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    Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 13 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03262-z

    Jet streams are more than strong winds: they are persistent, meandering wind patterns. This perspective reduces the quiet influence of methodological choices on jets’ long-term evolution.]]> <![CDATA[Tracking jet streams as Lagrangian objects]]> Louis RivoireJezabel CurbeloMarianna Linz doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03262-z Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 2026-02-13; | doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03262-z 2026-02-13 Communications Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43247-026-03262-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03262-z <![CDATA[Methane record at Plateau Rosa confirms its role as background station with episodic sensitivity to European emissions]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03294-5 <![CDATA[

    Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 12 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03294-5

    Atmospheric transport models coupled with methane fluxes underestimate methane pollution events in the Alpine region, according to analysis of continuous methane measurements from the Plateau Rosa observatory in the Italian Alps.]]>     <![CDATA[Methane record at Plateau Rosa confirms its role as background station with episodic sensitivity to European emissions]]> Giulia ZazzeriFrancesco ApadulaStephan HenneAndrea Lanza doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03294-5 Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 2026-02-12; | doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03294-5 2026-02-12 Communications Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43247-026-03294-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03294-5     <![CDATA[Fault-controlled magma pathways driving seismicity and eruption risk in Eastern Turkey]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03286-5 <![CDATA[

    Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 12 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03286-5

    The interplay between tectonic transform loading and evolving magma reservoirs in the eastern North Anatolian Fault Zone is potentially responsible for generating volcanic and seismic hazards, according to geophysical analysis and finite-element modelling.]]>     <![CDATA[Fault-controlled magma pathways driving seismicity and eruption risk in Eastern Turkey]]> Özgür KaraoğluIvan KoulakovTuna EkenMohsen BazarganTaras GeryaLuca Dal ZilioAgust Gudmundsson doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03286-5 Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 2026-02-12; | doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03286-5 2026-02-12 Communications Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43247-026-03286-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03286-5     <![CDATA[International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03208-5 <![CDATA[

    Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 12 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03208-5

    Current national net-zero pledges risk large economic losses in developing regions, and international financial transfers of about 2.7 trillion US dollars per year could effectively offset these impacts, according to a computable general equilibrium model and scenario analysis.]]>     <![CDATA[International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries]]> Shinichiro FujimoriLimeng FanShiya ZhaoShinichiro AsayamaTomoko HasegawaOsamu NishiuraHiroto ShirakiKiyoshi Takahashi doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03208-5 Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 2026-02-12; | doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03208-5 2026-02-12 Communications Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43247-026-03208-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03208-5     <![CDATA[The biogeochemical transport by the Gulf Stream]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03118-y <![CDATA[

    Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 12 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-025-03118-y

    The Gulf Stream provides a sub-surface horizontal flux carrying high concentrations of nutrients and low concentrations of anthropogenic carbon affecting the subpolar North Atlantic carbon, according to data analyses, model and adjoint simulations.]]>     <![CDATA[The biogeochemical transport by the Gulf Stream]]> Richard G. WilliamsPeter J. BrownYohei TakanoGaël ForgetDani JonesAnna KatavoutaElaine McDonaghVassil M. Roussenov doi:10.1038/s43247-025-03118-y Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 2026-02-12; | doi:10.1038/s43247-025-03118-y 2026-02-12 Communications Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43247-025-03118-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03118-y     <![CDATA[Fine slab structure and mechanism of deep earthquakes beneath central Japan]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03280-x <![CDATA[

    Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03280-x

    Deep earthquakes in the Pacific slab subducting beneath central Japan are caused by metastable olivine phase transformation and deep dehydration, according to a 3D tomographic model of the slab velocity structure.]]>     <![CDATA[Fine slab structure and mechanism of deep earthquakes beneath central Japan]]> Xinxin ZhangGuoming JiangDapeng ZhaoGuibin Zhang doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03280-x Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 2026-02-11; | doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03280-x 2026-02-11 Communications Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43247-026-03280-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03280-x     <![CDATA[An abrupt drop in weathering flux amplified the Artinskian Warming Event during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03288-3 <![CDATA[

    Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03288-3

    An abrupt drop in low-latitude mafic weathering flux amplified the Artinskian Warming Event, potentially constituted the most intense deglaciation interval within the Late Paleozoic Ice Age, according to geochemical analysis of proxies and simulations from the early Permian strata of the Naqing section in South China.]]>     <![CDATA[An abrupt drop in weathering flux amplified the Artinskian Warming Event during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age]]> Shi SunAnqing ChenJames G. OggKarem AzmyQian LiMingcai HouLorenzo MarchettiChristopher R. Fielding doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03288-3 Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 2026-02-11; | doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03288-3 2026-02-11 Communications Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43247-026-03288-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03288-3     <![CDATA[Increased contributions of climate-driven wildfires to nitrogen deposition in the United States]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03279-4 <![CDATA[

    Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03279-4

    Fire activity in the western U.S. has increased sharply since 2002, linked to higher temperatures and vapor pressure deficits, and contributes to larger nitrogen deposition, based on coupled weather–chemical transport model simulations for the period of 2002-2021.]]>     <![CDATA[Increased contributions of climate-driven wildfires to nitrogen deposition in the United States]]> Patrick C. CampbellDaniel Q. TongShinkuang ChangSiqi MaYunyao LiJiaxin DingRick SaylorBarry BakerYouhua TangJohn Walker doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03279-4 Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 2026-02-11; | doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03279-4 2026-02-11 Communications Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43247-026-03279-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03279-4