New Papers (ELSEVIER) 2026/4/20~2026/4/26

 

[Chemical Geology]

1. Evidence for seawater Mg/Ca and dietary control on Mg incorporation in oyster shells

Marie Pesnin, Laurent Emmanuel, Amélie Guittet, Boris Eyheraguidel, Gaetan Schires ,Julien Normand, Vincent Mouchi

New Papers (Nature, etc.) 2025/04/21–2026/04/28

PNAS

1. Space-based observation of global increase in urban methane emissions from 2019–2023
E. Whiting,G. Plant,E.A. Kort,I. Aben,K.J. Biener,G. Leguijt, & J.D. Maasakkers

Geology

2. Paleohydraulics of cyclonic storm deposits suggest that the equatorial climate of Earth in the Pennsylvanian was not cold
Paul M. Myrow, Mingxi Hu, Michael P. Lamb

Nature Geoscience

3. Organic pollution found oceanwide
Aron Stubbins

4. A new paradigm for understanding Earth’s marine ice sheets
Olga Sergienko, Marianne Haseloff, Alexander Robel & Duncan Wingham 

5. Deep ocean control of global temperature after net-zero emissions
Yong-Han Lee, Sang-Wook Yeh, Guojian Wang, Se-Yong Song & Soon-Il An 

Nature communications

6. Climate futures require politics
Julia Leininger, Halvard Buhaug, Elisabeth Gilmore, Staffan I. Lindberg, Marina Andrijevic & Elina Brutschin 

Nature Climate Change

7. ENSO shapes salinity regimes and fish migration in the China Seas
Zhixuan Wang, Han Huang, Guizhi Wang, Tangdong Qu, Yue Liu, Xianghui Guo, Shiyun Lei, Jianyu Hu, Jingfang Fan, Jianping Gan, Ling Cao, Xiaosong Chen & Minhan Dai

New Papers (AGU, etc.) 2026/04/14–2026/04/20

AGU 4/14-4/20

 

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

 

Late Eocene to Early Oligocene (36–26 Ma) Rock Magnetism and Magnetostratigraphy of IODP Site U1553, Southwestern Pacific: Defying the Challenges of Carbonate Dilution and Reductive Diagenesis

Yang Zhang, Wanzhang Wang, Tilo von Dobeneck, Anna Joy Drury, Thomas Frederichs, Wei Yuan

 

Geophysical Research Letters

Submesoscale Energy Cycle in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Simulation of the Gulf Stream

Marcela Contreras, Patrick Marchesiello, Lionel Renault 

High-Resolution Observations Unveil (Sub)Mesoscale Heat Fluxes Shaping Upper-Ocean Heat Content

Mathieu Gentil, Charly de Marez, Enric Pallàs-Sanz, Anthony Bosse, Miguel Tenreiro, Rémi Laxenaire

Quantifying Under-Ice Phytoplankton Blooms in the Changing Arctic and Southern Oceans

Courtney M. Payne, Alice K. DuVivier, Kristen M. Krumhardt, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Marika M. Holland

Pacific Decadal Oscillation Modulates an Interdecadal Trans-Pacific Dry-Wet Seesaw in East Asian and North American Semi-Arid Regions

Shanshan Wang, Xinya Shu, Jianping Huang, Jinfei Sun, Fuxing Shi

Air Quality Penalty in Southeast Asia Driven by AMOC Slowdown

Ryan Vella, Benedikt Steil, Virna Meccia, Holger Tost, Jos Lelieveld, Andrea Pozzer

 

JGR Oceans

Pre- to Post-Monsoon Shifts in Cyclone-Driven Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity, and Chlorophyll-a Responses in the Arabian Sea

Arwa Najah Abdulmawjood, Guoqiang Liu, Xiaoxiong Zhang, Fahim Abdul Gafoor, Maryam R. Al Shehhi

 

Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology

Unsteady Gypsum Cycling as a Driver of Cryptic Perturbations in the Ancient Carbon Cycle

Kalev Hantsoo, Kimberly V. Lau

Leaf Wax Hydrogen Isotopes Reflect Storm Track Position Over Western North America

Tripti Bhattacharya, David Fastovich, Christopher R. Maupin, Alexandra E. Thompson, Ran Feng, Jiang Zhu, Erin L. McClymont, Hayoung Bong, Allegra LeGrande, Sylvia Dee, Richard P. Fiorella

 

Climate of the Past

Growth and decay of the Iceland Ice Sheet through the last glacial cycle

Alexis Arturo Goffin, Lev Tarasov, Ívar Örn Benediktsson, and Joseph M. Licciardi

Interplay of North Atlantic freshening and deep convection during the last deglaciation constrained by Iberian speleothems

Laura Endres, Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Ruza Ivanovic, Lauren Gregoire, Anna L. C. Hughes, Hai Cheng, and Heather Stoll

The Geological Society of America

 

N/A

 

New Papers (Nature, etc.) 2026/04/07–2026/04/14

 Nature

Decadal-scale droughts disrupted the African Humid Period in the Sahara

Florence Sylvestre, Martin Melles, Volker Wennrich, Michèle Dinies, Françoise Chalié, Didier Swingedouw, Anne Dallmeyer, Xiaoxu Shi, Martin Claussen, Andrea Jaeschke, Christine Cocquyt, Jens Karls, Jan Kuper, Baba Mallaye, Jean-Charles Mazur, Christine Paillès, Remadji Rirongarti, Janet Rethemeyer, Benedikt Ritter-Prinz, Enno Schefuß, Finn Viehberg, Bernd Wagner, Martin Werner, Abdallah N. Yacoub & Stefan Kröpelin

 

