One Earth

Article	Citations
Reaching New Heights in Plastic Pollution—Preliminary Findings of Microplastics on Mount Everest	328
Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action	261
Worldwide occurrence records suggest a global decline in bee species richness	254
A framework for complex climate change risk assessment	247
Global decline in capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services	214
Applications in Remote Sensing to Forest Ecology and Management	192
Maladaptation: When Adaptation to Climate Change Goes Very Wrong	180
The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change	165
Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems	145
Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide	131
Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications	130
Carbon capture and storage at the end of a lost decade	123
The Unintended Side Effects of Bioplastics: Carbon, Land, and Water Footprints	120
Variable Impacts of Climate Change on Blue Carbon	113
Billions in Misspent EU Agricultural Subsidies Could Support the Sustainable Development Goals	112
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Requires Transdisciplinary Innovation at the Local Scale	106
A review of the interactions between biodiversity, agriculture, climate change, and international trade: research and policy priorities	106
Chinese cities exhibit varying degrees of decoupling of economic growth and CO2 emissions between 2005 and 2015	104
Sustainability footprints of a renewable carbon transition for the petrochemical sector within planetary boundaries	97
Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the cement industry via value chain mitigation strategies	96
Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle: The potential of combining dietary change, agroecology, and circularity	91
Limits to Paris compatibility of CO2 capture and utilization	91
Characteristics, potentials, and challenges of transdisciplinary research	89
Enabling a Rapid and Just Transition away from Coal in China	88
A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services	84

Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions	84
Attributing Extreme Events to Climate Change: A New Frontier in a Warming World	79
Climate change impacts on water security in global drylands	77
Sustainability of the global sand system in the Anthropocene	76
Science Must Embrace Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge to Solve Our Biodiversity Crisis	75
A Life Cycle Thinking Framework to Mitigate the Environmental Impact of Building Materials	74
Critical Rare-Earth Elements Mismatch Global Wind-Power Ambitions	73
China at a Crossroads: An Analysis of China's Changing Seafood Production and Consumption	71
Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Conflicts, synergies, and pathways forward	69
Quantitative assessment of agricultural sustainability reveals divergent priorities among nations	69
Four steps for the Earth: mainstreaming the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	69
The nitrogen decade: mobilizing global action on nitrogen to 2030 and beyond	68
Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration	68
Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change	67
Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss	66
The Number and Spatial Distribution of Forest-Proximate People Globally	65
Adaptation of Fishing Communities to Climate-Driven Shifts in Target Species	65
Harnessing Big Data to Support the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Mangrove Forests Globally	64
Air-Filtering Masks for Respiratory Protection from PM2.5 and Pandemic Pathogens	64
Moving toward Net-Zero Emissions Requires New Alliances for Carbon Dioxide Removal	64
Consideration of culture is vital if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals	62
Restoring Abandoned Farmland to Mitigate Climate Change on a Full Earth	62
Blind spots in visions of a “blue economy” could undermine the ocean's contribution to eliminating hunger and malnutrition	61
Principles for Thinking about Carbon Dioxide Removal in Just Climate Policy	61
Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits	61
The role of design in circular economy solutions for critical materials	58
Defining a sustainable development target space for 2030 and 2050	58
Interventions for improving the productivity and environmental performance of global aquaculture for future food security	56
Twenty-first century sea-level rise could exceed IPCC projections for strong-warming futures	55
Plastics and climate change—Breaking carbon lock-ins through three mitigation pathways	55
Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices	54
Nature's contributions to people: Weaving plural perspectives	53
Increasing canopy mortality affects the future demographic structure of Europe's forests	52
Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally	52
Making Messy Data Work for Conservation	52
Rewilding should be central to global restoration efforts	51
Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda	50
Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions	50
Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility	50
Leveraging Social Science to Generate Lasting Engagement with Climate Change Solutions	49
Projected Global Loss of Mammal Habitat Due to Land-Use and Climate Change	49
