Nature Climate Change

Article	Citations
Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement	1364
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability	686
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes	428
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change	401
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19	385
Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change	348
The hydrogen solution?	343
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth	340
Understanding and managing connected extreme events	270
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation	268
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right	264
The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale	249
Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change	243
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	243
Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework	240
Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990	236
Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century	228
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes	223
Climate change impacts on renewable energy supply	221
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change	207
Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic	199
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure	198
Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt	186
A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda	186
Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change	184

Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s	182
A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target	171
Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era	170
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	166
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink	166
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	164
Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation	163
A meta-analysis of country-level studies on environmental change and migration	159
Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean	159
A digital twin of Earth for the green transition	157
Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts	156
The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage	149
Global multi-model projections of local urban climates	149
Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades	148
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation	146
Crafting strong, integrated policy mixes for deep CO2 mitigation in road transport	137
Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change	136
Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands	136
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature	136
Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply	135
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being	134
Extremes become routine in an emerging new Arctic	132
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement	131
Climate change and locust outbreak in East Africa	126
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene	126
Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming	125
Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement	124
Food–energy–water implications of negative emissions technologies in a +1.5 °C future	118
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets	117
Electrification of light-duty vehicle fleet alone will not meet mitigation targets	117
Sandy beaches can survive sea-level rise	117
Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities	117
Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises	116
An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands	114
Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade	114
Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels	114
Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom	111
Aerosols in current and future Arctic climate	109
Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources	109
Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts	109
Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events	108
Plant hydraulics accentuates the effect of atmospheric moisture stress on transpiration	106
Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period	105
Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon	105
Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate	104
Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot	103
No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming	103
The co-evolution of technological promises, modelling, policies and climate change targets	103
Future impacts of climate change on inland Ramsar wetlands	102
Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau	102

Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia	101
Warming trends increasingly dominate global ocean	99
Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems	97
The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems	96
Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics	96
Multiple drivers of the North Atlantic warming hole	96
COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions	94
Vegetation feedbacks during drought exacerbate ozone air pollution extremes in Europe	93
Light limitation regulates the response of autumn terrestrial carbon uptake to warming	93
Climate velocity reveals increasing exposure of deep-ocean biodiversity to future warming	92
Equity in allocating carbon dioxide removal quotas	91
Zonally contrasting shifts of the tropical rain belt in response to climate change	89
Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios	89
The blue carbon wealth of nations	89
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws	89
Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat	88
Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth	88
Climate change risk to global port operations	88
A near-term to net zero alternative to the social cost of carbon for setting carbon prices	87
Atmospheric dynamic constraints on Tibetan Plateau freshwater under Paris climate targets	86
Disconnects between ecological theory and data in phenological mismatch research	85
The evolution of ideas in global climate policy	85
The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate	84
Leaf senescence exhibits stronger climatic responses during warm than during cold autumns	83
Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant communities	83
Systematic review of the outcomes and trade-offs of ten types of decarbonization policy instruments	81
Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies	81
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting	81
Impact of high-speed rail on road traffic and greenhouse gas emissions	81
A social–ecological perspective on climate anxiety in children and adolescents	80
Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard	80
Opposite response of strong and moderate positive Indian Ocean Dipole to global warming	79
Carbon intensity of global crude oil refining and mitigation potential	79
Global changes in oceanic mesoscale currents over the satellite altimetry record	79
Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate policy	79
Drought less predictable under declining future snowpack	79
Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades	79
Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions	78
Sources of uncertainty in long-term global scenarios of solar photovoltaic technology	78
Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies	77
Diminishing CO2-driven gains in water-use efficiency of global forests	77
Weakened evidence for mid-latitude impacts of Arctic warming	76
Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions	76
Temperatures that sterilize males better match global species distributions than lethal temperatures	75
Increasing threat of coastal groundwater hazards from sea-level rise in California	75
Performance determinants show European cities are delivering on climate mitigation	74
Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity	74
Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation	74
Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity	73
Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	72
Reduced efficiency of the Barents Sea cooling machine	72
Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change	72
Uncertain storage prospects create a conundrum for carbon capture and storage ambitions	72
Increased ocean heat transport into the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean over the period 1993–2016	71
High climate sensitivity in CMIP6 model not supported by paleoclimate	69
Fasting season length sets temporal limits for global polar bear persistence	69
Asymmetry in the climate–carbon cycle response to positive and negative CO2 emissions	69
Winter temperatures predominate in spring phenological responses to warming	68
Arctic sea-ice loss intensifies aerosol transport to the Tibetan Plateau	68
A multi-model analysis of long-term emissions and warming implications of current mitigation efforts	68
Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation	68
Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss	68
The importance of warm habitat to the growth regime of cold-water fishes	68
Reconciling theory with the reality of African heatwaves	67
Climate change increases global risk to urban forests	67
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming	67
Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change	66
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data	66
Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming	66
Fair-share carbon dioxide removal increases major emitter responsibility	64
Estimating the global risk of anthropogenic climate change	64
Maladaptation, migration and extirpation fuel climate change risk in a forest tree species	64
Relocation planning must address voluntary immobility	63
Rebooting a failed promise of climate finance	63
Disproportionate increase in freshwater methane emissions induced by experimental warming	63
Impact of 1, 2 and 4 °C of global warming on ship navigation in the Canadian Arctic	62
Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress	59
Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change	58
Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown	58
Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation	58

Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of United States high-tide flooding	58
Future high-resolution El Niño/Southern Oscillation dynamics	57
Keeping infrastructure reliable under climate uncertainty	57
Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming	57
Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions	56
Enhanced warming constrained by past trends in equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature gradient	55
African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates	54
Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions	54
Economic and social constraints on reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia	53
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates	53
Global patterns of geo-ecological controls on the response of soil respiration to warming	53
Circumpolar projections of Antarctic krill growth potential	53
Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation	52
Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programmes on public support for carbon pricing	51
Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement	50
Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions	50
Addressing power imbalances in co-production	50
Dryland productivity under a changing climate	50
Eastern equatorial Pacific warming delayed by aerosols and thermostat response to CO2 increase	49
Renewable energy targets may undermine their sustainability	49
Disturbance suppresses the aboveground carbon sink in North American boreal forests	49
Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation depend on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls	49
Differences in the temperature dependence of wetland CO2 and CH4 emissions vary with water table depth	49
Climate-resilient coasts require diverse defence solutions	49
An underestimated negative cloud feedback from cloud lifetime changes	49
2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions	48
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere	48
Phenological mismatches between above- and belowground plant responses to climate warming	47
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence	47
Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts	47
Increased melting level height impacts surface precipitation phase and intensity	47
Right-wing ideology reduces the effects of education on climate change beliefs in more developed countries	47
Observational constraint on cloud feedbacks suggests moderate climate sensitivity	47
Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches	47
Heat tolerance in ectotherms scales predictably with body size	47
The appropriate use of reference scenarios in mitigation analysis	46
Don’t forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas	46
Growing polarization around climate change on social media	46
Ice-sheet losses track high-end sea-level rise projections	46
Warming drives ecological community changes linked to host-associated microbiome dysbiosis	45
Coldest Canadian Arctic communities face greatest reductions in shorefast sea ice	45
Remote sensing northern lake methane ebullition	45
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	45
Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction	45
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience	44
Shifting Republican views on climate change through targeted advertising	44
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation	44
Trade-linked shipping CO2 emissions	43
Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields	43
Net benefits to US soy and maize yields from intensifying hourly rainfall	43
Ocean warming and accelerating Southern Ocean zonal flow	42
The economic interaction between climate change mitigation, climate migration and poverty	41
Emissions rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic	41
Prioritizing forestation based on biogeochemical and local biogeophysical impacts	41
Future warming from global food consumption	40
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise	40
Hot extremes have become drier in the United States Southwest	40
Projected shifts in the foraging habitat of crabeater seals along the Antarctic Peninsula	40
Climate change literacy in Africa	40
Climate change increases predation risk for a keystone species of the boreal forest	40
Sea-ice loss amplifies summertime decadal CO2 increase in the western Arctic Ocean	40
Anthropogenic warming forces extreme annual glacier mass loss	40
Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy	40
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater	40
The great acceleration of plant phenological shifts	39
Increase in Arctic coastal erosion and its sensitivity to warming in the twenty-first century	39
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being	39
Data-driven reconstruction reveals large-scale ocean circulation control on coastal sea level	39
Residual flood damage under intensive adaptation	38
The impact of climate change on the productivity of conservation agriculture	38
Multi-hazard dependencies can increase or decrease risk	38
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	38
Net zero-emission pathways reduce the physical and economic risks of climate change	38
Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change	37
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change	37
Amplified Madden–Julian oscillation impacts in the Pacific–North America region	37
Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation	37
Attitudes of urban residents towards environmental migration in Kenya and Vietnam	37
Climate change affects land-disposed waste	36
Adjust urban and rural road pricing for fair mobility	36
Human-induced changes to the global ocean water masses and their time of emergence	36
Decoupling of the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation in a warmer climate	35
Climate change mitigation potential in sanitation via off-site composting of human waste	35
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific	35
Weakening Atlantic overturning circulation causes South Atlantic salinity pile-up	35
Rising risks of late-spring frosts in a changing climate	35
Phenological shifts of abiotic events, producers and consumers across a continent	35
Ratcheting of climate pledges needed to limit peak global warming	35
Integrated perspective on translating biophysical to economic impacts of climate change	35
Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action	34
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	34
Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing	34
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure	34
Greater committed warming after accounting for the pattern effect	34
Climate and land-use changes reduce the benefits of terrestrial protected areas	34