New Papers (Nature, Science, etc.) 2026/06/02~2025/06/08

Nature 

Earth’s east–west albedo symmetry

Jianhao Zhang, Jake J. Gristey & Graham Feingold

Queen cell architecture shapes honey bee queen development

Yu Fang  (房宇), Beibei Ma  (马贝贝), Xiaolu Jin  (金晓露), Anja Buttstedt, Yahya Al Naggar, Kathy Darragh, Huafeng Tian  (田华峰), Yin Zhu  (朱荫), Guan Yang  (杨冠), Yiying Yang  (杨一颖), Yuan Huang  (黄苑), Wanli Li  (李万里), Rumeng Xu  (徐如梦), Jianke Li  (李建科), Fuliang Hu  (胡福良), Liming Wu  (吴黎明), Wenjun Peng  (彭文君), Xiaofeng Xue  (薛晓锋), Boris Baer & Kai Wang  (王凯)

Science

Two decades of human- and climate-induced groundwater storage shifts in Brazil

Augusto Getirana, Clyvihk Renna Camacho, Maria Antonieta A. Mourão, and Otto Corrêa Rotunno Filho

A global internal tide modeling framework for improving satellite observations of fine-scale ocean circulation

Badarvada Yadidya, Brian K. Arbic, Edward D. Zaron, Jay F. Shriver, Maarten C. Buijsman, Eric P. Chassignet, Loren Carrère

Observational constraints from global ice-phase fraction indicate moderate climate sensitivity

Rui Zhou, Tingfeng Dou, Chen Zhou, Ivy Tan, Deliang Chen, Gaojie Xu, Yifan Yang, Xianda Gong, Xiaoming Ju, Aihui Wang, and Cunde Xiao

Near-inertial internal waves funneled into Taylor caps shape seamount tops, with implications for biodiversity in the deep ocean

Xiaohui Xie, Lixin Qu, Ming Li, Leif Thomas, Dake Chen, Lei Zhou, Dongsheng Zhang, Jiannan Wang, Hao Pan, Chengcheng Shen, and Wenting Ren

PNAS

Mapping CO2 fixation to two effective parameters: A framework toward data-informed species and model comparison

Andreas Stillits, Teresa E. Knudsen, and Ala Trusina

Aerobic soil bacteria adapt to hypoxia by hybridizing fermentation with carbon storage

David L. Gillett, Thilini Koralegedara, Tess F. Hutchinson, +22 , and Chris Greening

Climate change, inequality, and childhood stunting in African countries

Nabin Pradhan, Elizabeth Ludwig-Borycz, and Arun Agrawal

Geology

The Triassic carbon cycle in turmoil: A 50-m.y. journey from extinction to renewal Open Access

Yadong Sun; Linlin Ma; Michael M. Joachimski; Sylvain Richoz; Zaitian Zhang; Erdan Huang; Tian Wang; Leopold Krystyn; Xulong Lai

Nature Geoscience

Geoparks and the future of geoscience outreach

Iain Stewart, José Brilha, Sophie Justice & Ozlem Adiyaman Lopes

Ice-sheet regime shifts with climate warming

Nicholas R. Golledge, Tim R. Naish, Daniel P. Lowry, Julianne Burns, Peter U. Clark, Georgia Grant, Hana Ishii, Hanna Knahl, Richard H. Levy, Robert M. McKay & Michael E. Weber

Natural forest expansion is a larger carbon sink than secondary forests in moist tropics

Yihang Zhang, Viola H. A. Heinrich, Clément Bourgoin, Xia Wang, Xiaodong Li, Yun Du & Peter M. Atkinson

A fan-shaped subglacial basin province in East Antarctica formed by rotational extension

Egidio Armadillo, Daniele Rizzello, Pietro Balbi, Alessandro Ghirotto, Davide Scafidi, Guy J. G. Paxman, Andrea Zunino, Fausto Ferraccioli, Laura Crispini, Andreas Läufer, Frank Lisker, Antonia Ruppel, Danilo Morelli & Martin Siegert

Variable contributions of vertical land motion to sea-level change inferred at tide gauges

Sönke Dangendorf, Julius Oelsmann, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Christopher G. Piecuch, Roger Creel, William Coronel, Philip R. Thompson, Cynthia Ebinger & Thomas Wahl

Nature Communications

Implications of regional variations in climate change vulnerability and mitigation behaviour for social-climate dynamics

Amrita Punnavajhala, Timothy M. Lenton, Chris T. Bauch & Madhur Anand

Nature Climate Change

Respecting tenure and the bundle of rights in blue carbon guidance

Sarah Lawless, Philippa J. Cohen, Rayhan Dudayev, Elizabeth Evans-Illidge, Catherine E. Lovelock, Bob Muir, Emily Ogier, Sisir Pradhan & Tiffany H. Morrison

