One Earth

Papers
(The TQCC of One Earth is 17. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures304
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia235
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence232
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries208
Warming-driven changes in Arctic fish communities must not leave local Indigenous communities out in the cold191
New York’s carbon emissions165
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities160
A data-driven approach to water treatment in low-resource communities: Andrea Johnson136
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery116
Variations on a theme115
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options113
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries111
State of the world’s kelp forests110
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond104
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change100
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains100
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play99
Biomass—Critical limits to a vital resource96
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems95
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts94
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming94
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management93
Benchmarking for soil health improvement88
Hot tropics87
Less plastic used longer86
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence84
Pyrexia81
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems81
Quality control78
Combined heat and electricity using thermal storage to decarbonize buildings and industries78
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity76
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change73
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration72
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services72
Research priorities for climate mobility71
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change71
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future71
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions71
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment70
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming70
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots68
The Great Ape House67
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals66
Novel contaminants, novel solutions66
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations66
Clinicians for Planetary Health65
Socio-demographic factors shape mortality risk linked to compound drought-heatwave events under climate change in China64
Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action64
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C63
Critical overview of the implications of a global protein transition in the face of climate change: Key unknowns and research imperatives62
Multiphase particle formation in industrial plumes corrects missing sulfate in the urban atmosphere62
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water61
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action61
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries59
CoBacFM: Core bacteria forecast model for global grassland pH dynamics under future climate warming scenarios58
Ozone-related acute excess mortality projected to increase in the absence of climate and air quality controls consistent with the Paris Agreement58
Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet55
Contrasting consequences of the Great Green Wall: Easing aridity while increasing heat extremes55
The Hive II54
A tide of change: What we can learn from stories of marine conservation success52
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty51
Earth Poetica50
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins50
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution49
Building sustainability into battery value chains49
Rising to the challenge: Producing and sustaining a nutrient-dense and climate-resilient food basket for all48
Tipping points: Both problem and solution48
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems48
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility48
Moving on48
Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future47
Unmuting the message: Climate communication in a complex world46
Why integrated assessment models alone are insufficient to navigate us through the polycrisis46
Advancing catalysis for sustainable biofuels45
Twin Cloud (大气炼金术)45
Croplands now, croplands next44
From wastewater to resource44
Global synthesis reveals heterogeneous changes in connection of humans to nature44
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity44
Ensuring that nature-based solutions for climate mitigation address multiple global challenges44
Catalyzing the transformation to sustainable finance44
A multi-level integration framework for sustainable nitrogen management in tropical agriculture43
Rethinking our chemical legacy and reclaiming our planet43
Toward clean and efficient ammonia energy utilization43
Sedimentation-enhancing strategies for sustainable deltas: An integrated socio-biophysical framework43
Q&A with Dr. Ibrahima Socé Fall43
Q&A with Mónica Trujillo: Navigating the bioeconomy transition in the Amazon42
Targeting site conservation to increase the effectiveness of new global biodiversity targets41
Urban circular carbon economy through electrochemically influenced microbiomes41
Mitigating pesticide mixture hazard in global surface waters through agricultural management41
Closing the global sand circularity gap needs a systems approach41
Global patterns of border protected areas reveal gaps in transboundary conservation efforts40
Movement is Natural39
Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach39
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk39
Socio-political feedback on the path to net zero39
Different Material Footprint Trends between China and the World in 2007-2012 Explained by Construction- and Manufacturing-associated Investment38
A step change needed to secure a nature-positive future—Is it in reach?37
Facilitating a clean water future for all: Gilbert F. Houngbo37
Q&A with Denis Hayes37
UCLA x INDECLINE (“blue Zeus” eco-mural)37
The new EU carbon removal certification: Landmark legislation or an empty promise?36
Overcoming barriers and embracing advances: Nanosensor implementation for practical water contaminant surveillance36
A Climate Mural for Our Times36
Stocktake of G20 countries’ climate pledges reveals limited macroeconomic costs and employment shifts36
Q&A with Prof. Jin Xuan: Catalyzing a circular chemical economy36
Update corporate climate standards to increase rigor and ambition36
Ultimate and proximate analyses of behavioral responses36
Unmanaged naturally regenerating forests approach intact forest canopy structure but are susceptible to climate and human stress35
The perceived feasibility of behavior change is positively associated with support for domain-matched climate policies35
The state and challenges of Arctic governance in an era of transformation35
Restoring stabilizing feedback loops for sustainability34
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits34
Sustainable biomass future: Renato Domith Godinho34
Advancing direct seawater electrocatalysis for green and affordable hydrogen34
Blockchain solutions for carbon markets are nearing maturity33
Climate-sensitive disease outbreaks in the aftermath of extreme climatic events: A scoping review33
A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services33
