Nature Sustainability

Article	Citations
Effective uptake of submicrometre plastics by crop plants via a crack-entry mode	708
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in China	470
Organic wastewater treatment by a single-atom catalyst and electrolytically produced H2O2	394
A strong, biodegradable and recyclable lignocellulosic bioplastic	339
Selective electrocatalytic synthesis of urea with nitrate and carbon dioxide	333
A non-flammable hydrous organic electrolyte for sustainable zinc batteries	332
Surface-substituted Prussian blue analogue cathode for sustainable potassium-ion batteries	329
Techno-economic assessment of low-temperature carbon dioxide electrolysis	294
Circular economy strategies for electric vehicle batteries reduce reliance on raw materials	277
A scoping review on incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes	267
Selective recovery of precious metals through photocatalysis	223
Mapping the forest disturbance regimes of Europe	212
Six modes of co-production for sustainability	211
Direct electrosynthesis of methylamine from carbon dioxide and nitrate	208
Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic	206
An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter	198
High performance polyester reverse osmosis desalination membrane with chlorine resistance	198
A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability	184
Harvesting waste heat with flexible Bi2Te3 thermoelectric thin film	182
Solar-driven reforming of solid waste for a sustainable future	179
Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism	179
Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion	179
Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation	178
Air pollution reduction and climate co-benefits in China’s industries	176
Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources	175

LiMnO2 cathode stabilized by interfacial orbital ordering for sustainable lithium-ion batteries	172
Long-term increased grain yield and soil fertility from intercropping	161
Current and projected global extent of marine built structures	160
Impacts of international trade on global sustainable development	160
A highly efficient triboelectric negative air ion generator	158
Global carbon inequality over 1990–2019	158
Selective extraction of uranium from seawater with biofouling-resistant polymeric peptide	157
Ultrafast seawater desalination with covalent organic framework membranes	155
Solar-trackable super-wicking black metal panel for photothermal water sanitation	152
A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China	152
Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018	150
Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean	149
Selective photocatalytic oxidation of methane by quantum-sized bismuth vanadate	148
A sunlight-responsive metal–organic framework system for sustainable water desalination	146
Understanding intercalation chemistry for sustainable aqueous zinc–manganese dioxide batteries	145
Microbial deterioration and sustainable conservation of stone monuments and buildings	144
A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets	144
Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo	141
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals	141
Decoupling livestock and crop production at the household level in China	139
Bioinspired hierarchical porous membrane for efficient uranium extraction from seawater	136
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions	136
Impacts of transportation network companies on urban mobility	133
China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment	132
Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires	132
Assessing health and environmental impacts of solvents for producing perovskite solar cells	132
Gaps and opportunities in nitrogen pollution policies around the world	129
Ecological restoration impact on total terrestrial water storage	128
Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration	127
Graphene oxide nanofiltration membranes for desalination under realistic conditions	127
The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations	125
Preventing lead leakage with built-in resin layers for sustainable perovskite solar cells	124
Best practices for solar water production technologies	124
Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science	121
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers	120
Decoupling of SDGs followed by re-coupling as sustainable development progresses	120
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte	116
Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States	114
The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land	113
Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms	112
Challenges to the sustainability of deep-seabed mining	112
Acute riverine microplastic contamination due to avoidable releases of untreated wastewater	108
Cooling for sustainable development	107
Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion	104
Leather-like material biofabrication using fungi	103
The natural capital framework for sustainably efficient and equitable decision making	100
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	99
Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events	99
Life cycle assessment of recycling strategies for perovskite photovoltaic modules	98
Sustainable lead management in halide perovskite solar cells	98

