Environmental Research Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Research Letters is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target372
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions247
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)168
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States151
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters148
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project148
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink143
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation133
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau133
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance128
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?114
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China97
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks94
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning94
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?91
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 195088
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India86
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina86
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region84
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia81
Predicting compound coastal inundation in 2100 by considering the joint probabilities of landfalling tropical cyclones and sea-level rise81
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth80
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change78
Climate change, air pollution and human health75
A gridded inventory of Canada’s anthropogenic methane emissions74
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions74
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations74
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases74
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow73
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China72
Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the Pan-Asian region71
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models70
Financing the energy transition: four insights and avenues for future research70
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis69
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador67
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols66
Nitrogen cycle impacts on CO2 fertilisation and climate forcing of land carbon stores65
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario64
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 202263
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion63
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-201762
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method62
Status of agricultural water management practices in Africa: a review for the prioritisation and operationalisation of the Africa Union’s irrigation development and agricultural water management (AU-I62
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways62
Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration61
Economic growth dominates rising potential flood risk in the Yangtze River and benefits of raising dikes from 1991 to 201560
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days58
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200058
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment58
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205057
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events57
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change57
Substitution impacts of wood use at the market level: a systematic review56
Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans56
Quantifying the contribution of an individual to making extreme weather events more likely55
Association of ambient ozone exposure with anxiety and depression among middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring modification by high temperature55
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers55
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia54
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin54
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA54
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming53
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty53
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences53
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios52
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters52
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems51
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management50
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics50
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales50
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin50
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s50
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia50
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease49
A growing produce bubble: United States produce tied to Mexico’s unsustainable agricultural water use49
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade49
Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat *47
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China47
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?47
East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models47
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe47
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection46
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction46
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea46
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries46
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities46
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil45
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends45
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals45
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records44
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model44
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans44
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic44
How wildfires increase sensitivity of Amazon forests to droughts44
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets43
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas43
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making43
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea43
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland43
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story43
ENSO modulation of summertime tropospheric ozone over China43
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process43
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands42
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export42
How does urbanization process affect urban heat island effect? Interpretation of 31 cities in China based on local climate zones42
China’s railway photovoltaic potential for sustainable urban–rural energy transition41
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing41
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands41
Focus on reactive nitrogen and the UN sustainable development goals41
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy41
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments41
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States41
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information41
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California41
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile40
Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia40
Culturally appropriate shifts in staple grain consumption can improve multiple sustainability outcomes40
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation40
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean40
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad40
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures40
Potential caveats in land surface model evaluations using the US drought monitor: roles of base periods and drought indicators40
The changing role of dust and open fires PM2.5 on Africa’s air quality and human health39
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China39
Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries39
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations39
Carbon and ecohydrological priorities in managing woody encroachment: UAV perspective 63 years after a control treatment39
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review39
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska39
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities39
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost38
Satellite detected weak decline of nitrogen oxides emissions in economically small cities of China38
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment38
Future evolution of virtual water trading in the United States electricity sector38
Isotopic evidence of increasing water abundance and lake hydrological change in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada38
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau38
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions37
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring37
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator37
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe37
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting37
