River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world

TJ Battin, R Lauerwald, ES Bernhardt, E Bertuzzo… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
River networks represent the largest biogeochemical nexus between the continents, ocean
and atmosphere. Our current understanding of the role of rivers in the global carbon cycle …

Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

F Yao, B Livneh, B Rajagopalan, J Wang, JF Crétaux… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Climate change and human activities increasingly threaten lakes that store 87% of Earth's
liquid surface fresh water. Yet, recent trends and drivers of lake volume change remain …

Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020

S Peng, X Lin, RL Thompson, Y Xi, G Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Atmospheric methane growth reached an exceptionally high rate of 15.1±0.4 parts per
billion per year in 2020 despite a probable decrease in anthropogenic methane emissions …

Global methane emissions from rivers and streams

G Rocher-Ros, EH Stanley, LC Loken, NJ Casson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas and its concentrations have tripled in the
atmosphere since the industrial revolution. There is evidence that global warming has …

Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink

JA Rosentreter, GG Laruelle, HW Bange… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Coastal ecosystems release or absorb carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous
oxide (N2O), but the net effects of these ecosystems on the radiative balance remain …

Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions

J Zou, AD Ziegler, D Chen, G McNicol, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon and nitrogen losses from degraded wetlands and methane emissions from flooded
wetlands are both important sources of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the net …

Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters and estuaries

Y Zheng, S Wu, S Xiao, K Yu, X Fang, L Xia… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inland waters (rivers, reservoirs, lakes, ponds, streams) and estuaries are significant emitters
of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere, while global estimates of …

Methane emissions offset atmospheric carbon dioxide uptake in coastal macroalgae, mixed vegetation and sediment ecosystems

F Roth, E Broman, X Sun, S Bonaglia… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coastal ecosystems can efficiently remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and
are thus promoted for nature-based climate change mitigation. Natural methane (CH4) …

Inland water greenhouse gas budgets for RECCAP2: 1. State‐of‐the‐art of global scale assessments

R Lauerwald, GH Allen, BR Deemer… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Inland waters are important emitters of the greenhouse gasses (GHGs) carbon dioxide
(CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere. In the framework of the …