One Earth

Papers
(The median citation count of One Earth is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming327
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities295
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence242
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries198
Variations on a theme173
A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions134
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond129
Responsibility for emissions and mitigation capability should guide use of carbon removal offsets119
State of the world’s kelp forests118
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia114
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery110
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts108
Is the emerging systemic reliance on brownfield expansion a mining “bubble”?107
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries105
Interrupting the cascade105
New York’s carbon emissions105
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play102
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures100
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options98
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems96
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change93
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains93
The ammonia moment92
Vegetation dynamics offset nearly 30% of precipitation’s impact on runoff and are amplified by aridity92
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity92
Benchmarking for soil health improvement91
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services90
Hot tropics88
Less plastic used longer86
Gambling with offsets84
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems84
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management83
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future83
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming82
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence80
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change79
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change78
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots73
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment73
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration72
Research priorities for climate mobility72
Earth Poetica70
The Great Ape House70
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility68
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution68
Tipping points: Both problem and solution67
Moving on67
The Hive II66
Why integrated assessment models alone are insufficient to navigate us through the polycrisis66
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations64
Novel contaminants, novel solutions63
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins63
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals61
CoBacFM: Core bacteria forecast model for global grassland pH dynamics under future climate warming scenarios60
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C60
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action60
Multiphase particle formation in industrial plumes corrects missing sulfate in the urban atmosphere57
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water57
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems57
A tide of change: What we can learn from stories of marine conservation success57
Rising to the challenge: Producing and sustaining a nutrient-dense and climate-resilient food basket for all56
Contrasting consequences of the Great Green Wall: Easing aridity while increasing heat extremes56
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty56
Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future55
Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action54
Socio-demographic factors shape mortality risk linked to compound drought-heatwave events under climate change in China54
Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet53
Twin Cloud (大气炼金术)52
Critical overview of the implications of a global protein transition in the face of climate change: Key unknowns and research imperatives52
Unmuting the message: Climate communication in a complex world52
Ozone-related acute excess mortality projected to increase in the absence of climate and air quality controls consistent with the Paris Agreement52
Q&A with Dr. Ibrahima Socé Fall52
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries52
Toward clean and efficient ammonia energy utilization51
Croplands now, croplands next50
Social-ecological contributions of protected areas to their surroundings50
Ensuring that nature-based solutions for climate mitigation address multiple global challenges50
Advancing catalysis for sustainable biofuels50
Catalyzing the transformation to sustainable finance49
Q&A with Mónica Trujillo: Navigating the bioeconomy transition in the Amazon49
Closing the global sand circularity gap needs a systems approach48
A multi-level integration framework for sustainable nitrogen management in tropical agriculture48
Projected widening of sociodemographic heat disparities in the United States by end of century46
Global synthesis reveals heterogeneous changes in connection of humans to nature46
Inequity in action: U.S. rural counties subsidize flood insurance discounts46
Sedimentation-enhancing strategies for sustainable deltas: An integrated socio-biophysical framework46
Human-impacted lakes contribute over one-third of global lake greenhouse gas emissions45
Ammonia for food and fuels in a sustainable future45
Mitigating pesticide mixture hazard in global surface waters through agricultural management44
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity44
Targeting site conservation to increase the effectiveness of new global biodiversity targets43
Urban circular carbon economy through electrochemically influenced microbiomes43
Global patterns of border protected areas reveal gaps in transboundary conservation efforts43
A Climate Mural for Our Times42
Q&A with Denis Hayes42
