Nature Climate Change

Article	Citations
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability	810
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes	489
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change	462
Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change	402
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19	397
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth	378
The hydrogen solution?	371
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right	330
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation	312
Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change	299
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	285
Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990	270
Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework	262
Climate change impacts on renewable energy supply	258
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes	257
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change	252
Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century	248
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure	217
Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change	210
A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda	209
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s	202
A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target	198
Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation	189
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink	180
Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era	179

A digital twin of Earth for the green transition	179
Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts	179
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	179
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	175
A meta-analysis of country-level studies on environmental change and migration	170
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene	167
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being	166
Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades	166
Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean	164
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation	163
Global multi-model projections of local urban climates	162
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature	161
The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage	159
Crafting strong, integrated policy mixes for deep CO2 mitigation in road transport	158
Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply	158
Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change	146
Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands	146
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement	143
Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming	142
Extremes become routine in an emerging new Arctic	137
Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities	137
Food–energy–water implications of negative emissions technologies in a +1.5 °C future	134
Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau	132
Electrification of light-duty vehicle fleet alone will not meet mitigation targets	132
Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels	129
Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom	128
Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement	127
Sandy beaches can survive sea-level rise	127
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets	125
Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises	124
Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events	124
Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade	124
Aerosols in current and future Arctic climate	123
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws	118
Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources	118
Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot	116
Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon	116
Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period	115
Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics	114
Warming trends increasingly dominate global ocean	113
Future impacts of climate change on inland Ramsar wetlands	112
No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming	109
Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth	106
Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems	106
A social–ecological perspective on climate anxiety in children and adolescents	106
Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia	104
The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems	102
Systematic review of the outcomes and trade-offs of ten types of decarbonization policy instruments	101
Climate change risk to global port operations	101
COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions	100

The blue carbon wealth of nations	98
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting	98
Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios	97
Light limitation regulates the response of autumn terrestrial carbon uptake to warming	97
Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation	95
Zonally contrasting shifts of the tropical rain belt in response to climate change	95
Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard	94
A near-term to net zero alternative to the social cost of carbon for setting carbon prices	94
The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate	92
Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant communities	92
Opposite response of strong and moderate positive Indian Ocean Dipole to global warming	91
Impact of high-speed rail on road traffic and greenhouse gas emissions	91
Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat	90
Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies	90
Leaf senescence exhibits stronger climatic responses during warm than during cold autumns	90
Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies	90
Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate policy	90
Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	89
Atmospheric dynamic constraints on Tibetan Plateau freshwater under Paris climate targets	89
Climate change increases global risk to urban forests	87
Uncertain storage prospects create a conundrum for carbon capture and storage ambitions	87
Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions	87
Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change	86
Increasing threat of coastal groundwater hazards from sea-level rise in California	85
Sources of uncertainty in long-term global scenarios of solar photovoltaic technology	85
Global changes in oceanic mesoscale currents over the satellite altimetry record	84
Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions	83
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming	82
Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming	82
Temperatures that sterilize males better match global species distributions than lethal temperatures	81
Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity	79
Dryland productivity under a changing climate	78
Performance determinants show European cities are delivering on climate mitigation	78
Weakened evidence for mid-latitude impacts of Arctic warming	78
Estimating the global risk of anthropogenic climate change	78
Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation	78
A multi-model analysis of long-term emissions and warming implications of current mitigation efforts	77
Growing polarization around climate change on social media	76
Asymmetry in the climate–carbon cycle response to positive and negative CO2 emissions	75
Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change	75
Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity	75
Increased ocean heat transport into the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean over the period 1993–2016	74
Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change	74
Rebooting a failed promise of climate finance	74
Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss	73
Winter temperatures predominate in spring phenological responses to warming	73
The importance of warm habitat to the growth regime of cold-water fishes	72
Reconciling theory with the reality of African heatwaves	71
Fasting season length sets temporal limits for global polar bear persistence	71
Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions	71
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data	71
Maladaptation, migration and extirpation fuel climate change risk in a forest tree species	69
Arctic sea-ice loss intensifies aerosol transport to the Tibetan Plateau	69
Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of United States high-tide flooding	69
Fair-share carbon dioxide removal increases major emitter responsibility	68
Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation	68
Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programmes on public support for carbon pricing	68
Relocation planning must address voluntary immobility	66
Impact of 1, 2 and 4 °C of global warming on ship navigation in the Canadian Arctic	66
Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown	66
Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation	66
Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress	65
Enhanced warming constrained by past trends in equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature gradient	65
Future high-resolution El Niño/Southern Oscillation dynamics	64
Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields	62
African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates	62
Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming	62
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates	59
Global patterns of geo-ecological controls on the response of soil respiration to warming	59
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence	59
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere	59
Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions	59
Economic and social constraints on reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia	58
Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts	57
Why residual emissions matter right now	57
Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation depend on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls	57
Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement	57
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience	56
An underestimated negative cloud feedback from cloud lifetime changes	56
Phenological mismatches between above- and belowground plant responses to climate warming	56

