Reflecting on impactful articles at Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

V Flexer, C van Leeuwen, K Niinimäki, S Piao… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2025 - nature.com
Victoria Flexer: Global lithium production tripled between 2010 and 2020, owing to its
widespread use in rechargeable batteries. However, widely used evaporitic lithium mining …

Back-to-back high category atmospheric river landfalls occur more often on the west coast of the United States

Y Zhou, M Wehner, W Collins - Communications Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The catastrophic December 2022-January 2023 nine atmospheric rivers in
California underscore the urgent need to better understand such high-risk weather …

Reinterpreting ENSO's role in modulating impactful precipitation events in California

K Guirguis, B Hatchett, A Gershunov… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Water years (WY) 2017 and 2023 were anomalously wet for California, each
alleviating multiyear drought. In both cases, this was unexpected given La Niña conditions …

Atmospheric river frequency‐category characteristics shape US West Coast runoff

Y Zhou, JS North, AM Rhoades, J Tao… - Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the factors influencing runoff response to atmospheric rivers (ARs)
over the US West Coast. We focused on runoff time series variations impacted by AR …

Groundwater responses to deluge and drought in the Fraser valley, pacific northwest

AH Nott, DM Allen, WJ Hahm - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater level variations represent signals of superimposed physical processes, with
memory. Groundwater level records are used to understand how aquifer systems respond to …

Water Budget Input Linked to Atmospheric Rivers in British Columbia's Nechako River Basin

BS Sobral, SJ Déry - Hydrological Processes, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores the contribution of atmospheric rivers (ARs) to the water budget input of
the Nechako River Basin (NRB) in British Columbia (BC), western Canada. The study …

Investigating mountain watershed headwater‐to‐groundwater connections, water sources, and storage selection behavior with dynamic‐flux particle tracking

PJ Dennedy‐Frank, A Visser, FZ Maina… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change will impact mountain watershed streamflow both directly—with changing
precipitation amounts and variability—and indirectly—through temperature shifts altering …

Develo** Quality-Controlled Datasets and Methods to Assess the Impact of Rain on Snow Events on Nevada Highways

A Heggli, B Bean, B Hatchett, E Anderson, M Maguire… - 2024 - rosap.ntl.bts.gov
The most damaging effects of rain-on-snow (ROS) events are often the result of excess
water flows disrupting downstream infrastructure. While rain on snow events have been well …