Q&A with Prof. Jin Xuan: Catalyzing a circular chemical economy41
The new EU carbon removal certification: Landmark legislation or an empty promise?41
Movement is Natural41
A step change needed to secure a nature-positive future—Is it in reach?41
Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach40
Ultimate and proximate analyses of behavioral responses40
Update corporate climate standards to increase rigor and ambition40
Restoring stabilizing feedback loops for sustainability38
The perceived feasibility of behavior change is positively associated with support for domain-matched climate policies38
Unmanaged naturally regenerating forests approach intact forest canopy structure but are susceptible to climate and human stress38
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk38
Overcoming barriers and embracing advances: Nanosensor implementation for practical water contaminant surveillance37
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits36
Advancing direct seawater electrocatalysis for green and affordable hydrogen36
Socio-political feedback on the path to net zero36
A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services35
Blockchain solutions for carbon markets are nearing maturity35
Stocktake of G20 countries’ climate pledges reveals limited macroeconomic costs and employment shifts35
We need to collectively redefine development: Q&A with Joyeeta Gupta34
Q&A with Trude Storelvmo: Aerosols, uncertainties, and future warming34
Development banks must codify strict criteria for financing Big Livestock34
Memorial to Arcadia Woodlands Clear-Cut34
Leveraging remote sensing for transparency and accountability in Amazonian commodity supply chains33
Greenspace mitigates the global disease and economic burdens of non-communicable diseases33
Can the Amazon deliver a bioeconomy?33
Joint geochemical and microbial controls on soil particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon decomposability across the contiguous US32
Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains32
Sustainably feeding the planet through integrated management of blue and green food systems32
Reducing sand mining’s growing toll on marine biodiversity32
Voluntary commitments made by the world’s largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis32
Effectiveness of water-related adaptation decreases with increasing warming32
Marine permaculture: Design principles for productive seascapes31
Toward a holistic and data-driven framework to evaluate livestock-derived protein systems31
Local ecological knowledge systems worldwide follow distinct pathways of change under shared global pressures31
The climate sciences need representation from the Global South31
Nature-based solutions for managing rising flood risk and delivering multiple benefits30
Q&A with Wayne Cascio: Adapting to a smokier world30
Climate change will amplify the inequitable exposure to compound heatwave and ozone pollution30
Intrinsic yield fluctuations interact with environmental shocks to threaten the socio-ecological resilience of perennial crop systems30
Excessive pumping limits the benefits of a strengthening summer monsoon for groundwater recovery in India30
Embodied carbon emissions of buildings and how to tame them30
Governing food systems to conserve China’s endangered wild animals29
The impacts of plastics’ life cycle29
Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda29
Israel-Gaza conflict carbon emissions exceeded 30 million tons29
Sustainable finance for biodiversity: Q&A with Candice Stevens28
Transforming the tropical timber industry could be the key to realizing the potential of forests and forest products28
Vulnerability outpaces climate worry in US frontline communities28
Africa-wide diversification of livelihood strategies: Isotopic insights into Holocene human adaptations to climate change27
Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies27
Beyond the record26
Q&A with Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio, Carlos Barreto, Jacob Parnell26
Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests26
Ecosystematic Lunch26
Redesigning polymers for sustainability26
Managing the reduction of soil phosphorus can prolong global reserves of fertilizer phosphorus and improve water quality26
Mainstream corporate climate methods impose inequitable burdens on emerging economies: Evidence from the cement industry26
Crop models for future food systems26
The specter of mass climate migration across international borders: Dismantling an unscientific expectation26
Continued global warming from aviation even under high-ambition mitigation scenarios25
Elephants & Bees25
The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development25
Promoting effect of plant diversity on soil microbial functionality is amplified over time25
Green teens: Understanding and promoting adolescents’ sustainable engagement25
Cost-effective expansion of protected areas reduces global zoonotic risk and biodiversity loss25
Recommendations for strengthening blue carbon science25
Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally25
Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience25
Every plot, every acre, all at once: The global land squeeze25
Global warming increases the risk of crop yield failures driven by climate oscillations24
Boundaries of the future: A framework for reflexive scenario practice in sustainability science24
Strategic restoration-development mitigates tradeoffs between hydropower and fish habitat fragmentation in the Mekong24
Harvesting dilemmas24
A Carbon Re-wilding: Decolonization of Contentious Territories24
Adapting forest management to climate change impacts and policy targets in the EU: Insights from the coupled GLOBIOM/G4M-i3PGmiX model24
Sequencing, spending, and symbolism: Low carbon taxes primarily serve purposes other than emissions reduction23
Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States23
Chemical Bouquet II23
Potential conflicts between fishing and oceanic carbon sequestration in 15% of the ocean23
Safe and sustainable croplands23
