Nature Geoscience

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,…

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 28 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01971-w Managing nutrient levels can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from lakes, with control of nutrient discharges from industrial sources being the most cost-effective strategy, according to a machine learning-based integrated assessment framework.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 24 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01969-4 Human activities such as dredging and land reclamation have pervasively altered the ways that tides propagate through large estuaries with negative ecological impacts, according to an analysis of recent and historical records.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01983-6 Publisher Correction: Increasing river sediment concentration and flux across the pan-Arctic

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01956-9 Mine waste mining can aid the clean-up of hazardous materials and environmental restoration, alongside economic benefits. Success is dependent upon understanding the heterogeneous nature of these deposits, economic modelling to generate investor confidence, and robust leadership and collaboration to ensure strong r…

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 21 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01964-9 The Southern Ocean is a globally significant carbon sink and carbon cycling in this region drives global biological productivity. Measurements of oxygen in the overlying atmosphere shed light on the Southern Ocean carbon cycle and improve our ability to predict how it will respond to future climate change.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 21 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01944-z Atmospheric oxygen sampling provides improved estimates of Southern Ocean net primary productivity, revealing that many Earth system models underestimate productivity in ways that bias both present-day and future projections of air–sea CO2 exchange.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 14 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01967-6 The effect of wildfires on human health is growing as wildfires intensify. Effective management needs to address the evolving complexity of fire biogeochemical and climatic impacts and better integrate public health considerations at all stages.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 14 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01949-8 Over 300 years since its naming, chalcopyrite remains a mineral of mystery despite its economic necessity, as Joël Brugger and Barbara Etschmann explain.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 14 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01958-7 Pollutants continue to accumulate in ocean waters but can be hard to track. Research reveals that diverse classes of organic pollutants are widespread throughout the ocean and are now a significant component of the marine carbon pool.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 14 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01955-w The mechanism that generated strong magnetic fields on the Moon remains unclear. Lunar samples that record high field strengths combined with heat flux modelling suggest a link between eruption of high-titanium basalts and dynamo generation.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 13 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01943-0 A deep learning framework called GOFLOW enables observation, and may ultimately improve forecasting of, oceanic surface currents down to submesoscale spatial and temporal resolutions from thermal imagery routinely collected by geostationary satellites.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 13 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01960-z The total sediment flux from land to the ocean across the pan-Arctic has risen by 15% since 1980, driven by greater river discharge, intensified thermokarst disturbances and wildfire activity, according to machine learning and satellite-based reconstructions of suspended sediment dynamics in 4,331 river reaches.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 13 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01961-y Atmospheric circulation patterns and mean climate conditions lead to heterogeneity in water isotope–temperature relationships across Antarctica, and accounting for these effects allows for more robust interpretation of temperature proxy records from ice cores.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 10 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01973-8 Author Correction: Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep