Communications Earth & Environment

Article	Citations
Diurnal expansion and contraction of englacial fracture networks revealed by seismic shear wave splitting	1026
Modern coral range expansion off southeast Florida falls short of Late Holocene baseline	258
Sea ice loss in association with Arctic cyclones	131
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	131
Ecosystem changes after Early Cretaceous seawater intrusion into the proto-South Atlantic Ocean	129
Greening of Svalbard in the twentieth century driven by sea ice loss and glaciers retreat	125
Geometric barriers impacted rupture processes and stress releases of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, earthquake doublet	121
Reviews we trust	116
Post-publication careers: lockdown to limelight	96
Asian monsoon intensity coupled to Antarctic climate during Dansgaard–Oeschger 8 and Heinrich 4 glacial intervals	91
Glacial lake outburst floods enhance benthic microbial productivity in perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee (East Antarctica)	82
Trace element partitioning controls on cave drip water compositions through prior calcite and aragonite precipitation	74
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	73
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	71
Mildly explosive eruptions at Martian low-shield volcanoes	70
3D anatomy of the Cretaceous–Paleogene age Nadir Crater	69
Evidence for late winter biogeochemical connectivity in permafrost soils	69
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	69
Manifold increase in the spatial extent of heatwaves in the terrestrial Arctic	69
Global patterns and predictors of C:N:P in marine ecosystems	68
The importance of accounting for equity in disaster risk models	68
Diamonds, dunites, and metasomatic rocks formed by melt/rock reaction in craton roots	68
Supergiant porphyry copper deposits are failed large eruptions	65
CO2 outgassing during collisional orogeny is facilitated by the generation of immiscible fluids	64
Direct evidence for crust-mantle differentiation in the late Hadean	61

Two-phase mixture of iron–nickel–silicon alloys in the Earth’s inner core	60
Heat stress vulnerability and critical environmental limits for older adults	59
Exceptional eruptive CO2 emissions from intra-plate alkaline magmatism in the Canary volcanic archipelago	57
The magmatic plumbing beneath the Wudalianchi volcanic region, northeast China, is recharged by magma reservoirs under Keluo volcano	57
Social-ecological heterogeneity drove contrasting tree cover restoration in South China Karst	56
Recent marine heatwaves in the North Pacific warming pool can be attributed to rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases	55
Growing prevalence of heat over cold extremes with overall milder extremes and multiple successive events	55
Multiple carbonate system parameters independently govern shell formation in a marine mussel	54
The shift to plant-based diets as a sustainable food strategy	54
Atmospheric radiocarbon levels were highly variable during the last deglaciation	53
Global change on the Blue Planet	52
Large spread in marine heatwave assessments for Asia and the Indo-Pacific between sea-surface-temperature products	51
China Southern Power Grid’s decarbonization likely to impact cropland and transboundary rivers	51
Fluid flow stimulates chemoautotrophy in hydrothermally influenced coastal sediments	50
Helium reservoirs in iron nanoparticles on the lunar surface	50
Redox control of the partitioning of platinum and palladium into magmatic sulfide liquids	50
How, when and where current mass flows in Martian gullies are driven by CO2 sublimation	49
Climate summits and protests have a strong impact on climate change media coverage in Germany	48
Prokaryotic richness and diversity increased during Holocene glacier retreat and onset of an Antarctic Lake	48
Intermittent non-axial dipolar-field dominance of twin Laschamp excursions	48
Horizontally forced initiation of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction zone	47
Investment funds are responsible for substantial environmental and social impacts	44
Temperature and salinity extremes from 2014-2019 in the California Current System and its source waters	44
Reply to: Influence of deep-reaching bioturbation on Arctic ocean radiocarbon chronology	43
Seismic loss dynamics in three Asian megacities using a macro-level approach based on socioeconomic exposure indicators	42
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica	41
Thank you to all our reviewers in 2021	41
Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology	40
Three pulses of breaths toward three evolutionary shifts	40
A climatology of weather-driven anomalies in European photovoltaic and wind power production	39
Nonuniform response of vegetation phenology to daytime and nighttime warming in urban areas	39
Ice microphysical processes exert a strong control on the simulated radiative energy budget in the tropics	39
Dichotomy between freshwater and heat flux effects on oceanic conveyor belt stability and global climate	39
Intensification and shutdown of deep convection in the Labrador Sea were caused by changes in atmospheric and freshwater dynamics	38
Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble	38
Replacing gas boilers with heat pumps is the fastest way to cut German gas consumption	38
Environmental DNA identifies coastal plant community shift 1,000 years ago in Torrens Island, South Australia	37
The utility of historical records for hazard analysis in an area of marginal cyclone influence	37
