Papers

We highlight representative publications from a broader record across Earth system science, climate change, vegetation, water, remote sensing, and energy systems.

Orbital Earth system hero visual with atmospheric clouds and sunrise

2026PNAS

Multimetric analysis uncovers time-dependent climate forcings from China's 2.3-fold cropland reactive nitrogen emissions

Peng Xu, Zhenzhong Zeng, Huizhong Shen, Min Hu, Mingxu Liu, Cheng Gong, Yilin Chen, Chaopu Ti, Geng Li, Xuejing Wang, Yi Zheng, Si-Liang Li, Cong-Qiang Liu, and Benjamin Z. Houlton

2026Ecological Indicators

Evidence of enhanced global vegetation activity driven by reduced human pressures

Aoyang He, Zhijun Dai, Xuefei Mei, Jinping Cheng, Sergio Fagherazzi, Zhenzhong Zeng

2026Science Bulletin

The first decline in US wind power generation despite the installed capacity growth in the 21st century

Jiayu Xu, Yiheng Tao, Zhenzhong Zeng

2026GIScience & Remote Sensing

Global instantaneous monitoring of reservoir water levels using ICESat-2 photon-counting LiDAR

Xin Jiang, Yuyu Zhou, Huizhong Shen, Zhilin Guo, Zhenzhong Zeng

2026Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Wind Estimation based on Flight Dynamics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Its Environmental Application

Dukun Chen, Weifeng Su, Shaojie Jiang, Honglong Yang, Chunsheng Zhang, Shutong Jiang, Dongyang Chang, Yuxin Liang, Hao Wang, Xin Yang, Tzung-May Fu, Zhenzhong Zeng, Lei Zhu, Huizhong Shen, Chen Wang, and Jianhuai Ye

2026Sustainable Horizons

Papers

Multimetric analysis uncovers time-dependent climate forcings from China's 2.3-fold cropland reactive nitrogen emissions

Evidence of enhanced global vegetation activity driven by reduced human pressures

The first decline in US wind power generation despite the installed capacity growth in the 21st century

Global instantaneous monitoring of reservoir water levels using ICESat-2 photon-counting LiDAR

Wind Estimation based on Flight Dynamics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Its Environmental Application

Carbon fluxes from urban land-use change in Zhejiang Province, China

Decadal surge of water-surface solar in China's Yangtze Delta: A high-fidelity SAR-optical fusion inventory (2015–2024)

Flash flourishing of Northern Hemisphere vegetation and its drivers

Annual 10-m high-resolution cropland maps for Southeast Asia since 2019 using AlphaEarth embeddings

Observed sensitivity of evapotranspiration to tropical tree cover change