Environmental Research Letters

Article	Citations
A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018	582
Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies	260
Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses	233
Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms	214
A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed	213
Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base	170
The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire	168
Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming	165
Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe	154
Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance	154
The CO2 reduction potential for the European industry via direct electrification of heat supply (power-to-heat)	148
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature	145
Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects	145
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation: a global evidence map of academic literature	123
Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal	122
Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?	113
The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice: a systematic and comprehensive review	113
Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature	112
Global simulations of marine plastic transport show plastic trapping in coastal zones	112
Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil	109
Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1	108
Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models	104
Quantifying aviation’s contribution to global warming	99
Ground-level ozone pollution in China: a synthesis of recent findings on influencing factors and impacts	96
Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record	90

A review of estimating population exposure to sea-level rise and the relevance for migration	89
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space	89
Future changes in precipitation extremes over Southeast Asia: insights from CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	88
Ecological resilience: what to measure and how	86
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?	85
Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective	83
Induced innovation in energy technologies and systems: a review of evidence and potential implications for CO2 mitigation	83
A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance	82
Plausible 2005–2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 °C and 3 °C of warming by 2100	81
Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters	80
Climate change mitigation through dietary change: a systematic review of empirical and modelling studies on the environmental footprints and health effects of ‘sustainable diets’	78
Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks	76
Meta-analytic evidence for a robust and positive association between individuals’ pro-environmental behaviors and their subjective wellbeing	76
Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States	75
Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014–2018 drought period?	75
Heat stress on agricultural workers exacerbates crop impacts of climate change	74
How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?	72
Climate impact and adaptation to heat and drought stress of regional and global wheat production	72
Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on Earth	71
The relationship between land surface temperature and artificial impervious surface fraction in 682 global cities: spatiotemporal variations and drivers	71
Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map	70
Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security	70
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability	70
Assessing the sequestration time scales of some ocean-based carbon dioxide reduction strategies	69
Distribution and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Hg, Cd and Pb) in fish: influence of the aquatic environment and climate	69
Decent living gaps and energy needs around the world	68
Machine learning for aquatic plastic litter detection, classification and quantification (APLASTIC-Q)	68
A multidimensional feasibility evaluation of low-carbon scenarios	68
How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability	67
Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems	67
Trends and drivers of African fossil fuel CO2 emissions 1990–2017	66
All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal	66
IPCC baseline scenarios have over-projected CO2 emissions and economic growth	64
Global anthropogenic emissions in urban areas: patterns, trends, and challenges	64
Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods	64
The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States	64
Anthropogenic warming of Tibetan Plateau and constrained future projection	63
Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback	63
Changes in precipitation and air temperature contribute comparably to permafrost degradation in a warmer climate	62
Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning	62
Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios	61
Carbon dioxide removal technologies are not born equal	61
The potential of seaweed cultivation to achieve carbon neutrality and mitigate deoxygenation and eutrophication	60
Long-term temperature and sea-level rise stabilization before and beyond 2100: Estimating the additional climate mitigation contribution from China’s recent 2060 carbon neutrality pledge	59
Risk and vulnerability of Mongolian grasslands under climate change	59
