Nature Geoscience

Article	Citations
Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale	519
Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources	449
Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity	391
Biochar in climate change mitigation	308
Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle	244
Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017	225
Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium	210
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade	208
Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	190
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability	186
Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves	174
Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China	152
Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement	141
Increased carbon footprint of materials production driven by rise in investments	135
Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers	125
The state of rock debris covering Earth’s glaciers	123
Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide	120
Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings	113
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration	110
Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation	110
Rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in recent years hints at future change	104
Enhanced aerosol particle growth sustained by high continental chlorine emission in India	101
Phosphorus as an integral component of global marine biogeochemistry	100
Corona structures driven by plume–lithosphere interactions and evidence for ongoing plume activity on Venus	97
Coupled anaerobic methane oxidation and reductive arsenic mobilization in wetland soils	88

High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability	86
Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions	85
Permian–Triassic mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations	83
Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing	82
Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion	81
Arctic fires re-emerging	81
Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock	81
Global carbon budget of reservoirs is overturned by the quantification of drawdown areas	80
Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming	79
A biogeochemical–hydrological framework for the role of redox-active compounds in aquatic systems	79
Secondary organic aerosol formed by condensing anthropogenic vapours over China’s megacities	79
Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation	78
Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes	75
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course	73
Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy	72
Drought self-propagation in drylands due to land–atmosphere feedbacks	72
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates	72
Molecular trade-offs in soil organic carbon composition at continental scale	71
A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars	70
Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies	69
Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system	68
Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion	65
Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways	63
A shift in sulfur-cycle manipulation from atmospheric emissions to agricultural additions	62
Open ocean and coastal new particle formation from sulfuric acid and amines around the Antarctic Peninsula	62
Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period	61
Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom	61
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport	61
Slip-rate-dependent friction as a universal mechanism for slow slip events	60
Confronting the water potential information gap	60
Intensification of El Niño-induced atmospheric anomalies under greenhouse warming	60
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat	60
A nutrient control on marine anoxia during the end-Permian mass extinction	60
Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage	58
Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world	58
Equilibrium climate sensitivity above 5 °C plausible due to state-dependent cloud feedback	57
Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19	56
Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed material	56
Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions	56
Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe	55
A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation	55
Carbon and nitrogen cycling in Yedoma permafrost controlled by microbial functional limitations	54
Valley formation on early Mars by subglacial and fluvial erosion	54
Global nitrous acid emissions and levels of regional oxidants enhanced by wildfires	53
Calcium carbonate dissolution patterns in the ocean	53
Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes	52
Marsh resilience to sea-level rise reduced by storm-surge barriers in the Venice Lagoon	51
Slip rate deficit and earthquake potential on shallow megathrusts	51
Suppression of surface ozone by an aerosol-inhibited photochemical ozone regime	49
Synergistic effects of four climate change drivers on terrestrial carbon cycling	49

Potential impacts of atmospheric microplastics and nanoplastics on cloud formation processes	49
Large-scale thermal unrest of volcanoes for years prior to eruption	49
Future warming exacerbated by aged-soot effect on cloud formation	49
Arctic sea-ice loss fuels extreme European snowfall	48
Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 Mw 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake	47
Projections of tropical heat stress constrained by atmospheric dynamics	46
A tree of Indo-African mantle plumes imaged by seismic tomography	46
Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends	46
Fluvial organic carbon cycling regulated by sediment transit time and mineral protection	46
Biological nitrogen fixation detected under Antarctic sea ice	46
Manage fire regimes, not fires	45
Pacific shoreline erosion and accretion patterns controlled by El Niño/Southern Oscillation	45
Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability	45
Drought resistance enhanced by tree species diversity in global forests	44
Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene	44
Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts	44
Dominant role of mineral dust in cirrus cloud formation revealed by global-scale measurements	43
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion	42
Global chemical weathering dominated by continental arcs since the mid-Palaeozoic	42
Microbial methylation potential of mercury sulfide particles dictated by surface structure	42
Biogenic particles formed in the Himalaya as an important source of free tropospheric aerosols	41
Global patterns of water storage in the rooting zones of vegetation	41
Winter particulate pollution severity in North China driven by atmospheric teleconnections	41
Explosive or effusive style of volcanic eruption determined by magma storage conditions	40
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply	40
A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North	40
Disproportionate control on aerosol burden by light rain	40
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris	39
A fundamental role of carbonate–sulfate melts in the formation of iron oxide–apatite deposits	39
Sinking enhances the degradation of organic particles by marine bacteria	39
Superionic iron oxide–hydroxide in Earth’s deep mantle	39
Impact of warmer climate periods on flood hazard in the European Alps	39
The role of environmental factors in the long-term evolution of the marine biological pump	39
A further source of Tokyo earthquakes and Pacific Ocean tsunamis	39
A world view of pesticides	38
Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical land	38
Heinrich Stadial aridity forced Mediterranean-wide glacier retreat in the last cold stage	38
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya	38
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	38
Spatiotemporal clustering of great earthquakes on a transform fault controlled by geometry	38
Orange hydrogen is the new green	38
Conservation slows down emission increase from a tropical peatland in Indonesia	37
Temperature control on CO2 emissions from the weathering of sedimentary rocks	37
Antarctic ice-shelf advance driven by anomalous atmospheric and sea-ice circulation	37
Calibrating the marine turbidite palaeoseismometer using the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake	37
Distinct slab interfaces imaged within the mantle transition zone	37
Amazonian forest degradation must be incorporated into the COP26 agenda	36
Coupled Southern Ocean cooling and Antarctic ice sheet expansion during the middle Miocene	36
Effect of tectonic processes on biosphere–geosphere feedbacks across a convergent margin	34
Large subglacial source of mercury from the southwestern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet	34
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability	34
Sub-aerial talik formation observed across the discontinuous permafrost zone of Alaska	34
Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions	34
Carbon fixation rates in groundwater similar to those in oligotrophic marine systems	34
Constraint on net primary productivity of the global ocean by Argo oxygen measurements	34
The vertical structure of CO in the Martian atmosphere from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter	33
Eruptive activity of the Santorini Volcano controlled by sea-level rise and fall	33
Active crustal differentiation beneath the Rio Grande Rift	33
Atlantic circulation change still uncertain	33
Surface characteristics of the Zhurong Mars rover traverse at Utopia Planitia	33
Rapid glacier retreat rates observed in West Antarctica	33
Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances	33
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe	33
Half of global agricultural soil phosphorus fertility derived from anthropogenic sources	33
Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation	33
Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900–2060	32
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols	32
Direct astronomical influence on abrupt climate variability	32
Quantifying the physical processes leading to atmospheric hot extremes at a global scale	32
Atmospheric CO2 control of spontaneous millennial-scale ice age climate oscillations	32
Rates of protoplanetary accretion and differentiation set nitrogen budget of rocky planets	32
Carbon concentration increases with depth of melting in Earth’s upper mantle	32
Earth’s Great Oxidation Event facilitated by the rise of sedimentary phosphorus recycling	32
Implications of the iron oxide phase transition on the interiors of rocky exoplanets	31
Machine learning reveals climate forcing from aerosols is dominated by increased cloud cover	31
Springtime arctic ozone depletion forces northern hemisphere climate anomalies	31
