Communications Earth & Environment

Article	Citations
Sea ice loss in association with Arctic cyclones	1267
Ecosystem changes after Early Cretaceous seawater intrusion into the proto-South Atlantic Ocean	296
Geometric barriers impacted rupture processes and stress releases of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, earthquake doublet	156
Post-publication careers: lockdown to limelight	153
Extreme drought-heatwave events threaten the biodiversity and stability of aquatic plankton communities in the Yangtze River ecosystems	153
Genesis and timing of KREEP-free lunar Mg-suite magmatism indicated by the first norite meteorite Arguin 002	150
Cenozoic evolution of spring persistent rainfall in East Asia and North America driven by paleogeography	138
Dehydration-induced supralithostatic fluid overpressure in metapelites from Northern Korea	114
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	103
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	101
Reply to: Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster	95
Low-velocity anomaly in the Coral Sea associated with subducting slabs and the Woodlark rift	88
Mixed-layer lipidomes suggest offshore transport of energy-rich and essential lipids by cyclonic eddies	88
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	84
Climate change reduces the wind chill hazard across Alaska	83
Exceptional eruptive CO2 emissions from intra-plate alkaline magmatism in the Canary volcanic archipelago	82
On the spatial double peak of the 2023–2024 El Niño event	81
Past rainfall-driven erosion on the Chinese loess plateau inferred from archaeological evidence from Wucheng City, Shanxi	76
Andean headwater and piedmont streams are hot spots of carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the Amazon basin	75
Land use still matters after deforestation	74
Alpine wetlands degradation leads to soil nutrient imbalances that affect plant growth and microbial diversity	73
Science-based targets miss the mark	73
Terpene emissions from boreal wetlands can initiate stronger atmospheric new particle formation than boreal forests	70
The foundations of the Patagonian icefields	67
Socio-political and ecological fragility of threatened, free-ranging African lion populations	67

The shift to plant-based diets as a sustainable food strategy	66
Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	65
Helium reservoirs in iron nanoparticles on the lunar surface	65
Sensitivity of extreme precipitation to climate change inferred using artificial intelligence shows high spatial variability	64
Tremor clustering reveals pre-eruptive signals and evolution of the 2021 Geldingadalir eruption of the Fagradalsfjall Fires, Iceland	63
Pattern asymmetry in extreme Indian Ocean dipoles shapes marine heat-height compound extremes around coastal Indonesia	61
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	59
Intensified monsoonal rainstorm events over westerly-dominated Asian interior during the warm mid-Holocene	59
Assessment tool addresses implementation challenges of ecosystem-based management principles in marine spatial planning processes	59
Factors influencing underrepresented geoscientists' decisions to accept or decline faculty job offers in the US	58
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	57
Three pulses of breaths toward three evolutionary shifts	56
Thank you to all our reviewers in 2021	56
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	55
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	55
Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia	54
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	53
A topographic hinge-zone divides coastal and inland ice dynamic regimes in East Antarctica	53
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	51
Arctic cyclones have become more intense and longer-lived over the past seven decades	51
ChatClimate: Grounding conversational AI in climate science	50
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	49
Anthropogenic eutrophication and stratification strength control hypoxia in the Yangtze Estuary	49
Microbial necromass carbon and nitrogen persistence are decoupled in agricultural grassland soils	48
Discrepancies in lacustrine bacterial lipid temperature reconstructions explained by microbial ecology	48
Paris targets within reach by aligning, broadening and strengthening net-zero pledges	48
Active hydrothermal vents in the Woodlark Basin may act as dispersing centres for hydrothermal fauna	48
Metal mobilization from thawing permafrost to aquatic ecosystems is driving rusting of Arctic streams	47
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	47
Rupture dynamics and velocity structure effects on ground motion during the 2023 Türkiye earthquake doublet	46
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems	46
Politics and diplomacy undermine China and Korea’s transboundary air pollution reduction	45
Effective climate adaptation must be imaginative and inclusive	45
Two-phase mixture of iron–nickel–silicon alloys in the Earth’s inner core	45
Opt for emissions intensity metrics	45
Herding then farming in the Nile Delta	45
Seasonality of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic	44
A unified modelling framework for projecting sectoral greenhouse gas emissions	44
Prokaryotic richness and diversity increased during Holocene glacier retreat and onset of an Antarctic Lake	44
Role of mantle indentation in collisional deformation evidenced by deep geophysical imaging of Western Alps	43
Atlantic inflow and low sea-ice cover in the Nordic Seas promoted Fennoscandian Ice Sheet growth during the Last Glacial Maximum	43
