Nature Climate Change

Article	Citations
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability	1014
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes	590
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change	544
Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change	477
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth	439
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right	422
Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change	392
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation	369
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	329
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes	312
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change	307
Climate change impacts on renewable energy supply	303
Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework	299
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure	260
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s	252
Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change	246
A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda	236
A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target	233
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being	206
A digital twin of Earth for the green transition	205
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	204
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink	203
Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades	201
Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era	198
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	198

Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene	196
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature	193
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation	190
Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply	182
Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities	180
Global multi-model projections of local urban climates	170
Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau	165
Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands	164
Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming	158
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws	152
Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels	151
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement	148
Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events	147
Aerosols in current and future Arctic climate	143
Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources	140
Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon	135
Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement	134
Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot	132
Future impacts of climate change on inland Ramsar wetlands	131
Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period	130
Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation	129
A social–ecological perspective on climate anxiety in children and adolescents	128
Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics	125
Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems	123
Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth	122
No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming	118
Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios	118
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting	116
Climate change risk to global port operations	115
Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change	113
Climate change increases global risk to urban forests	113
Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard	111
Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions	110
Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change	110
Systematic review of the outcomes and trade-offs of ten types of decarbonization policy instruments	109
The blue carbon wealth of nations	109
Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies	108
Growing polarization around climate change on social media	106
Dryland productivity under a changing climate	105
Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies	105
COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions	105
Uncertain storage prospects create a conundrum for carbon capture and storage ambitions	105
Atmospheric dynamic constraints on Tibetan Plateau freshwater under Paris climate targets	103
Impact of high-speed rail on road traffic and greenhouse gas emissions	101
Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat	101
Zonally contrasting shifts of the tropical rain belt in response to climate change	100
Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming	100
Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation	97
Estimating the global risk of anthropogenic climate change	97
Opposite response of strong and moderate positive Indian Ocean Dipole to global warming	96

Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	95
Temperatures that sterilize males better match global species distributions than lethal temperatures	94
Sources of uncertainty in long-term global scenarios of solar photovoltaic technology	92
Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate policy	91
Global changes in oceanic mesoscale currents over the satellite altimetry record	91
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming	90
Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions	89
Asymmetry in the climate–carbon cycle response to positive and negative CO2 emissions	86
A multi-model analysis of long-term emissions and warming implications of current mitigation efforts	86
Weakened evidence for mid-latitude impacts of Arctic warming	86
Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown	85
Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity	85
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation	84
Why residual emissions matter right now	83
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere	83
Future warming from global food consumption	81
Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation	81
Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programmes on public support for carbon pricing	80
Rebooting a failed promise of climate finance	79
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data	78
Increased ocean heat transport into the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean over the period 1993–2016	77
Maladaptation, migration and extirpation fuel climate change risk in a forest tree species	77
Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts	76
Impact of 1, 2 and 4 °C of global warming on ship navigation in the Canadian Arctic	76
Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields	76
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence	75
Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation	75
Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming	75
The importance of warm habitat to the growth regime of cold-water fishes	74
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates	74
Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress	73
Global patterns of geo-ecological controls on the response of soil respiration to warming	73
Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of United States high-tide flooding	73
Future high-resolution El Niño/Southern Oscillation dynamics	72
Differences in the temperature dependence of wetland CO2 and CH4 emissions vary with water table depth	71
Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink	71
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience	70
Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement	69
Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems	69
Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation depend on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls	68
African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates	68
Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions	67
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system	67
Phenological mismatches between above- and belowground plant responses to climate warming	65
An underestimated negative cloud feedback from cloud lifetime changes	65
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	64
Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches	64
Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict	63
2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions	62
Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction	62
Disturbance suppresses the aboveground carbon sink in North American boreal forests	61
Increase in Arctic coastal erosion and its sensitivity to warming in the twenty-first century	61
Trade-linked shipping CO2 emissions	60
Shifting Republican views on climate change through targeted advertising	60
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	58
Heat tolerance in ectotherms scales predictably with body size	56
Ratcheting of climate pledges needed to limit peak global warming	55
Emissions rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic	55
Permafrost thaw drives surface water decline across lake-rich regions of the Arctic	55
Eastern equatorial Pacific warming delayed by aerosols and thermostat response to CO2 increase	54
Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action	54
Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets	53
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change	53
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater	53
Rising risks of late-spring frosts in a changing climate	53
Observational constraint on cloud feedbacks suggests moderate climate sensitivity	53
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise	53
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide	52
Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy	51
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being	51
Prioritizing forestation based on biogeochemical and local biogeophysical impacts	51
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	50
Recent intensification of wetland methane feedback	50
Climate change literacy in Africa	50
Phenological shifts of abiotic events, producers and consumers across a continent	49
Don’t forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas	49
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model	49
Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing	49
A climate risk index for marine life	49
Ocean warming and accelerating Southern Ocean zonal flow	48