Observing the tidal pulse of rivers from wide-swath satellite altimetry

M. G. Hart-Davis, D. Scherer, C. Schwatke, A. H. Sawyer, T. M. Pavelsky, R. D. Ray, P. Matte, D. Dettmering & F. Seitz

 

Science

Tectonic origin of Yellowstone’s translithospheric magma plumbing system

Zebin Cao, Lijun Liu, Bo Wan, Ling Chen, and Craig Lundstrom

 

PNAS

Projected changes in tropical instability wave activity in the Pacific Ocean under greenhouse warming

Aoyun Xue, Samantha Stevenson, Julien Boucharel, and Minyang Wang

 

Model evidence for distinct origins of glacial–interglacial and millennial signals in Greenland dust

Peter O. Hopcroft and Denis-Didier Rousseau

 

Recent extremes in Antarctic sea ice extent modulated by ocean heat ventilation

Earle A. Wilson, Lexi Arlen, and Ethan C. Campbell

 

Geology

Paleohydraulics of cyclonic storm deposits suggest that the equatorial climate of Earth in the Pennsylvanian was not cold

Paul M. Myrow, Mingxi Hu, and Michael P. Lamb

 

Pronounced typhoon landfall imprints in the Holocene precipitation isotope record from coastal South China

Jiantao Cao, Yanming Ruan, Liping Tian, Fajin Chen, Chao Huang, Xiaobo Jin, Zhiguo Rao, and Guodong Jia

 

Late-Cenozoic tectonic versus glacial control on the topographic evolution of the Terskey Range, Kyrgyz Tian Shan

Lingxiao Gong, Peter van der Beek, Edward R. Sobel, Taylor F. Schildgen, Apolline Mariotti, Maxime Bernard, Johannes Glodny, and Isabel Wapenhans

 

Nature Communications

Equatorward upper-ocean heat transport from the Southern Ocean boosted interglacial warming

Ce Yang, Haowen Dang, Jian Xu, Xiaolin Ma, Xingxing Wang, Yu Ren, Hongrui Zhang, Chen Li, Peng Zhang, Haijing Chen, Franck Bassinot, Yair Rosenthal & Zhimin Jian

 

Machine-learning emergent constraints on surface albedo feedback over Arctic land regions

Linfei Yu, Guoyong Leng, Lei Yao, Qiuhong Tang, Manfred Wendisch, Jiali Qiu, Shengzhi Huang, Xiaoyong Liao & Jian Peng

 

Abiotic CO2 reduction promoted by carbonate and phyllosilicate minerals on the primitive seafloor

Yuan Zhong, Ning Zhang, Daoming Huan, Jingxiang Low, Isabelle Daniel, H. James Cleaves II, Chao Zhang, Yamei Li, Yawen Jiang, Xinyu Wang, Christopher R. Glein, Jiawei Li, Yu Bai, Yaping Li, Fang Huang, Liping Qin, Andrew H. Knoll, Jihua Hao, Ran Long & Yujie Xiong

 

Nature Climate Change

Climate policy feasibility across Europe relies on the conditional middle

E. Keith Smith, Žan Mlakar, Alessio Levis, Mary Sanford, Lea Stapper, Thijs Bouman, Johannes Emmerling, Goda Perlaviciute, Massimo Tavoni, Loïc Berger, Jeroen van den Bergh, Thomas Bernauer, Alessia Casamassima, Thomas Epper, Nahed Eddai, Ivan Savin, Milan Ščasný, Uyanga Turmunkh, Iva Zvěřinová & Silvia Pianta

 

ENSO shapes salinity regimes and fish migration in the China Seas

Zhixuan Wang, Han Huang, Guizhi Wang, Tangdong Qu, Yue Liu, Xianghui Guo, Shiyun Lei, Jianyu Hu, Jingfang Fan, Jianping Gan, Ling Cao, Xiaosong Chen & Minhan Dai

 

Field Trip to Kyusendo Cave (2/4-2/6)

Naoto-san and I arrived in Kumamoto Prefecture on a chilly February Thursday for a short 2-day field trip to the Kyusendo Cave (球泉洞). Before the trip, I had learned that this was where stalagmites had been previously collected back in 2019. After the great flood of Kumamoto in 2020, the devastation of towns and roads near the cave prevented access to the cave. Now, five years onwards, we finally get the chance to revisit old sites and continue past research.

Entrance to the Kyusendo Cave (球泉洞)

Our primary objective this time was to revisit the previous sampling sites to check on cave conditions and to sample the water in the surrounding environment for carbon and oxygen isotopic measurements. As we made our way to the sampling sites, we had to descend deep underground using ladders. As we ventured further inside, water started seeping from the marble walls, and we encountered underground waterfalls and rivers.

Descending ladder after ladder to get to our sampling sites

Through comparisons with old photos, we were able to identify the previous sampling sites. We carefully set up funnels and bottles to collect dripwater from the hanging stalactites while trying to avoid bumping into the hundreds of stalactites hanging from the ceiling above. Since it was the dry season, flow rates were low, so we had to leave the bottles in the cave to collect water overnight. We also sampled water from the underground waterfall and river. As we bottled up the water, we took note of the cave’s temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide concentration, giving us a picture of environmental conditions underground.

Naoto-san setting up our dripwater-collecting funnel and vials. Watch out for the stalactites!

On the second day, Yokoyama-sensei joined us in the cave to collect the bottles we placed the day before. We walked back to the sites where we left our bottles yesterday, passing two Kumamon, the ever-present mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, on our way there. We were happy to find that all our bottles had been filled to the brim with dripwater. With the teamwork and experience we had built up the day before, we quickly packed up our samples and climbed back out of the cave. After a quick lunch at a nearby restaurant, we drove around to nearby spots to sample water from rivers in the area, wrapping up our field trip at a beautiful waterfall.

Group picture with caving Kumamon