Environmental Research Letters

Article	Citations
A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018	518
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	348
Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data	294
Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options	290
Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies	225
Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses	203
Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms	187
A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed	167
The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire	157
A systematic review of the energy and climate impacts of teleworking	156
Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions	150
Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming	150
Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base	146
Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance	138
Global surface air temperatures in CMIP6: historical performance and future changes	134
The CO2 reduction potential for the European industry via direct electrification of heat supply (power-to-heat)	133
Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe	133
Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects	129
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature	124
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation: a global evidence map of academic literature	118
Global food self-sufficiency in the 21st century under sustainable intensification of agriculture	114
Remote sensing of forest degradation: a review	109
Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?	104
The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice: a systematic and comprehensive review	104

Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe	103
Global simulations of marine plastic transport show plastic trapping in coastal zones	103
Plastics in the US: toward a material flow characterization of production, markets and end of life	101
Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models	99
Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1	98
Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature	97
Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal	97
Groundwater sustainability: a review of the interactions between science and policy	96
Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil	96
Machine learning assisted hybrid models can improve streamflow simulation in diverse catchments across the conterminous US	94
Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation	92
Projected changes in hot, dry and wet extreme events’ clusters in CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	90
Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis	89
Common but differentiated leadership: strategies and challenges for carbon neutrality by 2050 across industrialized economies	89
Future changes in precipitation extremes over Southeast Asia: insights from CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	86
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?	85
Ground-level ozone pollution in China: a synthesis of recent findings on influencing factors and impacts	83
Quantifying aviation’s contribution to global warming	83
Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI	82
A review of estimating population exposure to sea-level rise and the relevance for migration	81
Plausible 2005–2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 °C and 3 °C of warming by 2100	80
Determinants of low-carbon transport mode adoption: systematic review of reviews	80
Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record	79
The occupation of cropland by global urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 and its implications	77
Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave	76
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space	75
Induced innovation in energy technologies and systems: a review of evidence and potential implications for CO2 mitigation	74
Heat stress on agricultural workers exacerbates crop impacts of climate change	73
Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014–2018 drought period?	72
Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective	72
Climate change mitigation through dietary change: a systematic review of empirical and modelling studies on the environmental footprints and health effects of ‘sustainable diets’	72
Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on Earth	71
Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters	69
Ecological resilience: what to measure and how	69
Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks	69
Meta-analytic evidence for a robust and positive association between individuals’ pro-environmental behaviors and their subjective wellbeing	67
Cities as carbon sinks—classification of wooden buildings	67
Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security	65
A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance	65
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability	65
How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?	65
The relationship between land surface temperature and artificial impervious surface fraction in 682 global cities: spatiotemporal variations and drivers	64
A multidimensional feasibility evaluation of low-carbon scenarios	64
Climate impact and adaptation to heat and drought stress of regional and global wheat production	64
Decent living gaps and energy needs around the world	64
All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal	64
Dynamic genesis potential index for diagnosing present-day and future global tropical cyclone genesis	64
How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability	63
Machine learning for aquatic plastic litter detection, classification and quantification (APLASTIC-Q)	63
The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally	63

Dominance of summer monsoon flash droughts in India	63
Assessing the sequestration time scales of some ocean-based carbon dioxide reduction strategies	63
IPCC baseline scenarios have over-projected CO2 emissions and economic growth	63
Trends and drivers of African fossil fuel CO2 emissions 1990–2017	63
Distribution and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Hg, Cd and Pb) in fish: influence of the aquatic environment and climate	63
Projected changes in seasonal precipitation extremes over the United States in CMIP6 simulations	62
Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning	62
No perfect storm for crop yield failure in Germany	62
Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States	62
Post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India: assessing the impact of policy-related shifts in timing and amount of crop residue burnt	61
The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States	61
Anthropogenic warming of Tibetan Plateau and constrained future projection	61
Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map	61
Changes in precipitation and air temperature contribute comparably to permafrost degradation in a warmer climate	60
