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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe710
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States291
Association of ambient ozone exposure with anxiety and depression among middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring modification by high temperature256
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records214
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models199
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers186
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?184
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model148
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion136
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters132
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions124
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process120
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario118
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries116
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin112
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950112
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans107
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks106
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning101
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics99
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade98
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events98
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)94
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?92
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters89
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China89
Predicting compound coastal inundation in 2100 by considering the joint probabilities of landfalling tropical cyclones and sea-level rise85
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project84
Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans83
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink82
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau81
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic80
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland79
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story75
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions74
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation74
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making73
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance72
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios70
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method70
Mitigating a century of European renewable variability with transmission and informed siting69
Status quo bias and public policy: evidence in the context of carbon mitigation68
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways68
Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat *67
A gridded inventory of Canada’s anthropogenic methane emissions66
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences66
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina66
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets66
A novel construct for scaling groundwater–river interactions based on machine-guided hydromorphic classification66
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205065
Are soil sealing indicators sufficient to guide urban planning? Insights from an ecosystem services assessment in the Paris metropolitan area65
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change64
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador63
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-I63
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India63
A growing produce bubble: United States produce tied to Mexico’s unsustainable agricultural water use63
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia62
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia61
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems60
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea59
How wildfires increase sensitivity of Amazon forests to droughts59
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities59
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?58
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia58
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region58
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200058
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management57
Nitrogen cycle impacts on CO2 fertilisation and climate forcing of land carbon stores57
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas57
Climate change, air pollution and human health56
Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration56
Substitution impacts of wood use at the market level: a systematic review55
Improved modelling of soil NO x emissions in a high temperature agricultural region: role of background emissions on NO2 trend over the US55
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty55
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 202255
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States54
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols54
Human influence on daily temperature variability over land54
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals53
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection53
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment53
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil53
Economic growth dominates rising potential flood risk in the Yangtze River and benefits of raising dikes from 1991 to 201553
Inventory reporting of livestock emissions: the impact of the IPCC 1996 and 2006 Guidelines53
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth52
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export52
Financing the energy transition: four insights and avenues for future research52
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands52
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming51
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China51
ENSO modulation of summertime tropospheric ozone over China51
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease51
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China50
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change50
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow50
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea50
Innovative recycling or extended use? Comparing the global warming potential of different ownership and end-of-life scenarios for textiles50
East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models50
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-201750
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s50
Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change49
A comprehensive uncertainty quantification of large-scale process-based crop modeling frameworks49
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales48
Are cleaner cooking solutions clean enough? A systematic review and meta-analysis of particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations and exposures47
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin47
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases47
Quantifying the contribution of an individual to making extreme weather events more likely47
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days47
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes46
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA46
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change46
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis46
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes45
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California45
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic45
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment45
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China45
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities45
Peatland restoration as an affordable nature-based climate solution with fire reduction and conservation co-benefits in Indonesia45
Crop harvested area, not yield, drives variability in crop production in Iran44
Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy44
Assessing the chance of unprecedented dry conditions over North Brazil during El Niño events44
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States44
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile44
Carbon and ecohydrological priorities in managing woody encroachment: UAV perspective 63 years after a control treatment43
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-342
Amplified warming induced by large-scale application of water-saving techniques42
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures42
Water availability surpasses warmth in controlling global vegetation trends in recent decade: revealed by satellite time series42
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting42
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring42
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator42
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials42
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability42
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?41
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China41