Increased contribution of biomass burning to haze events in Shanghai since China’s clean air actions	43
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations	43
Global patterns and predictors of C:N:P in marine ecosystems	43
Greenhouse gas emissions from the US liquefied natural gas operations and shipping through process model based life cycle assessment	42
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	42
Diverse vegetation responses to solar farm installation are also driven by climate change	42
Optimizing afforestation pathways through economic cost mitigates China’s financial challenge of carbon neutrality	41
Drivers of critical metal enrichment in peralkaline magmas recorded by clinopyroxene zoning	40
Recent increase in surface melting of West Antarctic ice shelves linked to Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation	40

Renewable export cost index as an indicator of global renewable energy trade potential	39
Multidecadal hydroclimate responses to volcanic forcing in the Mid-Holocene	38
Aerial transport of bacteria by dust plumes in the Eastern Mediterranean revealed by complementary rRNA/rRNA-gene sequencing	37
Steam caps in geothermal reservoirs can be monitored using seismic noise interferometry	37
Five reasons to take the precautionary approach to deep sea exploitation	37
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	36
Fallow priority areas for spatial trade-offs between cost and efficiency in China	36
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	36
Hydrothermal ferromanganese oxides around a petit-spot volcano on old and cold oceanic crust	36
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	36
The magmatic plumbing beneath the Wudalianchi volcanic region, northeast China, is recharged by magma reservoirs under Keluo volcano	35
Financial incentives often fail to reconcile agricultural productivity and pro-conservation behavior	35
Phytoplankton abundance in the Barents Sea is predictable up to five years in advance	35
Decline in Atlantic Niño prediction skill in the North American multi-model ensemble	35
Transport and eruption of mantle xenoliths creates a lagging problem	35
Evidence for late winter biogeochemical connectivity in permafrost soils	35
Shifts in benthic megafauna communities after glacial retreat in an Antarctic fjord	35
3D anatomy of the Cretaceous–Paleogene age Nadir Crater	34
Rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in the Gulf of Mexico is more likely during marine heatwaves	34
Replacing gas boilers with heat pumps is the fastest way to cut German gas consumption	34
Unaccounted for nonforest vegetation loss in the Brazilian Amazon	34
Pan-Atlantic decadal climate oscillation linked to ocean circulation	33
Forest definitions require a re-think	33
Fast recovery of North Atlantic sea level in response to atmospheric carbon dioxide removal	33
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	33
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	33
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea	32
Iron transformation mediates phosphate retention across a permafrost thaw gradient	32
The orientation of intra-arc crustal fault systems influences the copper budget of magmatic-hydrothermal fluids	32
Dichotomy between freshwater and heat flux effects on oceanic conveyor belt stability and global climate	32
Abiotic and biotic-controlled nanomaterial formation pathways within the Earth’s nanomaterial cycle	32
Sedimentary facies controlled biogeochemical process of biotic extinction and turnover across the Cambrian SPICE event	32
The utility of historical records for hazard analysis in an area of marginal cyclone influence	32
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality	32
How climate change intensified storm Boris’ extreme rainfall, revealed by near-real-time storylines	32
Perceptions of carbon dioxide emission reductions and future warming among climate experts	31
Artistic representations of data can help bridge the US political divide over climate change	31
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	31
Publisher Correction: Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava–seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i	31
Rural land systems both support and hinder the Sustainable Development Goals across Europe	31
Temporal-scale-dependent mechanisms of forest soil nitrous oxide emissions under nitrogen addition	31
National and transboundary contributions to surface ozone concentration across European countries	31
International cooperation was key to stabilize wheat prices after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	31
A process-based assessment of the sea-level rise in the northwestern Pacific marginal seas	30
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	30
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	30
Trace element partitioning controls on cave drip water compositions through prior calcite and aragonite precipitation	30
Restoration of forestry-drained boreal peatland ecosystems can effectively stop and reverse ecosystem degradation	29
The climatic pattern of East Asia shifted in response to cratonic thinning in the Early Cretaceous	29
Abrupt change in tropical Pacific climate mean state during the Little Ice Age	29
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have impeded progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals	29
Panarctic lakes exerted a small positive feedback on early Holocene warming due to deglacial release of methane	29
