Omics insights into ocean health: Molecular adaptations and ecosystem resilience under climate stress
January 2026
Despite extensive research documenting the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems, the molecular mechanisms driving organismal and ecosystem resilience to ocean warming, acidification, and deoxygenation...
Irrigated agriculture on the southern and northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains faces different risks of water scarcity
January 2026
Irrigated agriculture dependent on runoff from the Tianshan Mountains underpins socioeconomic development in the arid regions of Central Asia. However, ongoing warming and agricultural expansion profoundly...
Divergent impacts of Tibetan Plateau lakes on local and downstream water availability
January 2026
The Tibetan Plateau (TP), a key amplifier of global climate change, has undergone widespread lake expansion, altering regional hydrology through intensified lake–atmosphere interactions. This effect...
How vegetation greening mitigates climate-driven aridification in mid-latitude Asia
January 2026
Mid-latitude Asia, one of the world’s most extensive arid zones, exhibits heightened vulnerability to climate change, manifesting in pronounced surface warming and spatially heterogeneous drought patterns....
Increasing extreme heat events in the permafrost region of the Northern Hemisphere
January 2026
The intensification of extreme heat events is a potent thermal disturbance that can trigger abrupt permafrost degradation. However, a systematic understanding of their spatiotemporal variation across...
Synergistic reductions of CO2 and aerosols: Navigating mid-term warming risks for 2 °C climate futures
January 2026
Achieving the 2 °C climate target requires the coordination of strategies for greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants mitigation, yet their complex interactions remain insufficiently explored. BCC-ESM1...
Pronounced warming and wetting of climate in the Qilian Mountains during 1961–2022
Available online 29 January 2026
Accurate high-resolution datasets on regional climate change are vital for ecological assessments, yet it remains difficult to obtain the spatiotemporal dynamics of air temperature and precipitation...
Escalating labor risks from sequential extreme precipitation–heatwave events in China under a warming future
Available online 28 January 2026
Climate warming has intensified the frequency and severity of extreme precipitation and heatwaves, yet their sequential coupling and impact on socio-economy remains poorly understood. This study defines...
Surface air temperature change on the Tibetan Plateau under global net-zero emission scenarios
Available online 28 January 2026
Mounting countries worldwide are implementing net-zero emission projects to mitigate the adverse impacts of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and the associated global warming. However, due to the inherent...
Global electricity development and transition: Progress and assessment
Available online 23 January 2026
Electricity is attracting widespread attention for its critical role in global socioeconomic development, the clean energy transition, and climate change mitigation. Based on a newly established global...
Optimising future scenarios of forest fire occurrence in Daxing'anling using long-term survey data and intelligent modelling
Available online 22 January 2026
The Daxing'anling Mountains, as a climate-sensitive region, are experiencing forest fires that threaten the area's ecological security. Nevertheless, most of the existing fire prediction models are...
Intensified melting in the Arctic lower troposphere from 1979 to 2023
Available online 21 January 2026
Ice melting in the atmosphere has far-reaching impacts on cloud microphysical properties, precipitation intensity and type. However, this issue remains largely unexplored in the Arctic. This study adopted...
Latitudinal gradients in runoff dynamics across undisturbed Eurasian permafrost rivers under accelerating climate change
Available online 19 January 2026
While the impacts of permafrost degradation on Eurasian river discharge are well-documented, a systematic understanding of how these impacts vary across latitudes—critical for predicting continental...
Uncovering the potential of coal-to-nuclear in the energy low-carbon transition
Available online 13 January 2026
Advancing power sector decarbonization represents one of the most direct and effective measures in carbon emissions reductions and climate change mitigation. Replacing to-be-retired coal fired power...
Spatiotemporal dynamics of polynyas and their relationships with phytoplankton blooms in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Available online 7 January 2026
Phytoplankton bloom is closely tied to the seasonal evolution of Antarctic coastal polynyas, yet a phenology-based framework linking polynya dynamics to bloom spatiotemporal patterns and phase-specific...
Water supply‒demand status and management strategies on the Mongolian Plateau
Available online 7 January 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...
Impact of black carbon and mineral dust on glacier melting in central Tienshan
Available online 5 January 2026
The light absorbing impurities (LAIs), primarily black carbon (BC) and mineral dust (MD), can darken the glacier surface, enhance radiative forcing absorption, and then accelerate glacier melting, which...
Warming‒wetting and continentality co-modulate the effect of desertification on permafrost degradation on the Qinghai‒Xizang Plateau
December 2025
Permafrost degradation and desertification have been identified as two major land surface processes occurring on the Qinghai‒Xizang Plateau. However, the effect of desertification on permafrost degradation...
Synergistic effects of warming and heavy snowfall accumulation on the increased risk of large-scale snow avalanches in the western Tianshan Mountains
December 2025
Climate change has increased temperatures and altered snowpack properties, which in turn affect avalanche activity. The extent to which climate change affects avalanche activity and how avalanche activity...
Review of WRF for weather and climate change over the Tibetan Plateau
December 2025
The state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is an indispensable tool for studying weather and climate change; however, its application over the Tibetan Plateau—a region characterized...
Climate change-induced northward shifts in double cropping system in China: Implications for crop production potential and water use
December 2025
Climate change may shift double cropping system into new areas and increase cropping intensity in some regions, creating opportunities to boost crop production. However, these changes also reshape the...
Escalating risks of anomalously hot–dry growing seasons in arid Northwest China under human influence
December 2025
The anomalous hydrothermal conditions during growing seasons, i.e. less precipitation and high temperature, could induce an unstable water resource supply and pose great threats to regional agro-pastoral...
Deceleration of tropopause rise amidst ozone recovery over Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica
December 2025
Tropopause height (H), a crucial variable for assessing upper-air climate change, is primarily modulated by temperature variations in the troposphere and stratosphere. While the recovery of Antarctic...
