Environmental Research Letters

Article	Citations
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters	195
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project	186
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	180
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning	160
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia	138
Estimating the effects of functional diversity and composition on the spatial variability of ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region	122
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters	116
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change	115
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?	101
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 2050	99
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance	97
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-2017	89
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis	87
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China	85
Fashion fades, microplastics are eternal: a critical systematic literature review to assess microplastic fibre colours in environmental samples	72
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink	71
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends	70
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations	69
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models	68
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences	66
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events	66
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe	65
Subsurface constraints amplify vegetation stress during extreme heat and drought in a Mediterranean forest	65
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method	61
Corrigendum: The economics of a circular urban water system (2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 094024)	60

Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the pan-Asian region	60
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA	59
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China	58
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target	58
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia	58
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands	56
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story	56
Contrasting patterns of deforestation and reforestation in India's tropical dry woodlands	56
Deliberative polling increases non-expert confidence in assessments about carbon dioxide removal technologies	55
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols	55
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment	55
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics	55
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario	55
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950	54
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States	54
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks	54
Transboundary emission contribution to PM2.5 concentrations in Indian cities	54
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases	54
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records	53
How does urbanization process affect urban heat island effect? Interpretation of 31 cities in China based on local climate zones	52
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth	51
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days	51
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios	50
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems	50
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States	50
Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model	50
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia	50
Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea	49
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers	49
Satellite observations reveal a significant poleward expansion of the multiyear sea ice replenishment in the heart region of Arctic Ocean	49
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China	48
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making	48
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions	48
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea	48
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region	47
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade	47
Characterising the range and outliers in CMIP6 multi-model climate projections of extremes	46
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador	46
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk	46
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty	46
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)	46
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	46
Stabilizing time-lagged climate impacts requires net-negative emissions for centuries	46
Large-scale historical land use mapping in Vietnam and Laos using military topographic maps	45
Welfare-based allocation of telecoupled biodiversity loss in global crop trade	45
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland	45
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin	45
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion	45
Earlier end of photosynthesis driven by advanced photosynthetic onset and elevated early-season temperatures	45
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming	45

Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease	45
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process	44
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets	44
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?	44
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals	44
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation	43
Effect of regional marine cloud brightening on land climate	43
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction	43
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina	43
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/2000	43
Limited evidence for the impact of climate change on the recent range expansion of the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa	43
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia	42
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries	42
A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia	42
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export	42
Can future cities grow a carbon storage equal to forests?	42
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans	41
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions	41
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-I	41
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 approach	41
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change	41
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales	40
Contribution of the deepened Amundsen sea low to the record low Antarctic sea ice extent in February 2022	40
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow	40
Wildfire smoke increases assaults: evidence from Seattle	40