Strong persistent cooling of the stratosphere after the Hunga eruption	37
Tidal and seasonal influence on cold seep activity and methanotroph efficiency in the North Sea	37
Shifts in benthic megafauna communities after glacial retreat in an Antarctic fjord	36
The circum-Antarctic ice-shelves respond to a more positive Southern Annular Mode with regionally varied melting	36
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	36
The origin and implications of primordial helium depletion in the Afar mantle plume	36
Active hydrothermal vents in the Woodlark Basin may act as dispersing centres for hydrothermal fauna	36
Decline in Atlantic Niño prediction skill in the North American multi-model ensemble	36
South America is becoming warmer, drier, and more flammable	35
Single extreme storm sequence can offset decades of shoreline retreat projected to result from sea-level rise	35
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography	34
Geochemical diversity of continental arc basaltic mushy reservoirs driven by reactive melt infiltration	33

Inclusive science in the South Atlantic	33
Effective climate adaptation must be imaginative and inclusive	33
Hypoxia-tolerant zooplankton may reduce biological carbon pump efficiency in the Humboldt current system off Peru	33
A thicker Antarctic ice stream during the mid-Pliocene warm period	33
Opt for emissions intensity metrics	33
Fibrous dolomite formation at a Miocene methane seep may reflect Neoproterozoic aragonite-dolomite sea conditions	32
Herding then farming in the Nile Delta	32
Tropicalization of demersal megafauna in the western South Atlantic since 2013	32
International corporations trading Brazilian soy are keystone actors for water stewardship	32
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years	31
The foundations of the Patagonian icefields	31
Forest definitions require a re-think	30
2470 million-year-old banded iron formation reveals a climatic oscillation consistent with the Gleissberg solar cycle	30
Last Interglacial subsurface warming on the Antarctic shelf triggered by reduced deep-ocean convection	30
Ditch emissions partially offset global reductions in methane emissions from peatland drainage	30
Island change framework defines dominant modes of atoll island dynamics in response to environmental change	30
A topographic hinge-zone divides coastal and inland ice dynamic regimes in East Antarctica	30
Rapid remote monitoring reveals spatial and temporal hotspots of carbon loss in Africa’s rainforests	30
Magmatic addition rates differentiate periods of steady-state versus flare-up magmatism in the Central Andean arc	29
Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered mountain building	29
Isotopic variability in tropical cyclone precipitation is controlled by Rayleigh distillation and cloud microphysics	29
In praise of archives (and an open mind)	29
Artistic representations of data can help bridge the US political divide over climate change	29
Uneven increases in racial diversity of US geoscience undergraduates	29
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	29
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	29
Organic food has lower environmental impacts per area unit and similar climate impacts per mass unit compared to conventional	29
The challenge of closing the climate adaptation gap for water supply utilities	29
Routes to reduction of phosphate by high-energy events	29
National and transboundary contributions to surface ozone concentration across European countries	29
Global conservation priorities for wetlands and setting post-2025 targets	28
Three-dimensional kinematics of the India–Eurasia collision	28
Upper mantle melt caused by a subducted slab in the Indian-Eurasian continental subduction zone	28
Atlantic inflow and low sea-ice cover in the Nordic Seas promoted Fennoscandian Ice Sheet growth during the Last Glacial Maximum	28
Role of mantle indentation in collisional deformation evidenced by deep geophysical imaging of Western Alps	28
International cooperation was key to stabilize wheat prices after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	28
A 50-year cycle of sea surface temperature regulates decadal precipitation in the tropical and South Atlantic region	27
Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change	27
Deciphering human influence on annual maximum flood extent at the global level	27
Formation of silicic crust on early Earth and young planetary bodies in an Iceland-like setting	27
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	27
A process-based assessment of the sea-level rise in the northwestern Pacific marginal seas	27
The maritime continent’s rainforests modulate the local interannual evapotranspiration variability	27
Cooler Arctic surface temperatures simulated by climate models are closer to satellite-based data than the ERA5 reanalysis	26
Politics and diplomacy undermine China and Korea’s transboundary air pollution reduction	26
Pan-Atlantic decadal climate oscillation linked to ocean circulation	26
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	26
Microscale dynamics promote segregated denitrification in diatom aggregates sinking slowly in bulk oxygenated seawater	26
Contrasting responses of Indian summer monsoon rainfall and Arabian Sea upwelling to orbital forcing	26
Small-scale segmented fault rupture along the East Anatolian fault during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake	25
Coastal permafrost was massively eroded during the Bølling-Allerød warm period	25