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	29
Forecasting trends in food security with real time data	29
Manifold increase in the spatial extent of heatwaves in the terrestrial Arctic	29
Author Correction: Astronomical forcing shaped the timing of early Pleistocene glacial cycles	29
Fire, environmental and anthropogenic controls on pantropical tree cover	29
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden	29
Island change framework defines dominant modes of atoll island dynamics in response to environmental change	28
Long-term trends in carbon and color signal uneven browning and terrestrialization of northern lakes	28
Warming could shift the phenological responses of benthic microalgae in temperate intertidal zones	28
Fibrous dolomite formation at a Miocene methane seep may reflect Neoproterozoic aragonite-dolomite sea conditions	28
Microscale dynamics promote segregated denitrification in diatom aggregates sinking slowly in bulk oxygenated seawater	28
Amplified threat of tropical cyclones to US offshore wind energy in a changing climate	28
Reef site and habitat influence effectiveness of Acropora palmata restoration and its microbiome in the Florida Keys	28
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	27
Coastal permafrost was massively eroded during the Bølling-Allerød warm period	27
Author Correction: Soil carbon maintained by perennial grasslands over 30 years but lost in field crop systems in a temperate Mollisol	27
Weakening of subsurface ocean temperature seasonality over the past four decades	27
Publisher Correction: Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kīlauea, Hawai’i	27
Annual grass invasions and wildfire deplete ecosystem carbon storage by >50% to resistant base levels	27
Re-pressurized magma at Mt. Etna, Italy, may feed eruptions for years	27
Oceanic phytoplankton are a potentially important source of benzenoids to the remote marine atmosphere	27
Ditch emissions partially offset global reductions in methane emissions from peatland drainage	27
Geological evidence of an unreported historical Chilean tsunami reveals more frequent inundation	26
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years	26
Light painting photography makes particulate matter air pollution visible	26
Formation of silicic crust on early Earth and young planetary bodies in an Iceland-like setting	26
Strong El Niño and La Niña precipitation—sea surface temperature sensitivity under a carbon removal scenario	26
Organic food has lower environmental impacts per area unit and similar climate impacts per mass unit compared to conventional	26

Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	26
The year 2023 may afford us a peek at a warmer world	26
Aqueous alteration of the Vastitas Borealis Formation at the Tianwen-1 landing site	26
Recent marine heatwaves in the North Pacific warming pool can be attributed to rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases	26
A machine learning estimator trained on synthetic data for real-time earthquake ground-shaking predictions in Southern California	26
The challenge of closing the climate adaptation gap for water supply utilities	25
Magma titanium and iron contents dictate crystallization timescales and rheological behaviour in basaltic volcanic systems	25
Underestimation of carbon dioxide emissions from organic-rich agricultural soils	25
Seafloor roughness reduces melting of East Antarctic ice shelves	25
Authigenic clays as precursors to carbonate precipitation in saline lakes of Salar de Llamara, Northern Chile	25
Tidal and seasonal influence on cold seep activity and methanotroph efficiency in the North Sea	25
Investment funds are responsible for substantial environmental and social impacts	25
Regional asymmetry in the response of global vegetation growth to springtime compound climate events	25
Orbital-scale dynamic vegetation feedback caused the Holocene precipitation decline in northern China	25
Shift in groundwater recharge of the Bengal Basin from rainfall to surface water	25
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	25
Observation-based trajectory of future sea level for the coastal United States tracks near high-end model projections	25
The circum-Antarctic ice-shelves respond to a more positive Southern Annular Mode with regionally varied melting	25
Atmosphere circulation patterns synchronize pan-Arctic glacier melt and permafrost thaw	25
Tropicalization of demersal megafauna in the western South Atlantic since 2013	25
Multi-hazard risk to global port infrastructure and resulting trade and logistics losses	24
Small-scale segmented fault rupture along the East Anatolian fault during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake	24
Ice-free period too long for Southern and Western Hudson Bay polar bear populations if global warming exceeds 1.6 to 2.6 °C	24
Dating mylonitic overprinting of ancient rocks	24
Impact of ocean heat transport on sea ice captured by a simple energy balance model	24
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	24
Australia’s 2019/20 Black Summer fire weather exceptionally rare over the last 2000 years	24
Inclusive science in the South Atlantic	24
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	24
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	23
Dissecting the vital role of dietary changes in food security assessment under climate change	23
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	23
Human land occupation regulates the effect of the climate on the burned area of the Brazilian Cerrado	23