Full-volatility emission framework corrects missing and underestimated secondary organic aerosol sources	47
Urban tree canopy has greater cooling effects in socially vulnerable communities in the US	47
Countering the effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation through habitat restoration	46
Conceptualizing Climate Vulnerability in Complex Adaptive Systems	46
Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally	45
Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Tensions and prospects	45
Eighty-six EU policy options for reducing imported deforestation	44
Ecological redlines provide a mechanism to maximize conservation gains in Mainland Southeast Asia	44
Climate change risks pushing one-third of global food production outside the safe climatic space	44

Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors	43
How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal	43
Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change	43
Historical and future global burned area with changing climate and human demography	43
Alternative-energy-vehicles deployment delivers climate, air quality, and health co-benefits when coupled with decarbonizing power generation in China	42
Leveraging emotion for sustainable action	42
Ocean conservation boosts climate change mitigation and adaptation	42
The Global Forest Transition as a Human Affair	41
Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods	41
Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition	41
Elevated CO2 negates O3 impacts on terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycles	41
Operationalizing Ocean Health: Toward Integrated Research on Ocean Health and Recovery to Achieve Ocean Sustainability	41
Proposed Legislation to Mine Brazil's Indigenous Lands Will Threaten Amazon Forests and Their Valuable Ecosystem Services	40
Anthropogenic resistance: accounting for human behavior in wildlife connectivity planning	40
China's retrofitting measures in coal-fired power plants bring significant mercury-related health benefits	39
A 43-Million-Person Investigation into Weather and Expressed Sentiment in a Changing Climate	38
We need a food system transformation—In the face of the Russia-Ukraine war, now more than ever	38
Why carbon leakage matters and what can be done against it	38
The Anthropocene reality of financial risk	38
Seeing the Forests as well as the (Trillion) Trees in Corporate Climate Strategies	38
The Pace of Human-Induced Change in Large Rivers: Stresses, Resilience, and Vulnerability to Extreme Events	38
Equity in human adaptation-related responses: A systematic global review	37
Switching to electric vehicles can lead to significant reductions of PM2.5 and NO2 across China	36
Unfamiliar Territory: Emerging Themes for Ecological Drought Research and Management	36
Perceived environmental risks and insecurity reduce future migration intentions in hazardous migration source areas	36
Operationalizing marketable blue carbon	35
Chinese Overseas Development Financing of Electric Power Generation: A Comparative Analysis	33
Ecosystem services at risk: integrating spatiotemporal dynamics of supply and demand to promote long-term provision	33
Financial incentives for large-scale wetland restoration: Beyond markets to common asset trusts	33
Achieving a nature- and people-positive future	33
Past Extinctions of Homo Species Coincided with Increased Vulnerability to Climatic Change	33
Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism	32
Science-Industry Collaboration: Sideways or Highways to Ocean Sustainability?	32
Artificial intelligence and the climate emergency: Opportunities, challenges, and recommendations	32
Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test	31
From Satellite to Supply Chain: New Approaches Connect Earth Observation to Economic Decisions	31
Historical precedents and feasibility of rapid coal and gas decline required for the 1.5°C target	31
Six Decades of Glacier Mass Changes around Mt. Everest Are Revealed by Historical and Contemporary Images	31
PM2.5 reductions in Chinese cities from 2013 to 2019 remain significant despite the inflating effects of meteorological conditions	31
Patchwork Earth: navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures	31
Identifying Agricultural Frontiers for Modeling Global Cropland Expansion	30
Lower cost and more feasible options to restore forest cover in the contiguous United States for climate mitigation	30
Who is the high seas fishing industry?	30
Scaling up Solutions for a Sustainability Transition	30
Plant-level mitigation strategies could enable carbon neutrality by 2060 and reduce non-CO2 emissions in China’s iron and steel sector	30
A guide to using species trait data in conservation	30
Identifying uncertainties in scenarios and models of socio-ecological systems in support of decision-making	30
How Simulations of the Land Carbon Sink Are Biased by Ignoring Fluvial Carbon Transfers: A Case Study for the Amazon Basin	29
Plant-level real-time monitoring data reveal substantial abatement potential of air pollution and CO2 in China’s cement sector	29
Persistent degradation: Global water quality challenges and required actions	29
Research priorities for global food security under extreme events	29
Ecosystem coupling: A unifying framework to understand the functioning and recovery of ecosystems	29
