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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States728
Association of ambient ozone exposure with anxiety and depression among middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring modification by high temperature301
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records267
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models223
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?205
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model197
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters154
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions139
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries131
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950124
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin123
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans122
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks117
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning114
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics110
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events103
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade101
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)100
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?92
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China92
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters91
Predicting compound coastal inundation in 2100 by considering the joint probabilities of landfalling tropical cyclones and sea-level rise87
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project86
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink84
Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans84
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau84
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland81
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic81
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story77
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions76
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation71
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance71
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios70
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method70
Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat *70
A gridded inventory of Canada’s anthropogenic methane emissions69
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina68
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets68
Are soil sealing indicators sufficient to guide urban planning? Insights from an ecosystem services assessment in the Paris metropolitan area67
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India67
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205067
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia66
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador66
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia66
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems65
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities65
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea65
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200064
Climate change, air pollution and human health63
Nitrogen cycle impacts on CO2 fertilisation and climate forcing of land carbon stores63
Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration61
Improved modelling of soil NO x emissions in a high temperature agricultural region: role of background emissions on NO2 trend over the US61
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty61
Human influence on daily temperature variability over land59
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals59
Inventory reporting of livestock emissions: the impact of the IPCC 1996 and 2006 Guidelines58
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China58
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment58
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming58
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export58
ENSO modulation of summertime tropospheric ozone over China57
Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change57
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-201757
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change56
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 202255
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil55
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making55
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia54
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China54
How wildfires increase sensitivity of Amazon forests to droughts54
Quantifying the contribution of an individual to making extreme weather events more likely53
A novel construct for scaling groundwater–river interactions based on machine-guided hydromorphic classification53
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease53
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers53
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s52
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process52
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change52
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA52
East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models51
Financing the energy transition: four insights and avenues for future research51
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow51
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection51
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols51
Importance quantification of tropical Indian Ocean observations to Central Pacific El Niño prediction50
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis50
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales50
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-I50
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways49
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days49
Substitution impacts of wood use at the market level: a systematic review49
Are cleaner cooking solutions clean enough? A systematic review and meta-analysis of particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations and exposures48
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion48
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?48
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin48
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management47
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region47
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands47
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases47
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea46
A comprehensive uncertainty quantification of large-scale process-based crop modeling frameworks46
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth46
A growing produce bubble: United States produce tied to Mexico’s unsustainable agricultural water use46
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences46
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes45
Economic growth dominates rising potential flood risk in the Yangtze River and benefits of raising dikes from 1991 to 201545
Water availability surpasses warmth in controlling global vegetation trends in recent decade: revealed by satellite time series45
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas45
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States45
Peatland restoration as an affordable nature-based climate solution with fire reduction and conservation co-benefits in Indonesia45
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario45
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe45
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes44
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States43
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring43
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials43
Crop harvested area, not yield, drives variability in crop production in Iran43
Carbon and ecohydrological priorities in managing woody encroachment: UAV perspective 63 years after a control treatment43
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting43
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China43
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment43
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-343
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator43
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations42
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?42
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass42
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 agriculture42
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad42
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries41
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost41
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy41
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate41
Culturally appropriate shifts in staple grain consumption can improve multiple sustainability outcomes41
Net zero targets in science and policy40
Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia40
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions40
Climate impact of aircraft-induced cirrus assessed from satellite observations before and during COVID-1940
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation40
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing40