2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions	55
Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches	55
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation	55
Disturbance suppresses the aboveground carbon sink in North American boreal forests	55
Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction	54
Differences in the temperature dependence of wetland CO2 and CH4 emissions vary with water table depth	54
Right-wing ideology reduces the effects of education on climate change beliefs in more developed countries	53
Future warming from global food consumption	53
Shifting Republican views on climate change through targeted advertising	53
Renewable energy targets may undermine their sustainability	53
Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions	53
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	53
Addressing power imbalances in co-production	52
Observational constraint on cloud feedbacks suggests moderate climate sensitivity	51
Eastern equatorial Pacific warming delayed by aerosols and thermostat response to CO2 increase	50
Emissions rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic	50
Heat tolerance in ectotherms scales predictably with body size	49
Warming drives ecological community changes linked to host-associated microbiome dysbiosis	49
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system	49
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	48
Trade-linked shipping CO2 emissions	48
Ice-sheet losses track high-end sea-level rise projections	47
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being	47
Don’t forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas	46
Net benefits to US soy and maize yields from intensifying hourly rainfall	46
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise	46
Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy	45
Ocean warming and accelerating Southern Ocean zonal flow	45
Prioritizing forestation based on biogeochemical and local biogeophysical impacts	45
Climate change literacy in Africa	45
Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems	45
Ratcheting of climate pledges needed to limit peak global warming	44
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater	44
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	44
Residual flood damage under intensive adaptation	43
Integrated perspective on translating biophysical to economic impacts of climate change	43
Anthropogenic warming forces extreme annual glacier mass loss	43
Net zero-emission pathways reduce the physical and economic risks of climate change	42
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change	42
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure	42
Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink	42
Data-driven reconstruction reveals large-scale ocean circulation control on coastal sea level	42
The great acceleration of plant phenological shifts	41
Hot extremes have become drier in the United States Southwest	41
Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict	41
Phenological shifts of abiotic events, producers and consumers across a continent	41
The impact of climate change on the productivity of conservation agriculture	41
Increase in Arctic coastal erosion and its sensitivity to warming in the twenty-first century	41
Climate change affects land-disposed waste	41
Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action	40
Permafrost thaw drives surface water decline across lake-rich regions of the Arctic	40
Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change	40
Climate change increases predation risk for a keystone species of the boreal forest	40
Climate and land-use changes reduce the benefits of terrestrial protected areas	40
The cost of mitigation revisited	39
Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation	39
Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing	38
Decoupling of the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation in a warmer climate	38
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing	38
Revisiting the promise of carbon labelling	38
Socio-political feasibility of coal power phase-out and its role in mitigation pathways	38
The adverse consequences of global harvest and weather disruptions on economic activity	38
Biocrusts mediate a new mechanism for land degradation under a changing climate	38
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate	38
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model	38
Rising risks of late-spring frosts in a changing climate	38
Rapid, but limited, zooplankton adaptation to simultaneous warming and acidification	38
Robust decrease in El Niño/Southern Oscillation amplitude under long-term warming	37
Human-induced changes to the global ocean water masses and their time of emergence	37
Weakening Atlantic overturning circulation causes South Atlantic salinity pile-up	36
Weakening aerosol direct radiative effects mitigate climate penalty on Chinese air quality	36
Recent intensification of wetland methane feedback	36
Genomic evidence of past and future climate-linked loss in a migratory Arctic fish	36
Enhanced North Pacific impact on El Niño/Southern Oscillation under greenhouse warming	36
The impact of near-real-time deforestation alerts across the tropics	36
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific	36
Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions	35
Imminent loss of climate space for permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia	35
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide	35
Accountability and data-driven urban climate governance	35
Climate velocity in inland standing waters	35
Greater committed warming after accounting for the pattern effect	35
Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets	34
Natural variability has dominated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since 1900	34
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model	34
Humans, climate and streamflow	34
Climate change upsets agriculture	34
Seasonal increase of methane emissions linked to warming in Siberian tundra	33
Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda	33
Publisher Correction: Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	33
A regime shift in seasonal total Antarctic sea ice extent in the twentieth century	33
Short-lived climate forcers have long-term climate impacts via the carbon–climate feedback	33
Global wind patterns and the vulnerability of wind-dispersed species to climate change	33
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	33
Responses of global waterbird populations to climate change vary with latitude	32