Toward a holistic and data-driven framework to evaluate livestock-derived protein systems32
Q&A with Trude Storelvmo: Aerosols, uncertainties, and future warming32
Memorial to Arcadia Woodlands Clear-Cut32
Effectiveness of water-related adaptation decreases with increasing warming31
Greenspace mitigates the global disease and economic burdens of non-communicable diseases31
Sustainably feeding the planet through integrated management of blue and green food systems31
On thin ice30
We need to collectively redefine development: Q&A with Joyeeta Gupta30
Unravelling Ecologies: Runoff Verdure30
Carbon capture and storage investment: Fiddling while the planet burns29
Development banks must codify strict criteria for financing Big Livestock29
Intrinsic yield fluctuations interact with environmental shocks to threaten the socio-ecological resilience of perennial crop systems29
Can the Amazon deliver a bioeconomy?28
Leveraging remote sensing for transparency and accountability in Amazonian commodity supply chains28
Joint geochemical and microbial controls on soil particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon decomposability across the contiguous US28
Reducing sand mining’s growing toll on marine biodiversity27
The climate sciences need representation from the Global South27
Marine permaculture: Design principles for productive seascapes27
Emerging agricultural expansion in northern regions: Insights from land-use research27
Voluntary commitments made by the world’s largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis27
Nature-based solutions for managing rising flood risk and delivering multiple benefits27
Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains27
Q&A with Wayne Cascio: Adapting to a smokier world26
Managing the reduction of soil phosphorus can prolong global reserves of fertilizer phosphorus and improve water quality26
Excessive pumping limits the benefits of a strengthening summer monsoon for groundwater recovery in India26
Climate change will amplify the inequitable exposure to compound heatwave and ozone pollution26
Governing food systems to conserve China’s endangered wild animals26
Sustainable finance for biodiversity: Q&A with Candice Stevens26
Transforming the tropical timber industry could be the key to realizing the potential of forests and forest products26
Redesigning polymers for sustainability25
Africa-wide diversification of livelihood strategies: Isotopic insights into Holocene human adaptations to climate change25
The impacts of plastics’ life cycle25
The specter of mass climate migration across international borders: Dismantling an unscientific expectation25
Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests25
Q&A with Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio, Carlos Barreto, Jacob Parnell25
Crop models for future food systems24
The limits of biomass24
Embodied carbon emissions of buildings and how to tame them24
Preaching water while drinking wine: Why universities must boost climate action now24
Continued global warming from aviation even under high-ambition mitigation scenarios24
Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies24
Adapting forest management to climate change impacts and policy targets in the EU: Insights from the coupled GLOBIOM/G4M-i3PGmiX model23
Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda23
Promoting effect of plant diversity on soil microbial functionality is amplified over time23
Elephants & Bees23
Recommendations for strengthening blue carbon science23
Ecosystematic Lunch23
Chemical Bouquet II23
Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally23
Green teens: Understanding and promoting adolescents’ sustainable engagement23
Beyond the record23
Potential conflicts between fishing and oceanic carbon sequestration in 15% of the ocean22
Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States22
The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development22
Financing a nature-based future: Ivo Mulder22
Every plot, every acre, all at once: The global land squeeze21
Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience21
Boundaries of the future: A framework for reflexive scenario practice in sustainability science21
Defining “climatopia”: An evaluation framework to support transformational adaptation in climate-inspired utopic design21
Safe and sustainable croplands21
Sequencing, spending, and symbolism: Low carbon taxes primarily serve purposes other than emissions reduction21
Reimagining the Amazon bioeconomy from environmental justice and post-growth perspectives21
Harvesting dilemmas21
Strategic restoration-development mitigates tradeoffs between hydropower and fish habitat fragmentation in the Mekong21
Harnessing social tipping dynamics: A systems approach for accelerating decarbonization21
Sustainable land systems in the Anthropocene: Navigating the global land squeeze20
Global warming increases the risk of crop yield failures driven by climate oscillations20
A global review of methane policies reveals that only 13% of emissions are covered with unclear effectiveness20
An estimate of global cardiovascular mortality burden attributable to ambient ozone exposure reveals urban-rural environmental injustice20
Implementation costs of restoring global mangrove forests20
Ratcheting up effectiveness to improve the Global Stocktake process19
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages19
Don’t breathe, don’t drink19
Black-carbon-induced regime transition of boundary layer development strongly amplifies severe haze19
Responsible nanotechnology for a sustainable future19
Long-term moderate warming shifts soil carbon cycling but maintains carbon sinks in a subtropical forest19
Clean water for life19
Place-based capacity building to enhance resilience in tropical countries19
US EPA’s power plant rules reduce CO2 emissions but can achieve more cost-efficient and deeper reduction by regulating existing gas-fired plants19
Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy19
IT IS TIME18
Toward monitoring daily anthropogenic CO2 emissions with air pollution sensors from space18
Roadless areas as an effective strategy for protected area expansion: Evidence from China18
Choose and act on a better future18
Integral functions of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle and climate change mitigation18
Enhanced but highly variable biodiversity outcomes from coastal restoration: A global synthesis18
Aerosols are critical for “nowcasting” climate18
Interventions for sourcing EAT-Lancet diets within national agricultural areas: A global analysis18
Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection18
Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies17
Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options17
Impacts of enhanced new-particle growth events above urban roughness sublayer on cloud condensation nuclei17
Integrating sufficiency in the trade and biodiversity agenda of the European Union17
Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions17
Innovative carbon nanotubes-bridging strategy valorizes plastic waste into high-quality H2-rich syngas while suppressing CO2 emissions17
Global shipping emissions from 1970 to 2021: Structural and spatial change driven by trade dynamics17
Q&A with Dr. Anuradha Mittal17
Building a stronger steel transition: Global cooperation and procurement in construction17
Scrutinizing environmental governance in a digital age: New ways of seeing, participating, and intervening17
A framework to identify barriers and levers to increase the levels of protection of marine protected areas17
Toward a sustainable future of sand17
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