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California40
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China39
Balancing food security and environmental sustainability by optimizing seasonal-spatial crop production in Bangladesh39
Recent trend of cold winters followed by hot summers in South Korea due to the combined effects of the warm western tropical Pacific and North Atlantic in spring39
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change39
How well can a seasonal forecast system represent three hourly compound wind and precipitation extremes over Europe?39
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands39
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments39
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information39
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change38
Focus on reactive nitrogen and the UN sustainable development goals38
Potential caveats in land surface model evaluations using the US drought monitor: roles of base periods and drought indicators38
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming38
Isotopic evidence of increasing water abundance and lake hydrological change in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada38
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India38
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment38
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry37
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO237
Exploration of Synergistic and Redundant Information Sharing from Hydrometeorological Variables to Net Ecosystem Exchange37
Future evolution of virtual water trading in the United States electricity sector37
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET37
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?37
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter37
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting37
Provincial nitrogen footprints highlight variability in drivers of reactive nitrogen emissions in Canada37
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies37
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?36
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California36
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake36
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change36
Amplified warming induced by large-scale application of water-saving techniques36
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau36
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China36
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean36
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska36
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review36
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment35
Traffic-related sources may dominate urban water contamination for many organic contaminants35
Assessing the chance of unprecedented dry conditions over North Brazil during El Niño events35
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures35
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities35
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?35
Microbial abilities to degrade global environmental plastic polymer waste are overstated35
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe35
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time35
Greening-induced increase in evapotranspiration over Eurasia offset by CO2-induced vegetational stomatal closure35
Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy35
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability34
Self-financed marine protected areas34
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic34
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China34
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains34
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis34
Spatial configuration and time of day impact the magnitude of urban tree canopy cooling34
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity34
Model consistency for the underlying mechanisms for the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation-tropical Atlantic connection33
A systematic review of forest area development drivers estimated under the concepts of environmental Kuznets curve and forest transition hypothesis33
Permafrost thermal dynamics at a local scale in northern Da Xing’anling Mountains33
Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations33
Arctic marginal ice zone interannual variability and change point detection using two definitions (1983–2022)33
Carbon flux estimates are sensitive to data source: a comparison of field and lab temperature sensitivity data33
Health at the centre of climate change negotiations: critical achievements from the COP28 Health Programme33
Contrasting trends in short-lived and long-lived mesoscale eddies in the Southern Ocean since the 1990s33
Thawing permafrost is subsiding in the Northern Hemisphere—review and perspectives33
Weak local upwelling may elevate the risks of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in shallow waters during the warm season33
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile33
Improving seasonal predictions of meteorological drought by conditioning on ENSO states33
Seasonal adjustment of particulate matter pollution in coastal East Asia during the 2020 COVID lockdown33
Rebates and grid decarbonization from the Inflation Reduction Act promote equitable adoption of energy efficiency retrofits33
Effects of stepwise tidal flat reclamation on tidal evolution in the East China and Yellow Sea33
Mixed-phase regime cloud thinning could help restore sea ice32
Reply to Comment on ‘Linkage of El Nino-Southern Oscillation to astronomic forcing’32
Role of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian-like pattern on the near future warming rate of East Asian surface temperature32
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of snow refugia in the rain-snow transition zone of north-central Idaho32
Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization32
Potential impacts of reduced winter Kara Sea ice on the dipole pattern of cold surge frequency over the tropical western Pacific32
Promoting future sustainable utilization of rare earth elements for efficient lighting technologies32
Gender empowerment and energy access: evidence from seven countries32
Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon32
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts32
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas32
Historical warming has increased U.S. crop insurance losses32
Four decades of nitrous oxide emission from Chinese aquaculture underscores the urgency and opportunity for climate change mitigation32
Amplifying feedback loop between drought, soil desiccation cracking, and greenhouse gas emissions32
Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States32
Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior32
Toward the quantification of the climate co-benefits of invasive mammal eradication on islands: a scalable framework for restoration monitoring31
Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action31
A vital option for food security and greenhouse gases mitigation: planting elite super rice in double- to single-rice cropping fields in China31
Combining a climate-permafrost model with fine resolution remote sensor products to quantify active-layer thickness at local scales31
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines31
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage31
Economics and optics influence funding for ecological restoration in a nation-wide program31
Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection31
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water31
The strategic and governance implications of solar radiation modification: perspectives from delegates of international climate negotiations31
FROT: A Framework to comprehensively describe radiative contributions to temperature responses31
Following the money: climate adaptation finance in the Marshall Islands31
Beyond productivism versus agroecology: lessons for sustainable food systems from Lovins’ soft path energy policies31
Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects on the scaling of extreme sub-daily precipitation over East China31
Corrigendum: Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 085009)31
Southern Hemispheric jet swing linked to Arctic stratospheric polar vortex31
Recent increase in snow cover as a contributing driver to autumn cooling in central Eurasia30
Reconstructing past fossil-fuel CO2 concentrations using tree rings and radiocarbon in the urban area of Medellín, Colombia30
Changing windstorm characteristics over the US Northeast in a single model large ensemble30
Evidence for state shift and generation of fire feedback loops in mesic forest driven by extreme fire severity and high fire frequency30
Three-dimensional meteorological drought characteristics and associated risk in China30
Consumption-based view on national and regional per capita carbon footprint trajectories and planetary pressures-adjusted human development30
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape30
Historical food consumption declines and the role of alternative foods30
Anticipating the impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification on the U.S. automotive service workforce30
Global adoption of aquaculture to supply seafood30
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