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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary1822
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site222
Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition188
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting184
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming151
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage142
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle138
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation129
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic109
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity108
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture101
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change98
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals96
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping94
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate93
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–202391
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation90
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks87
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining87
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality86
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis86
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy84
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China83
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality82
Thermodynamic insights into the reliability of mineral-based thermobarometers82
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes82
Vertical transitions of marine heatwaves influenced by seasonally varying atmospheric forcing and coastal upwelling system82
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific81
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning78
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity78
Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon77
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning77
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile74
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 201972
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods72
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles71
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’71
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 202070
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments69
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy69
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality66
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems66
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations66
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation66
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China64
Middle-lower continental crust exhumed at the distal edges of volcanic passive margins64
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years64
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis63
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments62
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States62
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden62
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability62
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future61
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy60
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands60
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests59
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China58
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow58
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current57
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence57
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment57
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations56
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change56
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland56
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography56
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea56
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines55
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China54
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production53
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate52
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits51
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach51
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks51
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability50
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column50
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability50
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation50
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum49
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga49
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge49
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns49
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary49
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations49
Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea49
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change48
Drivers of the summer 2024 marine heatwave and record salmon lice outbreak in northern Norway48
European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change48
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants47
Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes46
Sustainable aviation for a greener future46
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster46
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau45
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming45
Target methane45
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe45
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity45
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review44
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau44
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific44
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt43
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment43
Hydrothermal fluid flow triggered by an earthquake in Iceland43
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency43
Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen42
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years42
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions42
Land aridification persists in vulnerable drylands under climate mitigation scenarios42
Author Correction: Tremor signals reveal the structure and dynamics of the Oldoinyo Lengai magmatic plumbing system42
High-resolution stalagmite stratigraphy supports the Late Holocene tephrochronology of southernmost Patagonia42
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes42
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap42
End-of-century Arctic Ocean phytoplankton blooms start a month earlier due to anthropogenic climate change42
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs41
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 202341
Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau41
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time40
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau40
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva40
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks40
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades39
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice39
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes39
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic39
Marine heatwaves are shaping the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the global ocean39
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status39
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks39
Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China39
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte39
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm38
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean38
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality38
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene38
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice38
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 202138
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi37
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta37
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk37
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy36
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins36
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves36
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth36
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation36
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils36
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India36
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities36
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene36
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures36
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes36
Sub-millimeter molybdenum and uranium isotopes track millennial redox events in the Cambrian ocean35
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea35
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain35
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core35
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy35
Redox evolutions of planetary mantle reservoirs constrained by titanium isotopes35
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation35
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity35
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming35
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon35
National-scale datasets underestimate vegetation recovery in Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon sequestration projects34
Pressure-driven processes explain the decreasing magnetization of the subducting oceanic crust in the Japan Trench34
Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China34
Atmospheric river activity during the late Holocene exceeds modern range of variability in California34
Anti-repeating earthquakes and how to explain them34
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event34
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks34
The role of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation for millennial-scale climate variability during the penultimate glacial34
Public support for carbon taxes varies across countries and policy design must consider the national context33
Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests33
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda33
Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy33
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide33
Subsurface Archaea associated with rapid geobiological change in a model Yellowstone hot spring33
Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface33
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems33
Distinct sources of uncertainty in simulations of the ocean biological carbon pump at different depths33
Ancient and recent collisions revealed by phosphate minerals in the Chelyabinsk meteorite33
Atmospheric rivers emerge as future freshwater reserves and heat stocks33
Current-use pesticides in vegetation, topsoil and water reveal contaminated landscapes of the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany32
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems32
A framework to assess permafrost thaw threat for land transportation infrastructure in northern Canada32
Stand structure of tropical forests is strongly associated with primary productivity32
An automatic sediment-facies classification approach using machine learning and feature engineering31
River-lake ecosystems exhibit a strong seasonal cycle of greenhouse gas emissions31
Differential effects of climate change on average and peak demand for heating and cooling across the contiguous USA31
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh31
Root uptake dominates mercury accumulation in permafrost plants of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau31
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 202331
Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration31
Natural ocean alkalinization through erosion of glacial till and weathering at the seafloor31
Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments31
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria31
Accumulation of rare earth elements in common vine leaves is achieved through extraction from soil and transport in the xylem sap31
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves linked to Kuroshio Extension variability30
Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization30
Hadal aragonite records venting of stagnant paleoseawater in the hydrated forearc mantle30
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline30
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade30
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion30
Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore30
Role of volatiles in highly explosive basaltic eruptions30
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps30
Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data30
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States30
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget30
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline30
Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems30
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity29
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes29
Rapid mineralisation of carbon dioxide in peridotites29
Projected Atlantic overturning slow-down is to be compensated by a strengthened South Atlantic subtropical gyre29
A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event29
Impact of tropical cyclones and socioeconomic exposure on flood risk distribution in the Mekong Basin29
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea29
No detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification29
Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans29
The impact of polar lows on the underlying ocean varies significantly by location29
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK29
Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan29
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas28
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state28
Environmental conditions are the dominant factor influencing stability of terrestrial ecosystems on the Tibetan plateau28
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America28
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production28
A lingering legacy of leaded gasoline in Southeast Asia28
Eliciting attachment security with social norm messages is linked to reduced energy consumption in extreme heat in the United Arab Emirates27
Submarine volcanic microbiota record three volcano-induced tsunamis27
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
Deformed alluvial terraces record an excess of slip over the last few centuries on the Himalayan Topographic Frontal Thrust of central Bhutan27
Author Correction: Global warming risks dehydrating and inflaming human airways27
Author Correction: Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests27
Author Correction: The conservation value of forests can be predicted at the scale of 1 hectare27
Weakened circulation in the deep South China Sea triggered by prolonged warming27
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 Asia27
Mesophotic foraminiferal-algal nodules play a role in the Red Sea carbonate budget27
Author Correction: Email outreach attracts the US policymakers’ attention to climate change but common advocacy techniques do not improve engagement27
Planktonic foraminifera regulate calcification according to ocean density27
Experimental evidence for a shallow cumulate remelting origin of lunar high-titanium mare basalts27
Consistent responses to black carbon and carbon dioxide at global and 100 m model resolutions27
Crustal remelting origin of highly silicic magmatism on the Moon27
Intermediate-depth seismicity and intraslab stress changes due to outer-rise faulting26
Digital twins of the Earth with and for humans26
Wheat trade tends to happen between countries with contrasting extreme weather stress and synchronous yield variation26
Applying equity principles leads to higher carbon removal obligations in Canada26
Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO2 uptake in Earth system models26
Release and re-enrichment of invisible gold in arsenian pyrite promoted by coupled dissolution-reprecipitation reactions26
A likely role for stratification in long-term changes of the global ocean tides26
The future intensification of hydrological extremes and whiplashes in the contiguous United States increase community vulnerability26
Earthquake damage mapped more comprehensively and accurately by radar satellites than optical imagery26
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