Nature Geoscience, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02044-8
Comparisons between thermomechanical models and Venusian rift morphologies indicate that rifts on Venus are still, or were recently, active and may have undergone faster extension than usually assumed, potentially because of mantle plume activity.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02047-5
Climate model ensembles suggest tropical cyclones will bring more rain as the world warms, but increases may be smaller than expected. Atmospheric dryness reduces how much rain storms produce, offsetting extra moisture and stronger storms.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02053-7
A sudden rise in aerosols makes clouds more active for about a day. Then the effect fades as the atmosphere adjusts and warms aloft, reducing the contrast that helps clouds grow, according to cloud-resolving model simulations.
Nature Geoscience, Published online: 22 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02050-w
Shifting atmospheric circulation patterns over Europe since the 1980s have been the major cause of increasingly severe droughts on the continent, according to nudged circulation climate model simulations.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 21 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02058-2
Most major mass extinctions in Earth history are linked to greenhouse gas emissions causing warmer and drier climates. Research shows these perturbations also led to widespread wildfires and the expansion of fern savannahs during one of the most acute events at the end of the Triassic period, potentially holding lessons for the future.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 21 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02048-4
Fern savannahs spread rapidly following the collapse of the forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction, setting the conditions for widespread wildfires, according to an analysis of the darkening of fossil pollen and spores.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02045-7
The Eastern Himalayan orogenic corner, or syntaxis, is largely formed by flattening of the Indian slab and shear localization in weak crust, which may affect development of the orogenic system, according to thermomechanical models.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02042-w
Krypton and xenon in lunar farside soils are derived from solar wind and suggest deeper penetration because the solar wind is not slowed by Earth’s magnetosphere. This contrasts with the nearside, according to noble gas analyses of soil samples collected by the Chang’e-6 mission.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 14 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02025-x
Assessing the response of the South Asian monsoon to rapid climate change requires understanding its seasonal driving mechanisms under changing climate conditions. Now, advanced geochemical imaging of an Arabian Sea sediment core reveals distinct seasonal responses to global and high-latitude climate forcing in the South Asian monsoon variability during the last deglaciation.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 14 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02046-6
A strong seasonal cycle shifts the tropical rain band towards symmetry by amplifying southern rainfall during austral summer through heating and ocean–atmosphere feedback, helping to explain persistent climate model biases, according to model simulations.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02064-4
Publisher Correction: Limited energy for microorganisms constrains carbon accrual in soilNature Geoscience, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02031-z
The oxygen surplus from carbon burial in Congo peatlands reached 83 petagrams of net atmospheric oxygen equivalents during the Holocene, suggesting global peatlands may have offset 40–95% of continental weathering oxygen sinks, according to a peat core.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02043-9
The extent of Indian continental underthrusting beneath Western Tibet influences its moderate-to-rapid exhumation, relative to slow exhumation in Central Tibet, according to thermochronological data and exhumation history modelling.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02030-0
Nature Geoscience spoke with Ana Ferreira (University College London, UK), Valerie Finlayson (University of Maryland, USA), and Jennifer Georgen (Old Dominion University, USA) about volcanism within oceanic tectonic plates, particularly its extreme intensity during the Cretaceous.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02051-9
Recent research suggests that most forms of volcanism within oceanic plates are influenced by plate tectonics, particularly via the involvement of tectonics in whole-mantle dynamics. Investigating oceanic intraplate volcanism may therefore advance our understanding of geodynamic processes.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 07 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02063-5
Author Correction: Ocean iron fertilization from enhanced mid-ocean-ridge volcanism due to ice-age sea-level fallsNature Geoscience, Published online: 06 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02015-z
This Perspective explores how changes in microbial and hydrological processes, in response to permafrost thaw across Arctic landscapes, alter iron–organic carbon interactions and therefore carbon cycling and greenhouse gas emissions.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 06 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02035-9
The amount of energy that soil microbes can obtain from oxidizing available organic carbon is limited, which keeps many of them dormant and restricts their growth, necromass production and ultimately the accrual of soil carbon, according to analyses of soil carbon and energy fluxes.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 01 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02026-w
Two independent studies imply that a remarkable burst of voluminous volcanism on the Pacific plate during the Cretaceous is attributable to coupled plate–mantle dynamics. Together, their findings show how enhanced subduction, mantle heterogeneity, and plate tectonic boundaries collectively controlled the timing and expression of these oceanic large igneous provinces.Nature Geoscience, Published online: 29 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02027-9
Two independent studies suggest that thousands of submarine volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean and offshore Africa are likely to have resulted from two high-temperature structures in the lower mantle, whose location and morphology are influenced by plate subduction. Together, their findings imply many forms of intraplate volcanism are tied to plate tectonics through the deep mantle.
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