Nature Geoscience

Article	Citations
Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale	625
Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources	525
Biochar in climate change mitigation	406
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade	270
Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017	249
Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium	231
Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	224
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability	208
Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement	173
Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China	162
Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers	151
Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide	150
Increased carbon footprint of materials production driven by rise in investments	147
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration	140
Phosphorus as an integral component of global marine biogeochemistry	123
Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings	123
Rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in recent years hints at future change	115
High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability	111
Enhanced aerosol particle growth sustained by high continental chlorine emission in India	105
Coupled anaerobic methane oxidation and reductive arsenic mobilization in wetland soils	105
Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion	98
Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways	98
A biogeochemical–hydrological framework for the role of redox-active compounds in aquatic systems	98
Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing	97
Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock	96

Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions	95
Global carbon budget of reservoirs is overturned by the quantification of drawdown areas	95
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates	93
Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation	88
Secondary organic aerosol formed by condensing anthropogenic vapours over China’s megacities	86
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport	84
Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes	83
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course	82
Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage	81
Drought self-propagation in drylands due to land–atmosphere feedbacks	80
A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars	78
Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system	76
Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies	74
Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy	74
Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom	73
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris	73
Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes	72
Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world	72
Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19	70
Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion	70
Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions	70
Open ocean and coastal new particle formation from sulfuric acid and amines around the Antarctic Peninsula	69
Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period	69
Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends	69
Potential impacts of atmospheric microplastics and nanoplastics on cloud formation processes	68
Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe	68
Confronting the water potential information gap	67
Intensification of El Niño-induced atmospheric anomalies under greenhouse warming	65
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat	65
Pacific shoreline erosion and accretion patterns controlled by El Niño/Southern Oscillation	63
Synergistic effects of four climate change drivers on terrestrial carbon cycling	61
Carbon and nitrogen cycling in Yedoma permafrost controlled by microbial functional limitations	60
Marsh resilience to sea-level rise reduced by storm-surge barriers in the Venice Lagoon	59
Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability	59
Fluvial organic carbon cycling regulated by sediment transit time and mineral protection	58
A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation	58
Calcium carbonate dissolution patterns in the ocean	57
Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances	56
Orange hydrogen is the new green	56
A tree of Indo-African mantle plumes imaged by seismic tomography	56
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya	56
Arctic sea-ice loss fuels extreme European snowfall	56
Suppression of surface ozone by an aerosol-inhibited photochemical ozone regime	55
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade	55
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon	54
Slip rate deficit and earthquake potential on shallow megathrusts	54
Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts	54
Large-scale thermal unrest of volcanoes for years prior to eruption	53
Drought resistance enhanced by tree species diversity in global forests	53
Projections of tropical heat stress constrained by atmospheric dynamics	53

Microbial methylation potential of mercury sulfide particles dictated by surface structure	52
A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North	51
Global chemical weathering dominated by continental arcs since the mid-Palaeozoic	51
Dominant role of mineral dust in cirrus cloud formation revealed by global-scale measurements	49
Manage fire regimes, not fires	49
Half of global agricultural soil phosphorus fertility derived from anthropogenic sources	49
Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900–2060	48
Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical land	48
Biogenic particles formed in the Himalaya as an important source of free tropospheric aerosols	47
Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene	47
