OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Earths Future is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Has Hydropower Made the World More Flood‐Prone?	194
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Combined Meteorological and Hydrologic Uncertainties Shape Projections of Future Soil Moisture in the Eastern United States	159
Discovering the Multisectoral Impacts of Global Energy Sector Outcomes Through Multiple Ensemble Aggregation Measures	148
Marine Heatwaves Contribute More to Changing Air‐Water Exchange of Semi‐Volatile Organic Compounds Than Mean Sea Surface Temperature Rise	126
Irreversible Land Water Availability Changes From a Potential ITCZ Shift During Temperature Overshoot	116
The Role of Anthropogenic Forcings on Historical Sea‐Level Change in the Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool Region	99
Inorganic Nitrogen Nutrition in Boreal Plants Is Underestimated and Insensitive to Environmental Changes	99
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Large Divergence of Projected High Latitude Vegetation Composition and Productivity Due To Functional Trait Uncertainty	98
Sustainable Development Pathways for Chinese Cities: An Assessment of the Advanced Inclusive Wealth Index	98
Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change and Forest Management on Swedish Forest Ecosystems Using the Dynamic Vegetation Model LPJ‐GUESS	97
Forest Carbon Storage in the Western United States: Distribution, Drivers, and Trends	92
Is There Sufficient Information to Reliably Estimate Return Periods for Very Rare Heat Extremes in Event Attribution?	91
The Weight of New York City: Possible Contributions to Subsidence From Anthropogenic Sources	89
Revisiting the Global Methane Cycle Through Expert Opinion	88
Fusion of Probabilistic Projections of Sea‐Level Rise	87
Vegetation Greening Mitigates the Impacts of Increasing Extreme Rainfall on Runoff Events	86
Is Reservoir Storage Effectively Utilized in the Southeastern US? A Regional Assessment to Improve Water Supply Availability Considering Potential Storage and Flood Scenarios	85
Historical and Projected Cropland Impacts of Heatwaves in Central Asia Under Climate Change	79
Projecting Changes in the Drivers of Compound Flooding in Europe Using CMIP6 Models	77
Past Precipitation Stored in Deep Soils Sustains Greening of Dryland Tree Plantations in Northern China	77
Delimiting China's Urban Growth Boundaries Under Localized Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and Various Urban Expansion Modes	76

Future Extreme Climate Events Threaten Alpine and Subalpine Woody Plants in China	74
Wetland Gain and Loss in the Mississippi River Bird‐Foot Delta	73
Distinguishing Direct Human‐Driven Effects on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle	72
Multi‐Centennial Variability of Yangtze Delta Growth Over the Last 2000 Years: Interplay of Climate and People	71
Marine Cloud Brightening to Cool the Arctic: An Earth System Model Comparison	69
Increasing Heat‐Stress Inequality in a Warming Climate	69
Changes in Compound Extreme Events and Their Impacts on Cropland Productivity in China, 1985–2019	69
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Assessing the Time of Emergence of Marine Ecosystems From Global to Local Scales Using IPSL‐CM6A‐LR/APECOSM Climate‐To‐Fish Ensemble Simulations	67
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Climate‐Driven Sea Level Rise Exacerbates Alaskan and Cascadian Tsunami Hazards in Southern California: Implications to Design Parameters	63
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The Need for Multi‐Century Projections of Sea Level Rise	62
Net‐Zero CO₂ Germany—A Retrospect From the Year 2050	59
Controls of Ecohydrological Grassland Dynamics in Agrivoltaic Systems	59
Projecting Future Fire Regimes in a Semiarid Watershed of the Inland Northwestern United States: Interactions Among Climate Change, Vegetation Productivity, and Fuel Dynamics	59
Temporal Scaling Characteristics of Sub‐Daily Precipitation in Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau	58