A More Open Approach Is Needed to Develop Cell-Based Fish Technology: It Starts with Zebrafish	29
Net-zero emissions chemical industry in a world of limited resources	28
Cost reductions in renewables can substantially erode the value of carbon capture and storage in mitigation pathways	28
Different Material Footprint Trends between China and the World in 2007-2012 Explained by Construction- and Manufacturing-associated Investment	28
Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions	28
Methane emissions along biomethane and biogas supply chains are underestimated	28
The potential of water security in leveraging Agenda 2030	28
Central Asia is a missing link in analyses of critical materials for the global clean energy transition	28
Integral functions of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle and climate change mitigation	28
Emphasizing urgency of climate change is insufficient to increase policy support	27
Sea-level rise enhances carbon accumulation in United States tidal wetlands	27
Global synthesis reveals heterogeneous changes in connection of humans to nature	27
Participatory research in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Adjusting your methodological toolkits	27
UNFCCC must confront the political economy of net-negative emissions	27
Blockchain solutions for carbon markets are nearing maturity	26
Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups	26
Scrutinizing environmental governance in a digital age: New ways of seeing, participating, and intervening	26
Habitat fragmentation amplifies threats from habitat loss to mammal diversity across the world’s terrestrial ecoregions	26
The extent and distribution of joint conservation-development funding in the tropics	26
Achieving carbon neutrality enables China to attain its industrial water-use target	26
Advancing direct seawater electrocatalysis for green and affordable hydrogen	25
Exploring the future of fishery conflict through narrative scenarios	25
Three-quarters of insect species are insufficiently represented by protected areas	25
Informal Work and Sustainable Cities: From Formalization to Reparation	25
Intense Warming Will Significantly Increase Cropland Ammonia Volatilization Threatening Food Security and Ecosystem Health	25
Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss	25
Toward a definition of Essential Mountain Climate Variables	25
Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use	24

Innovating carbon-capture biotechnologies through ecosystem-inspired solutions	24
Carbon neutrality should not be the end goal: Lessons for institutional climate action from U.S. higher education	24
Permafrost as a potential pathogen reservoir	24
Filling Africa’s Largest Hydropower Dam Should Consider Engineering Realities	24
Understanding the Stickiness of Commodity Supply Chains Is Key to Improving Their Sustainability	24
From environmental governance to governance for sustainability	23
To Achieve Big Wins for Terrestrial Conservation, Prioritize Protection of Ecoregions Closest to Meeting Targets	23
Environmental and human health trade-offs in potential Chinese dietary shifts	23
Brown carbon from biomass burning imposes strong circum-Arctic warming	23
Culturally diverse expert teams have yet to bring comprehensive linguistic diversity to intergovernmental ecosystem assessments	23
Energy system decarbonization and productivity gains reduced the coupling of CO2 emissions and economic growth in 73 countries between 1970 and 2016	23
Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction: A probabilistic modeling framework	22
Carbon neutrality of China’s passenger car sector requires coordinated short-term behavioral changes and long-term technological solutions	22
Global variation in contributions to human well-being from urban vegetation ecosystem services	22
Climate Extremes, Rewilding, and the Role of Microhabitats	22
Precipitation Characteristics and Moisture Source Regions on Mt. Everest in the Khumbu, Nepal	22
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries	22
Climate variability affects water-energy-food infrastructure performance in East Africa	22
Policy making under scarcity: reflections for designing socially just climate adaptation policy	22
Production Globalization Makes China’s Exports Cleaner	22
From South Asia to the world: embracing the challenge of global sustainable nitrogen management	22
Integrating Biomedical, Ecological, and Sustainability Sciences to Manage Emerging Infectious Diseases	22
A water-function-based framework for understanding and governing water resilience in the Anthropocene	22
The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy Could Be Spent Much More Efficiently to Address Challenges for Farmers, Climate, and Biodiversity	22
Area-based conservation: Taking stock and looking ahead	22
Interdisciplinary strategies to enable data-driven plant breeding in a changing climate	21
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	21
Extreme Events in a Globalized Food System	21
The potential of green ammonia for agricultural and economic development in Sierra Leone	21
Rethinking zero deforestation beyond 2020 to more equitably and effectively conserve tropical forests	21
Governing for “no net loss” of biodiversity over the long term: challenges and pathways forward	21
