Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s43017-026-00827-6The Wilkes Subglacial Basin is a marine-based sector of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet that is vulnerable to ocean-forced melting and climate warming. This Review assesses changes in ice-sheet extent in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin under past and projected warming and notes large uncertainties in temperature-related and climate-related thresholds for its major retreat.

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Tracing cascading continental-scale medieval megafloods across Europe indicates that current flood management is unprepared for such sequences, highlighting the urgent need for proactive flood risk management strategies that account for unusual series of extreme flood events.

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Heat flux across the core–mantle boundary is laterally variable, and heat may flow into the core beneath hot piles of dense material such as large low-shear-wave-velocity provinces, according to mantl...

Dust derived from Antarctic sources measured in an ice core from the Allan Hills spanning the peak of the Last Interglacial suggests that the Ross Sea was probably open at the time, coincident with a ...

River meandering and migration are fundamental processes worldwide, and the high Himalayas offer an opportunity to test whether river morphodynamics are shifting in response to a rapidly changing clim...

Beneath Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica lies a highly heterogeneous bed of elevated ridges and sediment filled basins as well as an active lake, which presents a level of complexity that current models...