Last glacial atmospheric CO2 decline due to widespread Pacific deep-water expansion	30
Postseismic geodetic signature of cold forearc mantle in subduction zones	30
Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle	30
Arctic Ocean stratification set by sea level and freshwater inputs since the last ice age	30

A pole-to-equator ocean overturning circulation on Enceladus	29
Cyclical geothermal unrest as a precursor to Iceland’s 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption	29
Lunar compositional asymmetry explained by mantle overturn following the South Pole–Aitken impact	29
Localized fault-zone dilatancy and surface inelasticity of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes	29
Sea spray as an obscured source for marine cloud nuclei	29
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	29
Multi-decadal trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent driven by ENSO–SAM over the last 2,000 years	29
Upper-plate controls on subduction zone geometry, hydration and earthquake behaviour	28
Possible link between Earth’s rotation rate and oxygenation	28
Influence of biogenic emissions from boreal forests on aerosol–cloud interactions	28
Methane hydrate dissociation across the Oligocene–Miocene boundary	28
Long-distance atmospheric transport of microplastic fibres influenced by their shapes	28
Oxygen priming induced by elevated CO2 reduces carbon accumulation and methane emissions in coastal wetlands	28
Oceanic transform fault seismicity and slip mode influenced by seawater infiltration	28
Slab-derived devolatilization fluids oxidized by subducted metasedimentary rocks	28
Contrasting effects of aridity and seasonality on global salinization	28
Pyrogenic carbon decomposition critical to resolving fire’s role in the Earth system	28
Acceleration of a large deep-seated tropical landslide due to urbanization feedbacks	28
A poorly mixed mantle transition zone and its thermal state inferred from seismic waves	27
Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru	27
Fire enhances forest degradation within forest edge zones in Africa	27
Materials and pathways of the organic carbon cycle through time	27
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era	27
Marine organic carbon burial increased forest fire frequency during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2	26
Paleofloods stage a comeback	26
Archaean seafloors shallowed with age due to radiogenic heating in the mantle	26
Nonlinear forcing of climate on mountain denudation during glaciations	26
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon	26
Distinct sources of interannual subtropical and subpolar Atlantic overturning variability	25
Fault strength and rupture process controlled by fault surface topography	25
Stress, rigidity and sediment strength control megathrust earthquake and tsunami dynamics	25
Correlation of porosity variations and rheological transitions on the southern Cascadia megathrust	25
Global dominance of tectonics over climate in shaping river longitudinal profiles	25
Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data	25
Recent strengthening of snow and ice albedo feedback driven by Antarctic sea-ice loss	25
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade	25
Neogene South Asian monsoon rainfall and wind histories diverged due to topographic effects	25
Boosting geoscience data sharing in China	25
Fluid migration in low-permeability faults driven by decoupling of fault slip and opening	25
Soil organic matter formation and loss are mediated by root exudates in a temperate forest	25
Continuum of earthquake rupture speeds enabled by oblique slip	25
Submarine melting of glaciers in Greenland amplified by atmospheric warming	24
Preferential localized thinning of lithospheric mantle in the melt-poor Malawi Rift	24
Subslab heterogeneity and giant megathrust earthquakes	24
Regulation of ionospheric plasma velocities by thermospheric winds	24
Accrual of widespread rock damage from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes	24
Transient ocean oxygenation at end-Permian mass extinction onset shown by thallium isotopes	24
Enhanced dust emission following large wildfires due to vegetation disturbance	24
Penultimate deglaciation Asian monsoon response to North Atlantic circulation collapse	24
A century of groundwater accumulation in Pakistan and northwest India	24
Fracturing and healing of basaltic magmas during explosive volcanic eruptions	24
Emergence of Southern Hemisphere stratospheric circulation changes in response to ozone recovery	24
An unshakable carbon budget for the Himalaya	23
Forest vulnerability to drought controlled by bedrock composition	23
Topographic stress control on bedrock landslide size	23
Late Cenozoic climate change paces landscape adjustments to Yukon River capture	23
Dynamic history of the inner core constrained by seismic anisotropy	23
Eocene to Oligocene terrestrial Southern Hemisphere cooling caused by declining pCO2	23
A seawater-sulfate origin for early Earth’s volcanic sulfur	23
Simple shear origin of the cross-faults ruptured in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence	22
Bedrock weathering contributes to subsurface reactive nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions	22
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services	22
Brittle fragmentation by rapid gas separation in a Hawaiian fountain	22
Decreasing subseasonal temperature variability in the northern extratropics attributed to human influence	22