One Earth

Papers
(The TQCC of One Earth is 20. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Variations on a theme337
Is the emerging systemic reliance on brownfield expansion a mining “bubble”?281
Interrupting the cascade191
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond159
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery141
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence135
A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions125
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries125
Wetlands at the interface of ambition and action123
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities122
State of the world’s kelp forests119
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia114
Responsibility for emissions and mitigation capability should guide use of carbon removal offsets113
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains112
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts108
ARMS-to-Arks: Trophic rewiring of viral, microbial, and functional networks through reef ecosystem seeding105
Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios104
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change104
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries104
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming102
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures101
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play100
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options96
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems93
The ammonia moment92
Benchmarking for soil health improvement91
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence91
Hot tropics90
Stewardship under shifting drought baselines86
Less plastic used longer86
Gambling with offsets84
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems83
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future83
Beyond inundation: A water-table-driven framework is needed to quantify tropical wetland methane emissions80
Climate-smart wetlands can mitigate the wetland-methane feedback loop79
Research priorities for climate mobility77
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services76
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment75
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management74
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming74
Vegetation dynamics offset nearly 30% of precipitation’s impact on runoff and are amplified by aridity74
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change71
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration70
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity70
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change70
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots66
The Great Ape House65
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems65
Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future65
Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet64
Multiphase particle formation in industrial plumes corrects missing sulfate in the urban atmosphere62
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins62
Socio-demographic factors shape mortality risk linked to compound drought-heatwave events under climate change in China61
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water61
Earth Poetica60
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution59
Moving on58
Tipping points: Both problem and solution58
The Hive II58
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility58
Novel contaminants, novel solutions57
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations57
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C56
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty55
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action55
Contrasting consequences of the Great Green Wall: Easing aridity while increasing heat extremes55
Rising to the challenge: Producing and sustaining a nutrient-dense and climate-resilient food basket for all55
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries53
Why integrated assessment models alone are insufficient to navigate us through the polycrisis52
Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action52
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals52
Ozone-related acute excess mortality projected to increase in the absence of climate and air quality controls consistent with the Paris Agreement52
CoBacFM: Core bacteria forecast model for global grassland pH dynamics under future climate warming scenarios51
Critical overview of the implications of a global protein transition in the face of climate change: Key unknowns and research imperatives48
A tide of change: What we can learn from stories of marine conservation success48
Twin Cloud (大气炼金术)47
Inequity in action: U.S. rural counties subsidize flood insurance discounts47
Unmuting the message: Climate communication in a complex world47
Q&A with Mónica Trujillo: Navigating the bioeconomy transition in the Amazon47
Q&A with Dr. Ibrahima Socé Fall47
Human-impacted lakes contribute over one-third of global lake greenhouse gas emissions46
Croplands now, croplands next46
Projected widening of sociodemographic heat disparities in the United States by end of century45
Urban circular carbon economy through electrochemically influenced microbiomes44
A multi-level integration framework for sustainable nitrogen management in tropical agriculture44
Toward clean and efficient ammonia energy utilization43
Closing the global sand circularity gap needs a systems approach43
Ammonia for food and fuels in a sustainable future43
Global patterns of border protected areas reveal gaps in transboundary conservation efforts42
Catalyzing the transformation to sustainable finance42
Social-ecological contributions of protected areas to their surroundings41
Global synthesis reveals heterogeneous changes in connection of humans to nature40
Advancing catalysis for sustainable biofuels39
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity39
Sedimentation-enhancing strategies for sustainable deltas: An integrated socio-biophysical framework39
Mitigating pesticide mixture hazard in global surface waters through agricultural management39
Targeting site conservation to increase the effectiveness of new global biodiversity targets39
The new EU carbon removal certification: Landmark legislation or an empty promise?38
Q&A with Prof. Jin Xuan: Catalyzing a circular chemical economy38
A Climate Mural for Our Times38
Stocktake of G20 countries’ climate pledges reveals limited macroeconomic costs and employment shifts38
Movement is Natural38
Unmanaged naturally regenerating forests approach intact forest canopy structure but are susceptible to climate and human stress38
Update corporate climate standards to increase rigor and ambition37
Ultimate and proximate analyses of behavioral responses36
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk35
Restoring stabilizing feedback loops for sustainability35
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits34
Advancing direct seawater electrocatalysis for green and affordable hydrogen34
Overcoming barriers and embracing advances: Nanosensor implementation for practical water contaminant surveillance34
The perceived feasibility of behavior change is positively associated with support for domain-matched climate policies34
Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach34
Memorial to Arcadia Woodlands Clear-Cut34
Socio-political feedback on the path to net zero34