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy41
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?41
Culturally appropriate shifts in staple grain consumption can improve multiple sustainability outcomes41
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 agriculture41
Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia40
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost40
Effect of aerosol-induced snow darkening on the direct radiative effect of aerosols over the Himalayan region40
Net zero targets in science and policy40
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries40
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing40
Climate impact of aircraft-induced cirrus assessed from satellite observations before and during COVID-1940
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions40
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate40
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California40
Area burned adjustments to historical wildland fires in Canada40
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information39
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation39
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska39
Recent trend of cold winters followed by hot summers in South Korea due to the combined effects of the warm western tropical Pacific and North Atlantic in spring39
How well can a seasonal forecast system represent three hourly compound wind and precipitation extremes over Europe?39
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands39
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments38
Potential caveats in land surface model evaluations using the US drought monitor: roles of base periods and drought indicators38
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India38
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China38
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change38
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean38
Balancing food security and environmental sustainability by optimizing seasonal-spatial crop production in Bangladesh38
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change38
Isotopic evidence of increasing water abundance and lake hydrological change in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada38
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting37
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming37
Skillful prediction of tropical Pacific fisheries provided by Atlantic Niños37
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains37
Future evolution of virtual water trading in the United States electricity sector37
Focus on reactive nitrogen and the UN sustainable development goals37
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry37
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis37
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment37
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time36
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity36
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET36
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter36
Provincial nitrogen footprints highlight variability in drivers of reactive nitrogen emissions in Canada36
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?36
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO236
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau35
Self-financed marine protected areas35
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China35
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review35
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe35
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake35
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad35
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass35
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies35
Greening-induced increase in evapotranspiration over Eurasia offset by CO2-induced vegetational stomatal closure35
Spatial configuration and time of day impact the magnitude of urban tree canopy cooling34
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment34
A systematic review of forest area development drivers estimated under the concepts of environmental Kuznets curve and forest transition hypothesis34
Carbon flux estimates are sensitive to data source: a comparison of field and lab temperature sensitivity data34
Sensitivity of headwater streamflow to thawing permafrost and vegetation change in a warming Arctic34
Health at the centre of climate change negotiations: critical achievements from the COP28 Health Programme34
Model consistency for the underlying mechanisms for the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation-tropical Atlantic connection34
Traffic-related sources may dominate urban water contamination for many organic contaminants34
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations34
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?34
Effectiveness of behavioural interventions to reduce household energy demand: a scoping review34
GEDI waveform metrics in vegetation mapping—a case study from a heterogeneous tropical forest landscape34
The digitalisation, dematerialisation and decarbonisation of the global economy in historical perspective: the relationship between energy and information since 185034
Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests34
Microbial abilities to degrade global environmental plastic polymer waste are overstated34
Rebates and grid decarbonization from the Inflation Reduction Act promote equitable adoption of energy efficiency retrofits34
Improving seasonal predictions of meteorological drought by conditioning on ENSO states34
Seasonal adjustment of particulate matter pollution in coastal East Asia during the 2020 COVID lockdown34
Air pollution from biomass burning in India33
Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations33
On the role of antecedent meteorological conditions on flash drought initialization in Europe33
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs33
Global evidence of rapid flash drought recovery by extreme precipitation33
Role of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian-like pattern on the near future warming rate of East Asian surface temperature33
Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests33
Temporal hydrological drought clustering varies with climate and land-surface processes33
Urban growth modeling for the assessment of future climate and disaster risks: approaches, gaps and needs33
Coal transitions—part 1: a systematic map and review of case study learnings from regional, national, and local coal phase-out experiences33
Influence of high road labor policies and practices on renewable energy costs, decarbonization pathways, and labor outcomes33
The role of humidity in determining future electricity demand in the southeastern United States32
Temporal regulation of renewable supply for electrolytic hydrogen32
Consumption-based view on national and regional per capita carbon footprint trajectories and planetary pressures-adjusted human development32
Recent increase in snow cover as a contributing driver to autumn cooling in Central Eurasia32
Weak local upwelling may elevate the risks of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in shallow waters during the warm season32
Probabilistic modeling of crop-yield loss risk under drought: a spatial showcase for sub-Saharan Africa32
Global adoption of aquaculture to supply seafood32
Critical mineral constraints in global renewable scenarios under 1.5 °C target32
Gender empowerment and energy access: evidence from seven countries32
Permafrost thermal dynamics at a local scale in northern Da Xing’anling Mountains32
Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon32
Potential impacts of reduced winter Kara Sea ice on the dipole pattern of cold surge frequency over the tropical western Pacific31
Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States31
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts31
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas31
Beyond productivism versus agroecology: lessons for sustainable food systems from Lovins’ soft path energy policies31
Contrasting trends in short-lived and long-lived mesoscale eddies in the Southern Ocean since the 1990s31
Anticipating the impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification on the U.S. automotive service workforce31
Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization31
Economics and optics influence funding for ecological restoration in a nation-wide program31
Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior31
R&D tax credits can be a significant source of taxpayer support for fossil fuel innovation31
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape31
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of snow refugia in the rain-snow transition zone of north-central Idaho31
Reconstructing past fossil-fuel CO2 concentrations using tree rings and radiocarbon in the urban area of Medellín, Colombia31
Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action31
Southern Hemispheric jet swing linked to Arctic stratospheric polar vortex30
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water30
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage30
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