What is the state of global lake water quality? A global assessment covering 16,409 lakes across 145 countries reveals that...

As marine resource exploration and underwater environmental monitoring expand rapidly, conventional underwater sensors face a critical bottleneck: they typically rely...

Amaogu, D.C., Ofosu, E., Dsouza, K.B. et al. Northward expansion of high-stature vegetation reveals net surface-cooling feedbacks in the majority...

Santolík, O., Kolmašová, I., Taubenschuss, U. et al. Spatiotemporal patterns of lower-band whistler mode waves in the magnetosphere of Earth....

Highly saline industrial wastewaters containing heavy metals are common, yet no existing process can achieve both desalination and metal recovery...

Manzuk, R.A., Philippe, S. Uranium in cobalt-hydroxide exports from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nat Commun 17, 7415 (2026)....

Wang, J., Cai, W., Liu, Y. et al. Heterogeneous persistent ENSO impact on China’s agricultural economy in a warming climate....

Qian, Z., Bathiany, S., Liu, T. et al. Decadal sink-source shifts of forest aboveground carbon since 1988. Nat Commun 17,...

Ocean iron fertilization (OIF) is being discussed as a potential carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategy1. Yet the trade-offs between climate...

Liao, J., Mao, J., Peng, J. et al. Global variation of plant nitrogen acquisition strategies and their responses to decreasing...