Using Machine Learning to Cut the Cost of Dynamical Downscaling	57
Aotearoa New Zealand's 21st‐Century Wildfire Climate	57
Evaluating Adaptation Pathways in a Complex Multi‐Risk System	56
Large‐Scale Evaluation of Beach Morphodynamic Evolution and Environmental Drivers Along China's Eastern Coast Through Long‐Term Landsat Analysis	55
Research Priorities for Climate Litigation	55
A Demonstration of a Simple Methodology of Flood Prediction for a Coastal City Under Threat of Sea Level Rise: The Case of Norfolk, VA, USA	54
Meteorological Influences on Anthropogenic PM_2.5 in Future Climates: Species Level Analysis in the Community Earth System Model v2	51
Measuring and Attributing Sedimentary and Geomorphic Responses to Modern Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities	51
Weather Index Insurance Can Offset Heat‐Induced Rice Losses Under Global Warming	51
Quantifying the Impact of Internal Variability on the CESM2 Control Algorithm for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection	51
Hysteretic Behavior of Global to Regional Monsoon Area Under CO₂ Ramp‐Up and Ramp‐Down	50
Knowns and Unknowns in Future Human Pressures on the Ocean	50
Different Strategies of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Would Significantly Affect Climate Extreme Mitigation	50
A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic	50
Balancing Physical and Human‐Driven Morphodynamic Changes: Insights From the Pearl River Estuary	49
Remote Sensing Big Data for Water Environment Monitoring: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects	48
New Climate Change Center of Saudi Arabia: Advancing Understanding and Prediction for the Arabian Peninsula Climate	48
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Could Prevent Future Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Decline, But Injection Location is Key	47
Characterizing Compound Inland Flooding Mechanisms and Risks in North America Under Climate Change	47
Will Anthropogenic Warming Increase Evapotranspiration? Examining Irrigation Water Demand Implications of Climate Change in California	47
Fire and Ice: The Impact of Wildfire‐Affected Albedo and Irradiance on Glacier Melt	46
Globally Increasing Atmospheric Aridity Over the 21st Century	46
Global Lake Health in the Anthropocene: Societal Implications and Treatment Strategies	46
Widespread Unquantified Conversion of Old Boreal Forests to Plantations	45
Extension of Large Fire Emissions From Summer to Autumn and Its Drivers in the Western US	45
The Contribution of Microrefugia to Landscape Thermal Inertia for Climate‐Adaptive Conservation Strategies	45
Hydrological Intensification Will Increase the Complexity of Water Resource Management	45
Enhancing Urban Thermal Environment and Energy Sustainability With Temperature‐Adaptive Radiative Roofs	45
High‐Latitude Stratospheric Aerosol Injection to Preserve the Arctic	45
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Methane Emissions in Asian Wetlands During 2010–2020: Insights From an Online‐Coupled Microbial Functional‐Group‐Based Model	43

Recent Acceleration of Wetland Accretion and Carbon Accumulation Along the U.S. East Coast	43
Escalating High Tide Flooding Along the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States Due To Sea Level Rise	43
Quantifying the Safe Operating Space for Land‐System SDG Achievement via Machine Learning and Scenario Discovery	42
Incorporating Intensity Distance Attenuation Into PLUM Ground‐Motion‐Based Earthquake Early Warning in the United States: The APPLES Configuration	42
Predicting the Start of the Growing Season in Boreal Forest Under High and Low Emission Scenarios	42
Mass Extinctions and Their Relationship With Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration: Implications for Earth's Future	41
Relationship of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition to Soil Nitrogen Cycling Along an Elevation Gradient in the Colorado Front Range	41
Predicting Food‐Security Crises in the Horn of Africa Using Machine Learning	41
Current and Future Patterns of Global Wildfire Based on Deep Neural Networks	41