An assessment of data sources, data quality and changes in national forest monitoring capacities in the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005–2020	59
From the Paris Agreement to corporate climate commitments: evaluation of seven methods for setting ‘science-based’ emission targets	59
Bridging observations, theory and numerical simulation of the ocean using machine learning	59
Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C	58
Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity	57

City-size bias in knowledge on the effects of urban nature on people and biodiversity	57
Global marine heatwave events using the new CMIP6 multi-model ensemble: from shortcomings in present climate to future projections	57
The role of direct air capture and negative emissions technologies in the shared socioeconomic pathways towards +1.5 °C and +2 °C futures	56
Saving resources and the climate? A systematic review of the circular economy and its mitigation potential	56
Project Coolbit: can your watch predict heat stress and thermal comfort sensation?	56
Global importance of methane emissions from drainage ditches and canals	56
Potential role of permafrost thaw on increasing Siberian river discharge	56
Majority of German citizens, US citizens and climate scientists support policy advocacy by climate researchers and expect greater political engagement	55
Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought	55
Coal transitions—part 1: a systematic map and review of case study learnings from regional, national, and local coal phase-out experiences	55
Global land use extent and dispersion within natural land cover using Landsat data	55
Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels	55
Contributions of ecological programs to vegetation restoration in arid and semiarid China	55
Cleaner air reveals growing influence of climate on dissolved organic carbon trends in northern headwaters	54
Polyester microplastic fibers in soil increase nitrogen loss via leaching and decrease plant biomass production and N uptake	54
Climate change shifts forward flowering and reduces crop waterlogging stress	54
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature	53
Personal assessment of urban heat exposure: a systematic review	53
Siberian taiga and tundra fire regimes from 2001–2020	53
The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries	52
Defining El Niño indices in a warming climate	52
Innovative recycling or extended use? Comparing the global warming potential of different ownership and end-of-life scenarios for textiles	52
Progress in climate change adaptation research	51
Why was the heat wave in the Yangtze River valley abnormally intensified in late summer 2022?	51
Drylands face potential threat of robust drought in the CMIP6 SSPs scenarios	51
Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island: insights from the COVID-19 lockdown	51
Projected changes in wind speed and wind energy potential over West Africa in CMIP6 models	50
River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research	50
COVID-19 and pathways to low-carbon air transport until 2050	50
Evidence for the effectiveness of nature-based solutions to water issues in Africa	50
Estimating PM2.5-related premature mortality and morbidity associated with future wildfire emissions in the western US	50
Environmental impacts and resource use of urban agriculture: a systematic review and meta-analysis	49
Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally	49
A map of roadmaps for zero and low energy and carbon buildings worldwide	49
Estimates of ozone concentrations and attributable mortality in urban, peri-urban and rural areas worldwide in 2019	49
Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling	48
Energy system developments and investments in the decisive decade for the Paris Agreement goals	48
Observed strong subsurface marine heatwaves in the tropical western Pacific Ocean	48
Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires	48
The role of seafood in sustainable diets	48
Detection of NO2 pollution plumes from individual ships with the TROPOMI/S5P satellite sensor	48
Flash drought in Australia and its relationship to evaporative demand	48
Transforming the stories we tell about climate change: from ‘issue’ to ‘action’	48
Caspian Sea is eutrophying: the alarming message of satellite data	47
The impact of groundwater depletion on agricultural production in India	47
From lab-to-road: real-world fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles	47
Integrated assessment model diagnostics: key indicators and model evolution	47
Future climate change significantly alters interannual wheat yield variability over half of harvested areas	47
Are cleaner cooking solutions clean enough? A systematic review and meta-analysis of particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations and exposures	47
Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: extreme events and inter-annual variability	47
A review of edible insect industrialization: scales of production and implications for sustainability	47
Long-term crop rotation diversification enhances maize drought resistance through soil organic matter	46
Egypt’s water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam filling scenarios	46
Migration towards Bangladesh coastlines projected to increase with sea-level rise through 2100	46
Legacy effects of loss of beavers in the continental United States	46
A striking growth of CO2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries	45