The climate sciences need representation from the Global South33
Toward a holistic and data-driven framework to evaluate livestock-derived protein systems33
Q&A with Trude Storelvmo: Aerosols, uncertainties, and future warming33
We need to collectively redefine development: Q&A with Joyeeta Gupta33
Can the Amazon deliver a bioeconomy?33
Marine permaculture: Design principles for productive seascapes32
Development banks must codify strict criteria for financing Big Livestock32
Effectiveness of water-related adaptation decreases with increasing warming32
Sustainably feeding the planet through integrated management of blue and green food systems32
Joint geochemical and microbial controls on soil particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon decomposability across the contiguous US31
Greenspace mitigates the global disease and economic burdens of non-communicable diseases31
Voluntary commitments made by the world’s largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis31
Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains30
New proteins, old problems30
Q&A with Wayne Cascio: Adapting to a smokier world30
Local ecological knowledge systems worldwide follow distinct pathways of change under shared global pressures30
Intrinsic yield fluctuations interact with environmental shocks to threaten the socio-ecological resilience of perennial crop systems30
Sustainable finance for biodiversity: Q&A with Candice Stevens30
Leveraging remote sensing for transparency and accountability in Amazonian commodity supply chains30
Reducing sand mining’s growing toll on marine biodiversity30
Extracellular vesicles in the plastisphere emerge as hotspots to spread antibiotic resistance and virulence genes30
Excessive pumping limits the benefits of a strengthening summer monsoon for groundwater recovery in India30
Africa-wide diversification of livelihood strategies: Isotopic insights into Holocene human adaptations to climate change29
Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies29
Ecosystematic Lunch28
Redesigning polymers for sustainability28
Q&A with Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio, Carlos Barreto, Jacob Parnell28
Beyond the record28
Mainstream corporate climate methods impose inequitable burdens on emerging economies: Evidence from the cement industry28
Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests27
The specter of mass climate migration across international borders: Dismantling an unscientific expectation27
Thirty years of decrease in global terrestrial ecosystem respiration due to declining moisture availability27
Recommendations for strengthening blue carbon science27
Governing food systems to conserve China’s endangered wild animals27
Israel-Gaza conflict carbon emissions exceeded 30 million tons27
Green teens: Understanding and promoting adolescents’ sustainable engagement27
Vulnerability outpaces climate worry in US frontline communities27
Identifying drivers of antibiotic resistance: Mathematical model of One Health interventions spotlights transmission and environmental pathways27
Promoting effect of plant diversity on soil microbial functionality is amplified over time26
Continued global warming from aviation even under high-ambition mitigation scenarios26
Managing the reduction of soil phosphorus can prolong global reserves of fertilizer phosphorus and improve water quality26
The impacts of plastics’ life cycle26
Transforming the tropical timber industry could be the key to realizing the potential of forests and forest products26
Chemical Bouquet II25
Potential conflicts between fishing and oceanic carbon sequestration in 15% of the ocean25
Embodied carbon emissions of buildings and how to tame them25
Black-carbon-induced regime transition of boundary layer development strongly amplifies severe haze25
Every plot, every acre, all at once: The global land squeeze25
Elephants & Bees25
Crop models for future food systems25
Sequencing, spending, and symbolism: Low carbon taxes primarily serve purposes other than emissions reduction25
Reimagining the Amazon bioeconomy from environmental justice and post-growth perspectives24
Strategic restoration-development mitigates tradeoffs between hydropower and fish habitat fragmentation in the Mekong24
Global warming increases the risk of crop yield failures driven by climate oscillations24
A Carbon Re-wilding: Decolonization of Contentious Territories24
Safe and sustainable croplands24
Defining “climatopia”: An evaluation framework to support transformational adaptation in climate-inspired utopic design24
Harvesting dilemmas24
Cost-effective expansion of protected areas reduces global zoonotic risk and biodiversity loss24
An estimate of global cardiovascular mortality burden attributable to ambient ozone exposure reveals urban-rural environmental injustice23
The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development23
Adapting forest management to climate change impacts and policy targets in the EU: Insights from the coupled GLOBIOM/G4M-i3PGmiX model23
Implementation costs of restoring global mangrove forests23
A global review of methane policies reveals that only 13% of emissions are covered with unclear effectiveness23
Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy23
Boundaries of the future: A framework for reflexive scenario practice in sustainability science23
Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience23
Harnessing social tipping dynamics: A systems approach for accelerating decarbonization23
Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States23
Sustainable land systems in the Anthropocene: Navigating the global land squeeze23
Don’t breathe, don’t drink22
Place-based capacity building to enhance resilience in tropical countries22
Ratcheting up effectiveness to improve the Global Stocktake process22
A framework to identify barriers and levers to increase the levels of protection of marine protected areas22
Responsible nanotechnology for a sustainable future22
Reimagining ammonia for a sustainable future22
Aerosols are critical for “nowcasting” climate22
Clean water for life22
Toward monitoring daily anthropogenic CO2 emissions with air pollution sensors from space22
Choose and act on a better future22
IT IS TIME22
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages21
Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection21
Roadless areas as an effective strategy for protected area expansion: Evidence from China21
Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options21
Short-term hydro-sediment dynamics govern reef restoration success in temperate marginal seas21
Q&A with Océane Albert: Regulating the future of alternative proteins21
Innovative carbon nanotubes-bridging strategy valorizes plastic waste into high-quality H2-rich syngas while suppressing CO2 emissions21
US EPA’s power plant rules reduce CO2 emissions but can achieve more cost-efficient and deeper reduction by regulating existing gas-fired plants21
Alleviating future groundwater stress in China requires more stringent adaptation beyond existing measures20
Interventions for sourcing EAT-Lancet diets within national agricultural areas: A global analysis20
Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions20
Enhanced but highly variable biodiversity outcomes from coastal restoration: A global synthesis20
Long-term moderate warming shifts soil carbon cycling but maintains carbon sinks in a subtropical forest20
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