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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters198
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project192
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau141
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning129
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia124
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events121
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences104
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe97
Subsurface constraints amplify vegetation stress during extreme heat and drought in a Mediterranean forest92
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method87
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin77
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming73
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion72
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland71
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters71
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change71
Large-scale historical land use mapping in Vietnam and Laos using military topographic maps67
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk67
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways67
Earlier end of photosynthesis driven by advanced photosynthetic onset and elevated early-season temperatures65
Welfare-based allocation of telecoupled biodiversity loss in global crop trade62
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model61
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia60
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems60
Fashion fades, microplastics are eternal: a critical systematic literature review to assess microplastic fibre colours in environmental samples59
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations59
Effect of regional marine cloud brightening on land climate58
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation58
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction58
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200058
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals57
Limited evidence for the impact of climate change on the recent range expansion of the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa57
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets57
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina56
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends56
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink56
Characterising the range and outliers in CMIP6 multi-model climate projections of extremes55
Satellite observations reveal a significant poleward expansion of the multiyear sea ice replenishment in the heart region of Arctic Ocean55
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty55
Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the pan-Asian region55
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans54
Corrigendum: The economics of a circular urban water system (2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 094024)54
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease53
Long-term carbon dioxide removal potential from the application of wood biochar and basanite rock powder in sandy soil using the LiDELSv2 process-based modeling approach53
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process51
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?51
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil50
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries50
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas50
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia50
A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia50
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario49
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States49
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States49
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?49
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story48
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days48
How does urbanization process affect urban heat island effect? Interpretation of 31 cities in China based on local climate zones48
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands48
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 195047
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks47
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics47
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment46
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target46
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia46
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205046
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases46
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making45
Contrasting patterns of deforestation and reforestation in India’s tropical dry woodlands45
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales45
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?45
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions45
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities45
Wildfire smoke increases assaults: evidence from Seattle44
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)44
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India43
Stabilizing time-lagged climate impacts requires net-negative emissions for centuries43
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea43
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador43
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin43
Climate change, air pollution and human health43
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records42
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-I42
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis42
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea42
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade42
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions42
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA42
Deliberative polling increases non-expert confidence in assessments about carbon dioxide removal technologies42
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios41
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China41
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols41
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China41
Context dependence of ecological responses to photovoltaic power plants in drylands: evidence from a meta-analysis40
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region40
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers40
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 202240
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-201740
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences40
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China39
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export39
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change39
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow39
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models39
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth39
Harnessing solar-induced fluorescence for on-farm agricultural research and management: Recent advances and outstanding needs39
Estimating the effects of functional diversity and composition on the spatial variability of ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region39
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO238
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands38
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming37
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad37
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions37
A global analysis of expected revenues from carbon dioxide removal37
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India36
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake36
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments36
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes36
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass36
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California36
Water-related disasters in Brazil: an assessment from 1991 to 202436
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting36
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials36
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China35
Spatiotemporal changes in UK heavy rainfall events not captured by intensity-based methods35
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy35
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries35
Fenceline measurements reveal regional disparities in United States refinery benzene emissions and emission sources35
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?35
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic35
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California35
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting35
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China35
Who owns the desert basins of the American West? A typology for moving beyond the public–private binary in conservation and development35
The role of projects of common interest in reaching Europe’s energy policy targets34
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities34
Trading away forests: embodied deforestation in agriculture and livestock through a gravity model34
