Nature Sustainability

Article	Citations
Organic wastewater treatment by a single-atom catalyst and electrolytically produced H2O2	435
Selective electrocatalytic synthesis of urea with nitrate and carbon dioxide	406
A non-flammable hydrous organic electrolyte for sustainable zinc batteries	382
A strong, biodegradable and recyclable lignocellulosic bioplastic	381
Surface-substituted Prussian blue analogue cathode for sustainable potassium-ion batteries	351
Techno-economic assessment of low-temperature carbon dioxide electrolysis	341
Selective recovery of precious metals through photocatalysis	238
Six modes of co-production for sustainability	234
Direct electrosynthesis of methylamine from carbon dioxide and nitrate	234
Harvesting waste heat with flexible Bi2Te3 thermoelectric thin film	229
An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter	222
Air pollution reduction and climate co-benefits in China’s industries	198
Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation	198
Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion	195
Solar-driven reforming of solid waste for a sustainable future	193
LiMnO2 cathode stabilized by interfacial orbital ordering for sustainable lithium-ion batteries	187
Global carbon inequality over 1990–2019	184
Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism	183
Ultrafast seawater desalination with covalent organic framework membranes	180
Long-term increased grain yield and soil fertility from intercropping	179
Selective extraction of uranium from seawater with biofouling-resistant polymeric peptide	174
A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China	173
A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets	168
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals	165
Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean	164

Selective photocatalytic oxidation of methane by quantum-sized bismuth vanadate	164
Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo	164
Bioinspired hierarchical porous membrane for efficient uranium extraction from seawater	163
Understanding intercalation chemistry for sustainable aqueous zinc–manganese dioxide batteries	163
Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018	160
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte	154
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions	153
Impacts of transportation network companies on urban mobility	149
China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment	148
Assessing health and environmental impacts of solvents for producing perovskite solar cells	144
Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration	144
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers	142
Best practices for solar water production technologies	141
The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations	139
Decoupling of SDGs followed by re-coupling as sustainable development progresses	138
Graphene oxide nanofiltration membranes for desalination under realistic conditions	136
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	134
Preventing lead leakage with built-in resin layers for sustainable perovskite solar cells	130
Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms	126
Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events	122
Acute riverine microplastic contamination due to avoidable releases of untreated wastewater	122
Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States	119
Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion	113
Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries	112
Coloured low-emissivity films for building envelopes for year-round energy savings	111
Life cycle assessment of recycling strategies for perovskite photovoltaic modules	111
Low-value wood for sustainable high-performance structural materials	106
Quantifying the human cost of global warming	105
Charging sustainable batteries	103
Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems	102
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	102
An evaluation of the sustainability of the Olympic Games	97
Embodied greenhouse gas emissions from building China’s large-scale power transmission infrastructure	96
Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems	96
Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands	96
Climate change extremes and photovoltaic power output	95
Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services	95
Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12	94
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world	93
Sustainable upcycling of spent LiCoO2 to an ultra-stable battery cathode at high voltage	93
Sustainable polyethylene fabrics with engineered moisture transport for passive cooling	92
Persistent CO2 photocatalysis for solar fuels in the dark	87
A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests	86
Energy transition minerals and their intersection with land-connected peoples	84
The global divide in data-driven farming	83
Hydroplastic polymers as eco-friendly hydrosetting plastics	82
Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability	78
Negative to positive shifts in diversity effects on soil nitrogen over time	78
Dynamic electrochromism for all-season radiative thermoregulation	78
Scientific evidence for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction	77

Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India	77
Hydrotropic solubilization of zinc acetates for sustainable aqueous battery electrolytes	76
Potential and limitations of digital twins to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals	75
The importance of resource security for poverty eradication	74
Pathways to net-zero emissions from aviation	74
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically	73
The environmental footprint of global food production	73
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network	72
