Environmental Research Letters

Article	Citations
A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018	500
Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway	488
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California	343
Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data	284
Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options	278
Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources	256
Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies	219
The global distribution of seagrass meadows	205
Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses	196
Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms	179
A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed	156
A systematic review of the energy and climate impacts of teleworking	153
The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire	153
Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions	148
Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming	147
Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base	140
Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance	135
Global surface air temperatures in CMIP6: historical performance and future changes	129
Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications	129
The CO2 reduction potential for the European industry via direct electrification of heat supply (power-to-heat)	129
Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe	128
Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects	124
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation: a global evidence map of academic literature	116
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature	114
Global food self-sufficiency in the 21st century under sustainable intensification of agriculture	109

Remote sensing of forest degradation: a review	103
Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe	102
Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?	102
Global simulations of marine plastic transport show plastic trapping in coastal zones	101
The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice: a systematic and comprehensive review	100
Plastics in the US: toward a material flow characterization of production, markets and end of life	95
Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models	94
Groundwater sustainability: a review of the interactions between science and policy	94
Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal	93
Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1	93
Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature	92
Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil	92
Machine learning assisted hybrid models can improve streamflow simulation in diverse catchments across the conterminous US	92
Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation	88
Projected changes in hot, dry and wet extreme events’ clusters in CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	87
Common but differentiated leadership: strategies and challenges for carbon neutrality by 2050 across industrialized economies	87
Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis	84
Future changes in precipitation extremes over Southeast Asia: insights from CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	83
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?	83
A review of estimating population exposure to sea-level rise and the relevance for migration	80
Coastal margins and backshores represent a major sink for marine debris: insights from a continental-scale analysis	80
Ground-level ozone pollution in China: a synthesis of recent findings on influencing factors and impacts	79
Quantifying aviation’s contribution to global warming	79
Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI	78
Plausible 2005–2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 °C and 3 °C of warming by 2100	77
Determinants of low-carbon transport mode adoption: systematic review of reviews	77
Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record	76
The occupation of cropland by global urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 and its implications	74
Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave	73
Induced innovation in energy technologies and systems: a review of evidence and potential implications for CO2 mitigation	71
Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014–2018 drought period?	71
Climate change mitigation through dietary change: a systematic review of empirical and modelling studies on the environmental footprints and health effects of ‘sustainable diets’	71
The impact of COVID-19 control measures on air quality in China	70
Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on Earth	70
Heat stress on agricultural workers exacerbates crop impacts of climate change	70
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space	68
Cities as carbon sinks—classification of wooden buildings	65
Ecological resilience: what to measure and how	65
Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters	64
Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security	64
Meta-analytic evidence for a robust and positive association between individuals’ pro-environmental behaviors and their subjective wellbeing	64
A multidimensional feasibility evaluation of low-carbon scenarios	63
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability	63
Assessing the sequestration time scales of some ocean-based carbon dioxide reduction strategies	63
Projected changes in seasonal precipitation extremes over the United States in CMIP6 simulations	63
All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal	63
How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?	63
Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective	63
IPCC baseline scenarios have over-projected CO2 emissions and economic growth	62
Climate impact and adaptation to heat and drought stress of regional and global wheat production	62

How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability	62
Dominance of summer monsoon flash droughts in India	62
Machine learning for aquatic plastic litter detection, classification and quantification (APLASTIC-Q)	62
A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance	62
Decent living gaps and energy needs around the world	62
Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks	62
The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally	61
Distribution and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Hg, Cd and Pb) in fish: influence of the aquatic environment and climate	61
Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning	61
The relationship between land surface temperature and artificial impervious surface fraction in 682 global cities: spatiotemporal variations and drivers	61
Post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India: assessing the impact of policy-related shifts in timing and amount of crop residue burnt	59
No perfect storm for crop yield failure in Germany	59
Changes in precipitation and air temperature contribute comparably to permafrost degradation in a warmer climate	59
Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map	59
