Environmental Research Letters

Article	Citations
Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway	467
A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018	427
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights	357
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California	319
Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options	256
Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data	246
Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources	234
The world’s growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts	205
Regional determinants of China’s consumption-based emissions in the economic transition	199
Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies	194
The global distribution of seagrass meadows	185
Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses	163
Demonstrating GWP*: a means of reporting warming-equivalent emissions that captures the contrasting impacts of short- and long-lived climate pollutants	158
Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms	155
A systematic review of the energy and climate impacts of teleworking	148
The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire	135
Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions	131
Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming	129
A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed	123
Future changes in precipitation over Central Asia based on CMIP6 projections	123
Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base	122
Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications	121
Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance	119
Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe	115
The CO2 reduction potential for the European industry via direct electrification of heat supply (power-to-heat)	114

Global surface air temperatures in CMIP6: historical performance and future changes	113
Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US	113
Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects	111
Links between green space and public health: a bibliometric review of global research trends and future prospects from 1901 to 2019	103
Global food self-sufficiency in the 21st century under sustainable intensification of agriculture	100
Indigenous mental health in a changing climate: a systematic scoping review of the global literature	100
Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?	99
Feedback between drought and deforestation in the Amazon	98
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation: a global evidence map of academic literature	97
Comparative assessment of environmental variables and machine learning algorithms for maize yield prediction in the US Midwest	96
Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe	94
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping	93
Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions	91
Global simulations of marine plastic transport show plastic trapping in coastal zones	91
Plastics in the US: toward a material flow characterization of production, markets and end of life	90
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature	90
Remote sensing of forest degradation: a review	89
Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil	87
Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature	87
The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice: a systematic and comprehensive review	86
Groundwater sustainability: a review of the interactions between science and policy	85
Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1	83
Predicting spatial and temporal variability in crop yields: an inter-comparison of machine learning, regression and process-based models	83
Escalating global exposure to compound heat-humidity extremes with warming	83
Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models	83
Projected changes in hot, dry and wet extreme events’ clusters in CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	82
Machine learning assisted hybrid models can improve streamflow simulation in diverse catchments across the conterminous US	82
Intercomparison of annual precipitation indices and extremes over global land areas from in situ, space-based and reanalysis products	80
Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal	80
Common but differentiated leadership: strategies and challenges for carbon neutrality by 2050 across industrialized economies	80
Future changes in precipitation extremes over Southeast Asia: insights from CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	79
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?	77
Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation	77
Coastal margins and backshores represent a major sink for marine debris: insights from a continental-scale analysis	76
Identifying the spatiotemporal changes of annual harvesting areas for three staple crops in China by integrating multi-data sources	74
A review of estimating population exposure to sea-level rise and the relevance for migration	74
Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis	74
Plausible 2005–2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 °C and 3 °C of warming by 2100	72
Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI	72
Determinants of low-carbon transport mode adoption: systematic review of reviews	70
The impact of COVID-19 control measures on air quality in China	69
Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014–2018 drought period?	67
Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on Earth	66
Global rangeland production systems and livelihoods at threat under climate change and variability	66
Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave	66
Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record	65
Ground-level ozone pollution in China: a synthesis of recent findings on influencing factors and impacts	64
The occupation of cropland by global urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 and its implications	63
Quantifying aviation’s contribution to global warming	62
Solar reflective pavements—A policy panacea to heat mitigation?	61

Projected changes in seasonal precipitation extremes over the United States in CMIP6 simulations	61
How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?	60
Cities as carbon sinks—classification of wooden buildings	60
Climate change mitigation through dietary change: a systematic review of empirical and modelling studies on the environmental footprints and health effects of ‘sustainable diets’	60
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space	59
Induced innovation in energy technologies and systems: a review of evidence and potential implications for CO2 mitigation	59
Assessing the sequestration time scales of some ocean-based carbon dioxide reduction strategies	59
All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal	59
Heat stress on agricultural workers exacerbates crop impacts of climate change	58
The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally	57
Focus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals: summary	57
How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability	56
Machine learning for aquatic plastic litter detection, classification and quantification (APLASTIC-Q)	56
