Nature Geoscience, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02020-2

Opposing wet and dry conditions in Central and mainland Southeast Asia over the past millennium were controlled by climate variability over the Pacific and Indian oceans, a pattern likely to become more severe due to ongoing warming, according to an analysis of palaeoclimate records.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02023-z

The intensity and centennial-scale variability of the winter and summer South Asian monsoons were controlled by different drivers during the last deglaciation, according to mass spectrometry and hyperspectral imaging, supported by geochemical analyses of a sediment core from the Arabian Sea.