The great acceleration of plant phenological shifts	48
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing	48
Residual flood damage under intensive adaptation	48
Data-driven reconstruction reveals large-scale ocean circulation control on coastal sea level	47
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate	47
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure	47
Contribution of prioritized urban nature-based solutions allocation to carbon neutrality	46
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model	46
Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions	46
Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change	46
Net zero-emission pathways reduce the physical and economic risks of climate change	46
Climate and land-use changes reduce the benefits of terrestrial protected areas	46
The cost of mitigation revisited	45
Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation	45
Enhanced North Pacific impact on El Niño/Southern Oscillation under greenhouse warming	45
Decoupling of the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation in a warmer climate	45
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	44
Hot extremes have become drier in the United States Southwest	44
Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda	44
The impact of climate change on the productivity of conservation agriculture	44
Biocrusts mediate a new mechanism for land degradation under a changing climate	43
Climate change affects land-disposed waste	43
Integrated perspective on translating biophysical to economic impacts of climate change	43
Rapid, but limited, zooplankton adaptation to simultaneous warming and acidification	42
Socio-political feasibility of coal power phase-out and its role in mitigation pathways	42
Revisiting the promise of carbon labelling	42
The adverse consequences of global harvest and weather disruptions on economic activity	42
Determining the credibility of commitments in international climate policy	41
More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice	41
Observed influence of anthropogenic climate change on tropical cyclone heavy rainfall	40
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe	40
Robust decrease in El Niño/Southern Oscillation amplitude under long-term warming	40
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought	40
Trees outside of forests as natural climate solutions	39
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific	39
Genomic evidence of past and future climate-linked loss in a migratory Arctic fish	39
Weakening greenhouse gas sink of pristine wetlands under warming	39
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	39
Near-term transition and longer-term physical climate risks of greenhouse gas emissions pathways	38
Accountability and data-driven urban climate governance	38
The small scales of the ocean may hold the key to surprises	38
Humans, climate and streamflow	38
Definitions and implications of climate-neutral aviation	38
Natural variability has dominated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since 1900	38
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes	38
Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release	37
Novel wheat varieties facilitate deep sowing to beat the heat of changing climates	37
Teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system	37
Estimating the timing of geophysical commitment to 1.5 and 2.0 °C of global warming	36
Seasonal increase of methane emissions linked to warming in Siberian tundra	36
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C	36
Greater committed warming after accounting for the pattern effect	36
Imminent loss of climate space for permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia	36
Climate change upsets agriculture	36
The impact of near-real-time deforestation alerts across the tropics	36
A regime shift in seasonal total Antarctic sea ice extent in the twentieth century	36
Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems	35
Contextualizing cross-national patterns in household climate change adaptation	35
Adaptive emission reduction approach to reach any global warming target	35
Co-firing plants with retrofitted carbon capture and storage for power-sector emissions mitigation	35
Interbasin and interhemispheric impacts of a collapsed Atlantic Overturning Circulation	34
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	34
Increasing sequential tropical cyclone hazards along the US East and Gulf coasts	34
The value of values in climate science	34
Long-term evolution of ocean eddy activity in a warming world	34
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	34
Increasing terrestrial ecosystem carbon release in response to autumn cooling and warming	33
A framework for national scenarios with varying emission reductions	33
Decreasing rainfall frequency contributes to earlier leaf onset in northern ecosystems	33
Global decline of pelagic fauna in a warmer ocean	33
Publisher Correction: Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	33
Freshwater forcing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation revisited	33
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	33
The surprisingly inexpensive cost of state-driven emission control strategies	32
Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes	32
Using large ensembles of climate change mitigation scenarios for robust insights	32
Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations	32
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding	31
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges	31
Unintended consequences of climate change mitigation for African river basins	31
Widespread deoxygenation in warming rivers	31
Navigating the continuum between adaptation and maladaptation	31
Social cost of carbon estimates have increased over time	31
Co-benefits of carbon neutrality in enhancing and stabilizing solar and wind energy	30
Future Southern Ocean warming linked to projected ENSO variability	30
Towards climate-smart, three-dimensional protected areas for biodiversity conservation in the high seas	30
Achieving Paris climate goals calls for increasing ambition of the Kigali Amendment	30
Emergence of seasonal delay of tropical rainfall during 1979–2019	30
Stratospheric ozone depletion and tropospheric ozone increases drive Southern Ocean interior warming	29
The critical benefits of snowpack insulation and snowmelt for winter wheat productivity	29
Meta-analysis on necessary investment shifts to reach net zero pathways in Europe	29
Restructuring of plankton genomic biogeography in the surface ocean under climate change	29
A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to rising CO2	29
Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action	29
How the USA can benefit from risk-based premiums combined with flood protection	28