Environmental Research Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Research Letters is 10. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters406
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project178
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink168
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau164
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation156
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance146
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks140
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning138
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?118
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950108
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina102
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea99
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia99
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals97
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities96
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction93
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea92
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations89
Predicting compound coastal inundation in 2100 by considering the joint probabilities of landfalling tropical cyclones and sea-level rise88
Estimating the effects of functional diversity and composition on the spatial variability of ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region83
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China80
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205077
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 202277
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics76
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters76
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia76
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade74
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process73
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change72
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models71
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion70
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-I69
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200069
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment69
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events66
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method66
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland66
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic65
Association of ambient ozone exposure with anxiety and depression among middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring modification by high temperature64
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection64
A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia64
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region60
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans60
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries60
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model60
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences60
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records60
Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the pan-Asian region59
Climate change, air pollution and human health59
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia58
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems58
Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat *58
Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration57
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States57
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers57
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making56
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia56
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin55
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands55
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil54
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)54
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas53
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change53
How wildfires increase sensitivity of Amazon forests to droughts53
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk52
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways52
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets51
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China51
A gridded inventory of Canada’s anthropogenic methane emissions50
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario49
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions49
East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models49
Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans48
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions48
Economic growth dominates rising potential flood risk in the Yangtze River and benefits of raising dikes from 1991 to 201548
Nitrogen cycle impacts on CO2 fertilisation and climate forcing of land carbon stores48
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty47
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales47
Corrigendum: The economics of a circular urban water system (2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 094024)47
Large-scale historical land use mapping in Vietnam and Laos using military topographic maps47
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences47
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow47
How does urbanization process affect urban heat island effect? Interpretation of 31 cities in China based on local climate zones46
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease46
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India46
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador45
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?45
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export45
Earlier end of photosynthesis driven by advanced photosynthetic onset and elevated early-season temperatures45
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA44
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story44
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe44
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends44
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming44
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin44
Welfare-based allocation of telecoupled biodiversity loss in global crop trade44
Financing the energy transition: four insights and avenues for future research43
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States43
Subsurface constraints amplify vegetation stress during extreme heat and drought in a Mediterranean forest43
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management42
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols42
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-201742
ENSO modulation of summertime tropospheric ozone over China42
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China42
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?42
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis42
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth42
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios42
Long-term carbon dioxide removal potential from the application of wood biochar and basanite rock powder in sandy soil using the LiDELSv2 process-based modeling approach41
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California41
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target41
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands41
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases41
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s41
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days41
Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia40
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 agriculture40
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator40
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean40
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic40
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring40
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies40
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET39
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change39
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting39
Spatiotemporal changes in UK heavy rainfall events not captured by intensity-based methods39
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?39
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries39
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials39
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures39
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments39
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?39
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment39
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter38
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations38
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry38
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe38
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China38
