Communications Earth & Environment

Article	Citations
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	1577
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	198
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	184
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	177
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years	152
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	131
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	126
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica	113
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	111
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	106
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	105
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	102
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	96
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	94
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining	93
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting	87
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	85
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	83
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	82
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	81
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	81
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	80
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	78
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence	78
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	75

Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon	74
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	74
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage	73
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	73
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	71
Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered mountain building	68
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	67
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography	67
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow	67
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	65
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	65
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China	64
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	64
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping	63
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	63
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	61
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment	60
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations	59
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	59
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	58
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific	58
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems	58
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	57
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach	57
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	56
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	56
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	56
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland	56
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	55
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability	55
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate	55
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	55
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation	53
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	51
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints	51
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea	51
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	50
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	50
Middle-lower continental crust exhumed at the distal edges of volcanic passive margins	50
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden	50
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability	50
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality	48
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests	48
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	47
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands	47
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	47
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production	46
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge	45
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column	45
Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea	45

Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes	45
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum	44
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns	44
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga	43
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations	43
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene	43
Geothermal heating and episodic cold-seawater intrusions into an isolated ridge-flank basin near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge	43
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm	43
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap	42
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2023	42
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs	42
Hydrothermal fluid flow triggered by an earthquake in Iceland	42
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific	41
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves	41
High-resolution stalagmite stratigraphy supports the Late Holocene tephrochronology of southernmost Patagonia	41
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment	41
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes	41
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean	40
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation	40
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth	40
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice	40
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi	40
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity	40
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic	39
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks	39
Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes	39
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe	39
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks	39
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time	38
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality	38
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins	38
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change	37
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva	37
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster	37
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte	37
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy	36
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	36
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review	36
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt	36
Marine heatwaves are shaping the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the global ocean	36
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta	36
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming	36
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India	36
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants	35
Drivers of the summer 2024 marine heatwave and record salmon lice outbreak in northern Norway	35
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency	35
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils	34
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice	34
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk	34
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes	34
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades	34
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	34
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities	34
Sustainable aviation for a greener future	33
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years	33
Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen	33
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau	33
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene	33
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures	33
Target methane	33
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 2021	33
Magma chamber decompression during explosive caldera-forming eruption of Aira caldera	33
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Formation of giant iron oxide-copper-gold deposits by superimposed, episodic hydrothermal pulses	33
Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China	33
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status	33
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions	32
Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau	32
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States	32
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda	32
Subsurface Archaea associated with rapid geobiological change in a model Yellowstone hot spring	32
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain	32
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves linked to Kuroshio Extension variability	32
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes	32
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation	32
The role of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation for millennial-scale climate variability during the penultimate glacial	32
Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse	32
Pressure-driven processes explain the decreasing magnetization of the subducting oceanic crust in the Japan Trench	31
Distinct sources of uncertainty in simulations of the ocean biological carbon pump at different depths	31
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event	31
Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans	31

Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China	31
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade	31
Atmospheric river activity during the late Holocene exceeds modern range of variability in California	31
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	31
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh	31
Ancient and recent collisions revealed by phosphate minerals in the Chelyabinsk meteorite	31
Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data	30
Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems	30
Old subcontinental mantle zircon below Oahu	30
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	30
Hadal aragonite records venting of stagnant paleoseawater in the hydrated forearc mantle	30
Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization	30
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion	30
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming	30
Projected Atlantic overturning slow-down is to be compensated by a strengthened South Atlantic subtropical gyre	30
Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments	30
A lingering legacy of leaded gasoline in Southeast Asia	29
Differential effects of climate change on average and peak demand for heating and cooling across the contiguous USA	29
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline	29
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK	29
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon	29
Impact of tropical cyclones and socioeconomic exposure on flood risk distribution in the Mekong Basin	29
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 2023	29
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide	29
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas	29
Root uptake dominates mercury accumulation in permafrost plants of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	28
A framework to assess permafrost thaw threat for land transportation infrastructure in northern Canada	28
Anti-repeating earthquakes and how to explain them	28
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes	28
Role of volatiles in highly explosive basaltic eruptions	28
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea	28
Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan	28
No detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification	28
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America	28
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget	28
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps	28
Stand structure of tropical forests is strongly associated with primary productivity	27
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea	27
Accumulation of rare earth elements in common vine leaves is achieved through extraction from soil and transport in the xylem sap	27
Current-use pesticides in vegetation, topsoil and water reveal contaminated landscapes of the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany	27
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity	27
Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface	27
Public support for carbon taxes varies across countries and policy design must consider the national context	27
Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration	27
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity	27
Rapid mineralisation of carbon dioxide in peridotites	27
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline	27
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core	27
An automatic sediment-facies classification approach using machine learning and feature engineering	27
A millennium of cold and humid climate decreased carbon accumulation in the subtropical monsoon peatland	26
A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event	26
River-lake ecosystems exhibit a strong seasonal cycle of greenhouse gas emissions	26
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state	26
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems	26
Environmental conditions are the dominant factor influencing stability of terrestrial ecosystems on the Tibetan plateau	26
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems	26
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production	26
Author Correction: Australian water quality trends over two decades show deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef region and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin	26
Experimental evidence for a shallow cumulate remelting origin of lunar high-titanium mare basalts	26
Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore	26
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria	26
Applying equity principles leads to higher carbon removal obligations in Canada	26
Author Correction: Research for climate adaptation	25
Author Correction: The conservation value of forests can be predicted at the scale of 1 hectare	25
Consistent responses to black carbon and carbon dioxide at global and 100 m model resolutions	25
Mechanics of coseismic and postseismic acceleration of active landslides	25
Unprecedented shifts in aerosol pollution sources in China under a decade of clean air actions	25
Author Correction: The diurnal variation of wet bulb temperatures and exceedance of physiological thresholds relevant to human health in South Asia	25
Crustal remelting origin of highly silicic magmatism on the Moon	25
An assessment of different transition pathways to a green global economy	25
Draining of an ancient lake in the Hexi Corridor 4500 years ago triggered migration of the Hei Shan civilization	25
Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO2 uptake in Earth system models	25
Deformed alluvial terraces record an excess of slip over the last few centuries on the Himalayan Topographic Frontal Thrust of central Bhutan	25
Author Correction: Global warming risks dehydrating and inflaming human airways	25
The unexpectedly short Holocene Humid Period in Northern Arabia	25
Wheat trade tends to happen between countries with contrasting extreme weather stress and synchronous yield variation	25
Seasonal forecasting of subsurface marine heatwaves	24
Plant response to decreasing soil moisture under rising atmospheric CO2 levels	24
Heavy magnesium isotopic signatures in arc lavas may be attributed to dehydration of subducting hydrated mantle	24
Diminished contribution of spring phenology to early-season carbon uptake in a changing climate	24
Enhanced phosphorus regeneration linked to Ediacaran ocean oxygenation	24
Submarine volcanic microbiota record three volcano-induced tsunamis	24
Mesophotic foraminiferal-algal nodules play a role in the Red Sea carbonate budget	24
Finnish forest-related laws need to acknowledge climate change risks and integrate adaptive strategies to enhance resiliency	24
Author Correction: Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests	24
Widespread exposure to altered fire regimes under 2 °C warming is projected to transform conifer forests of the Western United States	24
Microscale iron and sulphur isotopic compositions reveal pyritization pathways during early diagenesis	24
Author Correction: Email outreach attracts the US policymakers’ attention to climate change but common advocacy techniques do not improve engagement	24
Eliciting attachment security with social norm messages is linked to reduced energy consumption in extreme heat in the United Arab Emirates	24
Chlorine peroxide reaction explains observed wintertime hydrogen chloride in the Antarctic vortex	24
Plastiphily is linked to generic virulence traits of important human pathogenic fungi	24
Diminishing control of evaporation on rising land surface temperature of the Earth	24
Observations suggest that North African dust absorbs less solar radiation than models estimate	24
The influence of mantle hydration and flexure on slab seismicity in the southern Central Andes	23
Rapid 20th century warming reverses 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine	23