One Earth

Article	Citations
Variations on a theme	327
A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions	249
Responsibility for emissions and mitigation capability should guide use of carbon removal offsets	177
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries	143
Is the emerging systemic reliance on brownfield expansion a mining “bubble”?	134
Interrupting the cascade	125
New York’s carbon emissions	122
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures	119
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	114
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming	114
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	112
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	111
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	109
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	108
Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios	106
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries	102
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	99
State of the world’s kelp forests	99
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	98
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems	96
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains	95
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	95
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change	94
The ammonia moment	92
Vegetation dynamics offset nearly 30% of precipitation’s impact on runoff and are amplified by aridity	92

Benchmarking for soil health improvement	91
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services	89
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming	89
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence	86
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change	84
Less plastic used longer	83
Hot tropics	83
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots	81
Stewardship under shifting drought baselines	78
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	75
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems	74
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future	74
Gambling with offsets	74
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management	73
Research priorities for climate mobility	73
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change	71
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity	70
The Great Ape House	69
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	69
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins	67
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals	67
Rising to the challenge: Producing and sustaining a nutrient-dense and climate-resilient food basket for all	67
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C	67
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations	64
The Hive II	62
Earth Poetica	62
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution	61
Tipping points: Both problem and solution	60
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility	60
Novel contaminants, novel solutions	59
Moving on	59
A tide of change: What we can learn from stories of marine conservation success	58
Contrasting consequences of the Great Green Wall: Easing aridity while increasing heat extremes	57
Socio-demographic factors shape mortality risk linked to compound drought-heatwave events under climate change in China	57
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries	56
Why integrated assessment models alone are insufficient to navigate us through the polycrisis	56
Critical overview of the implications of a global protein transition in the face of climate change: Key unknowns and research imperatives	56
Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet	55
Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action	54
Multiphase particle formation in industrial plumes corrects missing sulfate in the urban atmosphere	53
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems	53
Ozone-related acute excess mortality projected to increase in the absence of climate and air quality controls consistent with the Paris Agreement	53
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty	52
Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future	52
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water	52
CoBacFM: Core bacteria forecast model for global grassland pH dynamics under future climate warming scenarios	52
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action	52
Unmuting the message: Climate communication in a complex world	51
Twin Cloud (大气炼金术)	51
Q&A with Mónica Trujillo: Navigating the bioeconomy transition in the Amazon	51

Closing the global sand circularity gap needs a systems approach	50
Inequity in action: U.S. rural counties subsidize flood insurance discounts	49
Q&A with Dr. Ibrahima Socé Fall	49
Advancing catalysis for sustainable biofuels	48
Croplands now, croplands next	47
Toward clean and efficient ammonia energy utilization	47
Catalyzing the transformation to sustainable finance	46
A multi-level integration framework for sustainable nitrogen management in tropical agriculture	45
Sedimentation-enhancing strategies for sustainable deltas: An integrated socio-biophysical framework	45
Mitigating pesticide mixture hazard in global surface waters through agricultural management	45
Projected widening of sociodemographic heat disparities in the United States by end of century	45
Urban circular carbon economy through electrochemically influenced microbiomes	44
Global patterns of border protected areas reveal gaps in transboundary conservation efforts	43
Social-ecological contributions of protected areas to their surroundings	43
Ammonia for food and fuels in a sustainable future	43
Human-impacted lakes contribute over one-third of global lake greenhouse gas emissions	42
Targeting site conservation to increase the effectiveness of new global biodiversity targets	42
Global synthesis reveals heterogeneous changes in connection of humans to nature	41
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity	41
Q&A with Denis Hayes	41
A Climate Mural for Our Times	40
The new EU carbon removal certification: Landmark legislation or an empty promise?	39