A fixed methane filter maximizes freshwater emissions under warming

Sarah F. Harpenslager, Kate Randall, Yizhu Zhu, Michelle C. Jackson, Ian Sanders, Bruno Gallo, Danielle Harris, Hannah Prentice, Yulia V. Bespalaya, Olga V. Aksenova, Alexander Milner, Tom C. Cameron, Boyd A. McKew, Eoin J. O’Gorman, Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Nikolai Friberg, Kevin J. Purdy, Guy Woodward, Alex J. Dumbrell & Mark Trimmer

High-latitude Southern Ocean warming hotspot induced by ocean mesoscale eddies

Dapeng Li, Zhao Jing, Wenju Cai, Jiuxin Shi, Zhi Li, Junde Li & Lixin Wu

Personal experiences matter for climate action

Gabrielle Wong-Parodi

Scientific Reports

N/A

Science Advances

Observational constraints from global ice-phase fraction indicate moderate climate sensitivity

Rui Zhou, Tingfeng Dou, Chen Zhou, Ivy Tan, Deliang Chen, Gaojie Xu, Yifan Yang, Xianda Gong, Xiaoming Ju, Aihui Wang, and Cunde Xiao

Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte

Sanaa El-Sayed, Matt Friedman, Belal S. Salem, Abdullah S. Gohar, Shorouq F. Al-Ashqar, Mohamed Amin, Hossam El-Saka, Hadeel Saad, Robert P. Speijer, and Hesham M. Sallam

Tropical impacts of the Southern Ocean underestimated by mean-state biases

Yue Dong, Kezhou Lu, Yen-Ting Hwang, Ruei-Jia Hu, Paulo Ceppi, Philipp Breul, Lettie A. Roach, and Clara Deser

New Papers (AGU, etc.) 2026/5/20 - 2026/6/02

 

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Reconstruction of Methane Emission Over the Past 9,100 Years From Varved Sediments in Lake Xiaolongwan, Northeastern China

Tianshu Chu, Manman Xie, Qing-Zeng Zhu, Wenbin Zhao, Yutao Sun, Guoqiang Chu, Qing Sun

(Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Volume 131, Issue 5)

Secular Evolution of Mantle Sulfur Isotopes Since the Archean

J. Eguchi, BA Black, EG Nisbet, Y. Moussallam, G. Georgeais

Decadal Predictions of the Link Between European Hot ‐ Dry Compound Summers and North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature

Leocardia Zheng, Jana Sillmann, Leonard Borchert

Methane Emission Reductions Slow Stratospheric Ozone Recovery by Amplifying the Potency of Ozone Depleting Substances

James Weber, Maisie Wright, William J. Collins, Keith P. Shine, Fiona M. O'Connor, Gerd A. Folberth, Paul Griffiths, Sam Abernethy

The Global Contribution of Individual Submarine Groundwater Discharge Components to the Ocean

 Y. Levy, H.A. Michael, S. Sahu, Y. Kiro

Multidecadal Atlantic “Warming Hole” Heat Content Variations Are Caused by Ocean Heat Transport, Not by Surface Fluxes

Stefan Rahmstorf, Jan Jendrkowiak, Ruijian Gou, Lijing Cheng, Angel Ruiz-Angulo, Halldór Björnsson

Geophysical Research Letters

Enhanced CO 2 Response and Aging-Related Dynamics Drive a Greater Leaf Area Index Increase in China's Planted Forests in Comparison to Natural Forests

 Yuhang Luo, Yuan Wang, Han Wang, Hongliang Wang, Jiansheng Wu

Historical Volcanic Eruptions Mitigated the Expected Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Decline Prior to 2000

Xinyue Wang, Fei Liu, Wenjie Dong, Qinghua Ding

Constraints on Climate Change Stabilization Based on Observations of Earth's Energy Imbalance

Hervé Douville, Richard P. Allan

Journal of Geophysical Research C. Oceans 

Vertical Decoupling of Marine Heatwaves in the Bay of Bengal: The Contrasting Roles of Atmospheric Forcing and Mesoscale Eddies

Zhenting Mo, Weikang Zhan, Peiya Zhang, Yunchen Liu, Yiqiang Hu, Haigang Zhan, Qingyou H

El Niño - Southern Oscillation Drives Interannual Extremes of Surface Salinity in the Red Sea

Junchuan Sun, Daquan Guo, Sivareddy Sanikommu, George Krokos, Peng Zhan, Ibrahim Hoteit

Changes of the Indonesian Throughflow Spreading in the Indian Ocean During Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole Events

He Jin ,  Mingting Li ,  Dongxiao Wang ,  Shuaichen Xin ,  Arnold L. Gordon ,  Laura K. Gruenburg

Mechanisms of Chlorophyll Enhancement Driven by internal tides in the Oligotrophic Northern South China Sea

