One Earth

Papers
(The TQCC of One Earth is 18. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries305
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming246
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia237
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence219
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries200
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities169
A data-driven approach to water treatment in low-resource communities: Andrea Johnson163
Variations on a theme144
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options122
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery114
New York’s carbon emissions111
State of the world’s kelp forests106
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains106
A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions105
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts102
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems100
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures97
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play97
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond97
Biomass—Critical limits to a vital resource95
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change94
Hot tropics92
Less plastic used longer87
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence87
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems86
Quality control85
Combined heat and electricity using thermal storage to decarbonize buildings and industries85
Research priorities for climate mobility83
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity78
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration77
Benchmarking for soil health improvement76
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change76
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future74
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services73
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots72
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management72
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment72
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change71
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming71
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions70
Why integrated assessment models alone are insufficient to navigate us through the polycrisis69
The Great Ape House69
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems68
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty68
Clinicians for Planetary Health67
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations67
Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future65
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins64
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C63
Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet62
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals62
CoBacFM: Core bacteria forecast model for global grassland pH dynamics under future climate warming scenarios62
Critical overview of the implications of a global protein transition in the face of climate change: Key unknowns and research imperatives61
The Hive II58
Building sustainability into battery value chains56
Earth Poetica56
A tide of change: What we can learn from stories of marine conservation success56
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution55
Tipping points: Both problem and solution53
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility53
Moving on52
Multiphase particle formation in industrial plumes corrects missing sulfate in the urban atmosphere51
Rising to the challenge: Producing and sustaining a nutrient-dense and climate-resilient food basket for all51
Novel contaminants, novel solutions50
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action49
Contrasting consequences of the Great Green Wall: Easing aridity while increasing heat extremes49
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water49
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries48
Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action48
Socio-demographic factors shape mortality risk linked to compound drought-heatwave events under climate change in China48
Ozone-related acute excess mortality projected to increase in the absence of climate and air quality controls consistent with the Paris Agreement46
Unmuting the message: Climate communication in a complex world46
Twin Cloud (大气炼金术)45
A multi-level integration framework for sustainable nitrogen management in tropical agriculture45
Croplands now, croplands next45
Q&A with Dr. Ibrahima Socé Fall45
Advancing catalysis for sustainable biofuels45
Q&A with Mónica Trujillo: Navigating the bioeconomy transition in the Amazon45
From wastewater to resource45
Toward clean and efficient ammonia energy utilization44
Sedimentation-enhancing strategies for sustainable deltas: An integrated socio-biophysical framework44
Projected widening of sociodemographic heat disparities in the United States by end of century44
Catalyzing the transformation to sustainable finance43
Global patterns of border protected areas reveal gaps in transboundary conservation efforts43
Mitigating pesticide mixture hazard in global surface waters through agricultural management43
Urban circular carbon economy through electrochemically influenced microbiomes43
Ensuring that nature-based solutions for climate mitigation address multiple global challenges42
Targeting site conservation to increase the effectiveness of new global biodiversity targets42
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity42
Rethinking our chemical legacy and reclaiming our planet41
Closing the global sand circularity gap needs a systems approach41
Global synthesis reveals heterogeneous changes in connection of humans to nature40
Inequity in action: US rural counties pay hundreds to subsidize flood insurance discounts40
UCLA x INDECLINE (“blue Zeus” eco-mural)40
Social-ecological contributions of protected areas to their surroundings40
A Climate Mural for Our Times39
Facilitating a clean water future for all: Gilbert F. Houngbo39
Q&A with Denis Hayes39
A step change needed to secure a nature-positive future—Is it in reach?38
Sustainable biomass future: Renato Domith Godinho37
The new EU carbon removal certification: Landmark legislation or an empty promise?37
Ultimate and proximate analyses of behavioral responses37
Q&A with Prof. Jin Xuan: Catalyzing a circular chemical economy37
Update corporate climate standards to increase rigor and ambition37
Socio-political feedback on the path to net zero37
Movement is Natural36
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits36
Blockchain solutions for carbon markets are nearing maturity36
Overcoming barriers and embracing advances: Nanosensor implementation for practical water contaminant surveillance36
Different Material Footprint Trends between China and the World in 2007-2012 Explained by Construction- and Manufacturing-associated Investment35
Unmanaged naturally regenerating forests approach intact forest canopy structure but are susceptible to climate and human stress35
Restoring stabilizing feedback loops for sustainability34
Stocktake of G20 countries’ climate pledges reveals limited macroeconomic costs and employment shifts34
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk33
Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach33
A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services33