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas	40
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil	40
Climate change, air pollution and human health	40
A global analysis of expected revenues from carbon dioxide removal	39
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India	39
Unraveling the dynamics of atmospheric methane: the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions	39
Water resource management and land tenure on allotted and tribal lands	39
Sentinel-1 data reveals unprecedented reduction of open water extent due to 2023-2024 drought in the central Amazon basin	39
Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring	39
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences	39
Financing the energy transition: four insights and avenues for future research	39
Pushed to finance? Assessing technology export as a motivator for coal finance abroad	38
Controlling factors of wildfires in Australia and their changes under global warming	38
Societal and environmental interconnections: future directions for flood inundation models	38
Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5 °C carbon budget over space and time	38
Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China	38
A biological dipole variability in the Indian Ocean	37
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 agriculture	37
Living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for methane mitigation: design and operation	37
Proactive responses to increasing wildfire risk: the (mis)alignment of public preferences and management priorities	36
Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry	36
Orographic mechanical and surface thermal effects of the Tibetan–Iranian Plateau on extratropical intraseasonal waves in boreal summer: numerical experiments	36
Untangling deliverability, additionality and double counting related to renewable energy certificates for improved scope 2 emissions accounting	35
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment	35
Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity	35
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis	35
A critical review of natural gas emissions certification in the United States	35
Radiative forcing-based accounting (RFA): a dynamic framework to replace static GWPs in carbon markets	35
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities	35
Protecting the environment at home or abroad?	35
Spatiotemporal changes in UK heavy rainfall events not captured by intensity-based methods	35
Will climate change inevitably disrupt the cryospheric budget dynamics of the Third Pole?	34
Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate	34
Trading away forests: embodied deforestation in agriculture and livestock through a gravity model	34
Faster-than-expected intensification of heat extremes in a maritime climate: a New Zealand case study	34
Economic impacts of floods in China and adaptation strategies under climate change	34
Focus on reactive nitrogen and the UN sustainable development goals	34
Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment	34
China’s railway photovoltaic potential for sustainable urban–rural energy transition	34
Simplified agricultural water use accounting in the Colorado River Basin using OpenET	34
Who owns the desert basins of the American West? A typology for moving beyond the public–private binary in conservation and development	34
Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost	34
Tree mortality provides early warning sign of ecosystem functional transition in coastal freshwater forested wetlands	33
The changing role of dust and open fires PM2.5 on Africa’s air quality and human health	33
Scarcity induces conflict in Puerto Rican fisheries	33
Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries	33
Assessing the potential for solar development on coal mine land in India	33
Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska	33
Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains	33
Exploration of synergistic and redundant information sharing from hydrometeorological variables to net ecosystem exchange	33
Skillful prediction of UK seasonal energy consumption based on surface climate information	33
The association of ambient temperature with depression in middle-aged and elderly people: a multicenter prospective repeat survey study in China	32
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing	32
Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau	32
Riverine nitrogen footprint of agriculture in the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River Basin: do we trade water quality for crop production?	32

Predicted suitable habitat distribution of major Larix species in the Northern Hemisphere under climate change scenarios	32
Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes	32
Input–output modelling for household activity-level environmental footprints: a systematic literature review	32
A century of variability of heatwave-driven streamflow in melt-driven basins and implications under climate change	32
Trends in tree cover change over three decades related to interannual climate variability and wildfire in California	32
Excess deaths associated with long-term exposure to ambient NO2 in China	32
Physical and practical constraints on atmospheric methane removal technologies	31
Net zero targets in science and policy	31
Global evidence for co-variability of tidal constituents	31
Early engagement will be necessary for atmospheric methane removal field trials	31
Global biomethane and carbon dioxide removal potential through anaerobic digestion of waste biomass	31
Satellite detected weak decline of nitrogen oxides emissions in economically small cities of China	31
The role of rebates in public support for carbon taxes	31
East–West asymmetry in intensity, duration, frequency of heatwaves over Northern India	31
Financing diversified water strategies for megacities: the case of Mexico City and rainwater harvesting	31
Effects of EU policy and climate change on future delivery of nutrients to European freshwater and seas	31
Assessing the chance of unprecedented dry conditions over North Brazil during El Niño events	31
Greening vegetation cools mean and extreme near-surface air temperature in China	31
Fenceline measurements reveal regional disparities in United States refinery benzene emissions and emission sources	31
On the NASA GEDI and ESA CCI biomass maps: aligning for uptake in the UNFCCC global stocktake	30
Water-related disasters in Brazil: an assessment from 1991 to 2024	30
Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change	30
Urban heat mitigation under realistic roof and land area constraints	30
Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California	30
The role of projects of common interest in reaching Europe’s energy policy targets	30
Utilizing CO2 as a strategy to scale up direct air capture may face fewer short-term barriers than directly storing CO2	30
Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures	30
Observed contribution of Barents-Kara sea ice loss to warm Arctic-cold Eurasia anomalies by submonthly processes in winter	30
Incorporating permafrost into climate mitigation and adaptation policy	29
Recent multispecies tree-growth decline reveals a severe aridity change in Mediterranean Chile	29
Peatland restoration as an affordable nature-based climate solution with fire reduction and conservation co-benefits in Indonesia	29
Dynamical-statistical method for seasonal forecasting of wintertime PM10 concentration in South Korea using multi-model ensemble climate forecasts	29
Warmer winters are reducing potential ice roads and port accessibility in the Pan-Arctic	29
Increasing interannual climate variability during crop flowering in Europe	29
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment	29
Near real-time altimetry for river monitoring—a global assessment of Sentinel-3	29
Vegetation disturbances characterization in the Tibetan Plateau from 1986 to 2018 using Landsat time series and field observations	29
Uncertainty constraints on economic impact assessments of climate change simulated by an impact emulator	29
Model consistency for the underlying mechanisms for the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation-tropical Atlantic connection	29
Effects of climate change on marine ecosystems in the southeastern Pacific: multiple ocean stressors assessed through climate velocities	28
Role of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian-like pattern on the near future warming rate of East Asian surface temperature	28
Three-dimensional meteorological drought characteristics and associated risk in China	28
The strategic and governance implications of solar radiation modification: perspectives from delegates of international climate negotiations	28
Detecting atmospheric oxidation in the PM2.5 and ozone multilayer complex network	28
Macroclimate growing conditions for luxury crops after stratospheric aerosol injection	28
Weak local upwelling may elevate the risks of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in shallow waters during the warm season	28
Effects of stepwise tidal flat reclamation on tidal evolution in the East China and Yellow Sea	28
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project comments on the revised WHO air quality guidelines	28
Wintertime marine extreme temperature events modulate phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific through subtropical mode water	28
Alternative household water affordability metrics using water bill delinquency behavior	28
Promoting future sustainable utilization of rare earth elements for efficient lighting technologies	28
Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection	28
Quantifying landscape fragmentation and forest carbon dynamics over 35 years in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	27
Century-scale attribution and constrained projection of temperature extremes in eastern China	27
Corrigendum: Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 085009)	27
Climate-aware decision-making: lessons for electric grid infrastructure planning and operations	27
Overlooked cooling effects of albedo in terrestrial ecosystems	27
Combining a climate-permafrost model with fine resolution remote sensor products to quantify active-layer thickness at local scales	27
Utilizing machine learning for high resolution NO2 total columns from PACE OCI	27
Network structure matters: how coordination and cooperation mechanisms drive solar-battery co-adoption	27
Changing windstorm characteristics over the US Northeast in a single model large ensemble	27
Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action	27
Disproportionate Clean Air Act violations occur in communities of color throughout the United States	27
Higher landscape diversity associated with improved crop production resilience in Kansas-USA	27
Reply to Comment on ‘Linkage of El Nino-Southern Oscillation to astronomic forcing’	27
Nonstationary thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the interannual variability of winter sea ice growth in the Kara–Laptev Seas	27
Nonpartisans hold the key: how proximity to utility scale renewable energy projects influences attitudes towards climate mitigation policy	27
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs	27
Racial-ethnic exposure disparities to airborne ultrafine particles in the United States	27
Recent increase in snow cover as a contributing driver to autumn cooling in central Eurasia	26
Key regions in the modulation of seasonal GMST variability by analyzing the two hottest years: 2016 vs. 2020	26
Nonlinear influence of coexisting CO 2 and anthropogenic aerosols on East Asian summer precipitation through a mid-high-latitude pathway	26
The PeatPic project: predicting plot-scale green leaf phenology across peatlands	26
Quantitative attribution of historical anthropogenic warming on the extreme rainfall event over Henan in July 2021	26
Megagrazer loss drives complex landscape-scale biophysical cascades	26
More research needed on people’s responses to air quality data	26
Potential impacts of reduced winter Kara Sea ice on the dipole pattern of cold surge frequency over the tropical western Pacific	26
Anticipating the impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification on the U.S. automotive service workforce	26
Permafrost thermal dynamics at a local scale in northern Da Xing’anling Mountains	26
Tradeoffs between uniform land protection and biodiversity-specific land protection with <2 °C global warming	26
Evaluating opportunity for distributed wind energy in rural and agricultural areas	26
Measuring electric vehicle owners’ willingness to participate in smart charging programs	26
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage	26
Heterogenous controls on lake color and trends across the high-elevation U.S. Rocky Mountain region	26
Low-hanging fruit? Identifying opportunities to enhance crop diversity in the United States	26
Future changes in spatially compounding hot, wet or dry events and their implications for the world’s breadbasket regions	25
Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization	25
Quantifying US metropolitan level environmental burdens & benefits from greater localization of vegetable farming	25
FROT: A Framework to comprehensively describe radiative contributions to temperature responses	25
Carbon sequestration potential from sustainable management of arable land in the EU	25
Economics and optics influence funding for ecological restoration in a nation-wide program	25
A globally relevant data-driven assessment of carbon leakage from forestry	25
On the role of antecedent meteorological conditions on flash drought initialization in Europe	25
Temporal hydrological drought clustering varies with climate and land-surface processes	25
GEDI waveform metrics in vegetation mapping—a case study from a heterogeneous tropical forest landscape	25