Environmental Research Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Research Letters 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)386
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters174
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project159
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink156
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau154
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation140
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance136
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?132
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks115
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning100
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?99
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 195097
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina94
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India93
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia90
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region90
Association of ambient ozone exposure with anxiety and depression among middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring modification by high temperature87
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin87
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia84
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty81
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters78
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change76
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics76
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade76
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease76
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process73
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making72
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export71
Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans70
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios69
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story69
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia68
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming66
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences66
Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration65
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management65
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases65
A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia63
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection62
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205061
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion60
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models60
Status of agricultural water management practices in Africa: a review for the prioritisation and operationalisation of the Africa Union’s irrigation development and agricultural water management (AU-I59
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200059
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method59
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment59
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth58
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change58
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland58
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events58
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model57
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales57
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries57
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans56
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic56
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records56
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas54
Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the pan-Asian region54
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia53
Climate change, air pollution and human health53
ENSO modulation of summertime tropospheric ozone over China53
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario52
Predicting compound coastal inundation in 2100 by considering the joint probabilities of landfalling tropical cyclones and sea-level rise52
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems51
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China51
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow51
Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat *51
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets51
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin50
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea49
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers49
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador49
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals48
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways48
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?47
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction47
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends47
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities47
How does urbanization process affect urban heat island effect? Interpretation of 31 cities in China based on local climate zones47
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States46
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target46
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions46
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations45
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea45
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe45
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis45
How wildfires increase sensitivity of Amazon forests to droughts45
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days45
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil44
Nitrogen cycle impacts on CO2 fertilisation and climate forcing of land carbon stores44
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols44
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk44
Financing the energy transition: four insights and avenues for future research44
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences44
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China43
A gridded inventory of Canada’s anthropogenic methane emissions43
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s43
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China43
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions43
East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models42
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-201742
Economic growth dominates rising potential flood risk in the Yangtze River and benefits of raising dikes from 1991 to 201542
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA42
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States42
Estimating the effects of functional diversity and composition on the spatial variability of ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region42
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands42
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California41
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 202241
Isotopic evidence of increasing water abundance and lake hydrological change in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada41
Substitution impacts of wood use at the market level: a systematic review41
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands41
Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia41
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean41
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy41
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information41
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau41
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies40
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions40
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment40
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator40
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment40
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring40
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials39
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China39
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry39
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?39
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting39
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India39
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries39
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO239
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States38
Future evolution of virtual water trading in the United States electricity sector38
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time38
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations38
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains38
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China38
China’s railway photovoltaic potential for sustainable urban–rural energy transition38
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?38
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET38
Carbon and ecohydrological priorities in managing woody encroachment: UAV perspective 63 years after a control treatment38
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments38