Spatial variation in household consumption-based carbon emission inventories for 1200 Japanese cities	45
Explaining successful and failed investments in U.S. carbon capture and storage using empirical and expert assessments	45
Quantifying the foodshed: a systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research	45
Reviewing the scope and thematic focus of 100 000 publications on energy consumption, services and social aspects of climate change: a big data approach to demand-side mitigation	45
Recent advancement in water quality indicators for eutrophication in global freshwater lakes	45
Active layer thickness as a function of soil water content	45
Combined impacts of climate and air pollution on human health and agricultural productivity	44
Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions	44
Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change	44
Changes in precipitation variability across time scales in multiple global climate model large ensembles	44
A review of mental health and wellbeing under climate change in small island developing states (SIDS)	44
A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing	43
Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites	43
Chesapeake legacies: the importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality	43
A review of the effects of wildfire smoke on the health and behavior of wildlife	43
Land-based climate change mitigation potentials within the agenda for sustainable development	43
Probabilistic assessments of the impacts of compound dry and hot events on global vegetation during growing seasons	43
Mechanisms of the decadal variability of monsoon rainfall in the southern Tibetan Plateau	43
Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems	43
Streamflow stationarity in a changing world	43
Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being	42
On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change	42
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States	42
Unprecedented decline in summertime surface ozone over eastern China in 2020 comparably attributable to anthropogenic emission reductions and meteorology	42

Quantifying the carbon footprint reduction potential of lifestyle choices in Japan	42
Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data	42
How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales	42
Accelerated decline of summer Arctic sea ice during 1850–2017 and the amplified Arctic warming during the recent decades	42
The sudden stratospheric warming in January 2021	42
Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape	41
Valuing natural capital amidst rapid urbanization: assessing the gross ecosystem product (GEP) of China’s ‘Chang-Zhu-Tan’ megacity	41
Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions	41
Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective	41
Exploring the exceptional performance of a deep learning stream temperature model and the value of streamflow data	41
Carbon dioxide mitigation co-effect analysis of clean air policies: lessons and perspectives in China’s Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region	41
Mapping the maximum extents of urban green spaces in 1039 cities using dense satellite images	40
A spatially variable scarcity of floating microplastics in the eastern North Pacific Ocean	40
Global labor loss due to humid heat exposure underestimated for outdoor workers	40
Reservoir regulation affects droughts and floods at local and regional scales	40
Carbon intensity of corn ethanol in the United States: state of the science	40
Increasing risks of crop failure and water scarcity in global breadbaskets by 2030	40
Climate change-related risks and adaptation potential in Central and South America during the 21st century	40
Combined heat and drought suppress rainfed maize and soybean yields and modify irrigation benefits in the USA	40
Systematic map of the literature on carbon lock-in induced by long-lived capital	40
Recent increase in the observation-derived land evapotranspiration due to global warming	39
Managed aquifer recharge as a drought mitigation strategy in heavily-stressed aquifers	39
Have food supply chain policies improved forest conservation and rural livelihoods? A systematic review	39
Global gridded crop models underestimate yield responses to droughts and heatwaves	39
Partitioning uncertainty in projections of Arctic sea ice	39
A review of climate-change impact and adaptation studies for the water sector in Thailand	39
Precipitation response to climate change and urban development over the continental United States	39
The world’s largest coastal deoxygenation zone is not anthropogenically driven	39
Forested lands dominate drinking water supply in the conterminous United States	39
The importance of temporal resolution in modeling deep decarbonization of the electric power sector	39
Climate change penalty and benefit on surface ozone: a global perspective based on CMIP6 earth system models	38
Plastic transport in a complex confluence of the Mekong River in Cambodia	38
Increasing spatiotemporal proximity of heat and precipitation extremes in a warming world quantified by a large model ensemble	38
Achieving net-zero emissions in agriculture: a review	38
Crop rotations sustain cereal yields under a changing climate	38
Is working less really good for the environment? A systematic review of the empirical evidence for resource use, greenhouse gas emissions and the ecological footprint	38
Substitution impacts of wood use at the market level: a systematic review	38
Soil carbon sequestration simulated in CMIP6-LUMIP models: implications for climatic mitigation	38