The Critical Role of Hydrological Distance in Shaping Nutrient Dynamics Along the Watershed‐Lake Continuum	41
Soil Moisture Memory of Land Surface Models Utilized in Major Reanalyses Differ Significantly From SMAP Observation	41
Interacting Sea‐Level Rise, Sea‐Ice Loss, Storm Flooding, Erosion, and Permafrost Thaw Threaten Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Communities on the Yukon‐Kuskokwim Delta	41
High‐Temperature Exposure and Land Transactions in China	40
Quantifying Meltwater Contributions and Socio‐Economy Impacts of Future Third Pole Transboundary Fluvial Floods	40
Accounting for Compound Flooding Can Prevent Maladaptation—A Baltic Sea Case Study	40
A Multivariate Scaling System Is Essential to Characterize the Tropical Cyclones' Risk	40
Integrating Multi‐Level Sustainability and Ecosystem Integrity for Adaptive Scenario Planning in China	40
Rainfall and Salinity Effects on Future Pacific Climate Change	39
Projecting Multiscale River Flood Changes Across Japan at +2°C and +4°C Climates	39
Ice Sheet and Climate Processes Driving the Uncertainty in Projections of Future Sea Level Rise: Findings From a Structured Expert Judgement Approach	38
Balancing Productivity and Climate Impact: A Framework to Assess Climate‐Smart Irrigation	38
Deep Root Loss and Regeneration in the Anthropocene Drive Continental‐Scale Changes in Deep Soil Structure	37
Top‐Down Versus Bottom‐Up Atmospheric Emission Estimates From Oil and Natural Gas Operations	37
Storylines for Global Hydrologic Drought Within CMIP6	37
Antarctic Biosecurity Policy Effectively Manages the Rates of Alien Introductions	37
El Niño Intensified Fog Formation in the Namib Desert	36
Water Availability in China's Oases Decreased Between 1987 and 2017	36
Active Layer Thickness and Permafrost Area Projections for the 21st Century	36
Natural Hazards in a Changing World: Methods for Analyzing Trends and Non‐Linear Changes	36
Changes in the Frequency of Flood Events Across the United States Detectable by the Middle of This Century	35
Projecting Future Chronic Coastal Hazard Impacts, Hotspots, and Uncertainty at Regional Scale	35
Assessing the Socio‐Economic Effects of Carbon Capture, Utility and Storage Investment From the Perspective of Carbon Neutrality in China	35
Global and Regional Drivers of Power Plant CO₂Emissions Over the Last Three Decades Revealed From Unit‐Based Database	34
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Heat and Moisture Anomalies During Crop Failure Events in the Southeastern Australian Wheat Belt	34
Estimating the Global Influence of Cover Crops on Ecosystem Service Indicators in Croplands With the LPJ‐GUESS Model	34
Drivers of Future Indian Ocean Warming and Its Spatial Pattern in CMIP Models	34
The Limited Effect of Reduced Typhoon Frequency on Stream Hydrochemistry in a Subtropical Forest Watershed	34
Small Ponds as Carbon Emission and Burial Hotspots in Lowland Agricultural Landscape	33
Reply to Comment on “Improved Water Savings and Reduction in Moist Heat Stress Caused by Efficient Irrigation” by Meetpal S. Kukal	33
Responses of the Natural Phytoplankton Assemblage to Patagonian Dust Input and Anthropogenic Changes in the Southern Ocean	33
Comment on “Improved Water Savings and Reduction in Moist Heat Stress Caused by Efficient Irrigation” by Anukesh Krishnankutty Ambika and Vimal Mishra	33
Old‐Growth Forest Area Projected to Increase on United States Federal Lands Under Alternative Future Scenarios	31
The Anthropocene Is More Than a Time Interval	31
Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Forests Carbon Sink and Sources Between 2000 and 2019	31
Land Cover Changes Redistribute China's Water Resources Through Atmospheric Moisture Recycling	31
2021 Heatwave Over Western North America: Structural Uncertainty and Internal Variability in GCM Projections of Humidex and Temperature Extremes	31
A Bioeconomic Projection of Climate‐Induced Wildfire Risk in the Forest Sector	31
Pan‐Arctic Assessment of Coastal Settlements and Infrastructure Vulnerable to Coastal Erosion, Sea‐Level Rise, and Permafrost Thaw	31