Onset of runaway fragmentation of salt marshes	20
Transformative Adaptation in Cities	20
Climate-induced increases in micronutrient availability for coral reef fisheries	20
COVID-19: Clinching the Climate Opportunity	20
Increased wheat price spikes and larger economic inequality with 2°C global warming	20
Negligible impacts of early COVID-19 confinement on household carbon footprints in Japan	20
Toward a circular economy: The role of digitalization	19
Managing the financial risks of climate change and pandemics: What we know (and don't know)	19
Representing inequalities in integrated assessment modeling of climate change	19
Recognizing the Value of Collaboration in Delivering Carbon Dioxide Removal	19
Will blue hydrogen lock us into fossil fuels forever?	19
Breaking down barriers: The identification of actions to promote gender equality in interdisciplinary marine research institutions	19
Carbon removals from nature restoration are no substitute for steep emission reductions	19
Achieving ambitious mangrove restoration targets will need a transdisciplinary and evidence-informed approach	19
Subaltern forms of knowledge are required to boost local adaptation	19
Setting ambitious goals for agriculture to meet environmental targets	19
Improved air quality in China can enhance solar-power performance and accelerate carbon-neutrality targets	19
The true costs of digital currencies: Exploring impact beyond energy use	18
Circular utilization of urban tree waste contributes to the mitigation of climate change and eutrophication	18
Understanding and addressing the planetary crisis of chemicals and plastics	18
The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development	18
Beyond Li-ion batteries: performance, materials diversification, and sustainability	18
Making Fashion Sustainable: Waste and Collective Responsibility	18
Addressing the social life cycle inventory analysis data gap: Insights from a case study of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	18
The psychological distance of climate change is overestimated	18
Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps	18
Region-specific nutritious, environmentally friendly, and affordable diets in India	18
Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda	18
Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains	18
Climate-sensitive disease outbreaks in the aftermath of extreme climatic events: A scoping review	18
An updated global mercury budget from a coupled atmosphere-land-ocean model: 40% more re-emissions buffer the effect of primary emission reductions	18
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: Business as usual or a turning point?	18
Technological pathways toward sustainable batteries	18
Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas: Basis and Gaps	17
Graphene environmental footprint greatly reduced when derived from biomass waste via flash Joule heating	17
Climate change will amplify the inequitable exposure to compound heatwave and ozone pollution	17
Ensuring that nature-based solutions for climate mitigation address multiple global challenges	17
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions	17
Efficient biomass cooking in Africa for climate change mitigation and development	17
Overcoming the Arrogance of Ignorance: Supply-Chain Lessons from COVID-19 for Climate Shocks	17
Talk is cheap: Nations must act now to achieve long-term ambitions for biodiversity	17
Principles for coral reef restoration in the anthropocene	16
Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food's Cumulative Environmental Footprint	16
The top 100 global water questions: Results of a scoping exercise	16
COVID-19 recovery packages can benefit climate targets and clean energy jobs, but scale of impacts and optimal investment portfolios differ among major economies	16
Indicators keep progress honest: A call to track both the quantity and quality of protected areas	16
Adaptation and Carbon Removal	16
Integrated spatial planning for biodiversity conservation and food production	16
Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance	16
Adapting risk assessments for a complex future	16
The cost of direct air capture and storage can be reduced via strategic deployment but is unlikely to fall below stated cost targets	16
Drivers of fluctuating embodied carbon emissions in international services trade	16
Anaconda-shaped spiral multi-layered triboelectric nanogenerators with ultra-high space efficiency for wave energy harvesting	16
Ending fossil-based growth: Confronting the political economy of petrochemical plastics	16
Integrated Climate-Change Assessment Scenarios and Carbon Dioxide Removal	16
Local waste management successfully reduces coastal plastic pollution	16
Prophets, Profits, Prove It: Social Forestry under Pressure	16
Tackling material constraints on the exponential growth of the energy transition	16
Urbanization and agrobiodiversity: Leveraging a key nexus for sustainable development	15
Social sustainability and equity in the blue economy	15
Preaching water while drinking wine: Why universities must boost climate action now	15
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Sustainable Development Goals	15
Biodiversity and COVID-19: A report and a long road ahead to avoid another pandemic	15
Secure local aquatic food systems in the face of declining coral reefs	15