＜Nature＞
1. Waiting to reduce emissions is costly
Nature 501, 465 (26 September 2013) doi:10.1038/501465c
2. Biodiversity: Temperate hotspots
Nature 501, 494–495 (26 September 2013) doi:10.1038/501494a
3. Earth science: A resolution of the Archaean paradox
Nature 501, 496–497 (26 September 2013) doi:10.1038/501496a
4. Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago
Sean A. Crowe, Lasse N. Døssing, Nicolas J.
Beukes, Michael Bau, Stephanus J. Kruger,et al
Nature 501, 535–538 (26 September 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12426
Rick D. Stuart-Smith, Amanda E. Bates,
Jonathan S. Lefcheck, J. Emmett Duffy, Susan C. Baker,et al
Nature 501, 539–542 (26 September 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12529
＜Science＞
6. U.S. Carbon Plan Relies on Uncertain Capture
Technology
Eli Kintisch
Science 27 September
2013: 1438-1439.
The Obama
administration last week unveiled a landmark proposal that would require new
coal-fired power plants to capture at least some of the carbon pollution they
emit, but the needed technology remains uncertain.
7. Will New Government Overcome 'Symbolically
Challenged' Start?
Leigh Dayton
Science 27 September 2013: 1439.
Australia's new
government eliminated the science minister post and has begun dismantling
climate change programs—and more tremors could follow.
8. Global Change and Mercury
David P. Krabbenhoft and Elsie M.
Sunderland
Science 27 September
2013: 1457-1458.
Mercury
concentrations in the atmosphere and oceans are affected not only by
anthropogenic emissions but also by climate and ecosystem change.
9. Near-Complete Extinction of Native Small Mammal
Fauna 25 Years After Forest Fragmentation
Luke Gibson, Antony J.
Lynam, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Fangliang He, David P.
Bickford, David S. Woodruff, Sara Bumrungsri,and William F.
Laurance
Science 27 September
2013: 1508-1510.
The rapid loss of
native mammals from isolated Thai forests suggests that forest fragments cannot
maintain biodiversity.
＜PNAS＞
10. Oxygen isotope anomaly observed in water vapor
from Alert, Canada and the implication for the stratosphere
Ying Lin, Robert N. Clayton, Lin
Huang, Noboru Nakamura, and James R. Lyons
PNAS 2013 110 (39) 15608-15613; published
ahead of print September 5, 2013,doi:10.1073/pnas.1313014110
11. Regional and seasonal response of a West Nile
virus vector to climate change
Cory W. Morin and Andrew C. Comrie
PNAS 2013 110 (39) 15620-15625; published
ahead of print September 9, 2013,doi:10.1073/pnas.1307135110
12. Broad-scale predictability of carbohydrates and
exopolymers in Antarctic and Arctic sea ice
Graham J. C. Underwood, Shazia N.
Aslam, Christine Michel, Andrea Niemi, Louiza Norman,Klaus M.
Meiners, Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Harriet
Paterson, and David N. Thomas
PNAS 2013 110 (39) 15734-15739; published
ahead of print September 9, 2013,doi:10.1073/pnas.1302870110
＜Nature Communications＞
13. Human impacts drive a global topographic signature
in tree cover
Brody Sandel, Jens-Christian Svenning
Nature Communications4, Article number:2474
doi:10.1038/ncomms3474
＜Geology＞
14. The Mesozoic Victoria Basin: Vanished link between
Antarctica and Australia
Frank Lisker and Andreas L. Läufer
Geology, October 2013, v. 41,
p. 1043-1046, first published on August 12,
2013, doi:10.1130/G33409.1
15. A stable and hot Turonian without glacial δ18O
excursions is indicated by exquisitely preserved Tanzanian foraminifera
Kenneth G. MacLeod, Brian T.
Huber, Álvaro Jiménez Berrocoso, and Ines Wendler
Geology, October 2013, v. 41,
p. 1083-1086, first published on July 30, 2013, doi:10.1130/G34510.1
16. Affirming life aquatic for the Ediacara biota in
China and Australia
Shuhai Xiao, Mary Droser, James
G. Gehling, Ian V. Hughes, Bin Wan, Zhe Chen, and Xunlai
Yuan
Geology, October 2013, v. 41,
p. 1095-1098, first published on July 30, 2013, doi:10.1130/G34691.1
17. Time scales and modes of reef lagoon infilling in
the Maldives and controls on the onset of reef island formation
C.T. Perry, P.S. Kench, S.G.