Dominance of summer monsoon flash droughts in India	56
Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security	56
The relationship between land surface temperature and artificial impervious surface fraction in 682 global cities: spatiotemporal variations and drivers	56
Nation-wide estimation of groundwater redox conditions and nitrate concentrations through machine learning	55
Trends and drivers of African fossil fuel CO2 emissions 1990–2017	55
Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning	55
IPCC baseline scenarios have over-projected CO2 emissions and economic growth	55
No perfect storm for crop yield failure in Germany	55
Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters	55
A multidimensional feasibility evaluation of low-carbon scenarios	55
Meta-analytic evidence for a robust and positive association between individuals’ pro-environmental behaviors and their subjective wellbeing	55
Post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India: assessing the impact of policy-related shifts in timing and amount of crop residue burnt	54
Warmer climate projections in EC-Earth3-Veg: the role of changes in the greenhouse gas concentrations from CMIP5 to CMIP6	54
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	54
Decent living gaps and energy needs around the world	54
Distribution and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Hg, Cd and Pb) in fish: influence of the aquatic environment and climate	54
Climate impact and adaptation to heat and drought stress of regional and global wheat production	53
Changes in precipitation and air temperature contribute comparably to permafrost degradation in a warmer climate	53
A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance	52
An assessment of data sources, data quality and changes in national forest monitoring capacities in the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005–2020	52
Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks	52
Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios	52
Saving resources and the climate? A systematic review of the circular economy and its mitigation potential	52
Attribution of the record-breaking heat event over Northeast Asia in summer 2018: the role of circulation	52
Dynamic genesis potential index for diagnosing present-day and future global tropical cyclone genesis	52
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability	52
Airports and environmental sustainability: a comprehensive review	51
Anthropogenic warming of Tibetan Plateau and constrained future projection	51
Twenty years of European mountain permafrost dynamics—the PACE legacy	51
Using remote sensing to detect, validate, and quantify methane emissions from California solid waste operations	50
Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity	50
More frequent summer heat waves in southwestern China linked to the recent declining of Arctic sea ice	50
Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective	50
The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States	50
Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map	50
Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C	49
Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming	49
Global marine heatwave events using the new CMIP6 multi-model ensemble: from shortcomings in present climate to future projections	48
Potential role of permafrost thaw on increasing Siberian river discharge	48
Prediction of coastal flooding risk under climate change impacts in South Korea using machine learning algorithms	48
Risk and vulnerability of Mongolian grasslands under climate change	48
Carbon dioxide removal technologies are not born equal	47
Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods	47
From the Paris Agreement to corporate climate commitments: evaluation of seven methods for setting ‘science-based’ emission targets	47
Summer heat extremes in northern continents linked to developing ENSO events	47
Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States	47
Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world	46
Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems	46
Contributions of ecological programs to vegetation restoration in arid and semiarid China	46
Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island: insights from the COVID-19 lockdown	45
Project Coolbit: can your watch predict heat stress and thermal comfort sensation?	45
Extreme dry and wet spells face changes in their duration and timing	45
The potential of seaweed cultivation to achieve carbon neutrality and mitigate deoxygenation and eutrophication	45
COVID-19 and pathways to low-carbon air transport until 2050	45
The response of maize, sorghum, and soybean yield to growing-phase climate revealed with machine learning	45
City-size bias in knowledge on the effects of urban nature on people and biodiversity	45
Ecological resilience: what to measure and how	45
Inferring ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations at fine spatial resolution applied to the TROPOMI satellite instrument	44
Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season	44
Progress in climate change adaptation research	44
Are cleaner cooking solutions clean enough? A systematic review and meta-analysis of particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations and exposures	44
Global importance of methane emissions from drainage ditches and canals	44
Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires	44
Observed changes in flood hazard in Africa	44
Collaborative impact of the NAO and atmospheric blocking on European heatwaves, with a focus on the hot summer of 2018	44
Defining El Niño indices in a warming climate	44
Personal assessment of urban heat exposure: a systematic review	44

Climate change mitigation in cities: a systematic scoping of case studies	44
Caspian Sea is eutrophying: the alarming message of satellite data	43
Observed strong subsurface marine heatwaves in the tropical western Pacific Ocean	43
Hazardous air pollutant exposure as a contributing factor to COVID-19 mortality in the United States	43
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature	43
Seasonal representation of extreme precipitation indices over the United States in CMIP6 present-day simulations	43
Vulnerability of vegetation activities to drought in Central Asia	43
A tale of two futures: contrasting scenarios of future precipitation for West Africa from an ensemble of regional climate models	43
Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought	43
Agricultural intensification and land use change: assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect	42
Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels	42
Low-impact land use pathways to deep decarbonization of electricity	42
Quantifying the role of internal variability in the temperature we expect to observe in the coming decades	42
Coal transitions—part 1: a systematic map and review of case study learnings from regional, national, and local coal phase-out experiences	42
Innovative recycling or extended use? Comparing the global warming potential of different ownership and end-of-life scenarios for textiles	42