An Analytical Framework for Determining the Ecological Risks of Wastewater Discharges in River Networks Under Climate Change	31
A Comparative Study of the Argo‐Era Ocean Heat Content Among Four Different Types of Data Sets	31
Anthropogenic Climate Change Negatively Impacts Vegetation and Forage Conditions in the Greater Four Corners Region	31
Pervasive Permafrost Thaw Exacerbates Future Risk of Water Shortage Across the Tibetan Plateau	31
Large Ensemble Exploration of Global Energy Transitions Under National Emissions Pledges	31
Inflated Negative Impacts of Temperature On Global Agricultural Yields Due To Ozone Omission	30
Understanding Europe's Forest Harvesting Regimes	30
STAR‐ESDM: A Generalizable Approach to Generating High‐Resolution Climate Projections Through Signal Decomposition	30
Dryland Watersheds in Flux: How Nitrogen Deposition and Changing Precipitation Regimes Shape Nitrogen Export	30
Forest Dieback in Drinking Water Protection Areas—A Hidden Threat to Water Quality	30
Increased Streamflow Intermittence in Europe Due To Climate Change Projected by Combining Global Hydrological Modeling and Machine Learning	30
A Review of Advances in Flash Drought Research: Challenges and Future Directions	30
Projected Changes to Characteristics of El Niño‐Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole, and Southern Annular Mode Events in the CMIP6 Models	30
Upper Bounds of Maximum Land Surface Temperatures in a Warming Climate and Limits to Plant Growth	30
Performance of Fire Danger Indices and Their Utility in Predicting Future Wildfire Danger Over the Conterminous United States	30
Urbanization Contributes Little to Global Warming but Substantially Intensifies Local and Regional Land Surface Warming	29
A High‐End Estimate of Sea Level Rise for Practitioners	29
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Unraveling the Interplay: Intensive Solar Radiation Amplifies Maize Yield Reduction Under Dry‐Heat Stress	29
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Tracking Interprovincial Flows of Atmospheric PAH Emissions Through Downscaling Estimates With Province‐Specific Emission Factors	29
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Understanding the Drivers of Coastal Flood Exposure and Risk From 1860 to 2100	29
Thank You to Our 2024 Reviewers	29
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Recent Accelerated Decadal Shift in Winter North American Temperature Patterns Under Pacific‐Atlantic Decadal Variability	28
Geophysical Uncertainties in Air Pollution Exposure and Benefits of Emissions Reductions for Global Health	28
Projections of Lightning‐Ignited Wildfire Risk in the Western United States	28
Anthropogenic Dust as a Significant Source of Ice‐Nucleating Particles in the Urban Environment	28
Assessment of Global Dengue Transmission Risk Under Future Climate Scenarios	28
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection to Stabilize Northern Hemisphere Terrestrial Permafrost Under the ARISE‐SAI‐1.5 Scenario	28

Uncovering the Dynamic Drivers of Floods Through Interpretable Deep Learning	28
Assessing the Effect of Glacier Runoff Changes on Basin Runoff and Agricultural Production in the Indus, Amu Darya, and Tarim Interior Basins	28
Advancing the Modeling of Future Climate and Innovation Impacts on Perennial Crops to Support Adaptation: A Case Study of California Almonds	28
Persistent Extreme Surface Solar Radiation and Its Implications on Solar Photovoltaics	27
Non‐Stationary Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessments Compounding Tides and Sea Level Rise	27
Assessing Global and Regional Trends in Spatially Co‐Occurring Hot or Wet Annual Maxima Under Climate Change	27
Potential Vorticity Dynamics Explain How Extratropical Oceans and the Arctic Modulate Wintertime Land‐Temperature Variations	27
Socio‐Ecological Impacts of the Investment of Urban Nature in Heat Mitigation for Two Megacities	27
Reduced Crop Yield Stability Is More Likely to Be Associated With Heat Than With Moisture Extremes in the US Midwest	27
Investigating Potential Ecological Benefits From Mariculture	26
Increased Significance of Global Concurrent Hazards From 1981 to 2020	26