Smithers, H. Yamano, M. O’Leary, and P. Gulliver
Geology, October 2013, v. 41, p. 1111-1114, first
published on August 12, 2013, doi:10.1130/G34690.1
18. The role of multiple glacier outburst floods in
proglacial landscape evolution: The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, Iceland
Stuart A. Dunning, Andrew R.G.
Large, Andrew J. Russell, Matthew J. Roberts,Robert Duller, John
Woodward, Anne-Sophie Mériaux, Fiona S. Tweed,and Michael Lim
Geology, October 2013, v. 41,
p. 1123-1126, first published on July 30,
2013, doi:10.1130/G34665.1
19. Globally synchronous Marinoan deglaciation
indicated by U-Pb geochronology of the Cottons Breccia, Tasmania, Australia
C.R. Calver, J.L. Crowley, M.T.D.
Wingate, D.A.D. Evans, T.D. Raub,and M.D. Schmitz
Geology, October 2013, v. 41,
p. 1127-1130, first published on July 30,
2013, doi:10.1130/G34568.1
20. Marine cycles in flux
Anna Armstrong
doi:10.1038/ngeo1946 p687
21. Permafrost-carbon complexities
Jorien E. Vonk & Örjan Gustafsson
doi:10.1038/ngeo1937 -pp675 - 676
22. Palaeoclimate: East Antarctica's Achilles'
heel
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
doi:10.1038/ngeo1897-pp680 - 681
The East Antarctic
ice sheet is believed to be Earth's most stable ice sheet.
23. Solid Earth: Heating glaciers from
below
Boris J. P. Kaus
doi:10.1038/ngeo1919-pp683 - 684
Climate change is
affecting the cryosphere from above. Geothermal heat flux from below is also
contributing to conditions at the base of Greenland's ice sheet, which sits
atop a lithosphere of variable thickness.
24. Impact of Arctic meltdown on the microbial cycling
of sulphur
M. Levasseur
doi:10.1038/ngeo1910-pp691 - 700
25. Seafloor oxygen consumption fuelled by methane
from cold seeps
Antje Boetius & Frank Wenzhöfer
doi:10.1038/ngeo1926-pp725 - 734
26. Rising river flows throughout the twenty-first
century in two Himalayan glacierized watersheds
W. W. Immerzeel, F. Pellicciotti & M.
F. P. Bierkens
doi:10.1038/ngeo1896-pp742 - 745
27. Formation of carbonate chimneys in the
Mediterranean Sea linked to deep-water oxygen depletion
Germain Bayon, Stéphanie Dupré, Emmanuel
Ponzevera, Joël Etoubleau, Sandrine Chéron, Catherine Pierre, Jean Mascle,
Antje Boetius & Gert J. de Lange
doi:10.1038/ngeo1888-pp755 - 760
28. Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet
during Pliocene warmth
Carys P. Cook, Tina van de Flierdt, Trevor
Williams, Sidney R. Hemming, Masao Iwai, Munemasa Kobayashi, Francisco J.
Jimenez-Espejo,et al.
doi:10.1038/ngeo1889-pp765 - 769
The East Antarctic
ice sheet is considered to be largely insensitive to temperature changes in the
Southern Ocean. Marine sediment records indicate the East Antarctic ice sheet
repeatedly retreated by several hundred kilometres during intervals of Pliocene
warmth.
29. Ice sheet collapse following a prolonged period of
stable sea level during the last interglacial
Michael J. O’Leary, Paul J. Hearty, William
G. Thompson, Maureen E. Raymo, Jerry X. Mitrovica & Jody M. Webster
doi:10.1038/ngeo1890-pp796 - 800
Sea level during
the last interglacial period reached a peak of between 5 and 9 m above
the present-day level. A detailed reconstruction of sea level and isostatic
rebound from Western Australia indicates a prolonged period of sea-level
stability at 3–4 m above present, followed by an abrupt
sea-level rise of 5–6m.
