Water supply‒demand status and management strategies on the Mongolian Plateau
April 2026
Arid and semi-arid areas are facing serious water challenges, yet a comprehensive understanding of current and future water supply–demand dynamics remains limited, particularly under climate change...
China's growing halogenated gas emissions and banks over 1980‒2024: Impacts on ozone, climate, and trifluoroacetic acid
Available online 24 April 2026
China's mitigation strategy design under its 2035 nationally determined contribution calls for updated inventories of halogenated gases, given their current incomplete and outdated coverage. This study...
Declining snow depth in northwest Central Asia driven by atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamic warming
Available online 23 April 2026
The relative roles of atmospheric circulation and thermodynamic warming in driving the rapid decline of winter snow depth (SD) in northwest Central Asia (CA) remain poorly quantified, despite their...
Rapid increase in the United States influenza epidemics driven by anthropogenic rapid temperature variations during the autumn transition period
Available online 22 April 2026
Recent decades have witnessed an intensification of influenza epidemics in the United States despite winter warming, highlighting a gap in understanding the climatic drivers of epidemic variability....
Glacier type transformation trends in China over 1981‒2019 based on Shi‒Xie classification framework
Available online 18 April 2026
Glaciers worldwide are undergoing rapid retreat, yest changes in their glaciological and climatological characteristics remain poorly quantified at large spatial scales and cross different glacier types....
Risk assessment of large hailstones and strong winds on photovoltaic installations in China
Available online 17 April 2026
Catastrophic weather events can have a devastating impact on photovoltaic (PV) facilities, potentially leading to instability of the power system and great economic losses. However, the risks of such...
Fixed climate feedback assumptions systematically underestimate policy-relevant economic risks: Implications for climate resilience
Available online 17 April 2026
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), central to informing climate policy, typically treat the climate feedback parameter as a fixed constant, contradicting robust evidence that it weakens as the planet...
Global climate cooperation under the 2 °C goal: Mechanisms and pathways via a coupled CGE–ABM framework
Available online 16 April 2026
Global benefits from climate mitigation can be realised only through cooperative mechanisms that provide incentives for all countries. A regime integrating carbon tariffs and transfer payments can leverage...
Flood exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth: A study of 25 countries from Africa
Available online 10 April 2026
As climate change intensifies, floods are increasingly disrupting maternal healthcare access, elevating stress, and heightening infection risks—all established triggers for preterm birth (PTB). Investigating...
Changes in glaciers and climate in the Karakoram since the little ice age
Available online 10 April 2026
Reconstructing the long-term context of glacier changes in the Karakoram helps to further understand the anomalous behavior of its glaciers particularly under a changing climate. In this study, based...
Long-term variations in precipitation types (rain, snow, and sleet) on the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the cryosphere and ecohydrological systems
Available online 28 March 2026
Changes in precipitation types (rain, snow, sleet) under climate warming will directly affect the stability of cryosphere environments, including permafrost, glaciers, and snow cover, thereby influencing...
Between hope and failure: What influenced the United States‒EU agreement on clean steel?
Available online 27 March 2026
In the 2020s, multilateral cooperation in both the climate and the trade regimes is increasingly contested. Countries are often turning to industrial policy instruments with a unilateral and protectionist...
The role of mid-latitude zonal wind anomalies in extreme glacier mass loss on central Tibetan Plateau
Available online 27 March 2026
Long-term in-situ glacier mass balance records on central Tibetan Plateau (TP) are pivotal for assessing climate change impacts, yet the drivers of extreme mass loss events remain poorly understood....
Using appropriate methods to assess population exposure to extreme weather events: Why and how?
Available online 26 March 2026
The existing assessment of population exposure to extreme weather events has established various standards, particularly in the definitions of extreme weather events and the methods of population exposure...
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating the trend slowdown of the summer Southern Annular Mode
Available online 23 March 2026
The pronounced positive trend in the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), previously driven by ozone depletion, has markedly weakened since the early 21st century due to ozone recovery. However, whether state-of-the-art...
A comparative review of compliance-linked carbon offset programs in China and California: The new CCER and the Compliance Offset Program
Available online 23 March 2026
Growing integrity concerns have undermined confidence in carbon offset markets. Despite extensive discussion of quality issues, a systematic understanding of how different institutional architectures...
Asymmetric response of Northern Hemisphere vegetation to climate change from 2000 to 2018: Phenology leads GPP
Available online 20 March 2026
Understanding how vegetation phenology affects terrestrial ecosystem productivity (GPP) is key to predicting carbon cycle under climate change. However, the heterogeneity in the trends of the length...
High-resolution risk assessment reveals billion-dollar additional threat to infrastructure from permafrost thaw in the Qinghai‒Tibet engineering corridor
Available online 19 March 2026
Permafrost degradation along the vital Qinghai‒Tibet Engineering Corridor (QTEC) poses a severe, escalating threat to critical infrastructure, yet high-resolution assessments of future risk and economic...
Dominant drivers for geographic patterns and multi-scale variability of global land‒atmosphere coupling
Available online 17 March 2026
Despite its recognized importance, understanding of land–atmosphere (L–A) coupling remains fragmented, with most studies limited to regional analyses or single variables. A systematic global assessment...
A novel framework of the Natural–Anthropogenic carbon estimation Scheme (NACES) for China's megacities
Available online 16 March 2026
High-resolution simulation of urban carbon emissions is critical for achieving national carbon-peaking and carbon-neutrality targets. Previous studies that rely on sectoral fossil-fuel emission inventories...
Divergent trajectories of global fires: Overall decline, regional intensification
Available online 5 March 2026
Fires profoundly influence the climate system and human societies, yet their global dynamics remain insufficiently resolved, which could limit global fire risk assessment and mitigation. Using satellite-based...
Dynamic characteristics of carbon inequality in China's inter-regional trade
February 2026
Economic-based trade patterns can result in an imbalance between environmental costs and economic benefits, and this mismatch between regional emission rights and development rights leads to trade-driven...
Is the cloud absorption of solar radiation still underestimated notably by current model-based reanalyses?
February 2026
Cloud absorption of solar radiation strongly influences Earth’s radiation balance and climate change. Whether numerical models underestimate this absorption compared with observations has long been...
