Communications Earth & Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Communications Earth & Environment is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary1888
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site225
Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition197
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting189
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage160
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle156
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation138
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic134
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity112
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture111
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change108
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals103
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping98
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate98
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation93
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–202393
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining92
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks89
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks89
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality88
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation88
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation88
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China87
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy87
Vertical transitions of marine heatwaves influenced by seasonally varying atmospheric forcing and coastal upwelling system86
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning84
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific84
Thermodynamic insights into the reliability of mineral-based thermobarometers84
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity82
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile81
Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon81
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles81
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy80
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality79
Middle-lower continental crust exhumed at the distal edges of volcanic passive margins76
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States72
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes72
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography72
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 202072
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability72
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines70
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change69
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current68
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations67
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China67
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production66
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis66
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality65
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland65
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods64
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits64
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence63
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments63
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability62
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations62
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow62
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach61
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China60
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning59
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests59
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 201959
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future58
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming57
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis56
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment56
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy56
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China55
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea54
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands54
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden54
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems53
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability53
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments53
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’52
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns52
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years52
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate52
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column52
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations51
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum51
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga51
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary50
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge50
Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea50
Drivers of the summer 2024 marine heatwave and record salmon lice outbreak in northern Norway49
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants48
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster47
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming47
Target methane47
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity47
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions46
Author Correction: Tremor signals reveal the structure and dynamics of the Oldoinyo Lengai magmatic plumbing system46
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau46
End-of-century Arctic Ocean phytoplankton blooms start a month earlier due to anthropogenic climate change46
Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen46
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment46
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt46
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap46
Land aridification persists in vulnerable drylands under climate mitigation scenarios46
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte45
High-resolution stalagmite stratigraphy supports the Late Holocene tephrochronology of southernmost Patagonia45
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades45
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic45
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk44
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi44
Marine heatwaves are shaping the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the global ocean44
Irrigation cooling effect reduced by water-saving practices43
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy43
Precious metal enrichment during impacts on the Moon43
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene43
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes43
Sustainable aviation for a greener future42
A hydrologically informed agricultural land use intensity index for assessing ecological impacts on streams and rivers42
Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China42
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality42
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice42
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency41
Hydrothermal fluid flow triggered by an earthquake in Iceland41
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 202341
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review41
Blue carbon sequestration and storage potential has increased in seagrass sediments from Northern Morocco41
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation40
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time40
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins40
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status40
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene40
Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau40
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks40
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth40
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks39
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils39
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific39
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities39
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta39
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau39
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change39
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm39
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs39
Atmospheric rivers as mediators between climate teleconnections and burned area variability in North America38
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe38
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean38
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes38
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 202138
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years38
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes38
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures38
A market-based insurance approach aligns environmental and economic outcomes in maize nitrogen management38
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves38
Timing of a future glaciation in view of anthropogenic climate change38
European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change38
Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes37
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India36
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva36
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain36
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice36
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon36
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau36
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation36
Redox evolutions of planetary mantle reservoirs constrained by titanium isotopes36
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming35
Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data35
National-scale datasets underestimate vegetation recovery in Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon sequestration projects35
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks35
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy35
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event35
Atmospheric river activity during the late Holocene exceeds modern range of variability in California35
Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China35
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea35
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core35
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline35
Pressure-driven processes explain the decreasing magnetization of the subducting oceanic crust in the Japan Trench35
Subsurface Archaea associated with rapid geobiological change in a model Yellowstone hot spring34
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda34
Ancient and recent collisions revealed by phosphate minerals in the Chelyabinsk meteorite34
Atmospheric rivers emerge as future freshwater reserves and heat stocks34
Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface34
An automatic sediment-facies classification approach using machine learning and feature engineering33
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh33
Natural ocean alkalinization through erosion of glacial till and weathering at the seafloor33
Stand structure of tropical forests is strongly associated with primary productivity33
Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests33
A lingering legacy of leaded gasoline in Southeast Asia33
Climate-driven transition in microbial deterioration and protection of stone surfaces at cultural heritage sites33
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK32
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America32
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity32
A framework to assess permafrost thaw threat for land transportation infrastructure in northern Canada32
A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event32
Rapid mineralisation of carbon dioxide in peridotites32
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps32
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget31
Public support for carbon taxes varies across countries and policy design must consider the national context31
Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems31
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion31
Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans31
Role of volatiles in highly explosive basaltic eruptions31
Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore31
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States31
The role of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation for millennial-scale climate variability during the penultimate glacial31
Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration31
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves linked to Kuroshio Extension variability31
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade30
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea30
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 202330
Root uptake dominates mercury accumulation in permafrost plants of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau30
The impact of polar lows on the underlying ocean varies significantly by location30
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity30
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems30
Sub-millimeter molybdenum and uranium isotopes track millennial redox events in the Cambrian ocean30
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes30
Projected Atlantic overturning slow-down is to be compensated by a strengthened South Atlantic subtropical gyre30
Impact of tropical cyclones and socioeconomic exposure on flood risk distribution in the Mekong Basin30
Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy30
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production29
Current-use pesticides in vegetation, topsoil and water reveal contaminated landscapes of the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany29
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria29
Anti-repeating earthquakes and how to explain them29
Accumulation of rare earth elements in common vine leaves is achieved through extraction from soil and transport in the xylem sap29
Tropical Indian Ocean forcing on North American terrestrial and agricultural productivity decline under greenhouse warming29
No detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification29
Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan29
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems29
Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization28
Enhanced tropical cyclone precipitation variability is linked to Pacific Decadal Oscillation since the 1940s28
Distinct sources of uncertainty in simulations of the ocean biological carbon pump at different depths28
Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments28
Differential effects of climate change on average and peak demand for heating and cooling across the contiguous USA28
River-lake ecosystems exhibit a strong seasonal cycle of greenhouse gas emissions28
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas28
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline27
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state27
Submarine volcanic microbiota record three volcano-induced tsunamis27
Author Correction: Global warming risks dehydrating and inflaming human airways27
Author Correction: Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests27
Author Correction: The diurnal variation of wet bulb temperatures and exceedance of physiological thresholds relevant to human health in South Asia27
Author Correction: Australian water quality trends over two decades show deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef region and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin27
Cosmopolitan and endemic species jointly enhance the potential of producing algal blooms in Tibetan glaciers27
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide27
Deformed alluvial terraces record an excess of slip over the last few centuries on the Himalayan Topographic Frontal Thrust of central Bhutan27
Author Correction: The conservation value of forests can be predicted at the scale of 1 hectare27
Mesophotic foraminiferal-algal nodules play a role in the Red Sea carbonate budget27
Author Correction: Email outreach attracts the US policymakers’ attention to climate change but common advocacy techniques do not improve engagement27
Experimental evidence for a shallow cumulate remelting origin of lunar high-titanium mare basalts27
Environmental conditions are the dominant factor influencing stability of terrestrial ecosystems on the Tibetan plateau27
Unprecedented shifts in aerosol pollution sources in China under a decade of clean air actions27
Consistent responses to black carbon and carbon dioxide at global and 100 m model resolutions27
Crustal remelting origin of highly silicic magmatism on the Moon27
Eliciting attachment security with social norm messages is linked to reduced energy consumption in extreme heat in the United Arab Emirates27
A likely role for stratification in long-term changes of the global ocean tides27
Weakened circulation in the deep South China Sea triggered by prolonged warming27
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