One Earth

Article	Citations
Reaching New Heights in Plastic Pollution—Preliminary Findings of Microplastics on Mount Everest	377
A framework for complex climate change risk assessment	294
Worldwide occurrence records suggest a global decline in bee species richness	293
Global decline in capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services	270
Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action	269
Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide	163
Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications	159
Carbon capture and storage at the end of a lost decade	149
A review of the interactions between biodiversity, agriculture, climate change, and international trade: research and policy priorities	134
Characteristics, potentials, and challenges of transdisciplinary research	130
Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the cement industry via value chain mitigation strategies	129
Chinese cities exhibit varying degrees of decoupling of economic growth and CO2 emissions between 2005 and 2015	126
Sustainability footprints of a renewable carbon transition for the petrochemical sector within planetary boundaries	117
Limits to Paris compatibility of CO2 capture and utilization	112
A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services	111
Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions	103
Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle: The potential of combining dietary change, agroecology, and circularity	102
Climate change impacts on water security in global drylands	100
Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Conflicts, synergies, and pathways forward	91
Sustainability of the global sand system in the Anthropocene	90
A Life Cycle Thinking Framework to Mitigate the Environmental Impact of Building Materials	86
Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally	81
Quantitative assessment of agricultural sustainability reveals divergent priorities among nations	81
The nitrogen decade: mobilizing global action on nitrogen to 2030 and beyond	81
Four steps for the Earth: mainstreaming the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	78

Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change	77
Consideration of culture is vital if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals	77
Blind spots in visions of a “blue economy” could undermine the ocean's contribution to eliminating hunger and malnutrition	71
Defining a sustainable development target space for 2030 and 2050	71
Interventions for improving the productivity and environmental performance of global aquaculture for future food security	71
Plastics and climate change—Breaking carbon lock-ins through three mitigation pathways	70
Air-Filtering Masks for Respiratory Protection from PM2.5 and Pandemic Pathogens	70
The role of design in circular economy solutions for critical materials	67
Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda	66
Countering the effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation through habitat restoration	64
Increasing canopy mortality affects the future demographic structure of Europe's forests	64
Nature's contributions to people: Weaving plural perspectives	63
Twenty-first century sea-level rise could exceed IPCC projections for strong-warming futures	63
Urban tree canopy has greater cooling effects in socially vulnerable communities in the US	62
Ocean conservation boosts climate change mitigation and adaptation	61
Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions	60
Net-zero emissions chemical industry in a world of limited resources	59
Rewilding should be central to global restoration efforts	58
Leveraging emotion for sustainable action	58
Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Tensions and prospects	58
Climate change risks pushing one-third of global food production outside the safe climatic space	58
Full-volatility emission framework corrects missing and underestimated secondary organic aerosol sources	56
Operationalizing marketable blue carbon	54
How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal	54
Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition	54
Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally	52
Historical and future global burned area with changing climate and human demography	51
Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods	51
Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors	51
Why carbon leakage matters and what can be done against it	50
Equity in human adaptation-related responses: A systematic global review	49
Alternative-energy-vehicles deployment delivers climate, air quality, and health co-benefits when coupled with decarbonizing power generation in China	48
China's retrofitting measures in coal-fired power plants bring significant mercury-related health benefits	48
Elevated CO2 negates O3 impacts on terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycles	48
We need a food system transformation—In the face of the Russia-Ukraine war, now more than ever	48
Ecological redlines provide a mechanism to maximize conservation gains in Mainland Southeast Asia	48
Anthropogenic resistance: accounting for human behavior in wildlife connectivity planning	47
Persistent degradation: Global water quality challenges and required actions	47
Eighty-six EU policy options for reducing imported deforestation	47
Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism	44
Financial incentives for large-scale wetland restoration: Beyond markets to common asset trusts	44
Switching to electric vehicles can lead to significant reductions of PM2.5 and NO2 across China	44
Achieving a nature- and people-positive future	43
Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions	42
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries	41
Global variation in contributions to human well-being from urban vegetation ecosystem services	41
Advancing direct seawater electrocatalysis for green and affordable hydrogen	41
The cost of direct air capture and storage can be reduced via strategic deployment but is unlikely to fall below stated cost targets	41
The Anthropocene reality of financial risk	40
Patchwork Earth: navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures	40

Perceived environmental risks and insecurity reduce future migration intentions in hazardous migration source areas	40
Plant-level mitigation strategies could enable carbon neutrality by 2060 and reduce non-CO2 emissions in China’s iron and steel sector	39
Research priorities for global food security under extreme events	39