Carbon dioxide removal technologies are not born equal	59
Twenty years of European mountain permafrost dynamics—the PACE legacy	59
Airports and environmental sustainability: a comprehensive review	58
Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity	58
Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios	58
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	58
The potential of seaweed cultivation to achieve carbon neutrality and mitigate deoxygenation and eutrophication	56
Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods	56
Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C	56
Bridging observations, theory and numerical simulation of the ocean using machine learning	55
City-size bias in knowledge on the effects of urban nature on people and biodiversity	55
An assessment of data sources, data quality and changes in national forest monitoring capacities in the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005–2020	55
Global anthropogenic emissions in urban areas: patterns, trends, and challenges	55
Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems	55
Potential role of permafrost thaw on increasing Siberian river discharge	55
Risk and vulnerability of Mongolian grasslands under climate change	55
Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world	55
Global marine heatwave events using the new CMIP6 multi-model ensemble: from shortcomings in present climate to future projections	55
Saving resources and the climate? A systematic review of the circular economy and its mitigation potential	54
The role of direct air capture and negative emissions technologies in the shared socioeconomic pathways towards +1.5 °C and +2 °C futures	54
Contributions of ecological programs to vegetation restoration in arid and semiarid China	54
Project Coolbit: can your watch predict heat stress and thermal comfort sensation?	54
From the Paris Agreement to corporate climate commitments: evaluation of seven methods for setting ‘science-based’ emission targets	53
Prediction of coastal flooding risk under climate change impacts in South Korea using machine learning algorithms	53
Majority of German citizens, US citizens and climate scientists support policy advocacy by climate researchers and expect greater political engagement	52
Coal transitions—part 1: a systematic map and review of case study learnings from regional, national, and local coal phase-out experiences	52
The response of maize, sorghum, and soybean yield to growing-phase climate revealed with machine learning	51
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature	51
Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought	51
Defining El Niño indices in a warming climate	50
Global land use extent and dispersion within natural land cover using Landsat data	50
Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island: insights from the COVID-19 lockdown	50
Innovative recycling or extended use? Comparing the global warming potential of different ownership and end-of-life scenarios for textiles	50
Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels	50
Climate change shifts forward flowering and reduces crop waterlogging stress	50
Global importance of methane emissions from drainage ditches and canals	49
Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback	49
Agricultural intensification and land use change: assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect	48
COVID-19 and pathways to low-carbon air transport until 2050	48
Observed strong subsurface marine heatwaves in the tropical western Pacific Ocean	48
Aboveground carbon loss associated with the spread of ghost forests as sea levels rise	48
Progress in climate change adaptation research	48
Projected changes in wind speed and wind energy potential over West Africa in CMIP6 models	48
Personal assessment of urban heat exposure: a systematic review	48
Flash drought in Australia and its relationship to evaporative demand	47
Estimating PM2.5-related premature mortality and morbidity associated with future wildfire emissions in the western US	47
Observed changes in flood hazard in Africa	47
Projections of Arctic sea ice conditions and shipping routes in the twenty-first century using CMIP6 forcing scenarios	47
Cleaner air reveals growing influence of climate on dissolved organic carbon trends in northern headwaters	46
Energy system developments and investments in the decisive decade for the Paris Agreement goals	46
Hazardous air pollutant exposure as a contributing factor to COVID-19 mortality in the United States	46
Climate change mitigation in cities: a systematic scoping of case studies	46
Caspian Sea is eutrophying: the alarming message of satellite data	46
Inferring ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations at fine spatial resolution applied to the TROPOMI satellite instrument	46
Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally	46
Are cleaner cooking solutions clean enough? A systematic review and meta-analysis of particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations and exposures	46
Energy infrastructure, NIMBYism, and public opinion: a systematic literature review of three decades of empirical survey literature	46
Collaborative impact of the NAO and atmospheric blocking on European heatwaves, with a focus on the hot summer of 2018	46
Siberian taiga and tundra fire regimes from 2001–2020	46
A map of roadmaps for zero and low energy and carbon buildings worldwide	46
Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires	45
River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research	45
Polyester microplastic fibers in soil increase nitrogen loss via leaching and decrease plant biomass production and N uptake	45
Spatial variation in household consumption-based carbon emission inventories for 1200 Japanese cities	45
Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: extreme events and inter-annual variability	45
Drylands face potential threat of robust drought in the CMIP6 SSPs scenarios	45

The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries	44
Integrated assessment model diagnostics: key indicators and model evolution	44
The role of seafood in sustainable diets	44
Explaining successful and failed investments in U.S. carbon capture and storage using empirical and expert assessments	44
Long-term crop rotation diversification enhances maize drought resistance through soil organic matter	44
Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling	44
Egypt’s water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam filling scenarios	44
Regional differentiation in climate change induced drought trends in the Netherlands	44
Seasonal representation of extreme precipitation indices over the United States in CMIP6 present-day simulations	44
A review of edible insect industrialization: scales of production and implications for sustainability	44
Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires	43
Mechanisms of the decadal variability of monsoon rainfall in the southern Tibetan Plateau	43