Dynamic genesis potential index for diagnosing present-day and future global tropical cyclone genesis	58
Trends and drivers of African fossil fuel CO2 emissions 1990–2017	57
The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States	57
Anthropogenic warming of Tibetan Plateau and constrained future projection	57
Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States	57
Twenty years of European mountain permafrost dynamics—the PACE legacy	57
Airports and environmental sustainability: a comprehensive review	56
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	56
Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity	56
Carbon dioxide removal technologies are not born equal	55
Potential role of permafrost thaw on increasing Siberian river discharge	55
Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios	55
An assessment of data sources, data quality and changes in national forest monitoring capacities in the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005–2020	55
City-size bias in knowledge on the effects of urban nature on people and biodiversity	55
Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C	55
Global marine heatwave events using the new CMIP6 multi-model ensemble: from shortcomings in present climate to future projections	54
Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming	53
Project Coolbit: can your watch predict heat stress and thermal comfort sensation?	53
Risk and vulnerability of Mongolian grasslands under climate change	53
Saving resources and the climate? A systematic review of the circular economy and its mitigation potential	53
Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world	53
The role of direct air capture and negative emissions technologies in the shared socioeconomic pathways towards +1.5 °C and +2 °C futures	52
Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems	52
Prediction of coastal flooding risk under climate change impacts in South Korea using machine learning algorithms	52
Bridging observations, theory and numerical simulation of the ocean using machine learning	52
The potential of seaweed cultivation to achieve carbon neutrality and mitigate deoxygenation and eutrophication	52
Coal transitions—part 1: a systematic map and review of case study learnings from regional, national, and local coal phase-out experiences	51
Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods	51
Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels	50
Summer heat extremes in northern continents linked to developing ENSO events	50
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature	50
Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought	50
Defining El Niño indices in a warming climate	50
Contributions of ecological programs to vegetation restoration in arid and semiarid China	50
Global anthropogenic emissions in urban areas: patterns, trends, and challenges	49
Extreme dry and wet spells face changes in their duration and timing	49
The response of maize, sorghum, and soybean yield to growing-phase climate revealed with machine learning	49
Global importance of methane emissions from drainage ditches and canals	48
Majority of German citizens, US citizens and climate scientists support policy advocacy by climate researchers and expect greater political engagement	48
Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island: insights from the COVID-19 lockdown	48
From the Paris Agreement to corporate climate commitments: evaluation of seven methods for setting ‘science-based’ emission targets	48
COVID-19 and pathways to low-carbon air transport until 2050	47
Observed changes in flood hazard in Africa	47
Innovative recycling or extended use? Comparing the global warming potential of different ownership and end-of-life scenarios for textiles	47
Vulnerability of vegetation activities to drought in Central Asia	47
Personal assessment of urban heat exposure: a systematic review	47
Progress in climate change adaptation research	47
Low-impact land use pathways to deep decarbonization of electricity	47
Flash drought in Australia and its relationship to evaporative demand	47
Siberian taiga and tundra fire regimes from 2001–2020	47
Observed strong subsurface marine heatwaves in the tropical western Pacific Ocean	47
Global land use extent and dispersion within natural land cover using Landsat data	47
Agricultural intensification and land use change: assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect	46
Inferring ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations at fine spatial resolution applied to the TROPOMI satellite instrument	46
Hazardous air pollutant exposure as a contributing factor to COVID-19 mortality in the United States	46
Collaborative impact of the NAO and atmospheric blocking on European heatwaves, with a focus on the hot summer of 2018	46
Are cleaner cooking solutions clean enough? A systematic review and meta-analysis of particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations and exposures	46
Caspian Sea is eutrophying: the alarming message of satellite data	45
Aboveground carbon loss associated with the spread of ghost forests as sea levels rise	45
Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally	45
River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research	45
Energy infrastructure, NIMBYism, and public opinion: a systematic literature review of three decades of empirical survey literature	45
Projected changes in wind speed and wind energy potential over West Africa in CMIP6 models	45
A map of roadmaps for zero and low energy and carbon buildings worldwide	45
Urbanization alters rainfall extremes over the contiguous United States	45
Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires	45

Climate change mitigation in cities: a systematic scoping of case studies	45
Forests and emerging infectious diseases: unleashing the beast within	44
Projections of Arctic sea ice conditions and shipping routes in the twenty-first century using CMIP6 forcing scenarios	44
Energy system developments and investments in the decisive decade for the Paris Agreement goals	44
Spatial variation in household consumption-based carbon emission inventories for 1200 Japanese cities	44
Polyester microplastic fibers in soil increase nitrogen loss via leaching and decrease plant biomass production and N uptake	44
Estimating PM2.5-related premature mortality and morbidity associated with future wildfire emissions in the western US	44
A review of edible insect industrialization: scales of production and implications for sustainability	44
Early adaptation to heat waves and future reduction of air-conditioning energy use in Paris	43
Cleaner air reveals growing influence of climate on dissolved organic carbon trends in northern headwaters	43
Seasonal representation of extreme precipitation indices over the United States in CMIP6 present-day simulations	43
A striking growth of CO2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries	43
Egypt’s water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam filling scenarios	42
Migration towards Bangladesh coastlines projected to increase with sea-level rise through 2100	42