Identifying uncertainties in scenarios and models of socio-ecological systems in support of decision-making	39
Artificial intelligence and the climate emergency: Opportunities, challenges, and recommendations	38
Methane emissions along biomethane and biogas supply chains are underestimated	38
Plant-level real-time monitoring data reveal substantial abatement potential of air pollution and CO2 in China’s cement sector	38
Ecosystem services at risk: integrating spatiotemporal dynamics of supply and demand to promote long-term provision	38
Scrutinizing environmental governance in a digital age: New ways of seeing, participating, and intervening	37
A guide to using species trait data in conservation	37
Ecosystem coupling: A unifying framework to understand the functioning and recovery of ecosystems	36
Environmental and human health trade-offs in potential Chinese dietary shifts	36
Habitat fragmentation amplifies threats from habitat loss to mammal diversity across the world’s terrestrial ecoregions	35
Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use	35
PM2.5 reductions in Chinese cities from 2013 to 2019 remain significant despite the inflating effects of meteorological conditions	35
Achieving carbon neutrality enables China to attain its industrial water-use target	34
Brown carbon from biomass burning imposes strong circum-Arctic warming	34
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	34
Area-based conservation: Taking stock and looking ahead	34
Global synthesis reveals heterogeneous changes in connection of humans to nature	33
Lower cost and more feasible options to restore forest cover in the contiguous United States for climate mitigation	33
Six Decades of Glacier Mass Changes around Mt. Everest Are Revealed by Historical and Contemporary Images	33
Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups	33
From environmental governance to governance for sustainability	33
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: Business as usual or a turning point?	33
Integral functions of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle and climate change mitigation	33
Ending fossil-based growth: Confronting the political economy of petrochemical plastics	32
Different Material Footprint Trends between China and the World in 2007-2012 Explained by Construction- and Manufacturing-associated Investment	32
Participatory research in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Adjusting your methodological toolkits	32
The psychological distance of climate change is overestimated	32
Historical precedents and feasibility of rapid coal and gas decline required for the 1.5°C target	32
Central Asia is a missing link in analyses of critical materials for the global clean energy transition	32
Three-quarters of insect species are insufficiently represented by protected areas	32
Permafrost as a potential pathogen reservoir	32
The potential of water security in leveraging Agenda 2030	32
Increased wheat price spikes and larger economic inequality with 2°C global warming	31
Blockchain solutions for carbon markets are nearing maturity	31
Principles for coral reef restoration in the anthropocene	31
Who is the high seas fishing industry?	31
Emphasizing urgency of climate change is insufficient to increase policy support	31
UNFCCC must confront the political economy of net-negative emissions	30
Cost reductions in renewables can substantially erode the value of carbon capture and storage in mitigation pathways	30
Exploring the future of fishery conflict through narrative scenarios	30
Sea-level rise enhances carbon accumulation in United States tidal wetlands	30
Climate variability affects water-energy-food infrastructure performance in East Africa	29
The extent and distribution of joint conservation-development funding in the tropics	29
Toward a definition of Essential Mountain Climate Variables	29
Carbon neutrality should not be the end goal: Lessons for institutional climate action from U.S. higher education	29
Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss	28
An updated global mercury budget from a coupled atmosphere-land-ocean model: 40% more re-emissions buffer the effect of primary emission reductions	28
Culturally diverse expert teams have yet to bring comprehensive linguistic diversity to intergovernmental ecosystem assessments	27
Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction: A probabilistic modeling framework	27
A synergistic approach to air pollution control and carbon neutrality in China can avoid millions of premature deaths annually by 2060	26
Energy system decarbonization and productivity gains reduced the coupling of CO2 emissions and economic growth in 73 countries between 1970 and 2016	26
The role of water quality monitoring in the sustainable use of ambient waters	25
Governing for “no net loss” of biodiversity over the long term: challenges and pathways forward	25
Carbon neutrality of China’s passenger car sector requires coordinated short-term behavioral changes and long-term technological solutions	25
Innovating carbon-capture biotechnologies through ecosystem-inspired solutions	25
A synergistic ozone-climate control to address emerging ozone pollution challenges	25
Understanding and addressing the planetary crisis of chemicals and plastics	25
A water-function-based framework for understanding and governing water resilience in the Anthropocene	25
Rethinking zero deforestation beyond 2020 to more equitably and effectively conserve tropical forests	25
Interdisciplinary strategies to enable data-driven plant breeding in a changing climate	25
Managing the financial risks of climate change and pandemics: What we know (and don't know)	25
Setting ambitious goals for agriculture to meet environmental targets	25
Mountain Biodiversity Is Central to Sustainable Development in Mountains and Beyond	24
Graphene environmental footprint greatly reduced when derived from biomass waste via flash Joule heating	24
The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development	24
The potential of green ammonia for agricultural and economic development in Sierra Leone	24
Will blue hydrogen lock us into fossil fuels forever?	24
Policy making under scarcity: reflections for designing socially just climate adaptation policy	24
Improved air quality in China can enhance solar-power performance and accelerate carbon-neutrality targets	24
Construal-level theory and psychological distancing: Implications for grand environmental challenges	24
Carbon removals from nature restoration are no substitute for steep emission reductions	24
