Nature Geoscience

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01992-5 The dominant control of soil nitrogen retention changes at a threshold of around 700 mm precipitation, according to an analysis of soil nitrogen and biogeochemical measurements from 31 sites across the United States.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01998-z Soil viruses greatly influence the carbon sequestration processes associated with anaerobic methane oxidation, according to analyses of carbon flows in paddy soil.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01988-1 Dust derived from Antarctic sources measured in an ice core from the Allan Hills spanning the peak of the Last Interglacial suggests that the Ross Sea was probably open at the time, coincident with a reduction in the volume of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01985-4 Carbon dioxide outgassing from the ocean associated with the passage of tropical cyclones has declined in recent decades and may switch to being a net sink of CO2 under high-emissions scenarios, according to an analysis of observational records.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 22 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01990-7 Continental lithosphere thickness exerts a positive control on CO2 contents of erupted magmas, hence also influencing the location of rare-earth element deposits, according to a study of lithospheric thickness and CO2-rich magma locations.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01994-3 In summer 2025, a rapidly spreading megafire in Scotland, twice as large as the next-largest UK fire in the past two decades, caused widespread carbon emissions from the combustion of vegetation and peat, according to remote sensing analyses, field measurements and modelling.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01981-8 Human-driven disturbances intensify and prolong evapotranspiration declines across South American ecosystems, disrupting the water balance and threatening ecological resilience, according to hydrological modelling and remote sensing data.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01987-2 Enhanced future methane emissions from global wetlands under warming could substantially offset the emissions reduction goals of the Global Methane Pledge, according to ensemble simulations from terrestrial biosphere models.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 15 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01975-6 Freshwater fluxes from meltwater can intensify Antarctic ice-shelf loss by enabling deep-water intrusions into shelf cavities, while surface freshening may instead form protective layers that limit basal melt, according to future model simulations.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01978-3 Subglacial meltwater flushed methane from the gas hydrate stability zone and released it into seawater during Greenland Ice Sheet retreat across the continental shelf in the last deglaciation, according to ocean drilling, seismic data and modelling.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01966-7 Coesite forms only at extreme pressures. Remziye Akdoğan explains how its presence in continental metamorphic rocks records deep subduction and exhumation.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01993-4 Earth’s landmass has been sculpted by rivers for millions of years. Humans are now reshaping these landscapes as engineered modifications and the impacts of anthropogenic climate change alter river connectivity, water resources, and sediment transport.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01972-9 According to a data model analysis, dark brown carbon emitted by wildfires exerts radiative effects that can rival or exceed those of black carbon, extending into mid- and high-latitude regions, including the Arctic.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01980-9 Circadian redox oscillations in the rhizosphere are shown to generate methane in the presence of oxygen, revealing a chemical pathway contributing to paddy methane emissions, according to incubation experiments, geochemical analyses and machine-learning upscaling.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 11 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01951-0 Models have long predicted, and satellites have observed, stratospheric cooling from rising anthropogenic carbon dioxide, yet its magnitude and structure have lacked a robust theoretical explanation — until now.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 11 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01965-8 Higher carbon dioxide levels widen the part of the heat spectrum that can emit energy to space, cooling the stratosphere and strengthening the warming effect of this gas, according to idealized spectroscopy and radiative transfer model simulations.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 07 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01977-4 An integrated thermomechanical modelling and experimental approach revealed that post-collisional, calc-alkaline magmas result from the mechanical hybridization of relaminated continental crust and mantle peridotite. This interaction has contributed to crustal evolution since the Archaean.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01963-w Post-collisional calc-alkaline magmatism has originated from the mixing and hybridization of relaminated continental crust and mantle peridotite since the Archaean, according to numerical simulations of continental subduction and melting experiments.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01976-5 Methane in modern subglacial meltwater coming from the western Greenland Ice Sheet largely dates back to the period following the Holocene Thermal Maximum, when a smaller ice sheet allowed organic matter accumulation and biological methane production after ice readvance.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01968-5 Geological maps are integral to understanding the Earth and other rocky planetary bodies. As technological advances enable the geological mapping of extreme terrestrial and planetary environments, we must strengthen collaboration, standardization and data accessibility to ensure that the knowledge gained is cohesive,…