Unmanaged naturally regenerating forests approach intact forest canopy structure but are susceptible to climate and human stress	39
Movement is Natural	39
Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach	38
A step change needed to secure a nature-positive future—Is it in reach?	38
Q&A with Prof. Jin Xuan: Catalyzing a circular chemical economy	38
Ultimate and proximate analyses of behavioral responses	36
Update corporate climate standards to increase rigor and ambition	36
Restoring stabilizing feedback loops for sustainability	36
Stocktake of G20 countries’ climate pledges reveals limited macroeconomic costs and employment shifts	35
Socio-political feedback on the path to net zero	35
Blockchain solutions for carbon markets are nearing maturity	35
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk	35
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits	35
Memorial to Arcadia Woodlands Clear-Cut	34
The perceived feasibility of behavior change is positively associated with support for domain-matched climate policies	34
Q&A with Trude Storelvmo: Aerosols, uncertainties, and future warming	34
Advancing direct seawater electrocatalysis for green and affordable hydrogen	34
Can the Amazon deliver a bioeconomy?	34
Overcoming barriers and embracing advances: Nanosensor implementation for practical water contaminant surveillance	34
Leveraging remote sensing for transparency and accountability in Amazonian commodity supply chains	33
Sustainably feeding the planet through integrated management of blue and green food systems	32
We need to collectively redefine development: Q&A with Joyeeta Gupta	32
Development banks must codify strict criteria for financing Big Livestock	32
Effectiveness of water-related adaptation decreases with increasing warming	32
Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains	32
Intrinsic yield fluctuations interact with environmental shocks to threaten the socio-ecological resilience of perennial crop systems	31
Reducing sand mining’s growing toll on marine biodiversity	31
Voluntary commitments made by the world’s largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis	31
The climate sciences need representation from the Global South	31
Local ecological knowledge systems worldwide follow distinct pathways of change under shared global pressures	31
Toward a holistic and data-driven framework to evaluate livestock-derived protein systems	31
Marine permaculture: Design principles for productive seascapes	30
Extracellular vesicles in the plastisphere emerge as hotspots to spread antibiotic resistance and virulence genes	30
Climate change will amplify the inequitable exposure to compound heatwave and ozone pollution	30
Joint geochemical and microbial controls on soil particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon decomposability across the contiguous US	30
Excessive pumping limits the benefits of a strengthening summer monsoon for groundwater recovery in India	30
Greenspace mitigates the global disease and economic burdens of non-communicable diseases	29
Transforming the tropical timber industry could be the key to realizing the potential of forests and forest products	29
Q&A with Wayne Cascio: Adapting to a smokier world	29
Redesigning polymers for sustainability	28
Sustainable finance for biodiversity: Q&A with Candice Stevens	28
Ecosystematic Lunch	28
Africa-wide diversification of livelihood strategies: Isotopic insights into Holocene human adaptations to climate change	28
Beyond the record	28
Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies	28
Promoting effect of plant diversity on soil microbial functionality is amplified over time	27
Continued global warming from aviation even under high-ambition mitigation scenarios	27
Q&A with Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio, Carlos Barreto, Jacob Parnell	27
Governing food systems to conserve China’s endangered wild animals	27
The specter of mass climate migration across international borders: Dismantling an unscientific expectation	27
Mainstream corporate climate methods impose inequitable burdens on emerging economies: Evidence from the cement industry	27
Managing the reduction of soil phosphorus can prolong global reserves of fertilizer phosphorus and improve water quality	27
Thirty years of decrease in global terrestrial ecosystem respiration due to declining moisture availability	26
Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda	26
Vulnerability outpaces climate worry in US frontline communities	26
Green teens: Understanding and promoting adolescents’ sustainable engagement	26
Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests	26
Chemical Bouquet II	25

Defining “climatopia”: An evaluation framework to support transformational adaptation in climate-inspired utopic design	25
Black-carbon-induced regime transition of boundary layer development strongly amplifies severe haze	25
Elephants & Bees	25
The impacts of plastics’ life cycle	25
Embodied carbon emissions of buildings and how to tame them	25
Reimagining the Amazon bioeconomy from environmental justice and post-growth perspectives	25
Crop models for future food systems	25
Recommendations for strengthening blue carbon science	25
Every plot, every acre, all at once: The global land squeeze	25
Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States	25
Israel-Gaza conflict carbon emissions exceeded 30 million tons	25
Harnessing social tipping dynamics: A systems approach for accelerating decarbonization	24
Boundaries of the future: A framework for reflexive scenario practice in sustainability science	24
The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development	24
Harvesting dilemmas	24
Cost-effective expansion of protected areas reduces global zoonotic risk and biodiversity loss	24
Safe and sustainable croplands	24
Strategic restoration-development mitigates tradeoffs between hydropower and fish habitat fragmentation in the Mekong	24
A Carbon Re-wilding: Decolonization of Contentious Territories	23
Global warming increases the risk of crop yield failures driven by climate oscillations	23
