Environmental Research Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Research Letters is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters216
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project147
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau139
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning137
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia125
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events112
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences105
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method96
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin91
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming83
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion81
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland76
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change75
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters75
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways74
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk73
Large-scale historical land use mapping in Vietnam and Laos using military topographic maps72
Earlier end of photosynthesis driven by advanced photosynthetic onset and elevated early-season temperatures70
Welfare-based allocation of telecoupled biodiversity loss in global crop trade69
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model66
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations64
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems64
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals63
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction63
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink63
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation63
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends62
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty61
Characterising the range and outliers in CMIP6 multi-model climate projections of extremes61
Satellite observations reveal a significant poleward expansion of the multiyear sea ice replenishment in the heart region of Arctic Ocean60
Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the pan-Asian region60
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans59
Corrigendum: The economics of a circular urban water system (2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 094024)59
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease58
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process58
A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia57
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas56
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story55
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?55
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 195053
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks53
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia52
Estimating the effects of functional diversity and composition on the spatial variability of ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region52
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment52
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?52
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases52
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target52
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making51
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales51
Wildfire smoke increases assaults: evidence from Seattle51
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)50
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India50
Stabilizing time-lagged climate impacts requires net-negative emissions for centuries50
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions49
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records49
Deliberative polling increases non-expert confidence in assessments about carbon dioxide removal technologies49
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries48
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil48
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China48
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands48
Residential San Francisco Bay area air conditioners leak less refrigerant than expected48
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region48
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China47
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions47
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 202247
Climate change, air pollution and human health47
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers47
Harnessing solar-induced fluorescence for on-farm agricultural research and management: recent advances and outstanding needs47
Context dependence of ecological responses to photovoltaic power plants in drylands: evidence from a meta-analysis47
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols47
Climate-resilient development pathways for urban areas: a multi-dimensional classification framework for India46
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-I46
Subsurface constraints amplify vegetation stress during extreme heat and drought in a Mediterranean forest46
Contrasting patterns of deforestation and reforestation in India’s tropical dry woodlands46
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea46
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios46
Fashion fades, microplastics are eternal: a critical systematic literature review to assess microplastic fibre colours in environmental samples45
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China44
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days44
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina43
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth43
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences43
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-201743
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change43
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis43
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe43
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States43
Materials with smaller absorptivity could reduce detrimental impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection on the hydrological cycle43
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea42
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador42
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200042
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205041
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States41
Management intensity mediates yield responses to rising temperatures in montane grasslands41
Earth’s dimming mirror: cloud contraction and the rise of albedo governance41
Effect of regional marine cloud brightening on land climate41
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow41
The hidden women in the pixels: a gender-aware lens on Earth observation mapping of conflict-related damage40
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 approach40
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia40
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia40
Limited evidence for the impact of climate change on the recent range expansion of the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa40
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities40
Sensitivity of extreme precipitation to warming in a global storm-resolving model40
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario40
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models40
How does urbanization process affect urban heat island effect? Interpretation of 31 cities in China based on local climate zones39
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export39
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA39
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade39
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin39
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?38
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming37
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands37
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics37
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad36
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials36
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California36
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting36
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions36
A global analysis of expected revenues from carbon dioxide removal36
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments36
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic35
Water-related disasters in Brazil: an assessment from 1991 to 202435
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes35
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?35
Who owns the desert basins of the American West? A typology for moving beyond the public–private binary in conservation and development35
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment35
The role of projects of common interest in reaching Europe’s energy policy targets35
Spatiotemporal changes in UK heavy rainfall events not captured by intensity-based methods35
Trading away forests: embodied deforestation in agriculture and livestock through a gravity model35