Social vulnerability in a multi-hazard context: a systematic review	38
Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent of streamflow drought	38
Global review of human waste-picking and its contribution to poverty alleviation and a circular economy	38
A review of the importance of mineral nitrogen cycling in the plant-soil-microbe system of permafrost-affected soils—changing the paradigm	38
Increasing population exposure to global warm-season concurrent dry and hot extremes under different warming levels	37
A multi-data assessment of land use and land cover emissions from Brazil during 2000–2019	37
Energy and food security implications of transitioning synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to net-zero emissions	37
On the occurrence of the worst drought in South Asia in the observed and future climate	37
Consensus revisited: quantifying scientific agreement on climate change and climate expertise among Earth scientists 10 years later	37
Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa: an evidence-based review	37
CMIP5/6 models project little change in the statistical characteristics of sudden stratospheric warmings in the 21st century	37
Linkages between GRACE water storage, hydrologic extremes, and climate teleconnections in major African aquifers	37
Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots	37
Sea level rise and coastal flooding threaten affordable housing	37
Ensuring that offsets and other internationally transferred mitigation outcomes contribute effectively to limiting global warming	37
Diagnosing air quality changes in the UK during the COVID-19 lockdown using TROPOMI and GEOS-Chem	36
Assessing the impact of climate change on soil erosion in East Africa using a convection-permitting climate model	36
Decadal variability modulates trends in concurrent heat and drought over global croplands	36
Sinking seaweed in the deep ocean for carbon neutrality is ahead of science and beyond the ethics	36
Dynamic life cycle carbon and energy analysis for cross-laminated timber in the Southeastern United States	36
Future increases in lightning ignition efficiency and wildfire occurrence expected from drier fuels in boreal forest ecosystems of western North America	36
To till or not to till in a temperate ecosystem? Implications for climate change mitigation	36
Subsea permafrost carbon stocks and climate change sensitivity estimated by expert assessment	36
Conditional attribution of climate change and atmospheric circulation contributing to the record-breaking precipitation and temperature event of summer 2020 in southern China	35
Effects of climate and irrigation on GRACE-based estimates of water storage changes in major US aquifers	35
Climate mitigation forestry—temporal trade-offs	35
The decarbonisation of Europe powered by lifestyle changes	35
A tale of two regions: methane emissions from oil and gas production in offshore/onshore Mexico	35
Greening-induced increase in evapotranspiration over Eurasia offset by CO2-induced vegetational stomatal closure	35
Nitrogen dynamics in cropping systems under Mediterranean climate: a systemic analysis	35
Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations	35
Hydropeaked rivers need attention	35
Demand side climate change mitigation actions and SDGs: literature review with systematic evidence search	35
Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for crops in West Africa: a systematic review	34
Nutritional quality of crops in a high CO2 world: an agenda for research and technology development	34
Perspectives on transformational change in climate risk management and adaptation	34
CMIP6 projects less frequent seasonal soil moisture droughts over China in response to different warming levels	34
Expanding infrastructure and growing anthropogenic impacts along Arctic coasts	34
Tipping point dynamics in global land use	34
Vascular plant species response to warming and elevated carbon dioxide in a boreal peatland	34
Annual runoff coefficient variation in a changing environment: a global perspective	34
Confronting mitigation deterrence in low-carbon scenarios	34
Hysteresis of the Earth system under positive and negative CO2 emissions	34
Multi-decadal improvement in US Lake water clarity	34
US wildfire potential: a historical view and future projection using high-resolution climate data	34
An ensemble approach to quantify global mean sea-level rise over the 20th century from tide gauge reconstructions	34
2020/21 record-breaking cold waves in east of China enhanced by the ‘Warm Arctic-Cold Siberia’ pattern	34
Flood-induced population displacements in the world	34
Why does snowmelt-driven streamflow response to warming vary? A data-driven review and predictive framework	33
Spatial configuration and time of day impact the magnitude of urban tree canopy cooling	33
Recent trends in gross primary production and their drivers: analysis and modelling at flux-site and global scales	33
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management	33
Substantial increase in daytime-nighttime compound heat waves and associated population exposure in China projected by the CMIP6 multimodel ensemble	33
Long-term nitrogen retention and transit time distribution in agricultural catchments in western France	33
Asymmetric impacts of El Niño and La Niña on the Pacific–North American teleconnection pattern: the role of subtropical jet stream	33
The health impacts of waste-to-energy emissions: a systematic review of the literature	33
Biophysical permafrost map indicates ecosystem processes dominate permafrost stability in the Northern Hemisphere	32