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Somaparna Ghosh
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PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering - IIT Bombay || Senior Editor @Commsearth.nature.com & Consulting Editor @Commssustain.nature.com || Handling papers in #Biogeochemistry, #PlasticPollution, #ContaminantsRemoval, and #SoilScience.
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💡♻️ Wastewater is a resource. Photoresponsive hybrid materials use light to selectively capture and release valuable nutrients and critical metals, enabling energy-efficient regeneration, reduced waste, and smarter circular water treatment.

🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00137-4
Light-responsive systems enable efficient resources recovery in wastewater treatment - Communications Sustainability
Photoresponsive materials exhibit reversible structural or electronic transitions upon light irradiation, enabling controllable adsorption or separation of essential nutrients and strategic metals, th...
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August 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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🚨New collection in @natureportfolio.nature.com.

🦠In this cross-journal Collection, we highlight articles that present advances in understanding multifaceted relationships within the plastisphere.

👉More details: www.nature.com/collections/...

📆Deadline: 20 April 2027
Plastisphere: plastic-microbial interactions in the environment
The collection covers, but is not limited to, how microorganisms, by colonizing plastics, may influence ecosystems, nutrient cycling and biodegradation ...
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July 20, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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🌊The collapse of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation would result in increase of 47–83 ppm of global mean atmospheric carbon dioxide and 0.2°C of additional global warming at higher carbon dioxide background levels.🧪

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Collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation would lead to substantial oceanic carbon release and additional global warming - Communications Earth & Environment
The collapse of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation would result in increase of 47-83 ppm of global mean atmospheric carbon dioxide and 0. 2 °C of additional global warming at higher carb...
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April 1, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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🦫Beaver-induced hydrological change turned a Swiss wetland into a net carbon sink with an approximate carbon storage of 100 tons per year 🧪

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Beavers can convert stream corridors to persistent carbon sinks - Communications Earth & Environment
Beaver-induced hydrological change turned wetland into a net carbon sink with an approximate carbon storage of 100 tons per year, according to a comprehensive carbon budget analysis from a beaver wetl...
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March 18, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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🚨We're hiring! 🚨Communications Sustainability is looking for a new Associate or Senior Editor (full-time, permanent position).
🌏 Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Pune or New Delhi
🗓️Apply by March 16

Want to shape influential science for a greener future? Join our team!

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Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Sustainability - Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Pune or New Delhi job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12855045
Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Sustainability Location: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Pune or New Delhi Application Deadline: Marc...
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March 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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🚨New Collection Alert: PFAS and forever chemicals in the environment

👉We invite studies that highlight recent advances in understanding the fate, transport, and effects of persistent pollutants on human health and ecosystems.

⏱️Deadline: 12 November 2026

👉Details: www.nature.com/collections/...
PFAS and forever chemicals in the environment
With this cross-journal Collection, the editors invite manuscripts that highlight recent advances in understanding the fate, transport, and effects of ...
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February 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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🔊 We have published our first articles! 🎉

👉 Explore our content at www.nature.com/commssustain/
Communications Sustainability
Communications Sustainability is an open-access journal from Nature Portfolio that publishes high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all ...
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January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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🗻🏘️On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic meters of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. The disaster underlines the impact of climate warming on people and heritage.

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The 2025 Blatten disaster in the Swiss Alps followed exceptional warming and highlights the vulnerability of people and heritage in glaciated landscapes - Communications Earth & Environment
On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic metres of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. In the wake of the warmest decade since at least...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The whole Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is not a uniform mirror-like surface in which anything above it is reflected specularly, instead the smoothness of the water surface evolves spatially and temporally.

Watch this interesting Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3qX...

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Is this really the world's largest mirror? Researchers put it to the test
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September 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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5️⃣🎂🎉In September 2025, Communications Earth & Environment celebrates its fifth anniversary. To mark this milestone, we are pleased to present a curated collection showing the continued growth of Communications Earth & Environment over the past five years.

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5th anniversary collection
To celebrate Communications Earth & Environment's 5th anniversary, we present a curated collection that exemplifies our mission and the journal’s evolution, ...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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🌊Nature Water Talk

on collection "Water Pollution and advanced treatment processes" www.nature.com/collections/...

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Thursday, June 26th
1 pm BST / 5.30 pm IST / 8 pm CST / 8 am EDT

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June 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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💧New collection launch: 'Water Pollution and advanced treatment processes'. This collection concerns current research in developing novel advanced water and wastewater treatment processes and their applications at both local, regional, and global scale.