The land–energy–water nexus of global bioenergy potentials from abandoned cropland	72
Environmental benefits and household costs of clean heating options in northern China	71
Social value shift in favour of biodiversity conservation in the United States	69
Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture	69
Meeting global challenges with regenerative agriculture producing food and energy	69
A scalable high-porosity wood for sound absorption and thermal insulation	68
Effect of strengthened standards on Chinese ironmaking and steelmaking emissions	68
On-device lead-absorbing tapes for sustainable perovskite solar cells	68
A green and efficient technology to recover rare earth elements from weathering crusts	68
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries	67
Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century	66
Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes	66
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure	66
Depolymerization of polyesters by a binuclear catalyst for plastic recycling	65
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	65
Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia	64
Energy and water co-benefits from covering canals with solar panels	63
Topologically protected oxygen redox in a layered manganese oxide cathode for sustainable batteries	61
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale	61
Reconciling well-being and resilience for sustainable development	61
Identifying management actions that promote sustainable fisheries	61
Green solvent for perovskite solar cell production	61
Conference demographics and footprint changed by virtual platforms	60
Evaluating alternatives to plastic microbeads in cosmetics	60
Phosphorus for Sustainable Development Goal target of doubling smallholder productivity	59
Performance of large-scale irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa	59
Carbon analytics for net-zero emissions sustainable cities	58
The value of car ownership and use in the United States	57
Economically viable electrocatalytic ethylene production with high yield and selectivity	57
Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID-19 measures	56
The value of China’s ban on wildlife trade and consumption	55
Benefit of woodland and other natural environments for adolescents’ cognition and mental health	54
Criticality analysis of a country’s transport network via an agent-based supply chain model	54
Improving biodiversity protection through artificial intelligence	54
Climate co-benefits of air quality and clean energy policy in India	54
The contributions of resilience to reshaping sustainable development	53
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice	53
Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin	53
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy	53
Atomically dispersed bimetallic Fe–Co electrocatalysts for green production of ammonia	53
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions	53
Impact of palm oil sustainability certification on village well-being and poverty in Indonesia	52
The value of US coral reefs for flood risk reduction	52
Global assessment of innovative solutions to tackle marine litter	52
A global model to forecast coastal hardening and mitigate associated socioecological risks	51
Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change	51
Safe electrolyte for long-cycling alkali-ion batteries	49
Institutional navigation for polycentric sustainability governance	49
A global review of ecological fiscal transfers	48
Safeguarding migratory fish via strategic planning of future small hydropower in Brazil	48
Technology assessment of solar disinfection for drinking water treatment	48
Impact of local and landscape complexity on the stability of field-level pest control	48
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics	48
Personal carbon allowances revisited	47
Spatial assessment of tap-water safety in China	47
Distributional impacts of carbon pricing in developing Asia	47
The political effects of emergency frames in sustainability	47
Toxicological assessment of potable reuse and conventional drinking waters	47
Household contributions to and impacts from air pollution in India	46
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex	46
Mineral security essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals	45
Ultrastable electrocatalytic seawater splitting at ampere-level current density	45
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging	45
Best practices for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide	44
Socio-demographic factors shaping the future global health burden from air pollution	43
Designing diversified renewable energy systems to balance multisector performance	43
Sea-level rise from land subsidence in major coastal cities	43
Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation	43
Polymeric membranes with aligned zeolite nanosheets for sustainable energy storage	43
Food system resilience to phosphorus shortages on a telecoupled planet	42
Fostering a climate-smart intensification for oil palm	42
Economic efficiency and targeting of the African Great Green Wall	42

Valorization of waste biodegradable polyester for methyl methacrylate production	42
Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption	42
Green solvent enabled scalable processing of perovskite solar cells with high efficiency	41
Meta-analysis of oyster impacts on coastal biogeochemistry	41
A new urban narrative for sustainable development	41
Advancing life cycle sustainability of textiles through technological innovations	40
Protected area personnel and ranger numbers are insufficient to deliver global expectations	40
Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	40
Global bioenergy with carbon capture and storage potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation	40