Forests and emerging infectious diseases: unleashing the beast within	42
Energy system developments and investments in the decisive decade for the Paris Agreement goals	42
Flash drought in Australia and its relationship to evaporative demand	41
Polyester microplastic fibers in soil increase nitrogen loss via leaching and decrease plant biomass production and N uptake	41
Bridging observations, theory and numerical simulation of the ocean using machine learning	41
The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries	41
Majority of German citizens, US citizens and climate scientists support policy advocacy by climate researchers and expect greater political engagement	41
Early adaptation to heat waves and future reduction of air-conditioning energy use in Paris	41
River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research	41
Urbanization alters rainfall extremes over the contiguous United States	41
Projected changes in wind speed and wind energy potential over West Africa in CMIP6 models	40
A map of roadmaps for zero and low energy and carbon buildings worldwide	40
The role of direct air capture and negative emissions technologies in the shared socioeconomic pathways towards +1.5 °C and +2 °C futures	40
Projections of Arctic sea ice conditions and shipping routes in the twenty-first century using CMIP6 forcing scenarios	40
Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing	40
Carbon intensity of corn ethanol in the United States: state of the science	40
Egypt’s water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam filling scenarios	40
Increasing concurrence of wildfire drivers tripled megafire critical danger days in Southern California between1982 and 2018	39
Drylands face potential threat of robust drought in the CMIP6 SSPs scenarios	39
Mechanisms of the decadal variability of monsoon rainfall in the southern Tibetan Plateau	39
A review of edible insect industrialization: scales of production and implications for sustainability	39
The relationship between nuclear energy consumption and economic growth: evidence from Switzerland	39
Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally	39
Spatial variation in household consumption-based carbon emission inventories for 1200 Japanese cities	39
A review of environmental impact indicators of cultural heritage buildings: a circular economy perspective	39
Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires	38
Long-term crop rotation diversification enhances maize drought resistance through soil organic matter	38
Riverbank macrolitter in the Dutch Rhine–Meuse delta	38
Deforestation spillovers from oil palm sustainability certification	38
Global anthropogenic emissions in urban areas: patterns, trends, and challenges	38
Global land use extent and dispersion within natural land cover using Landsat data	38
A striking growth of CO2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries	38
Energy infrastructure, NIMBYism, and public opinion: a systematic literature review of three decades of empirical survey literature	38
Regional differentiation in climate change induced drought trends in the Netherlands	38
Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems	38
Siberian taiga and tundra fire regimes from 2001–2020	38
Chesapeake legacies: the importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality	38
Migration towards Bangladesh coastlines projected to increase with sea-level rise through 2100	38
Aboveground carbon loss associated with the spread of ghost forests as sea levels rise	38
How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales	38
Quantifying the carbon footprint reduction potential of lifestyle choices in Japan	38
Climate change shifts forward flowering and reduces crop waterlogging stress	38
Estimates of ozone concentrations and attributable mortality in urban, peri-urban and rural areas worldwide in 2019	38
Non-material contributions of wildlife to human well-being: a systematic review	37
Integrated assessment model diagnostics: key indicators and model evolution	37
From lab-to-road: real-world fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles	37
Legacy effects of loss of beavers in the continental United States	37
Cleaner air reveals growing influence of climate on dissolved organic carbon trends in northern headwaters	37
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	37
Stranded asset implications of the Paris Agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean	37
Use of radar data for characterizing extreme precipitation at fine scales and short durations	37
Quantifying the foodshed: a systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research	37
Reductions in daily continental-scale atmospheric circulation biases between generations of global climate models: CMIP5 to CMIP6	37
A review of mental health and wellbeing under climate change in small island developing states (SIDS)	37
Human influence on frequency of temperature extremes	36
Early retirement of power plants in climate mitigation scenarios	36
Tree growth at the end of the 21st century - the extreme years 2018/19 as template for future growth conditions	36
Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions	36
The sudden stratospheric warming in January 2021	36
Decarbonizing US passenger vehicle transport under electrification and automation uncertainty has a travel budget	36
Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being	36
Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites	36
Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model	36
Active layer thickness as a function of soil water content	36
Shades of green: life cycle assessment of renewable energy projects financed through green bonds	36
Global offshore wind energy resources using the new ERA-5 reanalysis	36
What are the ingredients for food systems change towards sustainability?—Insights from the literature	36
The role of seafood in sustainable diets	36
Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape	36
Detection of NO2 pollution plumes from individual ships with the TROPOMI/S5P satellite sensor	35
Estimating PM2.5-related premature mortality and morbidity associated with future wildfire emissions in the western US	35
Exploring the exceptional performance of a deep learning stream temperature model and the value of streamflow data	35
Population exposure to pre-emptive de-energization aimed at averting wildfires in Northern California	35
A review of climate-change impact and adaptation studies for the water sector in Thailand	35
Health and migration in the context of a changing climate: a systematic literature assessment	35
Near-real-time drought impact assessment: a text mining approach on the 2018/19 drought in Germany	35
Unprecedented decline in summertime surface ozone over eastern China in 2020 comparably attributable to anthropogenic emission reductions and meteorology	35
Changing risk factors that contribute to premature mortality from ambient air pollution between 2000 and 2015	35
Changes in precipitation variability across time scales in multiple global climate model large ensembles	35
Environmental impacts and resource use of urban agriculture: a systematic review and meta-analysis	35