Communications Earth & Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Communications Earth & Environment is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary2247
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China230
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’216
Author Correction: Field in the frame: flying over the Ocean205
Vertical transitions of marine heatwaves influenced by seasonally varying atmospheric forcing and coastal upwelling system202
Thermodynamic insights into the reliability of mineral-based thermobarometers197
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining163
Rapid revegetation after the Wenchuan earthquake offsets landslide-induced carbon losses162
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography150
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments136
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020134
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019133
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change132
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality122
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China117
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site117
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation116
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity112
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments107
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks102
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping102
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile101
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage100
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems98
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea97
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning97
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity95
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability95
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming94
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current92
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis91
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles89
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes86
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow86
Andean volcanism, ocean fertilization, marine ecosystem turnover, and global cooling in the Late Miocene86
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy86
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic82
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy82
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations82
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle81
Sustainably intensified fresh-market vegetable production with compact bed plasticulture79
Short-term recovery of inland and marine environments after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna flood79
High-resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains78
Author Correction: The source processes affect the initial chalcophile element fertility of arc magmas77
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States77
Global mapping of potential coastal compound flood risk at 0.1∘ resolution76
Field in the frame: fossilised Ediacaran faunal diversity76
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation76
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines76
Intensified annual cycle of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature regulates Pacific cooling72
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation72
Distinct glacial-interglacial amplitudes of Asian monsoon water isotopes during the last deglaciation71
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability70
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China70
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits70
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability69
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation68
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands67
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning67
Controls of root-system overlap on hillslope stability66
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting66
Air and soil warming have different effects on soil organic carbon storage66
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis66
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific65
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence65
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate65
Tidewater glacier fronts are an important foraging ground for an Arctic marine predator64
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production64
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals64
Bedrock-soil geochemistry dominates free-living nitrogen fixation in soils but not in litter via interspecific microbial associations63
Field in the frame: seals as meltwater monitors61
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality60
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland59
Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition59
Global synthesis reveals how initial concentrations, metal types, and acidity control woody plant phytoremediation efficacy59
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture59
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future58
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach58
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–202358
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods57
Pre- and co-seismic stress loading promoted low-angle splay fault during the 2025 Mw7.1 Tingri earthquake57
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden57
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment57
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China56
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate56
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality56
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests55
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy55
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change55
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene54
A hydrologically informed agricultural land use intensity index for assessing ecological impacts on streams and rivers54
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column54
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 202354
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks54
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth54
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga54
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency53
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy53
Contrasting evolution of the Arabian Sea and Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones during the Miocene53
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster52
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming52
Sahara greening may have diminished mid-Holocene Atlantic tropical cyclones52
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity52
European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change52
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change51
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice51
Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen50
Drivers of the summer 2024 marine heatwave and record salmon lice outbreak in northern Norway50
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte50
Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau50
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs49
Precious metal enrichment during impacts on the Moon49
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status49
Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea49
Coupled permeability–thermal conductivity framework for global reservoir suitability assessment of carbon dioxide hydrate-based carbon sequestration49
Slope lineae as potential indicators of recent volatile loss on Mercury48
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality48
Trace americium contamination sources in the environment can be detected using 243Am/241Am48
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean47
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years47
Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes47
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation47
Irrigation cooling effect reduced by water-saving practices46
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary46
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants46
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India46
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific46
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils46
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes46
Land aridification persists in vulnerable drylands under climate mitigation scenarios45