Projected Changes in Socioeconomic Exposure to Heatwaves in South Asia Under Changing Climate	26
Partitioning the Uncertainties in Compound Hot and Dry Precipitation, Soil Moisture, and Runoff Extremes Projections in CMIP6	26
Identifying Robust Decarbonization Pathways for the Western U.S. Electric Power System Under Deep Climate Uncertainty	26
Conflict or Coordination? The Spatiotemporal Relationship Between Humans and Nature on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau	26
Climate Controls on River Chemistry	26
Land Reclamation Controls on Multi‐Centennial Estuarine Evolution	26
Planning for Climate Migration in Great Lake Legacy Cities	26
Simulated Impact of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on Atmospheric CO₂ Removal in the Bering Sea	26
Understanding Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Salinization of Low‐Lying Coastal Groundwater Systems	26
The Earth's Terrestrial Biodiversity Hotspots in Land Use Debt	25
Undesirable Effects of Biogenic Emissions From Urban Green Spaces on Air Quality Are Counteracted by Their Transpiration and Dry Deposition	25
Marked Impacts of Pollution Mitigation on Crop Yields in China	25
Unprecedented Historical Erosion of US Gulf Coast: A Consequence of Accelerated Sea‐Level Rise?	25
An Empirical Social Vulnerability Map for Flood Risk Assessment at Global Scale (“GlobE‐SoVI”)	25
Evaluating Extreme Storm Events in an Ensemble of High‐Resolution Projections	25
Climate Change Likely to Intensify Storm‐Driven Compound Flooding in an Exemplar UK Estuary	25
Potential Impacts on Ozone and Climate From a Proposed Fleet of Supersonic Aircraft	25
Arctic Ozone Hole and Enhanced Mid‐Latitude Ozone Losses Due To Heterogeneous Halogen Chemistry Following a Regional Nuclear Conflict	25
Interpretable Machine Learning Reveals Potential to Overcome Reactive Flood Adaptation in the Continental US	25
Sensitivity to Data Choice for Index‐Based Flood Insurance	25
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The Case for the Anthropocene Epoch Is Stronger Than the Case for the Holocene Epoch	24
Elevated Forest Canopy Loss After Wildfires in Moist and Cool Forests in the Pacific Northwest	24
Reviving the Aral Sea: A Hydro‐Eco‐Social Perspective	24
Systemic Financial Risk Arising From Residential Flood Losses	24
Carbon Cycle Response to Stratospheric Aerosol Injection With Multiple Temperature Stabilization Targets and Strategies	24
Evaluating How Climate Adaptation Measures Affect the Interconnected Water‐Energy Resource Systems of the Western United States	24
Characterizing Climatic Socio‐Environmental Tipping Points in Coastal Communities: A Conceptual Framework for Research and Practice	24
Drivers of Future Physical Water Scarcity and Its Economic Impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean	24
The Critical Role of Snowmelt Onset‐Driven Vapor Pressure Deficit Variations in Wildfire Dynamics of Northern Latitudes	24
Spatio‐Temporal Dynamics of Aboveground Biomass in China's Oasis Grasslands Between 1989 and 2021	23
Impacts of Idealized Land Use and Land Management Changes on Weather Extremes in West Africa	23
Projections of Peak Water Timing From the East Rongbuk Glacier, Mt. Everest, Using a Higher‐Order Ice Flow Model	23
Sustainability Evaluation of the Doughnut Economics: A Bibliometric Analysis	23
Change in Wind Renewable Energy Potential Under Stratospheric Aerosol Injections	23
Sea Level Rise Learning Scenarios for Adaptive Decision‐Making Based on IPCC AR6	23
How Low Should We Alert? Quantifying Intensity Threshold Alerting Strategies for Earthquake Early Warning in the United States	23
Global‐Scale Shifts in Rooting Depths Due To Anthropocene Land Cover Changes Pose Unexamined Consequences for Critical Zone Functioning	22
A Global Increase in Nearshore Tropical Cyclone Intensification	22
Caught Between Extremes: Understanding Human‐Water Interactions During Drought‐To‐Flood Events in the Horn of Africa	22
Quantifying Past and Future Terrestrial Water Storage Scarcity Across China Through Midcentury	22
Landslide Hazard Is Projected to Increase Across High Mountain Asia	22
