4/13/2026

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