Disproportionate control on aerosol burden by light rain	47
Sinking enhances the degradation of organic particles by marine bacteria	47
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion	47
Impact of warmer climate periods on flood hazard in the European Alps	46
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply	45
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe	45
Soil organic matter formation and loss are mediated by root exudates in a temperate forest	45
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability	45
Long-distance atmospheric transport of microplastic fibres influenced by their shapes	45
Explosive or effusive style of volcanic eruption determined by magma storage conditions	45
Winter particulate pollution severity in North China driven by atmospheric teleconnections	44
Global patterns of water storage in the rooting zones of vegetation	44
Temperature control on CO2 emissions from the weathering of sedimentary rocks	44
Earth’s Great Oxidation Event facilitated by the rise of sedimentary phosphorus recycling	44
The role of environmental factors in the long-term evolution of the marine biological pump	43
Distinct slab interfaces imaged within the mantle transition zone	42
Calibrating the marine turbidite palaeoseismometer using the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake	41
A further source of Tokyo earthquakes and Pacific Ocean tsunamis	41
Effect of tectonic processes on biosphere–geosphere feedbacks across a convergent margin	41
Spatiotemporal clustering of great earthquakes on a transform fault controlled by geometry	41
Heinrich Stadial aridity forced Mediterranean-wide glacier retreat in the last cold stage	40
Conservation slows down emission increase from a tropical peatland in Indonesia	40
A world view of pesticides	40
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	40
Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions	40
Carbon fixation rates in groundwater similar to those in oligotrophic marine systems	40
Superionic iron oxide–hydroxide in Earth’s deep mantle	40
Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation	39
Slab-derived devolatilization fluids oxidized by subducted metasedimentary rocks	38
Springtime arctic ozone depletion forces northern hemisphere climate anomalies	38
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	38
Antarctic ice-shelf advance driven by anomalous atmospheric and sea-ice circulation	38
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols	38
Sea spray as an obscured source for marine cloud nuclei	38
Rates of protoplanetary accretion and differentiation set nitrogen budget of rocky planets	38
Amazonian forest degradation must be incorporated into the COP26 agenda	38
Lunar compositional asymmetry explained by mantle overturn following the South Pole–Aitken impact	37
Large subglacial source of mercury from the southwestern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet	37
Quantifying the physical processes leading to atmospheric hot extremes at a global scale	37
Surface characteristics of the Zhurong Mars rover traverse at Utopia Planitia	37
Machine learning reveals climate forcing from aerosols is dominated by increased cloud cover	37
Rapid glacier retreat rates observed in West Antarctica	36
Sub-aerial talik formation observed across the discontinuous permafrost zone of Alaska	36
The vertical structure of CO in the Martian atmosphere from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter	36
Contrasting effects of aridity and seasonality on global salinization	36
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon	36
Direct astronomical influence on abrupt climate variability	36
Pyrogenic carbon decomposition critical to resolving fire’s role in the Earth system	36
Eruptive activity of the Santorini Volcano controlled by sea-level rise and fall	35
Constraint on net primary productivity of the global ocean by Argo oxygen measurements	35
Methane hydrate dissociation across the Oligocene–Miocene boundary	35
Atlantic circulation change still uncertain	35
Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle	34
Carbon concentration increases with depth of melting in Earth’s upper mantle	34
Oxygen priming induced by elevated CO2 reduces carbon accumulation and methane emissions in coastal wetlands	34
Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennium	33
Possible link between Earth’s rotation rate and oxygenation	33
Acceleration of a large deep-seated tropical landslide due to urbanization feedbacks	33
Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru	32
Atmospheric CO2 control of spontaneous millennial-scale ice age climate oscillations	32
Fault strength and rupture process controlled by fault surface topography	32
Fluid migration in low-permeability faults driven by decoupling of fault slip and opening	32
Influence of biogenic emissions from boreal forests on aerosol–cloud interactions	32
A poorly mixed mantle transition zone and its thermal state inferred from seismic waves	32
Arctic Ocean stratification set by sea level and freshwater inputs since the last ice age	32
Cyclical geothermal unrest as a precursor to Iceland’s 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption	32
Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data	31
Postseismic geodetic signature of cold forearc mantle in subduction zones	31
Neogene South Asian monsoon rainfall and wind histories diverged due to topographic effects	31
Implications of the iron oxide phase transition on the interiors of rocky exoplanets	31

Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era	31
Multi-decadal trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent driven by ENSO–SAM over the last 2,000 years	31
Boosting geoscience data sharing in China	30
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services	30
A century of groundwater accumulation in Pakistan and northwest India	30