Vulnerability to collapse of coral reef ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean	39
Benefits and gaps in area-based management tools for the ocean Sustainable Development Goal	39
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill	39
The expansion of tree plantations across tropical biomes	39
Risk science offers an integrated approach to resilience	38
Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland	38
Increasing material efficiencies of buildings to address the global sand crisis	38
The potential of implementing superblocks for multifunctional street use in cities	38
Gross polluters and vehicle emissions reduction	37
Possible negative consequences of a wildlife trade ban	37
Greener and higher conversion of esterification via interfacial photothermal catalysis	37
Land-based implications of early climate actions without global net-negative emissions	37
Sustainable strategies to treat urban runoff needed	37
Large and inequitable flood risks in Los Angeles, California	37
Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world’s tropical dry woodlands	37
The ocean’s nuclear energy reserve	36
A theoretical framework for oxygen redox chemistry for sustainable batteries	36
Sustainable intensification of millet–pig agriculture in Neolithic North China	35
Electrolyte design for lithium-ion batteries with a cobalt-free cathode and silicon oxide anode	35
Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift	35
Protecting the Amazon forest and reducing global warming via agricultural intensification	34
Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity	34
How to identify win–win interventions that benefit human health and conservation	34
Anticipating drought-related food security changes	33
Post-2020 biodiversity framework challenged by cropland expansion in protected areas	33
The aluminium demand risk of terawatt photovoltaics for net zero emissions by 2050	33
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being	33
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality	33
Data needed to decarbonize paratransit in Sub-Saharan Africa	33
Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation	33
The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature	33
The motivation–impact gap in pro-environmental clothing consumption	33
Lower test scores from wildfire smoke exposure	32
Green chemistry as just chemistry	31
Challenges of managing harmful algal blooms in US drinking water systems	31
Toward sustainable batteries	31
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers	31
Towards a multidimensional biodiversity index for national application	31
Sustainable ammonia production enabled by membrane reactor	31
Compensation for atmospheric appropriation	31
Co-upcycling of polyvinyl chloride and polyesters	30
Environmental and socioeconomic footprints of the German bioeconomy	30
Energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs	30
Climate-driven ecological thresholds in China’s drylands modulated by grazing	30
Understanding rural–urban transitions in the Global South through peri-urban turbulence	29
The politics of biodiversity offsetting across time and institutional scales	29
Re-thinking procurement incentives for electric vehicles to achieve net-zero emissions	29
Recognizing the long-term impacts of plastic particles for preventing distortion in decision-making	29
Chemical recycling of a lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam	29
A two-stage strategy for upcycling chlorine-contaminated plastic waste	29
Alternative plastics	29
Financing the Green New Deal	28
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America	28
The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments	28
Advancing resilience measurement	28
Advancing energy and well-being research	28
Regional disparities in emissions reduction and net trade from renewables	28
Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming	27
Scalable manufacturing of sustainable packaging materials with tunable thermoregulability	27
Limited quantity and quality of steel supply in a zero-emission future	26
Human fingerprint on structural density of forests globally	25
In-stream turbines for rethinking hydropower development in the Amazon basin	25
Polydimethylsiloxane-coated textiles with minimized microplastic pollution	25
The greenhouse gas emissions of indoor cannabis production in the United States	25
Looking beyond glaciers to understand mountain water security	24
Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation	24
Land loss due to human-altered sediment budget in the Mississippi River Delta	24
Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas	23
Moving away from sustainability	23
Forest conservation in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon	23
Brain mechanisms underlying prospective thinking of sustainable behaviours	23
Addressing the contribution of indirect potable reuse to inland freshwater salinization	23
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics	23
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science	23
Too much and not enough	23
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption	23
Urbanites’ mental health undermined by air pollution	22
Decision-making fitness of methods to understand Sustainable Development Goal interactions	22
Response diversity as a sustainability strategy	22
Supporting interdisciplinary careers for sustainability	22
Why win–wins are rare in complex environmental management	22
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine	22
Effectiveness of protected areas influenced by socio-economic context	22
Aiding ocean development planning with SDG relationships in Small Island Developing States	22
Best practices for radiative cooling	22
Air quality, health and equity implications of electrifying heavy-duty vehicles	21