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Water pollution and advanced treatment processes
In this cross-journal Collection we highlight studies that investigate the advanced treatment technologies for contaminants removal from water and wastewater.
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May 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🤔Wondering about the interrelation between Penguins and aerosol particles in Antarctica?

❄️🐧Penguin colonies emit gaseous ammonia that enhances new particle formation processes in Antarctica.

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Penguin guano is an important source of climate-relevant aerosol particles in Antarctica - Communications Earth & Environment
Penguin colonies emit gaseous ammonia that enhances new particle formation processes in Antarctica, according to online observations of gaseous ammonia and aerosol particles from a coastal site in Ant...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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🛢️Global plastics production is concentrated in oil-producing countries with advanced petrochemical industries, while plastics disposal has shifted from landfill to incineration, with recycling consistently low.

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April 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The idea of planting trees to sequester carbon is so popular that it makes people feel more negative towards a range of other techniques for carbon removal. Such a bias could hamper development of a socially-robust portfolio of carbon removal options.

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Carbon removal beyond the trees - Communications Earth & Environment
The idea of planting trees to sequester carbon is so popular that it seems to make people feel more negative towards other techniques, when presented with a range of options for carbon removal. Such a...
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April 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🎉We have launched a new journal : Communications Sustainability. Check out our latest homepage!

🤓I will be working as a consulting editor with Comms Sustain, along with my role as associate editor at Communications Earth & Environment.

🔎Looking forward reading some cool sustainability science..
March 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Welcome to Communications Sustainability! We are a new, editorially selective open-access journal from the Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com We are open to new submissions of high-quality works in all #sustainability related areas of science communities.springernature.com/posts/welcom...
Welcome to Communications Sustainability!
We are pleased to introduce Communications Sustainability, a new, editorially selective open access journal from the Nature Portfolio.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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📝 Top 25 papers of 2024 published by Communications Earth & Environment

Featuring authors from around the world 🌍, these papers highlight valuable research from an international community.

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Top 25 papers of 2024
The top 25 most successful papers published in Communications Earth and Environment in 2024
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March 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Hello BlueSky! Watch this space for an upcoming announcement... 🌱🌍🚰🔋🏭🏙️🚜🚇🚲🔌🗳️
March 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Exposure of human upper respiratory tracts to dry atmospheres promotes airway inflammation and aggravates lung diseases

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Global warming risks dehydrating and inflaming human airways - Communications Earth & Environment
Exposure of human upper respiratory tracts to dry atmospheres promotes airway inflammation and aggravates lung diseases, according to an analysis of water efflux in human breathing, epithelial cell an...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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New collection Alert: Human mobility and environmental change
A cross-journal collection focusing on contributions that address the link between environmental change and human mobility at a local, regional, and global level.
Submission deadline: 7 Sept 2025
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Human mobility and environmental change
In this cross-journal collection, we focus on contributions that address the link between environmental change and human mobility at a local, regional, and ...
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March 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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🍫 Here's some chocolate-related science for you this Valentine's Day 💕

Cocoa yield in Brazil, Ghana, and Indonesia increases by up to 20% when using hand pollination techniques and reduces by up to 31% under 7°C warmer-than-average temperatures.

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Global chocolate supply is limited by low pollination and high temperatures - Communications Earth & Environment
Cocoa yield in Brazil, Ghana, and Indonesia was increased by up to 20% by using hand pollination techniques and reduced by up to 31% with 7 °C warmer average temperatures, according to analyses of pol...
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February 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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🔥Wildfires can increase lake carbon concentrations by up to double, mostly in the form of dissolved organic carbon.

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Wildfires mediate carbon transfer from land to lakes across boreal and temperate regions - Communications Earth & Environment
Wildfires can increase lake carbon concentrations by up to double, mostly in the form of dissolved organic carbon, according to analyses of carbon in fire-disturbed and control lakes across Quebec and...
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February 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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❄️🐻‍❄️ In Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, local people live alongside polar bears with tolerance and reciprocal respect and the meaning of their co-existence.
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Coexistence between people and polar bears supports Indigenous knowledge mobilization in wildlife management and research - Communications Earth & Environment
In Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, people live alongside polar bears with tolerance and reciprocal respect and the meaning of their coexistence, mobilization of Indigenous knowledge, and recommendations ...
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February 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The increase of lead contamination in the Aegean, 2150 years before the present, had a significant impact on marine and terrestrial environments and coincided with a period of significant societal expansion of the #RomanEmpire and the adoption of monetized systems.

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Societal changes in Ancient Greece impacted terrestrial and marine environments - Communications Earth & Environment
The increase in lead contamination 2150 years before present affected marine and terrestrial environments of the Aegean region. It coincided with the expansion of monetized societies, as shown by lead...
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January 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM