One Earth

Papers
(The TQCC of One Earth is 15. 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
Pathways to planetary health378
A natural Swiss knife for multiple challenges371
Variations on a theme282
Power dynamics shape sustainability transitions in a modeled food system213
Underestimating global land greening: Future vegetation changes and their impacts on terrestrial water loss182
Nose to tail mining: A circular solution for sand supply and tailings reduction at scale178
Advancing climate services: Filipe Domingos Freires Lúcio173
A data-driven approach to water treatment in low-resource communities: Andrea Johnson172
Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests155
Q&A with Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio, Carlos Barreto, Jacob Parnell139
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts138
Non-CO2 greenhouse gases (N2O, CH4, CO) and the ocean133
Environmental law toward sustainability targets130
Knowns and unknowns of novel entities117
Ecosystematic Lunch114
The lure of novel biological and chemical entities in food-system transformations113
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond112
The challenges of dam-induced displacement: Reducing risks and rethinking hydropower105
Warming-driven changes in Arctic fish communities must not leave local Indigenous communities out in the cold104
Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies103
Identifying crucial emission sources under low forcing scenarios by a comprehensive attribution analysis90
Climate change reduces the conservation benefits of tropical coastal ecosystems88
The limits of biomass88
Close the carbon loophole85
Pursuing safety and sustainability at the nanoscale83
Metaphorming Nature’s NanoWorld80
Q&A with Patrick Schröder and Jack Barrie79
Climate change and infectious diseases: Research and policy actions needed to address an inequitable health crisis79
Q&A with Betty Kibaara: Innovations that can deliver “good food” for Africa79
When early warning is not enough78
Tropical deforestation accelerates local warming and loss of safe outdoor working hours76
Central African biomass carbon losses and gains during 2010–201974
Resilience through climate services73
Coupling net-zero modeling with sustainability transitions can reveal co-benefits and risks72
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery69
Secure local aquatic food systems in the face of declining coral reefs67
Multi-criteria decision approaches for prioritizing air-quality-management policies66
Negligible impacts of early COVID-19 confinement on household carbon footprints in Japan66
Millipede65
Nine Earths63
Large-scale land acquisitions, agricultural trade, and zoonotic diseases: Overlooked links63
The specter of mass climate migration across international borders: Dismantling an unscientific expectation62
From drumbeating to marching: Assessing non-state and subnational climate action using data62
Formalizing artisanal and small-scale gold mining: A grand challenge of the Minamata Convention62
Achieving effective climate action in cities by understanding behavioral systems62
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities61
Against the odds: Network and institutional pathways enabling agricultural diversification60
Agricultural market integration preserves future global water resources60
Whose perspective counts? A critical look at definitions of terms used for natural and near-natural forests59
Fire risk in a warming world57
Investment suitability and path dependency perpetuate inequity in international mitigation finance toward developing countries57
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence57
Equity in global conservation policy varies in clarity and comprehensiveness55
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia55
Mapping flows of blue economy finance: Ambitious narratives, opaque actions, and social equity risks54
State of the world’s kelp forests54
Fish communities can simultaneously contribute to nature and people across the world’s tropical reefs53
Promoting effect of plant diversity on soil microbial functionality is amplified over time52
Integrating broad and deep multiple-stressor research: A framework for translating across scales and disciplines52
Social media data shed light on air-conditioning interest of heat-vulnerable regions and sociodemographic groups50
Charting success for the Plastics Treaty50
Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use50
Pursuing a net-zero carbon future for all: Challenges for commercial real estate49
Preaching water while drinking wine: Why universities must boost climate action now49
Beyond the record48
Operationalizing transformative change for business in the context of Nature Positive48
Q&A with Dr. Joeri Rogelj: A research agenda for overshoot48
Transforming to a sustainable and circular chemical sector47
Sustainable finance for biodiversity: Q&A with Candice Stevens47
New York’s carbon emissions47
Dilemma47
Q&A with Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga: Fostering collective progress46
Circular construction: Six key recommendations46
Getting methane under control: Paper policies, practical measurements, and the urgent need to verify emissions46
Ecological redlines provide a mechanism to maximize conservation gains in Mainland Southeast Asia46
Sustainability of the global sand system in the Anthropocene44
