Nature Geoscience, whose first print/online edition will be published in January 2008, has published its first papers — as advance online publications. Among these are a Commentary by Martin Visbek, “”https://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ngeo.2007.55.html">From climate assessment to climate services", who writes “If we fully embrace past assessment and ongoing future projections of regional climate change as the task of integrated climate services, the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change] can be relieved of the duty of providing up-to-date assessments of climate change. This would allow the panel to move to the decadal assessments that best suit its primary task: reviewing emerging scientific knowledge and best practices to evaluate global climate change.”

Also just-published are Letters by Parsons et al., on quiet zones in the San Andreas fault; and by Beerling et al. on cold intervals in the “greenhouse world” of the Mesozoic.

Nature Geoscience is accepting manuscripts that report new research in the Earth and planetary sciences, aimed at a broad interdisciplinary audience of geoscientists. View the complete Guide to Authors here. Submit your papers via the journal online submission system here.