New Papers (Nature, etc.) 2025/2/25–2025/3/4

 Nature

1. Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes

J. A. Baker, M. J. Bell, L. C. Jackson, G. K. Vallis, A. J. Watson & R. A. Wood 

Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes | Nature

2. Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago

Eslem Ben Arous, James A. Blinkhorn, Sarah Elliott, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, Charles D. N’zi, Mark D. Bateman, Mathieu Duval, Patrick Roberts, Robert Patalano, Alexander F. Blackwood, Khady Niang, Eugénie Affoua Kouamé, Edith Lebato, Emily Hallett, Jacopo N. Cerasoni, Erin Scott, Jana Ilgner, Maria Jesús Alonso Escarza, Francois Yodé Guédé & Eleanor M. L. Scerri

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago | Nature

Communications Earth and Environment

3. Soil moisture-atmosphere interactions drive terrestrial carbon-water trade-offs

Wenqi Sun, Sha Zhou, Bofu Yu, Yao Zhang, Trevor Keenan & Bojie Fu 

Soil moisture-atmosphere interactions drive terrestrial carbon-water trade-offs | Communications Earth & Environment

4. Sediment resuspension in muddy sediments enhances pyrite oxidation and carbon dioxide emissions in Kiel Bight

Habeeb Thanveer Kalapurakkal, Andrew W. Dale, Mark Schmidt, Heidi Taubner, Florian Scholz, Timo Spiegel, Michael Fuhr & Klaus Wallmann 

Sediment resuspension in muddy sediments enhances pyrite oxidation and carbon dioxide emissions in Kiel Bight | Communications Earth & Environment

Nature Communications

5. Marine sulphate captures a Paleozoic transition to a modern terrestrial weathering environment

Anna R. Waldeck, Haley C. Olson, Peter W. Crockford, Abby M. Couture, Benjamin R. Cowie, Eben B. Hodgin, Kristin D. Bergmann, Keith Dewing, Stephen E. Grasby, Ryan J. Clark, Francis A. Macdonald & David T. Johnston

 Marine sulphate captures a Paleozoic transition to a modern terrestrial weathering environment | Nature Communications

6. Unprotected carbon dominates decadal soil carbon increase

Minglong Liu, Shilu Zheng, Elise Pendall, Pete Smith, Jiajia Liu, Jinquan Li, Changming Fang, Bo Li & Ming Nie 

Unprotected carbon dominates decadal soil carbon increase | Nature Communications

7. Thermokarst lake drainage halves the temperature sensitivity of CH4 release on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Mei Mu, Cuicui Mu, Hebin Liu, Pengsi Lei, Yongqi Ge, Zhensong Zhou, Xiaoqing Peng & Tian Ma 

Thermokarst lake drainage halves the temperature sensitivity of CH4 release on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau | Nature Communications

Nature Geosciences

8. Global carbonate chemistry gradients reveal a negative feedback on ocean alkalinity enhancement

N. Lehmann & L. T. Bach 

Global carbonate chemistry gradients reveal a negative feedback on ocean alkalinity enhancement | Nature Geoscience