, Seong-Joong Kim, Axel Timmermann, Kyung-Ja Ha, Sang-Ki Lee, Malte F. Stuecker, Keith B. Rodgers, Sun-Seon Lee & Lei Huang
21. Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming
Chad W. Thackeray, Alex Hall, Jesse Norris & Di Chen
[Scientific reports]
22. Direct effects of elevated dissolved CO2 can alter the life history of freshwater zooplankton
Lana Ramaekers, Tom Pinceel & Bram Vanschoenwinkel
23. Spatial–temporal changes in the degradation of marshes over the past 67 years
Jing Tang, Ying Li & Xing Zhang
24. Periodic sea-level oscillation in Tokyo Bay detected with the Tokyo-Bay seafloor hyper-kilometric submarine deep detector (TS-HKMSDD)
Hiroyuki K. M.Tanaka, Masaatsu Aichi & Dezső Varga
25. Increasing stratification as observed by satellite sea surface salinity measurements
Estrella Olmedo, Antonio Turiel & Klaus Scipal
26. The coral reef-dwelling Peneroplis spp. shows calcification recovery to ocean acidification conditions
[Science advances]
27. Rising dissolved organic carbon concentrations in coastal waters of northwestern Borneo related to tropical peatland conversion
NIVEDITA SANWLANI CHRIS D. EVANS MORITZ MÜLLER NAGUR CHERUKURU PATRICK MARTIN