Climate change shifts forward flowering and reduces crop waterlogging stress	42
Shades of green: life cycle assessment of renewable energy projects financed through green bonds	42
The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries	42
Riverbank macrolitter in the Dutch Rhine–Meuse delta	42
Chesapeake legacies: the importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality	42
Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires	42
Mechanisms of the decadal variability of monsoon rainfall in the southern Tibetan Plateau	42
Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback	42
Drylands face potential threat of robust drought in the CMIP6 SSPs scenarios	42
The relationship between nuclear energy consumption and economic growth: evidence from Switzerland	42
Legacy effects of loss of beavers in the continental United States	42
Long-term crop rotation diversification enhances maize drought resistance through soil organic matter	42
Integrated assessment model diagnostics: key indicators and model evolution	42
Use of radar data for characterizing extreme precipitation at fine scales and short durations	41
Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: extreme events and inter-annual variability	41
Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems	41
The role of seafood in sustainable diets	41
Active layer thickness as a function of soil water content	41
Estimates of ozone concentrations and attributable mortality in urban, peri-urban and rural areas worldwide in 2019	41
Detection of NO2 pollution plumes from individual ships with the TROPOMI/S5P satellite sensor	41
Regional differentiation in climate change induced drought trends in the Netherlands	41
Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites	41
Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data	41
Increasing concurrence of wildfire drivers tripled megafire critical danger days in Southern California between1982 and 2018	41
Non-material contributions of wildlife to human well-being: a systematic review	41
How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales	41
Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling	41
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	41
Explaining successful and failed investments in U.S. carbon capture and storage using empirical and expert assessments	41
A review of mental health and wellbeing under climate change in small island developing states (SIDS)	41
Unprecedented decline in summertime surface ozone over eastern China in 2020 comparably attributable to anthropogenic emission reductions and meteorology	40
Exploring the exceptional performance of a deep learning stream temperature model and the value of streamflow data	40
Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape	40
Carbon intensity of corn ethanol in the United States: state of the science	40
Frequency and duration of low-wind-power events in Germany	40
Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing	40
Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions	40
Quantifying the carbon footprint reduction potential of lifestyle choices in Japan	40
Environmental impacts and resource use of urban agriculture: a systematic review and meta-analysis	40
What are the ingredients for food systems change towards sustainability?—Insights from the literature	39
From lab-to-road: real-world fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles	39
Evidence for the effectiveness of nature-based solutions to water issues in Africa	39
Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being	39
Future climate change significantly alters interannual wheat yield variability over half of harvested areas	39
Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model	39
Systematic map of the literature on carbon lock-in induced by long-lived capital	39
Quantifying the foodshed: a systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research	39
Early retirement of power plants in climate mitigation scenarios	39
Changes in precipitation variability across time scales in multiple global climate model large ensembles	39
Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions	39
Decarbonizing US passenger vehicle transport under electrification and automation uncertainty has a travel budget	39
Projected changes in fire size from daily spread potential in Canada over the 21st century	39
Heatwave effects on gross primary production of northern mid-latitude ecosystems	39
Valuing natural capital amidst rapid urbanization: assessing the gross ecosystem product (GEP) of China’s ‘Chang-Zhu-Tan’ megacity	38
Global labor loss due to humid heat exposure underestimated for outdoor workers	38
Global offshore wind energy resources using the new ERA-5 reanalysis	38
Streamflow stationarity in a changing world	38
Social inequalities in flooding inside and outside of floodplains during Hurricane Harvey	38
Rebound effects may jeopardize the resource savings of circular consumption: evidence from household material footprints	38
Accelerated decline of summer Arctic sea ice during 1850–2017 and the amplified Arctic warming during the recent decades	38
On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change	38
Combined impacts of climate and air pollution on human health and agricultural productivity	38
Mapping the maximum extents of urban green spaces in 1039 cities using dense satellite images	38
Examining the joint effects of heatwaves, air pollution, and green space on the risk of preterm birth in California	38
A carbon monitoring system for mapping regional, annual aboveground biomass across the northwestern USA	38
The impact of groundwater depletion on agricultural production in India	38
A review of the effects of wildfire smoke on the health and behavior of wildlife	37
Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots	37
Particulate dominance of organic carbon mobilization from thaw slumps on the Peel Plateau, NT: Quantification and implications for stream systems and permafrost carbon release	37
Near-real-time drought impact assessment: a text mining approach on the 2018/19 drought in Germany	37
Soil lifespans and how they can be extended by land use and management change	37
Climate change-related risks and adaptation potential in Central and South America during the 21st century	37
Probability of compound climate extremes in a changing climate: A copula-based study of hot, dry, and windy events in the central United States	37
The cost of stratospheric aerosol injection through 2100	37
Increasing population exposure to global warm-season concurrent dry and hot extremes under different warming levels	37
The importance of temporal resolution in modeling deep decarbonization of the electric power sector	37
Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective	37
Health and migration in the context of a changing climate: a systematic literature assessment	37
The sudden stratospheric warming in January 2021	37
Incorporating canopy structure from simulated GEDI lidar into bird species distribution models	37
Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change	36