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.
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