Optimising future scenarios of forest fire occurrence in Daxing'anling using long-term survey data and intelligent modelling
April 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...
Global electricity development and transition: Progress and assessment
April 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...
Pronounced warming and wetting of climate in the Qilian Mountains during 1961–2022
April 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...
Assessing climate and transition risks to China’s agriculture under 1.5 and 2.0 °C global warming scenarios
April 2026
China’s agriculture faces dual risks from climate change and the transition to low-carbon agriculture, both of which pose substantial threats to food security and farmers' incomes. Understanding the...
Daily imaging from China's HJ-2A/B satellites enables yearly mapping of regional glacial lakes
April 2026
The rapid expansion of glacial lakes in high-mountain regions, both in number and area, increases the risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) to downstream communities. Optical remote sensing is...
Impact of black carbon and mineral dust on glacier melting in central Tienshan
April 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...
Scalable rain–snow discrimination in glacierized regions using tower observations and time-lapse imagery
April 2026
Precipitation plays a crucial role in controlling glacier mass balance, yet accurately distinguishing rainfall from snowfall in high-altitude glacierized regions remains difficult due to the limits...
Prevailing thermal models underestimate permafrost thermal state in the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for cryosphere adaptation
April 2026
Understanding thermal dynamics of permafrost is essential for maintaining the cryosphere eco-hydrological system and infrastructure. The mean annual ground temperature (MAGT) serves as a key indicator...
Negligible global but substantial regional effect of vegetation greening on the 21st century permafrost
April 2026
Vegetation, as a key component of terrestrial ecosystems, influences surface energy, carbon and water balances, and indirectly affects permafrost dynamics. However, under the background of climate warming,...
Latitudinal gradients in runoff dynamics across undisturbed Eurasian permafrost rivers under accelerating climate change
April 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...
Climate change projections over mid-high latitudes Northern Asia using an ensemble of RegCM5 simulations
April 2026
Mid-high latitudes Northern Asia (NAS) is highly sensitive to global warming, yet remains understudied—particularly for high-resolution regional climate model (RCM) based future climate change projections....
Spatiotemporal dynamics of polynyas and their relationships with phytoplankton blooms in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
April 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...
Possible linkage between sudden stratospheric warmings and transboundary aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau
April 2026
South Asian cross-border aerosols play a critical role in the climate change of the Tibetan Plateau (TP). While previous studies have investigated the transboundary transport of these aerosols primarily...
Intensified melting in the Arctic lower troposphere from 1979 to 2023
April 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...
Updated radiative efficiencies and emissions metrics of halocarbons
April 2026
Accurately quantifying the radiative properties of halogenated compounds is essential for climate change research, given their potent warming potential. While radiative transfer models facilitate explicit...
Assessing the coordination and consistency of the policy system for achieving China’s carbon neutrality goal based on text and network methods
April 2026
Lack of coordination and consistency in government policy-making has long been recognized as a weakness, yet its systematic quantification has been neglected. This study investigates this shortcoming...
Uncovering the potential of coal-to-nuclear in the energy low-carbon transition
April 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...
Distribution, trends, and drivers of snow avalanche susceptibility on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau from 2003 to 2022
April 2026
The lack of clarity regarding the trends in avalanche susceptibility over recent decades highlights a significant research gap. This pressing scientific challenge has major implications for risk management...
Hydrologic responses to hot droughts in the Yangtze River Basin
April 2026
Hot droughts, defined as droughts concomitant with high temperatures, pose a greater threat to water resources than droughts alone. However, the hydrologic responses to hot droughts and their changes...
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...
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...