Global analysis reveals region-specific air pollution exposure inequalities44
Demand-side emission reduction through behavior change or technology adoption? Empirical evidence from UK heating, mobility, and electricity use43
Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda43
Improving human well-being outcomes in marine protected areas through futures thinking43
Greenland and the geopolitics of critical minerals43
Agricultural intensification impairs behavioral abilities and the expression of genes associated with social responsiveness in honeybees43
Interventions for sourcing EAT-Lancet diets within national agricultural areas: A global analysis41
Plastic pollution: A global challenge in need of multi-level justice-centered solutions41
Life-cycle assessment reveals disposable surgical masks in 2020–2022 led to more than 18 million tons of carbon emissions41
Integral functions of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle and climate change mitigation40
An inclusive, empirically grounded inventory facilitates recognition of diverse area-based conservation of nature40
Social sustainability and equity in the blue economy40
Technological solutions for living with fire in the age of megafires40
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures39
Q&A with Wayne Cascio: Adapting to a smokier world39
Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities38
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change38
Biodiversity risks and safeguards of China’s hydropower financing in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries38
Recommendations for strengthening blue carbon science38
Financial incentives to poor countries promote net emissions reductions in multilateral climate agreements38
Expanding collaborative autoethnography into the world of natural science for transdisciplinary teams38
Biomass—Critical limits to a vital resource35
Q&A with Shuchi Talati: Considering uncertainties in solar geoengineering35
Remote sensing for wildfire monitoring: Insights into burned area, emissions, and fire dynamics35
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options35
A global biogeography analysis reveals vulnerability of surface marine zooplankton to anthropogenic stressors35
Beyond Li-ion batteries: performance, materials diversification, and sustainability34
Understanding insect movements through space and time is vital for safeguarding global ecosystem services33
Energy system decarbonization and productivity gains reduced the coupling of CO2 emissions and economic growth in 73 countries between 1970 and 201633
There is no human climate niche33
The iron-energy nexus: A new paradigm for long-duration energy storage at scale and clean steelmaking33
Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups32
China’s aviation passenger transport can reduce CO2 emissions by 2.9 billion tons by 2050 if certain abatement options are implemented32
Cities at the forefront of emerging US heat governance32
Intense formation of secondary ultrafine particles from Amazonian vegetation fires and their invigoration of deep clouds and precipitation32
Drivers of fluctuating embodied carbon emissions in international services trade31
Ecosystem heterogeneity is key to limiting the increasing climate-driven risks to European forests31
Data, knowledge, and modeling challenges for science-informed management of river deltas31
Restor: Transparency and connectivity for the global environmental movement31
Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally31
Green teens: Understanding and promoting adolescents’ sustainable engagement31
Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda30
Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally30
Climate change scenario services: From science to facilitating action30
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming30
Talk is cheap: Nations must act now to achieve long-term ambitions for biodiversity30
The impacts of plastics’ life cycle29
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play29
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains29
Area-based conservation: Taking stock and looking ahead29
Deep-ocean seaweed dumping for carbon sequestration: Questionable, risky, and not the best use of valuable biomass29
Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle: The potential of combining dietary change, agroecology, and circularity28
Integrated assessment of deep eutectic solvents questions solvometallurgy as a sustainable recycling approach for lithium-ion batteries28
Plant-level mitigation strategies could enable carbon neutrality by 2060 and reduce non-CO2 emissions in China’s iron and steel sector28
Embodied carbon emissions of buildings and how to tame them28
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems28
Transforming the tropical timber industry could be the key to realizing the potential of forests and forest products27
Brown carbon from biomass burning imposes strong circum-Arctic warming27
Gourmet grasslands: Harvesting a perennial future27
Habitat fragmentation amplifies threats from habitat loss to mammal diversity across the world’s terrestrial ecoregions27
A healthy planet for a healthy mind27
Boundaries of the future: A framework for reflexive scenario practice in sustainability science26
Is safe water, sanitation, and hygiene a pipe dream?26
Q&A with Eli Fenichel26
In service of resilience25