Jiexin Xu ,  Yankun Gong ,  Fei Chai ,  Zhiwu Chen ,  Yinghui He ,  Daning Li ,  Shuqun Cai

Contrasting Net Community Production in the Oligotrophic Western North Pacific Subtropical Gyre During the Late Summers of 2020 and 2022: The Roles of Multiple Environmental Drivers

Inhee Lee ,  Doshik Hahm ,  Young Shin Kwon ,  Seon-Eun Lee 

Paleooceanograpahy

Role of Mid ‐ and High ‐ Latitude, Southern Hemisphere Processes for Ushering in the Middle Pleistocene Transition

G. Shaffer ,  E. Fernández Villanueva ,  Cyrus Karas

Hydro - Atmospheric Variability and Dust Dynamics in Southern South America During the Last ~ 62 ka 

Victoria Nogués ,  Diego A. Montecino Jara ,  Nicolás J. Cosentino ,  André O. Sawakuchi ,  Renata Coppo ,  Gabriela Torre ,  Diego M. Gaiera

Laurasian Seaway History During the Early Jurassic From Quantitative Mineralogy and Detrital Zircon Dating

M. Jiang , SP Hesselbo , G. Pieńkowski , E. Krzemińska , JB Riding , A. Uchman , D. Salata , CV Ullmann

Assessing Kuroshio Intrusion–Related Variability Using Paired Coral Cores From Contrasting Reef Environments at Dongsha Atoll, South China Sea 

Ke Lin ,  Yilin Zhang ,  Mohamad Zahid Baharom ,  Yue-Gau Chen ,  Xianfeng Wang

Key Points

• We combined Sr/Ca and δ 18O  data from two contrasting coral sites to separate sea surface temperature and salinity signals
• DS25 (inner lagoon) reflects more local hydrology variability, while DS86 (outer reef) records regional signals and the Kuroshio Intrusion
• Pairing corals from different reef environments helps distinguish local versus regional oceanographic influences

 

New Papers (ELSEVIER) 2026/5/20~2026/6/1

 Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Decoupling physical and chemical signals in tectonically active basins: A 3.3 Ma record of drainage integration and source-inherited climate forcing in North China

Fubing He, Yubin Cui, Ruijie Li, Kai Wang, Wenzhi Niu, Xiaoyong Liu, Mengmeng Cao, Xinhe Lv, Yueze Zhang, Lingyan Bai, Jing Liu, Xiwei Xu

 

Geochemical constraints on Lake Mega-Chad discharge to the Atlantic Ocean during the Holocene

Germain Bayon, Jung-Hyun Kim, Charlotte Skonieczny, Guillaume Soulet, Sujin Kang, Mathilde Levacher, Barnab’e Djatibeye, Jean-François Ghienne, Bernard Dennielou, Eduardo Garzanti

 

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Large seasonal and inter-annual variability in lipid biomarker fluxes: unique records of 4.5 years of monthly sediment-trap data from a tropical lake

J.S. Sinninghe Damsté, L.G.J. van Bree, J. Lattaud, P. de Regt, C. Cocquyt, A.J. Baxter, J.W. de Leeuw, D. Verschuren, F. Peterse

 

Chemical Geology

Organic matter and seasonal flooding control mercury and methane distribution in sediments of a floodplain lake in the Madeira River basin (western Amazon)

Yara Paole Lopes de Paiva Sodre, Lucas Cabrera Monteiro, Claudio Eduardo Azevedo-Silva, Ronaldo de Almeida, Claudio Cardoso Marinho, Jeremie Garnier, Ygor Oliveira Sarmento Rodrigues, Wanderley Rodrigues Bastos, Jose Vicente Elias Bernardi

 

Trace element composition of cold-water corals from coastal Antarctic surface sediments: Implications for biomineralization mechanisms and paleoceanographic reconstructions

Derong Zhao, Sang Chen, Junru Guan, Haihong Wu, Xin Chen, Cong Zeng, Zhekai Tang, Maojun Yan, Ning Zhao, Liqiang Xu, Meng Zhou

 

Geochemical and hydrological controls on aragonite versus calcite precipitation in speleothems and paleoclimatic implications

Rui Zhang, Haiwei Zhang, Christoph Spotl, Carlos Perez-Mejías, Zixin Guan, Heather Stoll, Yanjun Cai, Liangcheng Tan, Fudong Wang, Xunlin Yang, Yan Yang, Lijuan Sha, Jian Wang, Yina Song, Pengzhen Duan, Youfeng Ning, Hai Cheng

 

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Multi-proxy sedimentary records from the Taiwan Canyon: Reconstructing East Asian monsoon evolution over the past 33.5 kyr

Zili Yang, Lisha Hu, Meng Liu, Xiting Liu, Xiaoling Gao, Jingping Xu, Wei Xu, Yumeng Guo, Fukang Qi, Dejiang Fan

Fieldwork in Ishigaki (10/5-14/5)

Hello! It's Oshin, I'm back here at Yokoyama Sensei's Lab for half a year.