Why was the heat wave in the Yangtze River valley abnormally intensified in late summer 2022?	43
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	43
Decarbonizing US passenger vehicle transport under electrification and automation uncertainty has a travel budget	43
Evidence for the effectiveness of nature-based solutions to water issues in Africa	43
Future climate change significantly alters interannual wheat yield variability over half of harvested areas	43
Increasing concurrence of wildfire drivers tripled megafire critical danger days in Southern California between1982 and 2018	43
A striking growth of CO2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries	43
Forests and emerging infectious diseases: unleashing the beast within	43
Shades of green: life cycle assessment of renewable energy projects financed through green bonds	43
Riverbank macrolitter in the Dutch Rhine–Meuse delta	43
Non-material contributions of wildlife to human well-being: a systematic review	42
Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions	42
Quantifying the carbon footprint reduction potential of lifestyle choices in Japan	42
Changes in precipitation variability across time scales in multiple global climate model large ensembles	42
Legacy effects of loss of beavers in the continental United States	42
The relationship between nuclear energy consumption and economic growth: evidence from Switzerland	42
How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales	42
Frequency and duration of low-wind-power events in Germany	42
Environmental impacts and resource use of urban agriculture: a systematic review and meta-analysis	42
Chesapeake legacies: the importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality	42
Migration towards Bangladesh coastlines projected to increase with sea-level rise through 2100	42
Detection of NO2 pollution plumes from individual ships with the TROPOMI/S5P satellite sensor	42
Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites	42
Active layer thickness as a function of soil water content	42
Estimates of ozone concentrations and attributable mortality in urban, peri-urban and rural areas worldwide in 2019	42
Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems	41
A review of mental health and wellbeing under climate change in small island developing states (SIDS)	41
A review of the effects of wildfire smoke on the health and behavior of wildlife	41
Exploring the exceptional performance of a deep learning stream temperature model and the value of streamflow data	41
Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing	41
Use of radar data for characterizing extreme precipitation at fine scales and short durations	41
Projected changes in fire size from daily spread potential in Canada over the 21st century	41
Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data	41
Unprecedented decline in summertime surface ozone over eastern China in 2020 comparably attributable to anthropogenic emission reductions and meteorology	41
Valuing natural capital amidst rapid urbanization: assessing the gross ecosystem product (GEP) of China’s ‘Chang-Zhu-Tan’ megacity	40
Accelerated decline of summer Arctic sea ice during 1850–2017 and the amplified Arctic warming during the recent decades	40
What are the ingredients for food systems change towards sustainability?—Insights from the literature	40
Streamflow stationarity in a changing world	40
Quantifying the foodshed: a systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research	40
Early retirement of power plants in climate mitigation scenarios	40
Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions	40
Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being	40
The impact of groundwater depletion on agricultural production in India	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	39
Work adaptations insufficient to address growing heat risk for U.S. agricultural workers	39
Mapping the maximum extents of urban green spaces in 1039 cities using dense satellite images	39
A carbon monitoring system for mapping regional, annual aboveground biomass across the northwestern USA	39
From lab-to-road: real-world fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles	39
Combined heat and drought suppress rainfed maize and soybean yields and modify irrigation benefits in the USA	39
The cost of stratospheric aerosol injection through 2100	39
Systematic map of the literature on carbon lock-in induced by long-lived capital	39
Land-based climate change mitigation potentials within the agenda for sustainable development	38
On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change	38
Near-real-time drought impact assessment: a text mining approach on the 2018/19 drought in Germany	38
Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change	38
Partitioning uncertainty in projections of Arctic sea ice	38
Rebound effects may jeopardize the resource savings of circular consumption: evidence from household material footprints	38
Examining the joint effects of heatwaves, air pollution, and green space on the risk of preterm birth in California	38
Health and migration in the context of a changing climate: a systematic literature assessment	38
Combined impacts of climate and air pollution on human health and agricultural productivity	38
Soil lifespans and how they can be extended by land use and management change	38
Climate change-related risks and adaptation potential in Central and South America during the 21st century	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
Population exposure to pre-emptive de-energization aimed at averting wildfires in Northern California	38
Social inequalities in flooding inside and outside of floodplains during Hurricane Harvey	38
The importance of temporal resolution in modeling deep decarbonization of the electric power sector	37
Social vulnerability in a multi-hazard context: a systematic review	37
Precipitation response to climate change and urban development over the continental United States	37
Probabilistic assessments of the impacts of compound dry and hot events on global vegetation during growing seasons	37
Increasing population exposure to global warm-season concurrent dry and hot extremes under different warming levels	37
Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots	37
Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective	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
Incorporating canopy structure from simulated GEDI lidar into bird species distribution models	37
A review of climate-change impact and adaptation studies for the water sector in Thailand	37
A spatially variable scarcity of floating microplastics in the eastern North Pacific Ocean	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 sudden stratospheric warming in January 2021	37
Substitution impacts of wood use at the market level: a systematic review	36
On the occurrence of the worst drought in South Asia in the observed and future climate	36
Ensuring that offsets and other internationally transferred mitigation outcomes contribute effectively to limiting global warming	36