Seeing COVID-19 through an urban lens	95
Coloured low-emissivity films for building envelopes for year-round energy savings	94
Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems	94
A scoping review of interventions for crop postharvest loss reduction in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia	93
An evaluation of the sustainability of the Olympic Games	90
Embodied greenhouse gas emissions from building China’s large-scale power transmission infrastructure	89
Charging sustainable batteries	87
Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems	87
Low-value wood for sustainable high-performance structural materials	85
Climate change extremes and photovoltaic power output	84
Neonicotinoids and decline in bird biodiversity in the United States	83
A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests	83
Persistent CO2 photocatalysis for solar fuels in the dark	83
Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12	82
Sustainable polyethylene fabrics with engineered moisture transport for passive cooling	81
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world	80
Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus	79
Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services	77
Sustainable upcycling of spent LiCoO2 to an ultra-stable battery cathode at high voltage	77
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	77
Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries	77
Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands	76
Negative to positive shifts in diversity effects on soil nitrogen over time	74
Hydroplastic polymers as eco-friendly hydrosetting plastics	73
Quantifying the human cost of global warming	73
Insights from early COVID-19 responses about promoting sustainable action	73
The global divide in data-driven farming	73
Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India	72
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically	71
Scientific evidence for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction	70
The importance of resource security for poverty eradication	70
Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability	70
The land–energy–water nexus of global bioenergy potentials from abandoned cropland	67
A scoping review of market links between value chain actors and small-scale producers in developing regions	66
Energy transition minerals and their intersection with land-connected peoples	65
The human–environment nexus and vegetation–rainfall sensitivity in tropical drylands	64
Social value shift in favour of biodiversity conservation in the United States	63
Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes	62
Effect of strengthened standards on Chinese ironmaking and steelmaking emissions	62
Criteria pollutant impacts of volatile chemical products informed by near-field modelling	62
On-device lead-absorbing tapes for sustainable perovskite solar cells	62
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network	60
Hydrotropic solubilization of zinc acetates for sustainable aqueous battery electrolytes	60
The environmental footprint of global food production	60
Energy and water co-benefits from covering canals with solar panels	60
Reduced ecosystem services of desert plants from ground-mounted solar energy development	60
Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture	59
Environmental benefits and household costs of clean heating options in northern China	58
Meeting global challenges with regenerative agriculture producing food and energy	58
Identifying management actions that promote sustainable fisheries	58
Potential and limitations of digital twins to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals	57
Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia	57
Conference demographics and footprint changed by virtual platforms	57
Limited climate benefits of global recycling of pulp and paper	57
Carbon analytics for net-zero emissions sustainable cities	56
Pathways to net-zero emissions from aviation	56
Topologically protected oxygen redox in a layered manganese oxide cathode for sustainable batteries	56
Evaluating alternatives to plastic microbeads in cosmetics	55
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure	55
Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century	54
Phosphorus for Sustainable Development Goal target of doubling smallholder productivity	54
The value of car ownership and use in the United States	53
Reconciling well-being and resilience for sustainable development	53
Green solvent for perovskite solar cell production	53
Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change	52
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale	52
The value of China’s ban on wildlife trade and consumption	52
A green and efficient technology to recover rare earth elements from weathering crusts	52
Dynamic electrochromism for all-season radiative thermoregulation	52
Criticality analysis of a country’s transport network via an agent-based supply chain model	51
Imagining transformative biodiversity futures	51
Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin	50
Benefit of woodland and other natural environments for adolescents’ cognition and mental health	50
Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID-19 measures	50
Performance of large-scale irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa	49
Use and non-use value of nature and the social cost of carbon	49
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries	49
The contributions of resilience to reshaping sustainable development	49
Improving biodiversity protection through artificial intelligence	48
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions	48

The value of US coral reefs for flood risk reduction	48
Climate co-benefits of air quality and clean energy policy in India	48
Depolymerization of polyesters by a binuclear catalyst for plastic recycling	47
A scalable high-porosity wood for sound absorption and thermal insulation	47
Safeguarding migratory fish via strategic planning of future small hydropower in Brazil	47
Institutional navigation for polycentric sustainability governance	47
Water and sanitation for all in a pandemic	46
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice	46
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy	46
A global model to forecast coastal hardening and mitigate associated socioecological risks	46
Rational design of perfluorocarbon-free oleophobic textiles	46
Impact of palm oil sustainability certification on village well-being and poverty in Indonesia	46
The political effects of emergency frames in sustainability	45
Global assessment of innovative solutions to tackle marine litter	45
Atomically dispersed bimetallic Fe–Co electrocatalysts for green production of ammonia	43
Distributional impacts of carbon pricing in developing Asia	43
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	42
Impact of local and landscape complexity on the stability of field-level pest control	42
Personal carbon allowances revisited	42
Spatial assessment of tap-water safety in China	41
Polymeric membranes with aligned zeolite nanosheets for sustainable energy storage	41
Household contributions to and impacts from air pollution in India	41
A global review of ecological fiscal transfers	41
Global bioenergy with carbon capture and storage potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation	40
Toxicological assessment of potable reuse and conventional drinking waters	40
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill	39
Modifying national accounts for sustainable ocean development	39
Plastic and plants	38
Fostering a climate-smart intensification for oil palm	38
Benefits and gaps in area-based management tools for the ocean Sustainable Development Goal	38
Food system resilience to phosphorus shortages on a telecoupled planet	37
Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	37
Meta-analysis of oyster impacts on coastal biogeochemistry	36
Technology assessment of solar disinfection for drinking water treatment	36
Best practices for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide	36
Socio-demographic factors shaping the future global health burden from air pollution	36
Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation	36
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics	36
The expansion of tree plantations across tropical biomes	35
Greener and higher conversion of esterification via interfacial photothermal catalysis	35
Sea-level rise from land subsidence in major coastal cities	35
Economic efficiency and targeting of the African Great Green Wall	34
Vulnerability to collapse of coral reef ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean	34
Re-evaluating effectiveness of vehicle emission control programmes targeting high-emitters	34
Increasing material efficiencies of buildings to address the global sand crisis	34
Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption	34
Land-based implications of early climate actions without global net-negative emissions	33
Mineral security essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals	33
Possible negative consequences of a wildlife trade ban	33
Risk science offers an integrated approach to resilience	33
Protected area personnel and ranger numbers are insufficient to deliver global expectations	33