Region-specific nutritious, environmentally friendly, and affordable diets in India	24
Technological pathways toward sustainable batteries	23
Addressing the social life cycle inventory analysis data gap: Insights from a case study of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	23
Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda	23
From South Asia to the world: embracing the challenge of global sustainable nitrogen management	23
Beyond Li-ion batteries: performance, materials diversification, and sustainability	23

Anaconda-shaped spiral multi-layered triboelectric nanogenerators with ultra-high space efficiency for wave energy harvesting	23
Countries’ differentiated responsibilities to fulfill area-based conservation targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework	22
Local waste management successfully reduces coastal plastic pollution	22
Ecosystem restoration is risky … but we can change that	22
Achieving ambitious mangrove restoration targets will need a transdisciplinary and evidence-informed approach	22
Precipitation Characteristics and Moisture Source Regions on Mt. Everest in the Khumbu, Nepal	22
Breaking down barriers: The identification of actions to promote gender equality in interdisciplinary marine research institutions	22
Negligible impacts of early COVID-19 confinement on household carbon footprints in Japan	22
Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains	22
Subaltern forms of knowledge are required to boost local adaptation	22
Representing inequalities in integrated assessment modeling of climate change	22
Residential segregation and outdoor urban moist heat stress disparities in the United States	21
Onset of runaway fragmentation of salt marshes	21
Climate-induced increases in micronutrient availability for coral reef fisheries	21
Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas: Basis and Gaps	21
The true costs of digital currencies: Exploring impact beyond energy use	21
Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance	21
Toward a circular economy: The role of digitalization	20
Climate-sensitive disease outbreaks in the aftermath of extreme climatic events: A scoping review	20
Impacts of climate change on methylmercury formation and bioaccumulation in the 21st century ocean	20
A global review of methane policies reveals that only 13% of emissions are covered with unclear effectiveness	20
Against the odds: Network and institutional pathways enabling agricultural diversification	20
Efficient biomass cooking in Africa for climate change mitigation and development	20
Circular utilization of urban tree waste contributes to the mitigation of climate change and eutrophication	20
Ensuring that nature-based solutions for climate mitigation address multiple global challenges	20
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions	20
Climate change will amplify the inequitable exposure to compound heatwave and ozone pollution	20
Adapting risk assessments for a complex future	20
Biomass—Critical limits to a vital resource	20
Social sustainability and equity in the blue economy	19
The top 100 global water questions: Results of a scoping exercise	19
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages	19
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	19
Heading to the deep end without knowing how to swim: Do we need deep-seabed mining?	19
Methane and nitrous oxide emissions complicate the climate benefits of teal and blue carbon wetlands	19
Talk is cheap: Nations must act now to achieve long-term ambitions for biodiversity	19
Multiscale design for system-wide peer-to-peer energy trading	19
Urban residential energy switching in China between 1980 and 2014 prevents 2.2 million premature deaths	18
Integrated spatial planning for biodiversity conservation and food production	18
Recurring patterns of SDG interlinkages and how they can advance the 2030 Agenda	18
Integrated assessment of deep eutectic solvents questions solvometallurgy as a sustainable recycling approach for lithium-ion batteries	18
Solely economic mitigation strategy suggests upward revision of nationally determined contributions	18
Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps	18
Urbanization and agrobiodiversity: Leveraging a key nexus for sustainable development	18
Drivers of fluctuating embodied carbon emissions in international services trade	18
Photovoltaic windows cut energy use and CO2 emissions by 40% in highly glazed buildings	18
Indigenous Peoples’ lands are threatened by industrial development; conversion risk assessment reveals need to support Indigenous stewardship	18
Indicators keep progress honest: A call to track both the quantity and quality of protected areas	18
Tropical deforestation accelerates local warming and loss of safe outdoor working hours	18
Advancements in extreme fast charging to foster sustainable electrification	17
Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change	17
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	17
Secure local aquatic food systems in the face of declining coral reefs	17
Dual Challenge of Climate Change and Agrobiodiversity Loss in Mountain Food Systems in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya	17
Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities	17
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	17
Marine Protected Areas provide more cultural ecosystem services than other adjacent coastal areas	16
Corporate environmental responsibility leads to more pro-environmental behavior at work by strengthening intrinsic pro-environmental motivation	16
Build in prevention and preparedness to improve climate resilience in coastal cities: Lessons from China’s GBA	16
Selecting and prioritizing material resources by criticality assessments	16
Novel environmental conditions due to climate change in the world's largest marine protected areas	16
COVID-19 recovery packages can benefit climate targets and clean energy jobs, but scale of impacts and optimal investment portfolios differ among major economies	16
Tackling material constraints on the exponential growth of the energy transition	16
A strong mitigation scenario maintains climate neutrality of northern peatlands	16
Climate module disparities explain inconsistent estimates of the social cost of carbon in integrated assessment models	16
Understanding the climate responsibility associated with elections	16
Biodiversity and COVID-19: A report and a long road ahead to avoid another pandemic	16
Increasing meteorological drought under climate change reduces terrestrial ecosystem productivity and carbon storage	16