Environmental Research Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Research Letters is 12. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inconsistent ENSO teleconnections over East Asia in early and late winter: role of Siberian land-atmosphere coupling683
Potential and costs required for methane removal to compete with BECCS as a mitigation option274
Sustainable water reuse for water security246
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia206
Footprints of cocaine: a bibliometric analysis and systematic review of the environmental impacts of the cocaine value chain in Latin America188
We have to talk about overconsumption (in three different ways)181
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems181
Decline of Antarctic Circumpolar Current due to polar ocean freshening176
Nationwide projections of heat- and cold-related mortality impacts under various climate change and population development scenarios in Switzerland144
Impact of anthropogenic warming on emergence of extreme precipitation over global land monsoon area132
Black carbon in the Southern Andean snowpack132
Crop diversity buffers the impact of droughts and high temperatures on food production124
Thermal energy communities: what, why and how to formulate complex collective action for the thermal energy transition in Europe118
The role of green roofs as urban habitats for biodiversity modulated by their design: a review116
Predicting flood damage probability across the conterminous United States115
Separating internal and forced contributions to near term SST predictability in the CESM2-LE108
Quantitative assessment of the potential benefits of global afforestation on ecosystem productivity105
CMIP6 near-term and long-term projections of Eurasian winter cooling trend and cold extremes105
The warming winter accelerated methane emissions during subsequent rice growing season from paddy fields104
The fate of the Caspian Sea under projected climate change and water extraction during the 21st century99
Reusing wastewater for agricultural irrigation: a water-energy-food Nexus assessment in the North Western Sahara Aquifer System97
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols96
Observed and simulated local climate responses to tropical deforestation93
Mitigation of non-CO2 greenhouse gases from Indian agriculture sector91
Understanding human–water feedbacks of interventions in agricultural systems with agent based models: a review91
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease87
Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective85
Widespread deepening of the active layer in northern permafrost regions from 2003 to 202083
Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN): a citizen science tool to empower community-led land management change in East Africa82
Interdecadal changes in three-dimensional atmospheric circulation patterns related to summer temperature variability in Eastern China modulated by the interdecadal Pacific Oscillation79
Arctic sea ice melting has produced distinct sea ice-atmosphere coupled patterns78
Corrigendum: provincial-scale assessment of direct air capture to meet China’s climate neutrality goal under limited bioenergy supply (2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 114021)77
Community stakeholder perspectives for empowering EJ initiatives through Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS)77
Assessing the robustness and implications of econometric estimates of climate sensitivity76
Reduced aerosols and intensified summertime rainfall in India during the pandemic suggest potentially more amplified precipitation in the future75
Association of exposure to extreme rainfall events with cause-specific mortality in North Carolina, US70
How much multilateralism do we need? Effectiveness of unilateral agricultural mitigation efforts in the global context70
Estimating aboveground biomass density using hybrid statistical inference with GEDI lidar data and Paraguay’s national forest inventory69
Canopy responses of Swedish primary and secondary forests to the 2018 drought69
Global methane pledge versus carbon dioxide emission reduction69
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow68
Nutrients and sea surface temperature drive harmful algal blooms in China’s coastal waters over the past decades68
Spatiotemporal dynamics of landslide susceptibility under future climate change and land use scenarios68
Distinct roles of land cover in regulating spatial variabilities of temperature responses to radiative effects of aerosols and clouds67
East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models65
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s64
Assessment of ecological water scarcity in China64
Historical evaluation and future projections of compound heatwave and drought extremes over the conterminous United States in CMIP6 *63
Drivers of the rare persistence of sea ice in the western Chukchi Sea in summer 202463
Enhancement of Arctic surface ozone during the 2020–2021 winter associated with the sudden stratospheric warming63
Recent changes in cropland area and productivity indicate unsustainable cropland expansion in Malawi62
Moisture-modulated heatwaves: tracking 3D evolution patterns and projected changes62
Sustainable alternative futures for agriculture in India—the energy, emissions, and resource implications62
High-resolution observations of NO2 and CO2 emission plumes from EnMAP satellite measurements62
The direct and indirect effects of the environmental factors on global terrestrial gross primary productivity over the past four decades61
Carbon pricing – perceived strengths, weaknesses and knowledge gaps according to a global expert survey61
Rethinking blue carbon: unlocking invisible carbon sinks61
Microplastics interact with benthic biostabilization processes61
Unprecedented snow-drought conditions in the Italian Alps during the early 2020s60
Do we need more research on the environmental impacts of plastics?60
Indications of a changing winter through the lens of lake mixing in Earth’s largest freshwater system58
Worldwide water constraints on attainable irrigated production for major crops58