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis34
Effects of EU policy and climate change on future delivery of nutrients to European freshwater and seas33
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes33
Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries33
Assessing the potential for solar development on coal mine land in India33
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment33
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation33
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information33
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?33
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET33
The changing role of dust and open fires PM2.5 on Africa’s air quality and human health33
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains33
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost32
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile32
Proactive responses to increasing wildfire risk: the (mis)alignment of public preferences and management priorities32
Net zero targets in science and policy32
Socially inclusive governance and technical advances can unlock the power of agricultural data32
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing32
Tree mortality provides early warning sign of ecosystem functional transition in coastal freshwater forested wetlands32
Global evidence for co-variability of tidal constituents32
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry32
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity31
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska31
Faster-than-expected intensification of heat extremes in a maritime climate: a New Zealand case study31
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change31
Exploration of synergistic and redundant information sharing from hydrometeorological variables to net ecosystem exchange31
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures31
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-331
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring30
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China30
Urban heat mitigation under realistic roof and land area constraints30
Societal and environmental interconnections: future directions for flood inundation models30
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time30
Radiative forcing-based accounting (RFA): a dynamic framework to replace static GWPs in carbon markets30
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?30
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau30
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 agriculture30
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe30
Predicted suitable habitat distribution of major Larix species in the Northern Hemisphere under climate change scenarios30
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review30
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate29
Satellite detected weak decline of nitrogen oxides emissions in economically small cities of China29
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean29
Reversal of the warm Arctic–cold Eurasia intraseasonal coupling by CO 2 removal29
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change29
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator29
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change29
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States29
Attribution of the record-breaking February 2022 compound wet and cold event over Southern China29
Future health and economic impacts of extreme heat on older adults: a subnational analysis for Europe29
China’s railway photovoltaic potential for sustainable urban–rural energy transition29
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations29
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China29
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment29
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies29
Bridging carbon removal time lags in agricultural enhanced weathering via methane emission reduction29
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment28
Effects of climate change on marine ecosystems in the southeastern Pacific: multiple ocean stressors assessed through climate velocities28
Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior28
Weak local upwelling may elevate the risks of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in shallow waters during the warm season28
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter28
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water28
Macroclimate growing conditions for luxury crops after stratospheric aerosol injection28
Role of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian-like pattern on the near future warming rate of East Asian surface temperature28
Detecting atmospheric oxidation in the PM2.5 and ozone multilayer complex network28
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines28
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts28
Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection28
The strategic and governance implications of solar radiation modification: perspectives from delegates of international climate negotiations27
Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action27
Racial-ethnic exposure disparities to airborne ultrafine particles in the United States27
Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States27
Effects of stepwise tidal flat reclamation on tidal evolution in the East China and Yellow Sea27
Overlooked cooling effects of albedo in terrestrial ecosystems27
Combining a climate-permafrost model with fine resolution remote sensor products to quantify active-layer thickness at local scales27
Nonpartisans hold the key: how proximity to utility scale renewable energy projects influences attitudes towards climate mitigation policy27
Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations27
Utilizing machine learning for high resolution NO2 total columns from PACE OCI27
Network structure matters: how coordination and cooperation mechanisms drive solar-battery co-adoption26
Changing windstorm characteristics over the US Northeast in a single model large ensemble26
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas26
Anticipating the impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification on the U.S. automotive service workforce26
Megagrazer loss drives complex landscape-scale biophysical cascades26
Recent increase in snow cover as a contributing driver to autumn cooling in central Eurasia26
Reply to Comment on ‘Linkage of El Nino-Southern Oscillation to astronomic forcing’26
Evaluating opportunity for distributed wind energy in rural and agricultural areas26
Key regions in the modulation of seasonal GMST variability by analyzing the two hottest years: 2016 vs. 202026
Tradeoffs between uniform land protection and biodiversity-specific land protection with <2 °C global warming26
Potential impacts of reduced winter Kara Sea ice on the dipole pattern of cold surge frequency over the tropical western Pacific26
Century-scale attribution and constrained projection of temperature extremes in eastern China26
Corrigendum: Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 085009)26
More research needed on people’s responses to air quality data26
The PeatPic project: predicting plot-scale green leaf phenology across peatlands26
Measuring electric vehicle owners’ willingness to participate in smart charging programs26
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage26
Temporal regulation of renewable supply for electrolytic hydrogen25
Winter sea surface temperature interhemispheric dipole as a predictor for Sahel summer rainfall25
Quantitative attribution of historical anthropogenic warming on the extreme rainfall event over Henan in July 202125
Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests25
Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon25
Southern Hemispheric jet swing linked to Arctic stratospheric polar vortex25
Urban growth modeling for the assessment of future climate and disaster risks: approaches, gaps and needs25
Permafrost thermal dynamics at a local scale in northern Da Xing’anling Mountains25
Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects on the scaling of extreme sub-daily precipitation over East China25
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of snow refugia in the rain-snow transition zone of north-central Idaho25
Amplifying feedback loop between drought, soil desiccation cracking, and greenhouse gas emissions25
Toward the quantification of the climate co-benefits of invasive mammal eradication on islands: a scalable framework for restoration monitoring25
Impacts of land-use change on century-scale global soil NO 25
Low-hanging fruit? Identifying opportunities to enhance crop diversity in the United States25
Carbon flux estimates are sensitive to data source: a comparison of field and lab temperature sensitivity data25
Evidence for state shift and generation of fire feedback loops in mesic forest driven by extreme fire severity and high fire frequency25
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape25
Economics and optics influence funding for ecological restoration in a nation-wide program24
Temporal hydrological drought clustering varies with climate and land-surface processes24
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