From May 10th to May 14th, I joined a mangrove sampling campaign in Ishigaki Island. I flew out from Narita International Airport and met the team from Kobe University : Kida-san, his students Aki-san and Shimamoto-san, and Khwan from Thailand. Everyone was incredibly kind and welcoming from the very beginning.

The first thing I noticed after landing in Ishigaki Island was the humidity. My hair curled up almost instantly the moment I stepped outside the airport.

After arriving, we rented a car, bought supplies for the next few days, and drove north toward the mangrove site we would be studying: Gaburumata. The scenery already felt completely different from Tokyo as it was tropical, lush, and surrounded by mountains and ocean.

Into the Mangroves

The next morning, we headed to a farm near the mangroves to prepare our equipment. Heavy rain poured down from early morning, and we needed to enter the mangroves by around 8:20 am to make the best use of the low tide conditions. We waited for nearly an hour hoping the rain would lighten.

Then Khwan finally said, “No, let's just go in anyway.”

So we went into the heavy rain.

Carrying a heavy metal corer, we entered the mangrove forest. Almost immediately, it felt like the mud was pulling us downward with every step. There was even an old ladder Kida-san had borrowed years ago to help us get in. Beside us, the water in the stream rushed rapidly because of the storm.

Despite the conditions, we continued downstream to survey and sample near two mangrove species: Bruguiera and Rhizophora. For me, this was one of the most fascinating parts of the trip because Kida-san explained so many ecological processes while we worked. One concept he talked about was stem flow, how rainwater washes nutrients down the trunks and roots of trees into the mangrove system, nourishing the surrounding sediment and ecosystem.

It quickly became obvious that mangroves are far more complex than they first appear.

Once the rain finally calmed, the entire atmosphere changed. Mudskippers emerged from the mud, everything became quiet, and suddenly the mangrove felt peaceful. We continued pulling sediment cores, measuring them, and dividing them into subsamples until the afternoon.

That evening, I walked back to my accommodation from the mangroves. Ishigaki felt incredibly alive: giant frogs, tropical birds everywhere, humid air, dense greenery. Everything felt vibrant.

Core After Core

The next two days were rainy again, but fieldwork continued regardless.

We finished sampling the downstream sites and moved upstream, where coring was slightly easier. That day, I asked if I could try pulling some cores myself. I honestly did not have much strength for it, but I managed to complete a 0–50 cm core on my own. The group cheered me on to try a 50–100 cm core as well. I managed to push the corer halfway down before the others stepped in to help finish it.

When we finally pulled it out successfully, everyone celebrated together.Afternoons were just as busy. After quick showers and lunch, we spent hours subsampling sediment samples and washing root samples through sieves. We often worked until around 8 pm, surrounded by mosquitoes, exhausted but still enjying conversations and learning from each other. Kida-san also spent a lot of time explaining topics beyond mangroves, including Antarctic waters and dissolved organic matter (DOM), which made the trip feel not only like fieldwork but also like an immersive learning experience.

The Final Day

Our last field day finally gave us perfect weather. No rain. Calm water. Quiet mangroves.

This time we entered from the coastal side because Kida-san wanted to show us the full ecosystem transition from ocean to mangrove interior. Along the shore, there were hermit crabs everywhere. We also searched for the famous giant “Yashigani” coconut crabs, though unfortunately we never found one.

From the coast we moved deeper into the mangroves, sometimes walking directly through the river itself. Every single step through the mud required effort.

Our goal that day was to collect water samples along the entire environmental gradient — from the coast into the mangrove system and its end members. We sampled seawater, mangrove water, and pore water from the sediment. Collecting pore water was especially difficult. We had to dig deep into the sediment, wait patiently for water to slowly accumulate, clear it, and finally extract the sample.

After finishing the work, we returned to the ocean side and simply enjoyed the sun and water for a while. After days of rain and mud, it felt like the perfect ending. We went for a quick swim before returning to complete the final subsampling and pack everything up.

Exploring Ishigaki

Since our flights were in the evening on the last day, we spent the morning exploring a bit more of Ishigaki together.

We visited Banna Park for birdwatching, ate local Yaeyama soba for lunch, and explored the beautiful Ishigaki Island Limestone Cave. The cave system was absolutely fascinating.

Before heading to the airport, we stopped to buy omiyage, and then it was finally time to say goodbye to the Kobe team and fly back to Tokyo.

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Ishigaki was hard work — rain, mud, mosquitoes, heavy cores, long days — but it was also unforgettable. Between the mangroves, the ocean, the mountains, and the people, it became one of the most memorable field experiences I have had so far.