The redistribution of anthropogenic excess heat is a key driver of warming in the North Atlantic	25
Stratospheric ozone depletion in the Antarctic region triggers intense changes in sea salt aerosol geochemistry	25
Underestimation of carbon dioxide emissions from organic-rich agricultural soils	24
Emergency policies are not enough to resolve Amazonia’s fire crises	24
Long-term trends in carbon and color signal uneven browning and terrestrialization of northern lakes	24
A unique warm–water oasis in the Siberian Arctic’s Chaun Bay sustained by hydrothermal groundwater discharge	24
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	24
Phytoplankton abundance in the Barents Sea is predictable up to five years in advance	24
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	24
Bayesian inference elucidates fault-system anatomy and resurgent earthquakes induced by continuing saltwater disposal	23
Abrupt change in tropical Pacific climate mean state during the Little Ice Age	23
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	23
The orientation of intra-arc crustal fault systems influences the copper budget of magmatic-hydrothermal fluids	23
Orbital-scale dynamic vegetation feedback caused the Holocene precipitation decline in northern China	23
Rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in the Gulf of Mexico is more likely during marine heatwaves	23
Strong El Niño and La Niña precipitation—sea surface temperature sensitivity under a carbon removal scenario	23
Thermochronometry constraints on south West Greenland passive continental margin development	23
Human land occupation regulates the effect of the climate on the burned area of the Brazilian Cerrado	23
Projected changes in compound hot-dry events depend on the dry indicator considered	23
Neoproterozoic reorganization of the Circum- Mozambique orogens and growth of megacontinent Gondwana	23
A decade of declines in toothed whale densities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill	22
Towards a business case for CO2 mineralisation in the cement industry	22
Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia	22
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	22
Historical changes in the Causal Effect Networks of compound hot and dry extremes in central Europe	22
Adding labile carbon to peatland soils triggers deep carbon breakdown	22
Fractional crystallization causes the iron isotope contrast between mid-ocean ridge basalts and abyssal peridotites	22
Anthropogenic eutrophication and stratification strength control hypoxia in the Yangtze Estuary	22
Indian Ocean Dipole intensifies Benguela Niño through Congo River discharge	22

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	22
Mangrove peat and algae leachates elicit rapid and contrasting molecular and microbial responses in coastal waters	22
No evidence of increased forest loss from a mining rush in Madagascar’s eastern rainforests	22
Hydrological records can be used to reconstruct the resilience of watersheds to climatic extremes	21
Alpine wetlands degradation leads to soil nutrient imbalances that affect plant growth and microbial diversity	21
Ice-free period too long for Southern and Western Hudson Bay polar bear populations if global warming exceeds 1.6 to 2.6 °C	21
Light painting photography makes particulate matter air pollution visible	21
Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods	21
Subaerial volcanism is a potentially major contributor to oceanic iron and manganese cycles	21
Science-based targets miss the mark	21
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	21
Earth’s atmosphere protects the biosphere from nearby supernovae	21
Discovery of late Quaternary giant magnetofossils in the Bay of Bengal	21
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	21
Conservation policies and management in the Ukrainian Emerald Network have maintained reforestation rate despite the war	21
Circulation dampened heat extremes intensification over the Midwest USA and amplified over Western Europe	21
Seasonality of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic	21
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	21
Dissecting the vital role of dietary changes in food security assessment under climate change	21
Environmentally persistent free radicals are ubiquitous in wildfire charcoals and remain stable for years	21
Multi-hazard risk to global port infrastructure and resulting trade and logistics losses	20
High geothermal heat flow beneath Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica inferred from aeromagnetic data	20
Lead removal at trace concentrations from water by inactive yeast cells	20
Heterogeneity of the East Asian rainfall influenced by solar-forced western Pacific subtropical high	20
Metal mobilization from thawing permafrost to aquatic ecosystems is driving rusting of Arctic streams	20
Impact of climate-smart agriculture practices on multidimensional poverty among coastal farmers in Bangladesh	20
Financial incentives often fail to reconcile agricultural productivity and pro-conservation behavior	20
Control of Vibrio vulnificus proliferation in the Baltic Sea through eutrophication and algal bloom management	20
Microbial necromass carbon and nitrogen persistence are decoupled in agricultural grassland soils	20
Improved prediction of the vertical distribution of ground ice in Arctic-Antarctic permafrost sediments	20
Social innovation supports inclusive and accelerated energy transitions with appropriate governance	20
Thick and old sea ice in the Beaufort Sea during summer 2020/21 was associated with enhanced transport	20
