Communications Earth & Environment

Article	Citations
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	2404
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	280
Author Correction: Field in the frame: flying over the Ocean	248
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography	233
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	218
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	214
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	212
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation	171
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China	171
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	162
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	147
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	146
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	145
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow	135
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes	131
Andean volcanism, ocean fertilization, marine ecosystem turnover, and global cooling in the Late Miocene	129
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	125
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	121
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	115
High-resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains	114
Author Correction: The source processes affect the initial chalcophile element fertility of arc magmas	114
Field in the frame: fossilised Ediacaran faunal diversity	112
Intensified annual cycle of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature regulates Pacific cooling	111
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	110
Controls of root-system overlap on hillslope stability	108

Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate	106
Tidewater glacier fronts are an important foraging ground for an Arctic marine predator	104
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	104
Global mapping of potential coastal compound flood risk at 0.1∘ resolution	101
Pre- and co-seismic stress loading promoted low-angle splay fault during the 2025 Mw7.1 Tingri earthquake	100
Heatwave-attributable Parkinson’s mortality is projected to increase by the 2080s in China under a high-emissions scenario	97
Bedrock-soil geochemistry dominates free-living nitrogen fixation in soils but not in litter via interspecific microbial associations	96
Field in the frame: seals as meltwater monitors	95
Sustainably intensified fresh-market vegetable production with compact bed plasticulture	94
Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition	94
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	91
Short-term recovery of inland and marine environments after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna flood	90
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	89
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	89
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining	88
Dominance of methane emission pathways differs between small ponds with contrasting dissolved oxygen status	88
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting	88
Thermodynamic insights into the reliability of mineral-based thermobarometers	87
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden	86
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	86
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	85
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland	84
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	82
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability	80
Vertical transitions of marine heatwaves influenced by seasonally varying atmospheric forcing and coastal upwelling system	80
Rapid revegetation after the Wenchuan earthquake offsets landslide-induced carbon losses	79
Untapped mineral potential in Nevada heap-leach facilities supports pathways to strengthen United States resource security	79
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	77
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals	77
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	76
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence	75
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment	74
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	74
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	74
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	72
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands	72
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability	72
Distinct stadial-interstadial amplitudes of Asian monsoon water isotopes during the last deglaciation	72
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	72
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	72
Air and soil warming have different effects on soil organic carbon storage	72
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach	71
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation	70
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage	70
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality	70
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	69
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	68
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	68
Global synthesis reveals how initial concentrations, metal types, and acidity control woody plant phytoremediation efficacy	67
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems	67

Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	67
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production	65
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	65
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	65
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	65
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping	65
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	63
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	63
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific	62
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture	62
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	62
Lithospheric stability and recycling linked to ancient metasomatic processes	61
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	61
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	61
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	60
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea	60
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests	59
A hydrologically informed agricultural land use intensity index for assessing ecological impacts on streams and rivers	59
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China	59
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column	59
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth	58
Contrasting evolution of the Arabian Sea and Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones during the Miocene	58
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2023	58
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy	57
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency	57
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming	56
Precious metal enrichment during impacts on the Moon	56
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster	56
Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen	56
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status	55
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean	55
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation	55
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific	55
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi	54
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt	53
Nature-based solutions can mitigate climate and human-induced threats to alpine aquatic ecosystems	53
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks	53
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap	53
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	53
Macroalgal community transformation during successive marine heatwaves in southern California kelp forests	53
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	52
Aperture and roughness govern iron oxide passivation in olivine fractures during carbon mineralization	52
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic	52
Atmospheric rivers as mediators between climate teleconnections and burned area variability in North America	52
A market-based insurance approach aligns environmental and economic outcomes in maize nitrogen management	52
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm	52
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum	51
Author Correction: Tremor signals reveal the structure and dynamics of the Oldoinyo Lengai magmatic plumbing system	51
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene	51
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe	51
Rainfall amplified sea-level control on silicate weathering in the Indo-Pacific Convergence Zone during Quaternary glacials	50
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils	50
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns	50
Marine heatwaves are shaping the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the global ocean	50
Fiber-optic observations capture wind wave evolution in Lake Ontario	50
Timing of a future glaciation in view of anthropogenic climate change	49
Diverse greenhouse farming systems underpin high land‑use efficiency and food security in China	49
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary	49
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time	48
Land aridification persists in vulnerable drylands under climate mitigation scenarios	48
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge	48
Coupled permeability–thermal conductivity framework for global reservoir suitability assessment of carbon dioxide hydrate-based carbon sequestration	48
Inorganic carbon fixation by deep prokaryotes as an unaccounted-for CO2 sink in Antarctic waters	48
Sahara greening may have diminished mid-Holocene Atlantic tropical cyclones	48
Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau	48
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins	48
Scalable flood-risk analysis for New York State culvert infrastructure reveals patterns of dependence	47
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice	47
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years	46
Fire risk mitigation underpins durable Nature-based Climate Solutions in the Amazon	46
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants	46
European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change	46
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations	46
Trace americium contamination sources in the environment can be detected using 243Am/241Am	46
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change	46
Marine darkwave as an event-based framework to assess unusual periods of reduced underwater light availability	45
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities	45
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions	45
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity	45
U.S. rivers are transporting more suspended sediment, often in less time	45

Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea	45
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice	44
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks	44
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review	44
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes	44
Drivers of the summer 2024 marine heatwave and record salmon lice outbreak in northern Norway	44
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga	44
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte	44
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes	43
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment	43
Blue carbon sequestration and storage potential has increased in seagrass sediments from Northern Morocco	43
The fate of Venusian chlorine	43
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau	43
End-of-century Arctic Ocean phytoplankton blooms start a month earlier due to anthropogenic climate change	43
Synergistic effect of abalone and macroalgae on carbon storage in a co-culture ecosystem	43
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 2021	43
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta	43
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs	43
Mass flowering of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica after 2022 record-breaking marine heatwaves, a Pan-Mediterranean study	42
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves	42
Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China	42
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes	41
Target methane	41
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva	41
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades	41
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk	41
Author Correction: New and existing settlements built on hillslopes weakened by the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence	41
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures	41
Heterogeneous persistent ENSO impact on China’s agricultural economy in a warming climate	41
Irrigation cooling effect reduced by water-saving practices	41
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India	41
Sub-millimeter molybdenum and uranium isotopes track millennial redox events in the Cambrian ocean	40
Redox evolutions of planetary mantle reservoirs constrained by titanium isotopes	40
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene	40
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea	40
Sustainable aviation for a greener future	40
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States	40
Slope lineae as potential indicators of recent volatile loss on Mercury	40
A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event	39
An automatic sediment-facies classification approach using machine learning and feature engineering	39
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda	39
Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems	39
Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy	39
Far-reaching effects of Tibetan warming amplification on polar sea‑ice retreat	39
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems	39
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves linked to Kuroshio Extension variability	39
Overlooked ammonium assimilation during sulfur autotrophic dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium	39
The role of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation for millennial-scale climate variability during the penultimate glacial	38
Forced changes in Atlantic overturning are distinctly fingerprinted by South Atlantic western boundary transports	38
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core	38
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea	38
Dormant microbes dominate soils across China and are regulated by water and resource availability	38
Arctic sea-ice ridges are biomass hotspots harboring diverse microbial communities	38
Rapid mineralisation of carbon dioxide in peridotites	38
Tropical Indian Ocean forcing on North American terrestrial and agricultural productivity decline under greenhouse warming	38
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event	38
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation	37
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming	37
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline	37
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity	37
Ice-marginal proglacial lakes enhance outlet glacier velocities across Greenland	37
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America	37
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK	37
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain	37
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems	37
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps	37
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion	37
The impact of polar lows on the underlying ocean varies significantly by location	37
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	37
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	37
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes	37
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline	37
Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization	36
Extreme heat and humidity reduce the recreational value of urban green spaces	36
Detrital zircon–apatite fingerprinting challenges glacial transport of Stonehenge’s megaliths	36
Accumulation of rare earth elements in common vine leaves is achieved through extraction from soil and transport in the xylem sap	36
A framework to assess permafrost thaw threat for land transportation infrastructure in northern Canada	36
National-scale datasets underestimate vegetation recovery in Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon sequestration projects	36
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon	36
Climate-driven transition in microbial deterioration and protection of stone surfaces at cultural heritage sites	36
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade	36
Deep learning-based forecasting provides a pathway to closing wildfire information gaps in underserved regions	36
Projected Atlantic overturning slow-down is to be compensated by a strengthened South Atlantic subtropical gyre	35
Atmospheric river activity during the late Holocene exceeds modern range of variability in California	35
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh	35
Cost‑effective offshore carbon capture, utilization and storage deployment and transport network optimization in southern China	35
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 2023	35
Subsurface Archaea associated with rapid geobiological change in a model Yellowstone hot spring	35
Public support for carbon taxes varies across countries and policy design must consider the national context	35
Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan	35
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity	34
Arctic sea ice decline, increasing successive sudden stratospheric warmings and cold northern hemisphere continents	34
Atmospheric rivers emerge as future freshwater reserves and heat stocks	34
No detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification	34
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide	34