Nature Climate Change

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Climate Change is 22. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Source–sink switch850
Warmth shifts symbionts345
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers310
High chances of rainbows309
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South281
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity270
Glaciers give way to new coasts260
Attributing soybean production shocks231
Behaviour as leverage229
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds224
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab215
Paris Agreement after 10 years215
Plants countering downpours212
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets193
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South191
Transition risk in the banking sector190
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes190
Warming erodes climate connectivity for terrestrial vertebrates184
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage180
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets179
Shifts in experiencing downpours173
Attributing carbon to capital owners163
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States158
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage158
Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience156
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change155
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake154
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America151
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming150
Why longer seasons with climate change may not increase tree growth147
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change146
Ecological novelty induced by climate change144
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections141
National models of climate governance among major emitters139
Tasty plants and helpful ants135
Heated beetles133
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter133
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s128
Biased reports of species range shifts126
Interventions in education122
The effects on children120
Pathways to a safer planet120
Going beyond averages119
Technological advances mitigate the impact of climate change on electric vehicle battery lifetimes117
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts116
Research that captures a changing world116
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat114
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100113
Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change113
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming111
Challenges of institutional adaptation110
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change110
Early signs that the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism is reshaping EU–India steel trade109
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate108
Discrepancies in national inventories reveal a large emissions gap in the wastewater sector108
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators107
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes106
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power106
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs104
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points104
Targeted tropical forest restoration can offset deforestation-induced water flux losses104
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change102
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production101
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy101
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation100
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks100
Status of global coastal adaptation100
Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population98
Increasing tropical cyclone rainfall and landslide risk in Southern California97
Canopy-mediated climate feedbacks in the boreal continuous permafrost zone97
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere95
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes93
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts93
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets92
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes92
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability90
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs90
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation88
Emergency loan85
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa85
The costs of flexible sale of reserves85
Net greenhouse gas source85
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system84
Responsible carbon accounting84
Promising climate progress from net-zero ambitions to the Paris Agreement goal84
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205083
Free riding in climate protests83
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change83
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts82
The expanding Indo-Pacific freshwater pool and changing freshwater pathway in the South Indian Ocean82
Ecology is not at risk of a methodological balance crisis82
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities80
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average80
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters79
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors79
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades78
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints78
Private sector investments in climate change adaptation77
Decreasing ice and colder winters76
Hidden deep soil moisture droughts76
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing73
The Global Stocktake at COP2873
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction73
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes73
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change72
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases71
Temporal horizons in US climate change news69
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration68
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes67
Why residual emissions matter right now67
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry67
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change66
Consider physiology when translocating animals65
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide65
Art of communicating64
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates64
Plant processes matter63
Anticipating climate impacts on nutrition through climate–crop nutrient modelling62
Climate change raises costs for European forestry62
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling62
Climate change debates62
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply61
Personal experiences matter for climate action61
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature60
Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire60
Overlooked toll of climate change on migrant children in the Americas60
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes60
Distributional effects of expanding climate targets beyond CO259
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling59
Drought and electricity58
Emergent climate change signals within Antarctic sea ice and associated ecosystems58
Vegetation recovery following retrogressive thaw slumps across northern tundra regions58
Data under duress58
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience57
Scope for waterfowl to speed up migration to a warming Arctic57
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence57
Multi-centennial response of marine carbon pumps to global warming57
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world56
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies55
National adaptation plans55
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans55
Building façade photovoltaics enhance global climate resilience55
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming55
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds54
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201354
Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments52
Connected cities build mobility resilience52
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation52
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation51
Shifting rains51
Science-based targets50
Communicating the need for climate action49
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction49
Rivers accelerate and slow as temperatures rise49
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties49
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake49
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy49
Structural lock-ins in tourism decarbonization and the alternative48
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203048
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical48
Big homes hinder emission cuts48
Mountain rivers warming47
The environmental impact of multinational firms in Africa47
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees47
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation47
African perspectives on climate change research46
Negative verbal probabilities undermine communication of climate science46
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research46
The carbon dioxide removal gap45
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk45
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions45
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world44
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users44
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming44
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought44
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire43
Coastal flood risk to European surface transport infrastructure at different global warming levels43
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide43
Widespread revisions of self-reported emissions by major US corporations43
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model43
Social-media tracks42
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts42
The forest is not yet lost42
Small step funding models fit better for climate research42
A deep dive into climate connectivity41
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths41
Rough years ahead41
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C40
Growing cropland emissions40
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system40
Artificial light reduces ecosystem carbon sinks40
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies40
Climate policy feasibility across Europe relies on the conditional middle39
Warming dominates over circulation slowdown in reducing marine carbon storage under high-mitigation scenarios39
Funding African-led climate initiatives39
Mountain glaciers will lose their cooling capacity as they shrink39
Emerging risks along Arctic coastlines39
City type specifies carbon cycle39
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise39
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation39
Resolving the changing pace of Arctic rivers39
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem39
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance38
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning38
Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments38
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges38
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change38
Defining transformational adaptation and why it matters38
The promise and limitations of using GenAI to reduce climate scepticism38
Current and future methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes37
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate37
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer37
Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets37
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies37
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes36
Development policy affects coastal flood exposure in China more than sea-level rise36
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes36
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide36
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C36
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change35
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195035
Careering ahead35
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe35
Bats show hibernation flexibility35
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks35
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production34
Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash34
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection34
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile34
Early-career researchers reflect on influential papers34
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance34
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery34
Inconsistent national reports undercount wastewater emissions34
Understanding eco-anxiety34
Future-proofing interpretations of the Paris Agreement’s limit of well below 2 °C33
Recent reduced abyssal overturning and ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin33
Ocean warming and warning33
Energy and socioeconomic system transformation through a decade of IPCC-assessed scenarios33
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties33
Climate change drives ecological novelty and new social challenges33
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined33
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown33
A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management33
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states33
Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution33
More eddying of subtropical western boundary currents boosts stratification and cools shelf seas32
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data32
Principles for a post-growth scenario of ambitious mitigation and high human well-being32
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice32
Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes31
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