The perceived feasibility of behavior change is positively associated with support for domain-matched climate policies33
Advancing direct seawater electrocatalysis for green and affordable hydrogen32
Toward a holistic and data-driven framework to evaluate livestock-derived protein systems31
Q&A with Trude Storelvmo: Aerosols, uncertainties, and future warming31
Effectiveness of water-related adaptation decreases with increasing warming31
Sustainably feeding the planet through integrated management of blue and green food systems31
Memorial to Arcadia Woodlands Clear-Cut31
Climate-sensitive disease outbreaks in the aftermath of extreme climatic events: A scoping review31
Reducing sand mining’s growing toll on marine biodiversity31
Unravelling Ecologies: Runoff Verdure30
Marine permaculture: Design principles for productive seascapes30
Development banks must codify strict criteria for financing Big Livestock30
We need to collectively redefine development: Q&A with Joyeeta Gupta30
Joint geochemical and microbial controls on soil particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon decomposability across the contiguous US29
Greenspace mitigates the global disease and economic burdens of non-communicable diseases29
Excessive pumping limits the benefits of a strengthening summer monsoon for groundwater recovery in India28
Leveraging remote sensing for transparency and accountability in Amazonian commodity supply chains28
The climate sciences need representation from the Global South28
Can the Amazon deliver a bioeconomy?28
Climate change will amplify the inequitable exposure to compound heatwave and ozone pollution27
Voluntary commitments made by the world’s largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis27
Intrinsic yield fluctuations interact with environmental shocks to threaten the socio-ecological resilience of perennial crop systems27
Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains27
Carbon capture and storage investment: Fiddling while the planet burns27
Crop models for future food systems26
Q&A with Wayne Cascio: Adapting to a smokier world26
Preaching water while drinking wine: Why universities must boost climate action now26
Sustainable finance for biodiversity: Q&A with Candice Stevens26
Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests26
Governing food systems to conserve China’s endangered wild animals26
Nature-based solutions for managing rising flood risk and delivering multiple benefits26
Q&A with Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio, Carlos Barreto, Jacob Parnell25
Redesigning polymers for sustainability25
Africa-wide diversification of livelihood strategies: Isotopic insights into Holocene human adaptations to climate change25
The limits of biomass25
The specter of mass climate migration across international borders: Dismantling an unscientific expectation25
Managing the reduction of soil phosphorus can prolong global reserves of fertilizer phosphorus and improve water quality24
Ecosystematic Lunch24
Mainstream corporate climate methods impose inequitable burdens on emerging economies: Evidence from the cement industry24
Beyond the record24
Transforming the tropical timber industry could be the key to realizing the potential of forests and forest products24
Continued global warming from aviation even under high-ambition mitigation scenarios24
Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies24
Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally23
Embodied carbon emissions of buildings and how to tame them23
Elephants & Bees23
The impacts of plastics’ life cycle23
Green teens: Understanding and promoting adolescents’ sustainable engagement23
Chemical Bouquet II23
Promoting effect of plant diversity on soil microbial functionality is amplified over time23
Recommendations for strengthening blue carbon science23
Early systems change necessary for catalyzing long-term sustainability in a post-2030 agenda23
Harvesting dilemmas22
Financing a nature-based future: Ivo Mulder22
Reimagining the Amazon bioeconomy from environmental justice and post-growth perspectives22
Every plot, every acre, all at once: The global land squeeze22
Safe and sustainable croplands22
Potential conflicts between fishing and oceanic carbon sequestration in 15% of the ocean22
Implementation costs of restoring global mangrove forests21
Harnessing social tipping dynamics: A systems approach for accelerating decarbonization21
Sequencing, spending, and symbolism: Low carbon taxes primarily serve purposes other than emissions reduction21
Boundaries of the future: A framework for reflexive scenario practice in sustainability science21
Strategic restoration-development mitigates tradeoffs between hydropower and fish habitat fragmentation in the Mekong21
The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development21
Defining “climatopia”: An evaluation framework to support transformational adaptation in climate-inspired utopic design21
Global warming increases the risk of crop yield failures driven by climate oscillations21
Adapting forest management to climate change impacts and policy targets in the EU: Insights from the coupled GLOBIOM/G4M-i3PGmiX model21
Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy21
Black-carbon-induced regime transition of boundary layer development strongly amplifies severe haze21
An estimate of global cardiovascular mortality burden attributable to ambient ozone exposure reveals urban-rural environmental injustice20
Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States20
A global review of methane policies reveals that only 13% of emissions are covered with unclear effectiveness20
Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience20
Sustainable land systems in the Anthropocene: Navigating the global land squeeze19
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages19
Integral functions of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle and climate change mitigation19
Long-term moderate warming shifts soil carbon cycling but maintains carbon sinks in a subtropical forest19
Don’t breathe, don’t drink19
Place-based capacity building to enhance resilience in tropical countries19
Choose and act on a better future19
IT IS TIME19
Ratcheting up effectiveness to improve the Global Stocktake process19
Clean water for life19
Aerosols are critical for “nowcasting” climate19
US EPA’s power plant rules reduce CO2 emissions but can achieve more cost-efficient and deeper reduction by regulating existing gas-fired plants18
Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies18
Enhanced but highly variable biodiversity outcomes from coastal restoration: A global synthesis18
Innovative carbon nanotubes-bridging strategy valorizes plastic waste into high-quality H2-rich syngas while suppressing CO2 emissions18
Toward monitoring daily anthropogenic CO2 emissions with air pollution sensors from space18
A framework to identify barriers and levers to increase the levels of protection of marine protected areas18
Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options18
Scrutinizing environmental governance in a digital age: New ways of seeing, participating, and intervening18
Building a stronger steel transition: Global cooperation and procurement in construction18
Responsible nanotechnology for a sustainable future18
Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection18
Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions18
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