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains35
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing34
Societal and environmental interconnections: future directions for flood inundation models34
Faster-than-expected intensification of heat extremes in a maritime climate: a New Zealand case study34
Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries34
Tree mortality provides early warning sign of ecosystem functional transition in coastal freshwater forested wetlands34
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 agriculture34
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information34
Assessing the potential for solar development on coal mine land in India34
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring34
Proactive responses to increasing wildfire risk: the (mis)alignment of public preferences and management priorities34
Radiative forcing-based accounting (RFA): a dynamic framework to replace static GWPs in carbon markets33
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau33
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China33
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California33
Net zero targets in science and policy33
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?33
Predicted suitable habitat distribution of major Larix species in the Northern Hemisphere under climate change scenarios33
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator33
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile33
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean33
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review33
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations33
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States33
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska33
Urban heat mitigation under realistic roof and land area constraints32
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost32
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry32
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter32
China’s railway photovoltaic potential for sustainable urban–rural energy transition32
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India32
Reversal of the warm Arctic–cold Eurasia intraseasonal coupling by CO 2 removal31
Global evidence for co-variability of tidal constituents31
Asymmetric urban–rural continuums (URCs) of Southeast Asian cities31
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment31
Attribution of the record-breaking February 2022 compound wet and cold event over Southern China31
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes31
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?31
Socially inclusive governance and technical advances can unlock the power of agricultural data31
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation31
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change31
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities31
The changing role of dust and open fires PM2.5 on Africa’s air quality and human health30
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China30
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries30
Future health and economic impacts of extreme heat on older adults: a subnational analysis for Europe30
Fenceline measurements reveal regional disparities in United States refinery benzene emissions and emission sources30
Exploration of synergistic and redundant information sharing from hydrometeorological variables to net ecosystem exchange30
Deciphering the contribution of submarine groundwater discharge to estuary hypoxia30
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis30
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures29
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time29
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China29
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change29
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate29
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe29
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-329
A mix of policies is needed to close the climate ambition gap29
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting29
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity29
Effects of EU policy and climate change on future delivery of nutrients to European freshwater and seas29
Bridging carbon removal time lags in agricultural enhanced weathering via methane emission reduction29
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change28
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies28
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy28
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO228
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment28
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake28
Quasi-stationary Rossby waves as a previously overlooked driver of extreme short-duration rainfall in Europe28
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China28
Satellite detected weak decline of nitrogen oxides emissions in economically small cities of China27
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts27
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines27
Real-time detection of harmful algal blooms using GOCI II and buoy-based dissolved oxygen variations27
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass27
Quantifying landscape fragmentation and forest carbon dynamics over 35 years in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest27
Three-dimensional meteorological drought characteristics and associated risk in China27
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water27
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET27
Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior27
Global evidence of rapid flash drought recovery by extreme precipitation27
Southern Hemispheric jet swing linked to Arctic stratospheric polar vortex27
FROT: A Framework to comprehensively describe radiative contributions to temperature responses26
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
Effects of climate change on marine ecosystems in the southeastern Pacific: multiple ocean stressors assessed through climate velocities26
Role of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian-like pattern on the near future warming rate of East Asian surface temperature26
Evaluating opportunity for distributed wind energy in rural and agricultural areas26
Recent increase in snow cover as a contributing driver to autumn cooling in central Eurasia26
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage26
Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection26
Key regions in the modulation of seasonal GMST variability by analyzing the two hottest years: 2016 vs. 202026
Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon25
Utilizing machine learning for high resolution NO2 total columns from PACE OCI25
Carbon flux estimates are sensitive to data source: a comparison of field and lab temperature sensitivity data25
Health at the centre of climate change negotiations: critical achievements from the COP28 Health Programme25
Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects on the scaling of extreme sub-daily precipitation over East China25
Megagrazer loss drives complex landscape-scale biophysical cascades25
Macroclimate growing conditions for luxury crops after stratospheric aerosol injection25
Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests25
Winter sea surface temperature interhemispheric dipole as a predictor for Sahel summer rainfall25
Reply to Comment on ‘Linkage of El Nino-Southern Oscillation to astronomic forcing’25
More research needed on people’s responses to air quality data25
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of snow refugia in the rain-snow transition zone of north-central Idaho25
Network structure matters: how coordination and cooperation mechanisms drive solar-battery co-adoption24
Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization24
Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action24
Energy production and inter-farm wake losses in future North Sea wind farms24
Economics and optics influence funding for ecological restoration in a nation-wide program24
Century-scale attribution and constrained projection of temperature extremes in eastern China24
A globally relevant data-driven assessment of carbon leakage from forestry24
Quantifying US metropolitan level environmental burdens & benefits from greater localization of vegetable farming24
Combining a climate-permafrost model with fine resolution remote sensor products to quantify active-layer thickness at local scales24
Nonlinear influence of coexisting CO 2 and anthropogenic aerosols on East Asian summer precipitation through a mid-high-latitude pathway24
Corrigendum: Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 085009)24
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas24
Carbon sequestration potential from sustainable management of arable land in the EU24
Arctic sea ice loss drives enhanced East Asian summer temperature variability24
Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States24
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