Aqueous alteration of the Vastitas Borealis Formation at the Tianwen-1 landing site	20
Tree growth and survival are more sensitive to high rainfall than drought in an aseasonal forest in Malaysia	20
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	20
Fire may prevent future Amazon forest recovery after large-scale deforestation	19
Observation-based trajectory of future sea level for the coastal United States tracks near high-end model projections	19
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	19
Microbial iron cycling during palsa hillslope collapse promotes greenhouse gas emissions before complete permafrost thaw	19
A sentinel watching over inter-tidal seagrass phenology across Western Europe and North Africa	19
Supereruption doublet at a climate transition	19
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	19
Liquid-liquid phase separation reduces radiative absorption by aged black carbon aerosols	19
Latent magmatism beneath the Korean Peninsula caused by asthenosphere upwelling	19
Shifting sediment depocenters track ice-margin retreat in Baffin Bay	19
Degradation of floodplain integrity within the contiguous United States	19
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	19
Arctic cyclones have become more intense and longer-lived over the past seven decades	18
Decommissioned open-pit mines are potential geothermal sources of heating or cooling for nearby population centres	18
The Angola Gyre is a hotspot of dinitrogen fixation in the South Atlantic Ocean	18
2023 temperatures reflect steady global warming and internal sea surface temperature variability	18
Unraveling weak and short South Asian wet season in the Early Eocene warmth	18
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	18
Annual grass invasions and wildfire deplete ecosystem carbon storage by >50% to resistant base levels	18
Global predictions of coral reef dissolution in the Anthropocene	18
Multi-scale lidar measurements suggest miombo woodlands contain substantially more carbon than thought	18
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations	18
Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia	18
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	18
Reef site and habitat influence effectiveness of Acropora palmata restoration and its microbiome in the Florida Keys	18
Role of Large Igneous Provinces in continental break-up varying from “Shirker” to “Producer”	18
Transport and eruption of mantle xenoliths creates a lagging problem	18
Developing countries can adapt to climate change effectively using nature-based solutions	18
Dating mylonitic overprinting of ancient rocks	18
Root exudates simultaneously form and disrupt soil organo-mineral associations	18
Rural land systems both support and hinder the Sustainable Development Goals across Europe	18
On the spatial double peak of the 2023–2024 El Niño event	18
Long-period directivity pulses of strong ground motion during the 2023 Mw7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake	18
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea	17
Forecasting trends in food security with real time data	17
Sedimentary facies controlled biogeochemical process of biotic extinction and turnover across the Cambrian SPICE event	17
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality	17
Iron transformation mediates phosphate retention across a permafrost thaw gradient	17
Ecosystem damage by increasing tropical cyclones	17
The year 2023 may afford us a peek at a warmer world	17
Vegetation and microbes interact to preserve carbon in many wooded peatlands	17
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands	17
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	17
Antarctic meltwater reduces the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation through oceanic freshwater transport and atmospheric teleconnections	17
Warming-induced contrasts in snow depth drive the future trajectory of soil carbon loss across the Arctic-Boreal region	17
Abiotic and biotic-controlled nanomaterial formation pathways within the Earth’s nanomaterial cycle	17
A machine learning estimator trained on synthetic data for real-time earthquake ground-shaking predictions in Southern California	17
Magmatic flare-up causes crustal thickening at the transition from subduction to continental collision	17
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints	17
Andean headwater and piedmont streams are hot spots of carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the Amazon basin	17
Applying minerals to soil to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide through synergistic organic and inorganic pathways	17
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	17
How climate change intensified storm Boris’ extreme rainfall, revealed by near-real-time storylines	17
Fast recovery of North Atlantic sea level in response to atmospheric carbon dioxide removal	17
Differential flood insurance participation and housing market trajectories under future coastal flooding in the United States	17
Global changes alter the amount and composition of land carbon deliveries to European rivers and seas	17
Warming could shift the phenological responses of benthic microalgae in temperate intertidal zones	17
Australia’s 2019/20 Black Summer fire weather exceptionally rare over the last 2000 years	17
Overlooking probabilistic mapping renders urban flood risk management inequitable	16
Preconditioning, aerosols, and radiation control the temperature of glaciation in Amazonian clouds	16