A global review of methane policies reveals that only 13% of emissions are covered with unclear effectiveness	23
Adapting forest management to climate change impacts and policy targets in the EU: Insights from the coupled GLOBIOM/G4M-i3PGmiX model	23
Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience	23
Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy	23
Potential conflicts between fishing and oceanic carbon sequestration in 15% of the ocean	23
An estimate of global cardiovascular mortality burden attributable to ambient ozone exposure reveals urban-rural environmental injustice	23
Clean water for life	22
Place-based capacity building to enhance resilience in tropical countries	22
Sustainable land systems in the Anthropocene: Navigating the global land squeeze	22
Implementation costs of restoring global mangrove forests	22
Don’t breathe, don’t drink	22
Sequencing, spending, and symbolism: Low carbon taxes primarily serve purposes other than emissions reduction	22
Responsible nanotechnology for a sustainable future	22
IT IS TIME	21
US EPA’s power plant rules reduce CO2 emissions but can achieve more cost-efficient and deeper reduction by regulating existing gas-fired plants	21
Building a stronger steel transition: Global cooperation and procurement in construction	21
Roadless areas as an effective strategy for protected area expansion: Evidence from China	21
Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options	21
Choose and act on a better future	21
Ratcheting up effectiveness to improve the Global Stocktake process	21
Short-term hydro-sediment dynamics govern reef restoration success in temperate marginal seas	21
Reimagining ammonia for a sustainable future	21
A framework to identify barriers and levers to increase the levels of protection of marine protected areas	21
Innovative carbon nanotubes-bridging strategy valorizes plastic waste into high-quality H2-rich syngas while suppressing CO2 emissions	21
Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies	21
Long-term moderate warming shifts soil carbon cycling but maintains carbon sinks in a subtropical forest	21
Toward monitoring daily anthropogenic CO2 emissions with air pollution sensors from space	20
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages	20
Aerosols are critical for “nowcasting” climate	20
Interventions for sourcing EAT-Lancet diets within national agricultural areas: A global analysis	20
Enhanced but highly variable biodiversity outcomes from coastal restoration: A global synthesis	20
Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection	20
Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions	20
Global shipping emissions from 1970 to 2021: Structural and spatial change driven by trade dynamics	19
Q&A with Dr. Anuradha Mittal	19
New framework reveals gaps in US ocean biodiversity protection	19
Mitigating the risk of natural climate solutions failure through diversified portfolios	19
One-tenth of the EU’s sustainable biomethane coupled with carbon capture and storage can enable net-zero ammonia production	19
Paraná de las Palmas	19
Accelerating progress on the SDGs: Policy guidance from the global modeling literature	19
Opportunities beyond CO2 for climate mitigation	19
Toward a sustainable future of sand	19
Impacts of enhanced new-particle growth events above urban roughness sublayer on cloud condensation nuclei	19
How power in corporate-industrial meat supply chains enables negative externalities: Three case studies from Brazil, the US, and Australia	18
Urgent climate action is needed to ensure effectiveness of protected areas for biodiversity benefits	18
Methodological and reporting inconsistencies in land-use requirements misguide future renewable energy planning	18
Unfinished buildings as a growing challenge for urban planetary health	18
Concurrent climate extremes and biological carryover effects dominate severe seasonal reductions in northern vegetation growth	18
Understanding and addressing the planetary crisis of chemicals and plastics	18
Cutting global nitrogen emissions by one-third for balanced and achievable SDGs by 2030	18
Climate change has expanded the area where deforestation causes local warming by 0.5–1.2 million km2	18
Rotational complexity increases cropping system output under poorer growing conditions	17
Globally synchronized changes in the biosphere, atmosphere, and society identified using public data	17
Unsustainable conflict	17
Are cities taking action against urban overheating? Insights from over 7,500 local climate actions	17
A holistic framework for examining complex problems in energy transition solutions	17
Integrating sufficiency in the trade and biodiversity agenda of the European Union	17
Ocean conservation boosts climate change mitigation and adaptation	17
Innovative reforestation mosaics on marginal land in the globally important Mata Atlântica biome can create climate and economic co-benefits	17
Increasing transparency and accountability in global protected and conserved area reporting	16
Effectively and equitably steering pro-environmental behavior	16
Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss	16
Citizen assemblies should involve citizens as experts on their own values	16
Data-driven recommendations for enhancing real-time natural hazard warnings	16
Beyond the bay: Biophysical simulations of disease dispersal suggest broadening spatial scales for aquaculture carrying capacity	16
Scaling biochar solutions for urban carbon dioxide removal	16
Pursuing energy security via technologies and human behavior	16
Mono-material product design with bio-based, circular, and biodegradable polymers	16
Last Gesture	16
The end of the offset: Why the future of carbon markets must be compliance	16
Assessing subnational climate action in G20 cities and regions: Progress and ambition	16
Empowering young people with climate and ocean science: Five strategies for adults to consider	16
Aligning development and deployment of compostable plastics for meaningful impact	15
Global assessment of alien freshwater megafauna reveals complex socio-economic impacts	15
Closing the waste gap	15