Soil moisture dominates the severe decline in gross primary productivity during a 2023–2024 compound heatwave-drought event over the Amazon58
Have crops already reached peak suitability: assessing global climatic suitability decreases for crop cultivation57
Connecting the past with restoration futures: integrating legacy thinking into environmental decision making57
Snow persistence lowers and delays peak NDVI, the vegetation index that underpins Arctic greening analyses57
Corrigendum: Weak local upwelling may elevate the risks of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in shallow waters during the warm season (2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 114031)57
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios56
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia55
Research on the impact of e-commerce on corporate ESG performance: disclosure mechanism, greenwashing behavior and substantive performance55
Modulation of the interdecadal trend of global surface air temperature by sea surface temperature over multiple ocean basins55
Machine learning predicts pedestrian wind flow from urban morphology and prevailing wind direction55
Projected increases in tropical cyclone-induced U.S. electric power outage risk55
Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs55
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities55
Assessing air pollution exposure disparities in disadvantaged communities of Greater Boston: a new cumulative environmental justice score system55
Hybrid modeling of evapotranspiration: inferring stomatal and aerodynamic resistances using combined physics-based and machine learning54
Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration54
Probabilistic impacts of compound dry and hot events on global gross primary production53
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis53
Isolating the modulation of mean warming and higher-order temperature changes on ozone in a changing climate over the contiguous United States53
Rising summer river water temperature across Canada: spatial patterns and hydroclimatic controls52
Deadlier natural disasters—a warning from Brazil’s 2024 floods52
Little evidence of avoided yield loss in US corn when short-term forecasts correctly predict extreme heat52
Landscape-scale characterization of Arctic tundra vegetation composition, structure, and function with a multi-sensor unoccupied aerial system52
Urban vegetation cooling potential during heatwaves depends on background climate51
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change51
Attribution of multidecadal summer temperature variations over Eurasia51
The impact of long-lived cycle mesoscale eddies on air–sea CO2 flux in the South Atlantic: focus on the full life cycle of the eddy51
Effect of permafrost degradation on grassland net primary productivity in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau51
Guiding the deployment of electric vehicles in the developing world50
Narrowing the soil carbon gap in croplands50
Vegetation Patterning Can Both Impede and Trigger Critical Transitions from Savanna to Grassland50
Community forestry dominates the recent land greening amid climate change in Nepal50
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment50
Local, regional, and global adaptations to a compound pandemic-weather stress event50
Complex linkages between agriculture and air pollution pose a major threat to food security in India49
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales49
Observation of aerosol induced ‘lower tropospheric cooling’ over Indian core monsoon region49
A physiological signal derived from sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence quantifies crop physiological response to environmental stresses in the U.S. Corn Belt49
Precipitation extremes projected to increase and to occur in different times of the year48
Siberian heat extremes caused by Eurasian atmospheric teleconnections and amplified by local land surface conditions48
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers48
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region48
Elevation-dependence of warming due to aerosol-induced snow darkening over the Himalayan-Tibetan region48
Declining resilience of forest carbon sinks linked to increased atmospheric water deficit during droughts in the Northern Hemisphere47
Interactions between concerns for the environment and other sources of concern in 31 European countries47
An inter-comparison of tropical cyclone datasets for the Australian region47
Increased population exposure to extreme droughts in Iberia due to 0.5 °C additional anthropogenic warming47
Race, ethnicity, and support for climate policy46
Biochar-composting substantially reduces methane and air pollutant emissions from dairy manure46
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models46
Incentivizing water conservation in agriculture: a case study of the Great Salt Lake watersheds46
Beyond MRV: combining remote sensing and ecosystem modeling for geospatial monitoring and attribution of forest carbon fluxes over Maryland, USA46
Plant and soil responses to ground-mounted solar panels in temperate agricultural systems46
The vital role of sulfuric acid in iodine oxoacids nucleation: impacts of urban pollutants on marine atmosphere45
Summer tropical Atlantic drives autumn North American Arctic warming through western Pacific Bridge45
Assessing fire danger classes and extreme thresholds of the Canadian Fire Weather Index across global environmental zones: a review45
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics45
Access for sale? Overlying rights, land transactions, and groundwater in California45
Machine learning models inaccurately predict current and future high-latitude C balances44
A new model to estimate shallow lake nitrogen removal rate based on satellite derived variables44
Identifying parameters impacting WASH STEM education across the globe44
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries44
Interannual relationship between the Asian–Pacific Oscillation and summer sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic44