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic38
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes38
Greening-induced increase in evapotranspiration over Eurasia offset by CO2-induced vegetational stomatal closure37
Focus on reactive nitrogen and the UN sustainable development goals37
Culturally appropriate shifts in staple grain consumption can improve multiple sustainability outcomes36
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe36
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad36
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?36
Self-financed marine protected areas36
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate36
Spatiotemporal changes in UK heavy rainfall events not captured by intensity-based methods36
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation35
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China35
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change35
Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries35
Amplified warming induced by large-scale application of water-saving techniques35
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity35
Traffic-related sources may dominate urban water contamination for many organic contaminants35
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures35
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change35
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter35
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China35
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting35
Tree mortality provides early warning sign of ecosystem functional transition in coastal freshwater forested wetlands35
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska34
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass34
Potential caveats in land surface model evaluations using the US drought monitor: roles of base periods and drought indicators34
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost34
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing34
Faster-than-expected intensification of heat extremes in a maritime climate: a New Zealand case study33
Exploration of synergistic and redundant information sharing from hydrometeorological variables to net ecosystem exchange33
The changing role of dust and open fires PM2.5 on Africa’s air quality and human health33
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California33
Satellite detected weak decline of nitrogen oxides emissions in economically small cities of China33
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment33
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-333
Assessing nitrogen flow and nitrogen footprint in the food system of a subtropical island with a scenario to mitigate nitrogen load impacted by trade-dependent agriculture33
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change33
Peatland restoration as an affordable nature-based climate solution with fire reduction and conservation co-benefits in Indonesia33
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities32
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes32
Assessing the potential for solar development on coal mine land in India32
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming32
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake32
Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy32
Assessing the chance of unprecedented dry conditions over North Brazil during El Niño events32
Microbial abilities to degrade global environmental plastic polymer waste are overstated32
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis32
Model consistency for the underlying mechanisms for the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation-tropical Atlantic connection32
Net zero targets in science and policy32
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile32
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review32
Carbon flux estimates are sensitive to data source: a comparison of field and lab temperature sensitivity data31
Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization31
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas31
Sensitivity of headwater streamflow to thawing permafrost and vegetation change in a warming Arctic31
Global evidence of rapid flash drought recovery by extreme precipitation31
Seasonal adjustment of particulate matter pollution in coastal East Asia during the 2020 COVID lockdown31
Corrigendum: Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 085009)31
A systematic review of forest area development drivers estimated under the concepts of environmental Kuznets curve and forest transition hypothesis31
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water31
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts31
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines31
The digitalisation, dematerialisation and decarbonisation of the global economy in historical perspective: the relationship between energy and information since 185031
Three-dimensional meteorological drought characteristics and associated risk in China31
Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests30
Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects on the scaling of extreme sub-daily precipitation over East China30
Urban growth modeling for the assessment of future climate and disaster risks: approaches, gaps and needs30
Overlooked cooling effects of albedo in terrestrial ecosystems30
Economics and optics influence funding for ecological restoration in a nation-wide program30
Effectiveness of behavioural interventions to reduce household energy demand: a scoping review30
Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection30
Higher landscape diversity associated with improved crop production resilience in Kansas-USA30
Racial-ethnic exposure disparities to airborne ultrafine particles in the United States30
Critical mineral constraints in global renewable scenarios under 1.5 °C target30
Influence of high road labor policies and practices on renewable energy costs, decarbonization pathways, and labor outcomes30
Temporal hydrological drought clustering varies with climate and land-surface processes30
Amplifying feedback loop between drought, soil desiccation cracking, and greenhouse gas emissions30
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape29
Contrasting trends in short-lived and long-lived mesoscale eddies in the Southern Ocean since the 1990s29
Evidence for state shift and generation of fire feedback loops in mesic forest driven by extreme fire severity and high fire frequency29
Four decades of nitrous oxide emission from Chinese aquaculture underscores the urgency and opportunity for climate change mitigation29
Role of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian-like pattern on the near future warming rate of East Asian surface temperature29
Anticipating the impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification on the U.S. automotive service workforce29
Historical food consumption declines and the role of alternative foods29
Changing windstorm characteristics over the US Northeast in a single model large ensemble29
Low-hanging fruit? Identifying opportunities to enhance crop diversity in the United States29
Effects of climate change on marine ecosystems in the southeastern Pacific: multiple ocean stressors assessed through climate velocities29
Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States29
Following the money: climate adaptation finance in the Marshall Islands29
Global adoption of aquaculture to supply seafood29
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage29
Detecting atmospheric oxidation in the PM2.5 and ozone multilayer complex network29
Combining a climate-permafrost model with fine resolution remote sensor products to quantify active-layer thickness at local scales29
The strategic and governance implications of solar radiation modification: perspectives from delegates of international climate negotiations29
FROT: A Framework to comprehensively describe radiative contributions to temperature responses29
Key regions in the modulation of seasonal GMST variability by analyzing the two hottest years: 2016 vs. 202029
Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon29
Real-time detection of harmful algal blooms using GOCI II and buoy-based dissolved oxygen variations28
Mixed-phase regime cloud thinning could help restore sea ice28
Weak local upwelling may elevate the risks of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in shallow waters during the warm season28
Winter sea surface temperature interhemispheric dipole as a predictor for Sahel summer rainfall28
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs28
Energy production and inter-farm wake losses in future North Sea wind farms28
Utilizing machine learning for high resolution NO2 total columns from PACE OCI28
Future changes in spatially compounding hot, wet or dry events and their implications for the world’s breadbasket regions28
Permafrost thermal dynamics at a local scale in northern Da Xing’anling Mountains28
Southern Hemispheric jet swing linked to Arctic stratospheric polar vortex28
GEDI waveform metrics in vegetation mapping—a case study from a heterogeneous tropical forest landscape28
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