Prof. FU Zheng's team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with international partners, found that plants can sustain transpiration at higher temperatures than photosynthes...
04 15, 2026
Climate-resilient urban development has become an urgent global priority. Researchers from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences show that solar building façades could deliver substantial elect...
03 27, 2026
An international collaborative study shows that synchronous fire weather, days when extreme fire weather occurs across regions at the same time, has increased strongly worldwide since 1979.
02 25, 2026
A new study led by Prof. ZHANG Yongqiang at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, provides the most observation-constrained assessment to date of the global water cycle.
01 09, 2026
Prof. FU Zheng's team at IGSNRR in collaboration with international partners, developed a global isoscape of leaf carbon isotope discrimination for C₃ plants covering the period from 2001 to 2020.
01 09, 2026
Prof. NIU Shuli’s team together with international collaborators, conducted a 4,200-km-long survey across the alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. They combined the regional data with global datasets on plant diversity and productivity, providing ...
01 07, 2026
An international research team led by WANG Xunming demonstrates how a reimagined SDG-driven strategy can restore degraded land while safeguarding food production (SDG 2), rural livelihoods (SDG 1), and water security (SDG 6). These findings identify pra...
12 30, 2025
Particulate-bound mercury is crucial to the atmospheric mercury cycle, but its formation mechanisms remain poorly understood. A research team led by Prof. GUO Qingjun at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese ...
11 19, 2025
By synthesizing 880 observations from 199 woody species across 328 Northern Hemisphere forests, Professor KOU's team found that iterative effects of absorptive root contribute 2.4 ± 0.1 MgC ha-1 to the moderately-persistent forest soil C pool over two ...
09 29, 2025
Land ecosystems absorb carbon from the atmosphere, slowing climate change. Yet, land carbon uptake is strongly influenced by temperature, and can decline rapidly once temperature exceeds an optimum level (Topt). This study shows that current Earth Syste...
09 03, 2025