Persistent late Permian to Early Triassic warmth linked to enhanced reverse weathering	30
Oceanic transform fault seismicity and slip mode influenced by seawater infiltration	30
Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	30
Upper-plate controls on subduction zone geometry, hydration and earthquake behaviour	30
Fire enhances forest degradation within forest edge zones in Africa	30
Forest vulnerability to drought controlled by bedrock composition	29
A pole-to-equator ocean overturning circulation on Enceladus	29
Decreasing subseasonal temperature variability in the northern extratropics attributed to human influence	29
Archaean seafloors shallowed with age due to radiogenic heating in the mantle	28
Recent strengthening of snow and ice albedo feedback driven by Antarctic sea-ice loss	28
Enhanced dust emission following large wildfires due to vegetation disturbance	28
Global dominance of tectonics over climate in shaping river longitudinal profiles	28
Uncertainty in US forest carbon storage potential due to climate risks	28
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust	27
Submarine melting of glaciers in Greenland amplified by atmospheric warming	27
Stress, rigidity and sediment strength control megathrust earthquake and tsunami dynamics	27
Dynamic history of the inner core constrained by seismic anisotropy	27
A solar wind-derived water reservoir on the Moon hosted by impact glass beads	27
Paleofloods stage a comeback	27
End-Permian marine extinction due to temperature-driven nutrient recycling and euxinia	27
Dynamics of the abrupt change in Pacific Plate motion around 50 million years ago	27
Fracturing and healing of basaltic magmas during explosive volcanic eruptions	26
Distinct sources of interannual subtropical and subpolar Atlantic overturning variability	26
Continuum of earthquake rupture speeds enabled by oblique slip	26
Sustained emission reductions have restrained the ozone pollution over China	26
Nonlinear forcing of climate on mountain denudation during glaciations	26
Regulation of ionospheric plasma velocities by thermospheric winds	25
Impaired viral infection and reduced mortality of diatoms in iron-limited oceanic regions	25
Correlation of porosity variations and rheological transitions on the southern Cascadia megathrust	25
Abrupt episode of mid-Cretaceous ocean acidification triggered by massive volcanism	25
Increased interglacial atmospheric CO2 levels followed the mid-Pleistocene Transition	25
Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution	25
Emergence of Southern Hemisphere stratospheric circulation changes in response to ozone recovery	25
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone	25
Internal structure of ultralow-velocity zones consistent with origin from a basal magma ocean	25
Transient ocean oxygenation at end-Permian mass extinction onset shown by thallium isotopes	25
An unshakable carbon budget for the Himalaya	25
Simple shear origin of the cross-faults ruptured in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence	25
Astronomically controlled aridity in the Sahara since at least 11 million years ago	25
Temporal patterns of soil carbon emission in tropical forests under long-term nitrogen deposition	25
Eocene to Oligocene terrestrial Southern Hemisphere cooling caused by declining pCO2	25
Muted multidecadal climate variability in central Europe during cold stadial periods	24
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting	24
Accrual of widespread rock damage from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes	24
Brittle fragmentation by rapid gas separation in a Hawaiian fountain	24
Penultimate deglaciation Asian monsoon response to North Atlantic circulation collapse	24
Climate-driven decoupling of wetland and upland biomass trends on the mid-Atlantic coast	24
Subslab heterogeneity and giant megathrust earthquakes	24
Crater population on asteroid (101955) Bennu indicates impact armouring and a young surface	24
Substantial contribution of iodine to Arctic ozone destruction	23
The biogeochemical balance of oceanic nickel cycling	23
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome	23
The diverse meteorology of Jezero crater over the first 250 sols of Perseverance on Mars	23
Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming	23
Recovery from microplastic-induced marine deoxygenation may take centuries	23
Topographic stress control on bedrock landslide size	23
Jurassic greenhouse ice-sheet fluctuations sensitive to atmospheric CO2 dynamics	23
Bedrock weathering contributes to subsurface reactive nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions	23
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation	22
Dissolved organic phosphorus concentrations in the surface ocean controlled by both phosphate and iron stress	22
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment	22
Increased typhoon activity in the Pacific deep tropics driven by Little Ice Age circulation changes	22
Global patterns in marine organic matter stoichiometry driven by phytoplankton ecophysiology	22
The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere	22
Machine learning in Earth and environmental science requires education and research policy reforms	22
Dominant role of soil moisture in mediating carbon and water fluxes in dryland ecosystems	22
Antarctic basal environment shaped by high-pressure flow through a subglacial river system	21
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters	21
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting	21
Fluid transport and storage in the Cascadia forearc influenced by overriding plate lithology	21
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet	21
Glacial deep ocean deoxygenation driven by biologically mediated air–sea disequilibrium	21
Nitrogen isotopic constraints on nutrient transport to the upper ocean	21