Communications Earth & Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Communications Earth & Environment is 12. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines1728
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary212
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica196
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China184
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site174
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle141
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation134
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic134
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity124
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods103
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change101
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning95
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 202093
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning91
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture91
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity90
Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon87
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals85
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate84
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis84
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability83
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation83
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping83
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden82
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability80
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments80
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland79
Middle-lower continental crust exhumed at the distal edges of volcanic passive margins77
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years77
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits75
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future74
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints72
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality71
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States71
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations70
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy69
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate68
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–202367
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow67
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation66
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation66
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining65
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis65
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks65
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles64
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence63
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality62
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China61
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy61
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile61
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change60
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments60
Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered mountain building59
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 201958
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming58
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China57
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy56
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests56
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific55
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting54
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks53
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment53
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes53
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’53
Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition53
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability53
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality52
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage51
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current51
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems51
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands50
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production50
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations50
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography50
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China49
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach49
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns48
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column48
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea48
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum47
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations47
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge47
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga47
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary46
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth46
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants45
Drivers of the summer 2024 marine heatwave and record salmon lice outbreak in northern Norway45
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change45
European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change45
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades45
Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea45
Sustainable aviation for a greener future44
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins44
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte44
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster44
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming43
Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes43
Target methane42
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves42
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe42
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation42
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 202342
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks42
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific42
Hydrothermal fluid flow triggered by an earthquake in Iceland41
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes41
Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen41
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity41
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta41
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean41
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi40
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs40
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils40
Land aridification persists in vulnerable drylands under climate mitigation scenarios40
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt40
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions39
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice38
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review38
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk38
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities38
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes38
Author Correction: Tremor signals reveal the structure and dynamics of the Oldoinyo Lengai magmatic plumbing system38
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap37
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years37
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency37
Marine heatwaves are shaping the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the global ocean37
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks37
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures37
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality36
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment36
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau36
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic36
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene36
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time36
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy36
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice36
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva36
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm35
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes35
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India35
Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau35
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene35
High-resolution stalagmite stratigraphy supports the Late Holocene tephrochronology of southernmost Patagonia35
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status35
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 202135
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States34
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain34
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon34
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau34
Ancient and recent collisions revealed by phosphate minerals in the Chelyabinsk meteorite34
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation34
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau34
Redox evolutions of planetary mantle reservoirs constrained by titanium isotopes34
Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy33
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming33
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea33
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity33
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy33
An automatic sediment-facies classification approach using machine learning and feature engineering33
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline33
National-scale datasets underestimate vegetation recovery in Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon sequestration projects33
Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data33
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core33
Accumulation of rare earth elements in common vine leaves is achieved through extraction from soil and transport in the xylem sap33
Root uptake dominates mercury accumulation in permafrost plants of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau32
Impact of tropical cyclones and socioeconomic exposure on flood risk distribution in the Mekong Basin32
A lingering legacy of leaded gasoline in Southeast Asia32
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps32
Role of volatiles in highly explosive basaltic eruptions32
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes32
Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans32
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide31
Sub-millimeter molybdenum and uranium isotopes track millennial redox events in the Cambrian ocean31
Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems31
Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests31
The role of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation for millennial-scale climate variability during the penultimate glacial31
Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization31
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion31
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event31
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh30
Atmospheric river activity during the late Holocene exceeds modern range of variability in California30
Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China30
Hadal aragonite records venting of stagnant paleoseawater in the hydrated forearc mantle30
Atmospheric rivers emerge as future freshwater reserves and heat stocks30
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade30
Pressure-driven processes explain the decreasing magnetization of the subducting oceanic crust in the Japan Trench30
Anti-repeating earthquakes and how to explain them30
Distinct sources of uncertainty in simulations of the ocean biological carbon pump at different depths30
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America30
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves linked to Kuroshio Extension variability30
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks30
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea30
A framework to assess permafrost thaw threat for land transportation infrastructure in northern Canada30
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 202329
Projected Atlantic overturning slow-down is to be compensated by a strengthened South Atlantic subtropical gyre29
Subsurface Archaea associated with rapid geobiological change in a model Yellowstone hot spring29
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production29
Current-use pesticides in vegetation, topsoil and water reveal contaminated landscapes of the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany29
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK29
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity29
No detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification29
Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface29
Differential effects of climate change on average and peak demand for heating and cooling across the contiguous USA29
Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration29
Stand structure of tropical forests is strongly associated with primary productivity29
Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan29
Environmental conditions are the dominant factor influencing stability of terrestrial ecosystems on the Tibetan plateau29
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda29
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget29
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems28
Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse28
Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments28
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems28
Rapid mineralisation of carbon dioxide in peridotites28
River-lake ecosystems exhibit a strong seasonal cycle of greenhouse gas emissions28
A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event28
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state28
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline28
Public support for carbon taxes varies across countries and policy design must consider the national context28
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria28
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas27
The influence of mantle hydration and flexure on slab seismicity in the southern Central Andes27
An assessment of different transition pathways to a green global economy27
Weakened circulation in the deep South China Sea triggered by prolonged warming27
Planktonic foraminifera regulate calcification according to ocean density27
Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore27
Consistent responses to black carbon and carbon dioxide at global and 100 m model resolutions27
A millennium of cold and humid climate decreased carbon accumulation in the subtropical monsoon peatland27
Experimental evidence for a shallow cumulate remelting origin of lunar high-titanium mare basalts27
Cosmopolitan and endemic species jointly enhance the potential of producing algal blooms in Tibetan glaciers27
Author Correction: Australian water quality trends over two decades show deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef region and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin27
Unprecedented shifts in aerosol pollution sources in China under a decade of clean air actions27
Author Correction: The diurnal variation of wet bulb temperatures and exceedance of physiological thresholds relevant to human health in South Asia26
Author Correction: Global warming risks dehydrating and inflaming human airways26
Chlorine peroxide reaction explains observed wintertime hydrogen chloride in the Antarctic vortex26
Submarine volcanic microbiota record three volcano-induced tsunamis26
Plant response to decreasing soil moisture under rising atmospheric CO2 levels26
Author Correction: The conservation value of forests can be predicted at the scale of 1 hectare26
Mesophotic foraminiferal-algal nodules play a role in the Red Sea carbonate budget26
Author Correction: Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests26
Eliciting attachment security with social norm messages is linked to reduced energy consumption in extreme heat in the United Arab Emirates26
Deformed alluvial terraces record an excess of slip over the last few centuries on the Himalayan Topographic Frontal Thrust of central Bhutan26
Crustal remelting origin of highly silicic magmatism on the Moon26
Draining of an ancient lake in the Hexi Corridor 4500 years ago triggered migration of the Hei Shan civilization26
Author Correction: Email outreach attracts the US policymakers’ attention to climate change but common advocacy techniques do not improve engagement26
Extraordinary 2021 snowstorm in Spain reveals critical threshold response to anthropogenic climate change25
Climate warming and agronomic practice interactively alter soil carbon stock in dry farmland in China25
A likely role for stratification in long-term changes of the global ocean tides25
South African dust contribution to the high southern latitudes and East Antarctica during interglacial stages25
Rapid 20th century warming reverses 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine25
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