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains38
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-338
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India38
Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries37
The changing role of dust and open fires PM2.5 on Africa’s air quality and human health37
Tree mortality provides early warning sign of ecosystem functional transition in coastal freshwater forested wetlands37
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting36
Exploration of synergistic and redundant information sharing from hydrometeorological variables to net ecosystem exchange36
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions36
Net zero targets in science and policy36
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska36
Satellite detected weak decline of nitrogen oxides emissions in economically small cities of China36
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change36
Potential caveats in land surface model evaluations using the US drought monitor: roles of base periods and drought indicators36
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change36
Assessing the potential for solar development on coal mine land in India36
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information35
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing35
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad35
China’s railway photovoltaic potential for sustainable urban–rural energy transition35
Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy35
Microbial abilities to degrade global environmental plastic polymer waste are overstated35
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost35
Amplified warming induced by large-scale application of water-saving techniques34
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes34
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis34
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming34
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review34
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States34
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO233
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities33
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate33
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau33
Traffic-related sources may dominate urban water contamination for many organic contaminants33
Focus on reactive nitrogen and the UN sustainable development goals33
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China33
Societal and environmental interconnections: future directions for flood inundation models33
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass33
Assessing the chance of unprecedented dry conditions over North Brazil during El Niño events33
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment33
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity33
Faster-than-expected intensification of heat extremes in a maritime climate: a New Zealand case study32
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake32
Carbon and ecohydrological priorities in managing woody encroachment: UAV perspective 63 years after a control treatment32
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile32
Peatland restoration as an affordable nature-based climate solution with fire reduction and conservation co-benefits in Indonesia32
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts32
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China32
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China32
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes32
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation32
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time32
Corrigendum: Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 085009)32
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California32
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?32
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy32
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment32
Model consistency for the underlying mechanisms for the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation-tropical Atlantic connection32
Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior31
Low-hanging fruit? Identifying opportunities to enhance crop diversity in the United States31
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water31
Role of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian-like pattern on the near future warming rate of East Asian surface temperature31
Macroclimate growing conditions for luxury crops after stratospheric aerosol injection31
The digitalisation, dematerialisation and decarbonisation of the global economy in historical perspective: the relationship between energy and information since 185031
Effects of climate change on marine ecosystems in the southeastern Pacific: multiple ocean stressors assessed through climate velocities31
Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States31
Sensitivity of headwater streamflow to thawing permafrost and vegetation change in a warming Arctic31
Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection31
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines31
Detecting atmospheric oxidation in the PM2.5 and ozone multilayer complex network31
FROT: A Framework to comprehensively describe radiative contributions to temperature responses31
Winter sea surface temperature interhemispheric dipole as a predictor for Sahel summer rainfall30
Reply to Comment on ‘Linkage of El Nino-Southern Oscillation to astronomic forcing’30
Following the money: climate adaptation finance in the Marshall Islands30
Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon30
Key regions in the modulation of seasonal GMST variability by analyzing the two hottest years: 2016 vs. 202030
Utilizing machine learning for high resolution NO2 total columns from PACE OCI30
Recent increase in snow cover as a contributing driver to autumn cooling in central Eurasia30
Anticipating the impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification on the U.S. automotive service workforce30
Potential impacts of reduced winter Kara Sea ice on the dipole pattern of cold surge frequency over the tropical western Pacific30
Real-time detection of harmful algal blooms using GOCI II and buoy-based dissolved oxygen variations30
Heterogenous controls on lake color and trends across the high-elevation U.S. Rocky Mountain region30
Global adoption of aquaculture to supply seafood30
Megagrazer loss drives complex landscape-scale biophysical cascades30
Tradeoffs between uniform land protection and biodiversity-specific land protection with <2 °C global warming29
Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests29
Carbon flux estimates are sensitive to data source: a comparison of field and lab temperature sensitivity data29
The strategic and governance implications of solar radiation modification: perspectives from delegates of international climate negotiations29
A globally relevant data-driven assessment of carbon leakage from forestry29
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of snow refugia in the rain-snow transition zone of north-central Idaho29
WEFE nexus unveiled: a comprehensive review of monitoring and modelling methods in the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus29
Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations29
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage29
Energy production and inter-farm wake losses in future North Sea wind farms29
Mixed-phase regime cloud thinning could help restore sea ice29
Health at the centre of climate change negotiations: critical achievements from the COP28 Health Programme29
Evaluating opportunity for distributed wind energy in rural and agricultural areas29
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs29
Evidence for state shift and generation of fire feedback loops in mesic forest driven by extreme fire severity and high fire frequency29
Southern Hemispheric jet swing linked to Arctic stratospheric polar vortex29
Combining a climate-permafrost model with fine resolution remote sensor products to quantify active-layer thickness at local scales28
Air pollution from biomass burning in India28
Critical minerals for electric vehicles: a telecoupling review28
Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects on the scaling of extreme sub-daily precipitation over East China28
Contrasting trends in short-lived and long-lived mesoscale eddies in the Southern Ocean since the 1990s28
A systematic review of forest area development drivers estimated under the concepts of environmental Kuznets curve and forest transition hypothesis28
Consumption-based view on national and regional per capita carbon footprint trajectories and planetary pressures-adjusted human development28
Nonlinear influence of coexisting CO 2 and anthropogenic aerosols on East Asian summer precipitation through a mid-high-latitude pathway28
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
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas28
Higher landscape diversity associated with improved crop production resilience in Kansas-USA28
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