Synergistic effect of abalone and macroalgae on carbon storage in a co-culture ecosystem45
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi45
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities44
Timing of a future glaciation in view of anthropogenic climate change44
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk44
Target methane44
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge44
Nature-based solutions can mitigate climate and human-induced threats to alpine aquatic ecosystems43
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations43
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap43
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice43
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures43
Sustainable aviation for a greener future43
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau43
Scalable flood-risk analysis for New York State culvert infrastructure reveals patterns of dependence43
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau42
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt42
Marine heatwaves are shaping the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the global ocean42
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks42
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review41
End-of-century Arctic Ocean phytoplankton blooms start a month earlier due to anthropogenic climate change41
Blue carbon sequestration and storage potential has increased in seagrass sediments from Northern Morocco41
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm41
Inorganic carbon fixation by deep prokaryotes as an unaccounted-for CO2 sink in Antarctic waters41
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta41
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic40
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes40
A market-based insurance approach aligns environmental and economic outcomes in maize nitrogen management40
Atmospheric rivers as mediators between climate teleconnections and burned area variability in North America40
Marine darkwave as an event-based framework to assess unusual periods of reduced underwater light availability40
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau40
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions39
Rainfall amplified sea-level control on silicate weathering in the Indo-Pacific Convergence Zone during Quaternary glacials39
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time39
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum39
Fiber-optic observations capture wind wave evolution in Lake Ontario39
Macroalgal community transformation during successive marine heatwaves in southern California kelp forests39
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns39
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe39
Author Correction: Tremor signals reveal the structure and dynamics of the Oldoinyo Lengai magmatic plumbing system39
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva39
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene39
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins38
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 202138
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes38
Aperture and roughness govern iron oxide passivation in olivine fractures during carbon mineralization38
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades38
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment38
Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China38
Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans37
Anti-repeating earthquakes and how to explain them37
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK37
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks37
Mass flowering of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica after 2022 record-breaking marine heatwaves, a Pan-Mediterranean study37
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core37
Ice-marginal proglacial lakes enhance outlet glacier velocities across Greenland37
Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan37
National-scale datasets underestimate vegetation recovery in Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon sequestration projects37
Redox evolutions of planetary mantle reservoirs constrained by titanium isotopes37
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America37
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon37
Public support for carbon taxes varies across countries and policy design must consider the national context37
Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy37
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves37
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea37
Natural ocean alkalinization through erosion of glacial till and weathering at the seafloor36
Enhanced tropical cyclone precipitation variability is linked to Pacific Decadal Oscillation since the 1940s36
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming36
Pressure-driven processes explain the decreasing magnetization of the subducting oceanic crust in the Japan Trench36
The impact of polar lows on the underlying ocean varies significantly by location36
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain36
Tropical Indian Ocean forcing on North American terrestrial and agricultural productivity decline under greenhouse warming36
Atmospheric rivers emerge as future freshwater reserves and heat stocks35
Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China35
Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization35
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation35
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide35
Root uptake dominates mercury accumulation in permafrost plants of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau35
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps34
Arctic sea ice decline, increasing successive sudden stratospheric warmings and cold northern hemisphere continents34
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States34
Deep learning-based forecasting provides a pathway to closing wildfire information gaps in underserved regions34
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline34
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh34
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria34
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event34
Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data34
Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface34
Detrital zircon–apatite fingerprinting challenges glacial transport of Stonehenge’s megaliths33
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade33
An automatic sediment-facies classification approach using machine learning and feature engineering33
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes33
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy33
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems33
Role of volatiles in highly explosive basaltic eruptions33
Abundant surface resins present on Middle Devonian land plants33
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity33
Cost‑effective offshore carbon capture, utilization and storage deployment and transport network optimization in southern China33
No detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification33
Fault-controlled magma pathways driving seismicity and eruption risk in Eastern Turkey32
Projected Atlantic overturning slow-down is to be compensated by a strengthened South Atlantic subtropical gyre32
Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore32
Distinct sources of uncertainty in simulations of the ocean biological carbon pump at different depths32
Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration32
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda32
International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries32
Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems32
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems32
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea32
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget32
Far-reaching effects of Tibetan warming amplification on polar sea‑ice retreat32
Arctic sea-ice ridges are biomass hotspots harboring diverse microbial communities32
Sub-millimeter molybdenum and uranium isotopes track millennial redox events in the Cambrian ocean32
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion32
A lingering legacy of leaded gasoline in Southeast Asia32
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline32
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity32
Impact of tropical cyclones and socioeconomic exposure on flood risk distribution in the Mekong Basin32
Warming overwhelms CO2-driven drought mitigation in alpine vegetation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau32
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 202332
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