Stratospheric ozone depletion in the Antarctic region triggers intense changes in sea salt aerosol geochemistry	23
A sentinel watching over inter-tidal seagrass phenology across Western Europe and North Africa	23
Thermochronometry constraints on south West Greenland passive continental margin development	23
Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble	23
No evidence of increased forest loss from a mining rush in Madagascar’s eastern rainforests	23
Reply to: Influence of deep-reaching bioturbation on Arctic ocean radiocarbon chronology	23
Decommissioned open-pit mines are potential geothermal sources of heating or cooling for nearby population centres	23
International corporations trading Brazilian soy are keystone actors for water stewardship	23
Contrasting responses of Indian summer monsoon rainfall and Arabian Sea upwelling to orbital forcing	22
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	22
Rocket launches threaten global biodiversity conservation	22
Rupture of wet mantle wedge by self-promoting carbonation	22
Bayesian inference elucidates fault-system anatomy and resurgent earthquakes induced by continuing saltwater disposal	22
Direct evidence for crust-mantle differentiation in the late Hadean	22
Soil carbon sequestration benefits of active versus natural restoration vary with initial carbon content and soil layer	22
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands	22
Final closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean basin in the early Triassic	22
Antarctic meltwater reduces the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation through oceanic freshwater transport and atmospheric teleconnections	22
Conservation policies and management in the Ukrainian Emerald Network have maintained reforestation rate despite the war	22
Glacial lake outburst floods enhance benthic microbial productivity in perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee (East Antarctica)	22
A decade of declines in toothed whale densities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill	22
Latent magmatism beneath the Korean Peninsula caused by asthenosphere upwelling	22
Social-ecological heterogeneity drove contrasting tree cover restoration in South China Karst	22
The origin and implications of primordial helium depletion in the Afar mantle plume	22
Atmospheric radiocarbon levels were highly variable during the last deglaciation	22
eDNA offers opportunities for improved biodiversity monitoring within forest carbon markets	22
Hypoxia-tolerant zooplankton may reduce biological carbon pump efficiency in the Humboldt current system off Peru	22
Global river economic belts can become more sustainable by considering economic and ecological processes	21
Supereruption doublet at a climate transition	21
A 50-year cycle of sea surface temperature regulates decadal precipitation in the tropical and South Atlantic region	21
Global change on the Blue Planet	21
Public demand for carbon capture and storage varies with information, development magnitude and prior familiarity	21
Spatial adaptation pathways to reconcile future water and food security in the Indus River basin	21
A thicker Antarctic ice stream during the mid-Pliocene warm period	21
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	21
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	21
The maritime continent’s rainforests modulate the local interannual evapotranspiration variability	21
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	21
Millions of seafloor pits, not pockmarks, induced by vertebrates in the North Sea	21
Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods	21
The importance of accounting for equity in disaster risk models	21
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	21
Uneven increases in racial diversity of US geoscience undergraduates	21
Mangrove peat and algae leachates elicit rapid and contrasting molecular and microbial responses in coastal waters	21
A potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may stabilise eastern Amazonian rainforests	21
Long-period directivity pulses of strong ground motion during the 2023 Mw7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake	21
Hydrological records can be used to reconstruct the resilience of watersheds to climatic extremes	20
A climatology of weather-driven anomalies in European photovoltaic and wind power production	20
CO2 outgassing during collisional orogeny is facilitated by the generation of immiscible fluids	20
Projected poleward migration of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink region under high emissions	20
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	20
Decoupling of redox processes from soil saturation in Arctic tundra	20
Historical changes in the Causal Effect Networks of compound hot and dry extremes in central Europe	20
Magma budget, plutonic growth and lateral spreading at Mt. Etna	20
Modern coral range expansion off southeast Florida falls short of Late Holocene baseline	20
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica	20
Biomarkers in the rock outcrop of the Kazusa Group reveal palaeoenvironments of the Kuroshio region	20
Ice microphysical processes exert a strong control on the simulated radiative energy budget in the tropics	20
High geothermal heat flow beneath Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica inferred from aeromagnetic data	20
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	20
Discovery of late Quaternary giant magnetofossils in the Bay of Bengal	20
Warning sign of an accelerating decline in critically endangered killer whales (Orcinus orca)	20