Satellite Observed Land Surface Greening in Summer Controlled by the Precipitation Frequency Rather Than Its Total Over Tibetan Plateau	22
A Climate Science Toolkit for High Impact‐Low Likelihood Climate Risks	22
A National‐Scale Coastal Flood Hazard Assessment for the Atoll Nation of Tuvalu	22
Natural Denudation Versus Anthropogenically Accelerated Erosion in Central Brazil: A Confrontation of Time and Space Scales	22
Projected Impact of Increased Global Warming on Heat Stress and Exposed Population Over Africa	22
Mapping Water, Energy and Carbon Footprints Along Urban Agglomeration Supply Chains	22
Future Pathways of Water, Energy, and Food in the Eastern Nile Basin	21
Decomposing Three Decades of Nitrogen Emissions in Canada	21
Multi‐Model Simulation of Solar Geoengineering Indicates Avoidable Destabilization of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet	21
Centennial Memory of the Arctic Ocean for Future Arctic Climate Recovery in Response to a Carbon Dioxide Removal	21
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The Streamflow Response to Multi‐Day Warm Anomaly Events: Sensitivity to Future Warming and Spatiotemporal Variability by Event Magnitude	21
Accelerating the Renewable Energy Revolution to Get Back to the Holocene	21
The Poverty Impacts of Labor Heat Stress in West Africa Under a Warming Climate	21
Regional Impacts Poorly Constrained by Climate Sensitivity	21
Thank You to Our 2022 Reviewers	21
High Spatial Variability of Biomass Burning Emissions Observed at Three Tibetan Plateau Sites	21
Probabilistic Risk Assessment of the Economy‐Wide Impacts From a Changing Wildfire Climate on a Regional Rural Landscape	21
Adaptation Strategies Strongly Reduce the Future Impacts of Climate Change on Simulated Crop Yields	21
Global Agricultural Water Scarcity Assessment Incorporating Blue and Green Water Availability Under Future Climate Change	21
Extratropical Climate Change During Periods Before and After an Arctic Ice‐Free Summer	20
Continued Warming of the Permafrost Regions Over the Northern Hemisphere Under Future Climate Change	20
New Insights Into Multi‐Component Atmospheric Wet Deposition Across China: A Multidimensional Analysis	20
Quantifying Global Wetland Methane Emissions With In Situ Methane Flux Data and Machine Learning Approaches	20
Low‐Altitude High‐Latitude Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Is Feasible With Existing Aircraft	20
Hydroclimatic Vulnerability of Wetlands to Upwind Land Use Changes	20
Developing a Southern Ocean Marine Ecosystem Model Ensemble to Assess Climate Risks and Uncertainties	20
Participatory Modeling for Analyzing Interactions Between High‐Priority Sustainable Development Goals to Promote Local Sustainability	20
The Effects of Model Complexity on Model Output Uncertainty in Co‐Evolved Coupled Natural‐Human Systems	20
Exposure of Global Rail and Road Infrastructures in Future Record‐Breaking Climate Extremes	20
Envisioning Farm Power Subsidy for Groundwater Irrigation in India for Attaining SDGs	20
Consumption‐Based Carbon Emissions of 85 Federal Entities in Russia	20
What Does Global Land Climate Look Like at 2°C Warming?	19
CMIP6 Earth System Models Project Greater Acceleration of Climate Zone Change Due To Stronger Warming Rates	19
Waning Greenhouse Gas Emissions From U.S. Federal Lease Coal Production by the Mid‐21st Century	19
Long‐Term Variability in the Arabian Peninsula Droughts Driven by the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation	19
Critical Role of Irrigation Efficiency for Cropland Expansion in Western China Arid Agroecosystems	19
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Plant‐Level Emissions and Synergistic Control of Pollutants and Carbon Dioxide in China's Cement Industry Based on Real‐Time Monitoring Data	19
Heterogeneities in Regional Air Pollutant Emission Mitigation Across China During 2012–2020	19
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Replacing Corn on Sloping Farmland by Bioenergy Crops With Optimized Harvest Frequencies: Implications for Soil and Water Conservation and Biofuel Production	19