Assessing the chance of unprecedented dry conditions over North Brazil during El Niño events37
Exploration of synergistic and redundant information sharing from hydrometeorological variables to net ecosystem exchange37
Microbial abilities to degrade global environmental plastic polymer waste are overstated36
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies36
Assessing nitrogen flow and nitrogen footprint in the food system of a subtropical island with a scenario to mitigate nitrogen load impacted by trade-dependent agriculture36
Tree mortality provides early warning sign of ecosystem functional transition in coastal freshwater forested wetlands36
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic36
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States36
Faster-than-expected intensification of heat extremes in a maritime climate: a New Zealand case study36
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change36
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity36
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming36
Self-financed marine protected areas36
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment35
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-335
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains35
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China35
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment35
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries35
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?35
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California35
Peatland restoration as an affordable nature-based climate solution with fire reduction and conservation co-benefits in Indonesia35
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China34
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting34
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India34
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change34
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?34
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass34
Traffic-related sources may dominate urban water contamination for many organic contaminants34
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO234
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials34
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry34
Amplified warming induced by large-scale application of water-saving techniques34
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change33
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate33
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China33
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET33
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes33
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake33
Greening-induced increase in evapotranspiration over Eurasia offset by CO2-induced vegetational stomatal closure33
Net zero targets in science and policy33
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes32
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter32
Energy production and inter-farm wake losses in future North Sea wind farms32
Seasonal adjustment of particulate matter pollution in coastal East Asia during the 2020 COVID lockdown32
Reply to Comment on ‘Linkage of El Nino-Southern Oscillation to astronomic forcing’32
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?32
Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy32
Weak local upwelling may elevate the risks of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in shallow waters during the warm season32
Real-time detection of harmful algal blooms using GOCI II and buoy-based dissolved oxygen variations32
Model consistency for the underlying mechanisms for the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation-tropical Atlantic connection32
Southern Hemispheric jet swing linked to Arctic stratospheric polar vortex32
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time32
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis32
Carbon flux estimates are sensitive to data source: a comparison of field and lab temperature sensitivity data32
Potential impacts of reduced winter Kara Sea ice on the dipole pattern of cold surge frequency over the tropical western Pacific32
Reconstructing past fossil-fuel CO2 concentrations using tree rings and radiocarbon in the urban area of Medellín, Colombia31
Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization31
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale peatland green leaf phenology across global peatlands31
On the role of antecedent meteorological conditions on flash drought initialization in Europe31
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts31
Winter sea surface temperature interhemispheric dipole as a predictor for Sahel summer rainfall31
Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior31
Influence of high road labor policies and practices on renewable energy costs, decarbonization pathways, and labor outcomes30
Quantitative attribution of historical anthropogenic warming on the extreme rainfall event over Henan in July 202130
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas30
Racial-ethnic exposure disparities to airborne ultrafine particles in the United States30
Urban growth modeling for the assessment of future climate and disaster risks: approaches, gaps and needs30
Corrigendum: Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 085009)30
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs30
Heterogenous controls on lake color and trends across the high-elevation U.S. Rocky Mountain region30
GEDI waveform metrics in vegetation mapping—a case study from a heterogeneous tropical forest landscape30
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines30
Global evidence of rapid flash drought recovery by extreme precipitation30
Recent increase in snow cover as a contributing driver to autumn cooling in central Eurasia29
Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations29
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water29
Global adoption of aquaculture to supply seafood29
Arctic marginal ice zone interannual variability and change point detection using two definitions (1983–2022)29
Anticipating the impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification on the U.S. automotive service workforce29
Health at the centre of climate change negotiations: critical achievements from the COP28 Health Programme29
Historical food consumption declines and the role of alternative foods29
Economics and optics influence funding for ecological restoration in a nation-wide program29
Key regions in the modulation of seasonal GMST variability by analyzing the two hottest years: 2016 vs. 202029
Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon29
Nonpartisans hold the key: how proximity to utility scale renewable energy projects influences attitudes towards climate mitigation policy29
Three-dimensional meteorological drought characteristics and associated risk in China29
Following the money: climate adaptation finance in the Marshall Islands29
The digitalisation, dematerialisation and decarbonisation of the global economy in historical perspective: the relationship between energy and information since 185029
Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests29
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of snow refugia in the rain-snow transition zone of north-central Idaho29
Critical mineral constraints in global renewable scenarios under 1.5 °C target29
Changing windstorm characteristics over the US Northeast in a single model large ensemble28
Low-hanging fruit? Identifying opportunities to enhance crop diversity in the United States28
Effects of climate change on marine ecosystems in the southeastern Pacific: multiple ocean stressors assessed through climate velocities28
Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects on the scaling of extreme sub-daily precipitation over East China28
Permafrost thermal dynamics at a local scale in northern Da Xing’anling Mountains28
Spatio-temporal patterns of oasis dynamics in China’s drylands between 1987 and 201728
Future changes in spatially compounding hot, wet or dry events and their implications for the world’s breadbasket regions28
Probabilistic modeling of crop-yield loss risk under drought: a spatial showcase for sub-Saharan Africa28
Combining a climate-permafrost model with fine resolution remote sensor products to quantify active-layer thickness at local scales28
Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection28
Consumption-based view on national and regional per capita carbon footprint trajectories and planetary pressures-adjusted human development28
Detecting atmospheric oxidation in the PM2.5 and ozone multilayer complex network28
Toward the quantification of the climate co-benefits of invasive mammal eradication on islands: a scalable framework for restoration monitoring28
The role of humidity in determining future electricity demand in the southeastern United States28
Critical minerals for electric vehicles: a telecoupling review28
Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action28
Sensitivity of headwater streamflow to thawing permafrost and vegetation change in a warming Arctic28
Quantifying landscape fragmentation and forest carbon dynamics over 35 years in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest28
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