Policy relevant crop diversity monitoring based on earth observation and farmers’ declarations43
Carbon footprint patterns of domestic migrants in China and 1.5 °C mitigation pathways43
Nutrition-sensitive climate risk across food production systems43
Adapting crop production to water scarcity43
Anomalous sea temperatures can impair coral reef fish recruitment43
Combining climate models and observations to predict the time remaining until regional warming thresholds are reached42
Climate change to increase crop failure in U.S.42
A dynamic-leaf light use efficiency model for improving gross primary production estimation42
Promoting seasonal prediction capability of the early autumn tropical cyclone formation frequency over the western North Pacific: effect of Arctic sea ice42
Combined impact of summer NAO and northern Russian shortwave cloud radiative effect on Eurasian atmospheric circulation42
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario42
Impact of marine carbon removal on atmospheric CO242
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin41
South Florida estuaries are warming faster than global oceans41
Agrivoltaic system design tools for managing trade-offs between energy production, crop productivity and water consumption41
Associations of long-term exposure to ambient sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, and benzene with risk of incident chronic kidney disease in the UK41
Society’s material stocks as carbon pool: an economy-wide quantification of global carbon stocks from 1900–201541
Linking repeat lidar with Landsat products for large scale quantification of fire-induced permafrost thaw settlement in interior Alaska41
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 195041
Enhanced solar and wind potential during widespread temperature extremes across the U.S. interconnected energy grids41
Modulation of the impact of winter-mean warm Arctic-cold Eurasia pattern on Eurasian cold extremes by the subseasonal variability41
A cross-regional analysis of red-backed shrike responses to agri-environmental schemes in Europe40
Nighttime heat waves in the Euro-Mediterranean region: definition, characterisation, and seasonal prediction40
Elevated diversity of the supply chain boosts global food system resilience40
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans39
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters39
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?39
Rotational complexity across US counties is currently insufficient to observe yield gains in major crops39
Reassessing hourly precipitation–temperature scaling: the diurnal cycle in a warming China39
Canopy cover and microtopography control precipitation-enhanced thaw of ecosystem-protected permafrost39
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)39
Understanding climate changes in East Asia and Europe based on spatial climate analogs38
Estimation of flood-damaged cropland area using a convolutional neural network38
Divergent trajectories of ocean warming and acidification38
Deep in the Sierra Nevada critical zone: saprock represents a large terrestrial organic carbon stock38
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China38
Dramatic improvement of aerosol pollution status over the East Asian ocean: from the establishment of Japanese environmental quality standard for PM2.5 in 2009 to its achievement in 202138
The potential influence of falling ice radiative effects on Central-Pacific El Niño variability under progressive global warming38
Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat *38
Role of external forcing in the time-varying trends of global-mean surface temperature under current and future climates38
Modulation of the cold tongue mode (CTM) in tropical cyclone genesis over the western North Pacific during 1975–202138
Evaluation of nitrogen loading in the last 80 years in an urbanized Asian coastal catchment through the reconstruction of severe contamination period38
Short-term electricity load time series prediction by machine learning model via feature selection and parameter optimization using hybrid cooperation search algorithm38
Status quo bias and public policy: evidence in the context of carbon mitigation37
Integrate health into decision-making to foster climate action37
Estimating unprecedented extremes in UK summer daily rainfall37
Global precipitation system size37
Attribution of production-stage methane emissions to assess spatial variability in the climate intensity of US natural gas consumption37
Increasing cloud water resource in a warming world37
Evaluation of the VOC pollution pattern and emission characteristics during the Beijing resurgence of COVID-19 in summer 2020 based on the measurement of PTR-ToF-MS37
Recharge from glacial meltwater is critical for alpine springs and their microbiomes37
Elevated risk of tropical cyclone precipitation and pluvial flood in Houston under global warming36
A major shift in U.S. land development avoids significant losses in forest and agricultural land36
Untangling the importance of dynamic and thermodynamic drivers for wet and dry spells across the Tropical Andes36
Impacts of hot-dry conditions on hydropower production in Switzerland36
An assessment of recent peat forest disturbances and their drivers in the Cuvette Centrale, Africa36
On the effect of reference periods on trends in percentile-based extreme temperature indices36
Effect of urbanization on gust wind speed in summer over an urban area in Eastern China36
Interactive effects of air pollutants and temperature on incidence of dementia: a prospective cohort study36
Projecting future nitrogen inputs: are we making the right assumptions?36
Response of rice phenology to climate warming weakened across China during 1981–2018: did climatic or anthropogenic factors play a role?36
Solar energy as an early just transition opportunity for coal-bearing states in India36
Environmental concentrations as ratios of random variables36
Winter and spring climate explains a large portion of interannual variability and trend in western U.S. summer fire burned area36
Does higher education affect pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from household waste recycling in Greece35
