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30 June 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Widespread tsunami-like waves of 23-27 June in the Mediterranean and Black Seas generated by high-altitude atmospheric forcing ▶     Jadranka Šepić, Ivica Vilibić, Alexander B. Rabinovich et al.     A series of tsunami-like waves of non-seismic origin struck several southern European countries during the period of 23 to 27 June 2014. The event caused considerable damage from …             Graphene-coated materials using silica particles as a framework for highly efficient removal of aromatic pollutants in water ▶     Kaijie Yang, Baoliang Chen, Lizhong Zhu     The substantial aggregation of pristine graphene nanosheets decreases its powerful adsorption capacity and diminishes its practical applications. To overcome this shortcoming, …             Toxicity of aged gasoline exhaust particles to normal and diseased airway epithelia ▶     Lisa Künzi, Manuel Krapf, Nancy Daher et al.     Particulate matter (PM) pollution is a leading cause of premature death, particularly in those with pre-existing lung disease. A causative link between particle properties and …             Obliquity Control On Southern Hemisphere Climate During The Last Glacial ▶     C.J. Fogwill, C.S.M. Turney, D.K. Hutchinson et al.     Recent paleoclimate reconstructions have challenged the traditional view that Northern Hemisphere insolation and associated feedbacks drove synchronous global climate and …             Moho topography, ranges and folds of Tibet by analysis of global gravity models and GOCE data ▶     Young Hong Shin, C.K. Shum, Carla Braitenberg et al.     The determination of the crustal structure is essential in geophysics, as it gives insight into the geohistory, tectonic environment, geohazard mitigation, etc. Here we present …             Nonlinear processes reinforce extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events ▶     Benjamin Ng, Wenju Cai, Kevin Walsh et al.     Under global warming, climate models show an almost three-fold increase in extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) events by 2100. These extreme pIODs are characterised by a …             Seasonal spatial heterogeneity of warming rates on the Tibetan Plateau over the past 30 years ▶     Jianping Duan, Lun Li, Yongjie Fang     Based on temperature data from 79 meteorological stations, we estimate the warming rate by season on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) during 1984–2013. The warming rate was spatially …             From warm to cold: migration of Adélie penguins within Cape Bird, Ross Island ▶     Yaguang Nie, Liguang Sun, Xiaodong Liu et al.     Due to their sensitivity to environmental change, penguins in Antarctica are widely used as bio-indicators in paleoclimatic research. On the basis of bio-element assemblages …             The Surtsey Magma Series ▶     C. Ian Schipper, Sveinn P. Jakobsson, James D.L. White et al.     The volcanic island of Surtsey (Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland) is the product of a 3.5-year-long eruption that began in November 1963. Observations of magma-water interaction during …             Socio-economic position as an intervention against overweight and obesity in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis ▶     Shunquan Wu, Yingying Ding, Fuquan Wu et al.     Studies that investigated the association between socio-economic position (SEP) and obesity in children suggest inconsistent results. The aim of this study is to summarize and …             Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia physalis) in the Mediterranean: A permanent invasion or a casual appearance? ▶     L. Prieto, D. Macías, A. Peliz et al.     In 2010, the Mediterranean basin experienced Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia physalis) swarms that had dramatic consequences, including the region’s first recorded human fatality …             Warmer temperature accelerates methane emissions from the Zoige wetland on the Tibetan Plateau without changing methanogenic community composition ▶     Mengmeng Cui, Anzhou Ma, Hongyan Qi et al.     Zoige wetland, locating on the Tibet Plateau, accounts for 6.2% of organic carbon storage in China. However, the fate of the organic carbon storage in the Zoige wetland remains …             Phytotoxic Mechanism of Nanoparticles: Destruction of Chloroplasts and Vascular Bundles and Alteration of Nutrient Absorption ▶     Le Van Nhan, Chuanxin Ma, Yukui Rui et al.     This study focused on determining the phytotoxic mechanism of CeO2 nanoparticles (NPs): destroying chloroplasts and vascular bundles and altering absorption of nutrients on …             Hierarchical Assembly of SnO2/ZnO Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance ▶     Liangliang Zhu, Minghui Hong, Ghim Wei Ho     SnO2/ZnO hierarchical heterostructures have been successfully synthesized by combining electrospinning technique and hydrothermal method. Various morphologies of the secondary …             Nitrogen limitation as a driver of genome size evolution in a group of karst plants ▶     Ming Kang, Jing Wang, Hongwen Huang     Genome size is of fundamental biological importance with significance in predicting structural and functional attributes of organisms. Although abundant evidence has shown that …             First direct evidence of sedimentary carbonate recycling in subduction-related xenoliths ▶     Yongsheng Liu, Detao He, Changgui Gao et al.     Carbon in rocks and its rate of exchange with the exosphere is the least understood part of the carbon cycle. The amount of carbonate subducted as sediments and ocean crust is …             Contributions of wheat and maize residues to soil organic carbon under long-term rotation in north China ▶     Jinzhou Wang, Xiujun Wang, Minggang Xu et al.     Soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in agro-ecosystem is largely influenced by cropping. However, quantifying the contributions of various crops has been lacking. Here we employed …             Universal elastic-hardening-driven mechanical instability in α-quartz and quartz homeotypes under pressure ▶     Juncai Dong, Hailiang Zhu, Dongliang Chen     As a fundamental property of pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) in ice and ice-like materials (notably α-quartz), the occurrence of mechanical instability can be related to …             Temperature-induced shifts in hibernation behavior in experimental amphibian populations ▶     Xu Gao, Changnan Jin, Diego Llusia et al.     Phenological shifts are primary responses of species to recent climate change. 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