Climate-resilient fisheries and thriving tropical communities through food sovereignty25
Financing a nature-based future: Ivo Mulder25
Our uncharted future25
We need real solutions to plastic pollution: Q&A with Jen Fela25
Hot tropics25
Less plastic used longer25
Shortcuts for accelerating food system transitions24
A story induces greater environmental contributions than scientific information among liberals but not conservatives24
Brazil’s mixed reactions to the EU deforestation-free regulation: Balancing compliance costs and the urgency of deforestation action24
Microphysical complexity of black carbon particles restricts their warming potential24
The Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool: Meeting local practitioner needs and tracking progress toward global targets24
Q&A with Emma Ashcroft23
Environmental documentaries in a digital age should be ethical, not just captivating23
Every plot, every acre, all at once: The global land squeeze23
Sustainable Arctic marine governance: Jessica Nilsson23
Harvesting dilemmas23
Strategic restoration-development mitigates tradeoffs between hydropower and fish habitat fragmentation in the Mekong23
Indebted22
Quality control22
A pivotal point for biodiversity: Elizabeth Maruma Mrema22
Assessing innovations for upscaling forest landscape restoration22
Combined heat and electricity using thermal storage to decarbonize buildings and industries22
CarbonScape22
Deterioration of respiratory health following changes to land cover and climate in Indonesia21
Equity and justice as central components of climate change adaptation21
Plural values of nature help to understand contested pathways to sustainability21
Locally led adaptation is key to ending deforestation21
Stockholm to Stockholm: Achieving a safe Earth requires goals that incorporate a just approach21
Closing four remaining gaps in deploying urban vegetation to enable sustainable cities21
Chemical Bouquet II20
Pyrexia20
Elephants & Bees20
The ARC20
Museum of Plastic: The Choice20
Promoting equity in the use of algorithms for high-seas conservation20
Decarbonizing steel making in China through circular economy approaches20
It’s not just about the rain (PHDI)20
Breakdown of US transportation GHG emissions20
Expanding ocean observation and climate services to build resilience in West African fisheries19
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems19
An optimal diet for planet and people19
Transforming toward sustainability through financial markets: Four challenges and how to turn them into opportunities19
What next on net zero?19
Urbanization and agrobiodiversity: Leveraging a key nexus for sustainable development18
Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy18
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence18
Reimagining the Amazon bioeconomy from environmental justice and post-growth perspectives18
Strengthening psychological science for optimal climate communication and action policies18
Clarifying core competencies in One Health doctoral education: The central contribution of systems thinking18
Decarbonizing through nature18
Infrastructure failure cascades quintuple risk of storm and flood-induced service disruptions across the globe18
Operationalizing “One Health” for food systems18
Biodiversity and COVID-19: A report and a long road ahead to avoid another pandemic18
Black-carbon-induced regime transition of boundary layer development strongly amplifies severe haze18
Earth greening mitigates hot temperature extremes despite the effect being dampened by rising CO218
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change18
Ecovoltaics in an increasingly water-limited world: An ecological perspective17
Clearer pathways needed to engage small-scale fisheries in food system planning: Lessons from the Pacific experience17
Sustainable-use marine protected areas provide co-benefits to human nutrition17
Benchmarking for soil health improvement17
Cultivated meat beyond bans: Ten remarks from the Italian case toward a reasoned decision-making process17
How climate change might impact insect movement via physiological mechanisms17
A microbial framework for nitrogen cycling solutions in agroecosystems17
Defining “climatopia”: An evaluation framework to support transformational adaptation in climate-inspired utopic design17
Indicators keep progress honest: A call to track both the quantity and quality of protected areas16
Climate change and Inuit health: Research does not match risks posed16
GMO16
The pursuit of more sustainable production techniques and uses for graphene-based materials16
Vested interests, rather than adaptation considerations, explain varying post-tsunami relocation outcomes in Laamu atoll, Maldives16
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions16
From antagonistic conservation to biodiversity democracy in rewilding16
Overview of evidence on mechanisms affecting the outcomes of terrestrial multiple-use protected areas15
Reaping the synergies between ocean aquaculture and fisheries15
Build in prevention and preparedness to improve climate resilience in coastal cities: Lessons from China’s GBA15
Sustainable cooling solutions15
Research priorities for climate mobility15
Social norms as a powerful lever for motivating pro-climate actions15
Turning tides: Transforming global blue food challenges into opportunities15
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