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina35
Meeting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions goals with the international air pollution provision of the clean air act35
Toward healthy and liveable cities: a new framework linking public health to urbanization35
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance35
Recurrent pattern of extreme fire weather in California35
The fire weather in Europe: large-scale trends towards higher danger35
Distinct East Asian precipitation variability and predictability in coupled and uncoupled El Niño events35
Impacts of large-scale refugee resettlement on LCLUC: Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda case study34
Temporal variations of the association between summer season heat exposure and hospitalizations for renal diseases in Queensland, Australia, 1995–201634
Social discounting, social costs of carbon, and their use in energy system models34
Estimated impacts of forest restoration scenarios on smoke exposures among outdoor agricultural workers in California34
What goes in must come out: the oceanic outgassing of anthropogenic carbon34
Financing the energy transition: four insights and avenues for future research34
Ocean feedback on 50–80-day boreal winter intraseasonal oscillation in the Indian Ocean: comparison of atmospheric and coupled CESM2 simulations34
Reducing energy consumption without compromising food security: the imperative that could transform agriculture34
Tropical cyclone over the western Pacific triggers the record-breaking ‘21/7’ extreme rainfall in Henan, central-eastern China34
Sharp decline of dust events induces regional wetting over arid and semi-arid Northwest China in the NCAR Community atmosphere model34
Warming of newly-subducted subtropical mode water in the North Pacific was suppressed from 1999 to 201734
Exploring the emergence and changing dynamics of a new integrated rice-crawfish farming system in China34
Drivers of multi-decadal nitrate regime shifts in a large European catchment34
Archetypes of agri-environmental potential: a multi-scale typology for spatial stratification and upscaling in Europe34
Comment on ‘Cropland abandonment in the context of drought, economic restructuring, and migration in Northeast Syria’34
Strategies for green industrial and innovation policy–an analysis of policy alignment, misalignment, and realignment around dominant designs in the EV sector *34
Assessing the relative importance of dry-season incoming solar radiation and water storage dynamics during the 2005, 2010 and 2015 southern Amazon droughts: not all droughts are created equal33
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India33
A boreal forest model benchmarking dataset for North America: a case study with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC)33
Unequal economic consequences of coastal hazards: hurricane impacts on North Carolina33
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process33
Methodology to assess the changing risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress under climate change33
Evaluating AI’s capability to reflect physical mechanisms: a case study of tropical cyclone impacts on extreme rainfall33
Causes of increased dissolved inorganic carbon in the subsurface layers in the western shelfbreak and high latitudes basin in the Arctic Pacific sector32
A novel construct for scaling groundwater–river interactions based on machine-guided hydromorphic classification32
Economic damages from on-going climate change imply deeper near-term emission cuts32
A joint spatio-temporal characterization of the major meteorological droughts in Europe32
The transition to humid extreme cold events in winter during the past six decades over China32
Are soil sealing indicators sufficient to guide urban planning? Insights from an ecosystem services assessment in the Paris metropolitan area32
Deciphering the sensitivity of urban canopy air temperature to anthropogenic heat flux with a forcing-feedback framework32
Global sustainability scenarios lead to regionally different outcomes for terrestrial biodiversity32
Improving resource efficiency: an effective approach to achieve carbon neutrality32
Emergence of multivariate climate change signals32
Coral responses to climate change exposure32
Global agricultural responses to interannual climate and biophysical variability32
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea32
Socio-environmental impacts of mineral mining and conflicts in Southern and West Africa: navigating reflexive governance for environmental justice31
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty31
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 205031
Reduction of mid-summer rainfall in northern India after the late-1990s induced by the decadal change of the Silk Road pattern31
Mapping environmental suitability for anthrax reemergence in the Arctic31
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets31
Dengue transmission risk in a changing climate: Bangladesh is likely to experience a longer dengue fever season in the future31
Indoor and ambient influences on PM2.5 exposure and well-being for a rail impacted community and implications for personal protections31
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change31
A growing produce bubble: United States produce tied to Mexico’s unsustainable agricultural water use31
Combining price and non-price interventions for water conservation31
Warming-induced vegetation growth cancels out soil carbon-climate feedback in the northern Asian permafrost region in the 21st century30
Quantifying the contribution of an individual to making extreme weather events more likely30
Impact of downward longwave radiative deficits on Antarctic sea-ice extent predictability during the sea ice growth period30
Isotopic labeling evidence shows faster carbon release from microbial residues than plant litter30
Climatological analysis of tropical cyclone impacts on hydrological extremes in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States30
Unprecedented threats to cities from multi-century sea level rise30
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