Defining “climatopia”: An evaluation framework to support transformational adaptation in climate-inspired utopic design23
Sustainable land systems in the Anthropocene: Navigating the global land squeeze23
Financing a nature-based future: Ivo Mulder23
An estimate of global cardiovascular mortality burden attributable to ambient ozone exposure reveals urban-rural environmental injustice23
Black-carbon-induced regime transition of boundary layer development strongly amplifies severe haze23
Implementation costs of restoring global mangrove forests23
Reimagining the Amazon bioeconomy from environmental justice and post-growth perspectives23
Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy22
Don’t breathe, don’t drink22
IT IS TIME22
Harnessing social tipping dynamics: A systems approach for accelerating decarbonization22
Choose and act on a better future22
US EPA’s power plant rules reduce CO2 emissions but can achieve more cost-efficient and deeper reduction by regulating existing gas-fired plants22
A global review of methane policies reveals that only 13% of emissions are covered with unclear effectiveness22
Clean water for life22
Place-based capacity building to enhance resilience in tropical countries22
Responsible nanotechnology for a sustainable future22
Innovative carbon nanotubes-bridging strategy valorizes plastic waste into high-quality H2-rich syngas while suppressing CO2 emissions21
Enhanced but highly variable biodiversity outcomes from coastal restoration: A global synthesis21
Ratcheting up effectiveness to improve the Global Stocktake process21
Roadless areas as an effective strategy for protected area expansion: Evidence from China21
Reimagining ammonia for a sustainable future21
A framework to identify barriers and levers to increase the levels of protection of marine protected areas21
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages21
Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions20
Short-term hydro-sediment dynamics govern reef restoration success in temperate marginal seas20
Interventions for sourcing EAT-Lancet diets within national agricultural areas: A global analysis20
Toward monitoring daily anthropogenic CO2 emissions with air pollution sensors from space20
Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies20
Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection20
Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options20
Building a stronger steel transition: Global cooperation and procurement in construction20
Q&A with Dr. Anuradha Mittal20
Aerosols are critical for “nowcasting” climate20
Long-term moderate warming shifts soil carbon cycling but maintains carbon sinks in a subtropical forest20
Unfinished buildings as a growing challenge for urban planetary health19
Toward a sustainable future of sand19
Accelerating progress on the SDGs: Policy guidance from the global modeling literature19
Paraná de las Palmas19
Climate change has expanded the area where deforestation causes local warming by 0.5–1.2 million km219
Impacts of enhanced new-particle growth events above urban roughness sublayer on cloud condensation nuclei19
New framework reveals gaps in US ocean biodiversity protection19
Urgent climate action is needed to ensure effectiveness of protected areas for biodiversity benefits19
Concurrent climate extremes and biological carryover effects dominate severe seasonal reductions in northern vegetation growth19
Cutting global nitrogen emissions by one-third for balanced and achievable SDGs by 203019
Mitigating the risk of natural climate solutions failure through diversified portfolios19
Globally synchronized changes in the biosphere, atmosphere, and society identified using public data18
Opportunities beyond CO2 for climate mitigation18
Methodological and reporting inconsistencies in land-use requirements misguide future renewable energy planning18
Ocean conservation boosts climate change mitigation and adaptation18
Understanding and addressing the planetary crisis of chemicals and plastics18
How power in corporate-industrial meat supply chains enables negative externalities: Three case studies from Brazil, the US, and Australia18
Are cities taking action against urban overheating? Insights from over 7,500 local climate actions18
One-tenth of the EU’s sustainable biomethane coupled with carbon capture and storage can enable net-zero ammonia production18
Operationalizing marketable blue carbon17
Increasing transparency and accountability in global protected and conserved area reporting17
Rotational complexity increases cropping system output under poorer growing conditions17
Global shipping emissions from 1970 to 2021: Structural and spatial change driven by trade dynamics17
Beyond the bay: Biophysical simulations of disease dispersal suggest broadening spatial scales for aquaculture carrying capacity17
Integrating sufficiency in the trade and biodiversity agenda of the European Union17
Bio-based renovation in Europe: Investor and homeowner prospects17
Unsustainable conflict17
Innovative reforestation mosaics on marginal land in the globally important Mata Atlântica biome can create climate and economic co-benefits17
Data-driven recommendations for enhancing real-time natural hazard warnings16
Scaling biochar solutions for urban carbon dioxide removal16
Effectively and equitably steering pro-environmental behavior16
A holistic framework for examining complex problems in energy transition solutions16
Habitat fragmentation drives pest termite risk in humid, but not arid, biomes16
Last Gesture16
The end of the offset: Why the future of carbon markets must be compliance16
Assessing subnational climate action in G20 cities and regions: Progress and ambition16
Advancing the design and management of marine protected areas by quantifying the benefits of coastal ecosystems for communities15
A spiral of (in)action: Empowering people to translate their values in climate action15
Q&A with Lara Steil: Global perspectives on integrated fire management15
Closing the waste gap15
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