Environmental Research Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Research Letters is 11. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States340
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models279
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?227
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters160
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950143
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks138
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning137
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics132
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events126
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?121
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China116
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters113
Predicting compound coastal inundation in 2100 by considering the joint probabilities of landfalling tropical cyclones and sea-level rise101
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project93
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink90
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau89
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story88
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance85
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation85
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205082
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India79
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador77
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia76
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region75
Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat *75
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA72
Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration72
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina72
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia71
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic71
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment71
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems71
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries70
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans69
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction68
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China67
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities66
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea66
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals65
Human influence on daily temperature variability over land65
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming64
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-201762
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil62
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols61
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways61
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making61
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow61
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin60
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales59
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records59
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 202258
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade58
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions58
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method57
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas57
ENSO modulation of summertime tropospheric ozone over China55
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model54
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios54
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200054
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends54
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences53
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland53
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty53
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth53
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets52
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions51
Are soil sealing indicators sufficient to guide urban planning? Insights from an ecosystem services assessment in the Paris metropolitan area51
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?50
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia50
Nitrogen cycle impacts on CO2 fertilisation and climate forcing of land carbon stores50
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change50
How wildfires increase sensitivity of Amazon forests to droughts50
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease49
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers49
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process49
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea48
A growing produce bubble: United States produce tied to Mexico’s unsustainable agricultural water use48
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection48
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-I48
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases47
Financing the energy transition: four insights and avenues for future research47
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe47
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days47
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion47
A gridded inventory of Canada’s anthropogenic methane emissions47
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change46
Economic growth dominates rising potential flood risk in the Yangtze River and benefits of raising dikes from 1991 to 201546
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations46
Improved modelling of soil NO x emissions in a high temperature agricultural region: role of background emissions on NO2 trend over the US46
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export46
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands45
Quantifying the contribution of an individual to making extreme weather events more likely45
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario45
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s44
Substitution impacts of wood use at the market level: a systematic review44
Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans44
Climate change, air pollution and human health44
A novel construct for scaling groundwater–river interactions based on machine-guided hydromorphic classification44
Association of ambient ozone exposure with anxiety and depression among middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring modification by high temperature43
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management43
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis43
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States43
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)43
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin43
East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models43
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target43
Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change42
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China42
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting41
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment41
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States41
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass40
Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia40
Exploration of synergistic and redundant information sharing from hydrometeorological variables to net ecosystem exchange40
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies40
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis40
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad40
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes40
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains40
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?39
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost39
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands39
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy39
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries39
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing39
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate39
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California39
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information38
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry38
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments38
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India38
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming38
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET38
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China38
Isotopic evidence of increasing water abundance and lake hydrological change in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada38
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting38
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment38
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change38
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities37
Amplified warming induced by large-scale application of water-saving techniques37
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe37
Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries37
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time37
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska37
Provincial nitrogen footprints highlight variability in drivers of reactive nitrogen emissions in Canada37
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change37
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials37
Satellite detected weak decline of nitrogen oxides emissions in economically small cities of China37
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter37
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 agriculture37
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?37
Culturally appropriate shifts in staple grain consumption can improve multiple sustainability outcomes36
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator36
Microbial abilities to degrade global environmental plastic polymer waste are overstated36
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures36
Potential caveats in land surface model evaluations using the US drought monitor: roles of base periods and drought indicators36
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?36
Assessing the chance of unprecedented dry conditions over North Brazil during El Niño events36
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-336
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau36
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations36
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review36
Carbon and ecohydrological priorities in managing woody encroachment: UAV perspective 63 years after a control treatment35
Peatland restoration as an affordable nature-based climate solution with fire reduction and conservation co-benefits in Indonesia35
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation35
Future evolution of virtual water trading in the United States electricity sector35
Self-financed marine protected areas35
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile35
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China35
Focus on reactive nitrogen and the UN sustainable development goals35
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO235
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China35
Greening-induced increase in evapotranspiration over Eurasia offset by CO2-induced vegetational stomatal closure35
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment35
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions34
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China34
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean34
Net zero targets in science and policy34
The changing role of dust and open fires PM2.5 on Africa’s air quality and human health34
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic34
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity34
Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy33
Carbon flux estimates are sensitive to data source: a comparison of field and lab temperature sensitivity data33
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes33
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake33
Weak local upwelling may elevate the risks of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in shallow waters during the warm season33
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California33
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring33
Traffic-related sources may dominate urban water contamination for many organic contaminants33
Model consistency for the underlying mechanisms for the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation-tropical Atlantic connection33
Effects of stepwise tidal flat reclamation on tidal evolution in the East China and Yellow Sea33
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability33
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change33
Health at the centre of climate change negotiations: critical achievements from the COP28 Health Programme33
A systematic review of forest area development drivers estimated under the concepts of environmental Kuznets curve and forest transition hypothesis33
Spatial configuration and time of day impact the magnitude of urban tree canopy cooling33
Arctic marginal ice zone interannual variability and change point detection using two definitions (1983–2022)32
Four decades of nitrous oxide emission from Chinese aquaculture underscores the urgency and opportunity for climate change mitigation32
Seasonal adjustment of particulate matter pollution in coastal East Asia during the 2020 COVID lockdown32
Potential impacts of reduced winter Kara Sea ice on the dipole pattern of cold surge frequency over the tropical western Pacific32
Reply to Comment on ‘Linkage of El Nino-Southern Oscillation to astronomic forcing’32
Energy production and inter-farm wake losses in future North Sea wind farms32
Mixed-phase regime cloud thinning could help restore sea ice32
Real-time detection of harmful algal blooms using GOCI II and buoy-based dissolved oxygen variations32
Three-dimensional meteorological drought characteristics and associated risk in China32
Changing windstorm characteristics over the US Northeast in a single model large ensemble31
Consumption-based view on national and regional per capita carbon footprint trajectories and planetary pressures-adjusted human development31
Following the money: climate adaptation finance in the Marshall Islands31
Role of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian-like pattern on the near future warming rate of East Asian surface temperature31
Amplifying feedback loop between drought, soil desiccation cracking, and greenhouse gas emissions31
Improving seasonal predictions of meteorological drought by conditioning on ENSO states31
Critical mineral constraints in global renewable scenarios under 1.5 °C target31
Quantifying landscape fragmentation and forest carbon dynamics over 35 years in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest31
Temporal hydrological drought clustering varies with climate and land-surface processes31
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas30
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts30
Beyond productivism versus agroecology: lessons for sustainable food systems from Lovins’ soft path energy policies30
Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action30
Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon30
Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization30
Toward the quantification of the climate co-benefits of invasive mammal eradication on islands: a scalable framework for restoration monitoring30
A vital option for food security and greenhouse gases mitigation: planting elite super rice in double- to single-rice cropping fields in China30
Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States30
Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior30
Combining a climate-permafrost model with fine resolution remote sensor products to quantify active-layer thickness at local scales30
Corrigendum: Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 085009)29
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage29
Anticipating the impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification on the U.S. automotive service workforce29
Global adoption of aquaculture to supply seafood29
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines29
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water29
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape29
Overlooked cooling effects of albedo in terrestrial ecosystems29
FROT: A Framework to comprehensively describe radiative contributions to temperature responses29
The strategic and governance implications of solar radiation modification: perspectives from delegates of international climate negotiations29
Historical food consumption declines and the role of alternative foods29
Reconstructing past fossil-fuel CO2 concentrations using tree rings and radiocarbon in the urban area of Medellín, Colombia29
Recent increase in snow cover as a contributing driver to autumn cooling in central Eurasia29
Spatio-temporal patterns of oasis dynamics in China’s drylands between 1987 and 201728
Global evidence of rapid flash drought recovery by extreme precipitation28
Gender empowerment and energy access: evidence from seven countries28
On the role of antecedent meteorological conditions on flash drought initialization in Europe28
Heterogenous controls on lake color and trends across the high-elevation U.S. Rocky Mountain region28
Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects on the scaling of extreme sub-daily precipitation over East China28
The role of humidity in determining future electricity demand in the southeastern United States28
Sensitivity of headwater streamflow to thawing permafrost and vegetation change in a warming Arctic28
Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection28
Higher landscape diversity associated with improved crop production resilience in Kansas-USA28
Future changes in spatially compounding hot, wet or dry events and their implications for the world’s breadbasket regions28
Nonpartisans hold the key: how proximity to utility scale renewable energy projects influences attitudes towards climate mitigation policy28
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