Communications Earth & Environment

Article	Citations
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	1512
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	186
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	175
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	173
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	163
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	139
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years	127
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	121
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	111
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden	109
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	105
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica	100
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	99
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	99
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	95
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	93
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	92
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	91
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	82
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	81
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	81
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining	79
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting	78
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	76
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	75

Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	75
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea	74
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	74
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	73
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	73
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes	70
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	68
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow	68
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	67
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence	66
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	64
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment	63
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	63
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	62
Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon	62
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage	61
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	61
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	59
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	58
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests	57
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	56
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China	56
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	56
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	55
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability	55
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	55
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	55
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production	54
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations	54
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	54
Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered mountain building	54
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	53
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands	52
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach	52
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints	51
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality	51
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	51
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability	50
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography	50
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland	49
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	47
Middle-lower continental crust exhumed at the distal edges of volcanic passive margins	46
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	46
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems	46
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster	45
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific	45
Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea	44
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge	44
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time	44
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns	43

Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau	43
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column	43
Target methane	42
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene	42
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations	42
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm	42
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum	42
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga	41
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap	41
Geothermal heating and episodic cold-seawater intrusions into an isolated ridge-flank basin near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge	41
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs	41
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2023	40
Hydrothermal fluid flow triggered by an earthquake in Iceland	40
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific	39
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic	39
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment	39
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves	39
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes	39
High-resolution stalagmite stratigraphy supports the Late Holocene tephrochronology of southernmost Patagonia	39
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice	38
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation	38
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity	38
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean	38
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years	38
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth	37
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures	37
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene	37
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk	36
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming	36
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi	36
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte	36
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt	36
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe	36
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India	36
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes	36
Magma chamber decompression during explosive caldera-forming eruption of Aira caldera	36
Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes	36
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes	35
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils	35
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	35
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change	35
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau	35
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status	35
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency	33
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades	33
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice	33
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality	33
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins	33
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Formation of giant iron oxide-copper-gold deposits by superimposed, episodic hydrothermal pulses	33
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva	32
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy	32
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants	32
Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse	32
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 2023	32
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation	32
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 2021	32
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks	32
Sustainable aviation for a greener future	32
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions	32
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity	32
A lingering legacy of leaded gasoline in Southeast Asia	32
Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China	32
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks	32
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities	32
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta	32
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	32
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain	32
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review	32
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda	31
Impact of tropical cyclones and socioeconomic exposure on flood risk distribution in the Mekong Basin	31
Subsurface Archaea associated with rapid geobiological change in a model Yellowstone hot spring	31
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems	31
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide	31
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea	30
Rapid mineralisation of carbon dioxide in peridotites	30
Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface	30
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline	30
Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration	30
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves linked to Kuroshio Extension variability	30
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea	30

Projected Atlantic overturning slow-down is to be compensated by a strengthened South Atlantic subtropical gyre	30
Stand structure of tropical forests is strongly associated with primary productivity	30
Atmospheric river activity during the late Holocene exceeds modern range of variability in California	30
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade	29
Ancient and recent collisions revealed by phosphate minerals in the Chelyabinsk meteorite	29
Anti-repeating earthquakes and how to explain them	29
Distinct sources of uncertainty in simulations of the ocean biological carbon pump at different depths	29
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event	29
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes	29
Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans	29
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh	29
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	29
Pressure-driven processes explain the decreasing magnetization of the subducting oceanic crust in the Japan Trench	29
Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments	28
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps	28
Old subcontinental mantle zircon below Oahu	28
Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization	28
Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China	28
Root uptake dominates mercury accumulation in permafrost plants of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	28
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria	28
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	28
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion	28
Role of volatiles in highly explosive basaltic eruptions	28
Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems	28
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming	28
No detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification	27
Accumulation of rare earth elements in common vine leaves is achieved through extraction from soil and transport in the xylem sap	27
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems	27
Hadal aragonite records venting of stagnant paleoseawater in the hydrated forearc mantle	27
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core	27
Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data	27
Differential effects of climate change on average and peak demand for heating and cooling across the contiguous USA	27
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK	27
An automatic sediment-facies classification approach using machine learning and feature engineering	26
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity	26
Environmental conditions are the dominant factor influencing stability of terrestrial ecosystems on the Tibetan plateau	26
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget	26
Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan	26
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America	26
River-lake ecosystems exhibit a strong seasonal cycle of greenhouse gas emissions	26
A framework to assess permafrost thaw threat for land transportation infrastructure in northern Canada	26
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States	26
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production	26
A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event	26
Public support for carbon taxes varies across countries and policy design must consider the national context	26
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas	26
Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore	26
The role of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation for millennial-scale climate variability during the penultimate glacial	26
Author Correction: Research for climate adaptation	25
Applying equity principles leads to higher carbon removal obligations in Canada	25
Current-use pesticides in vegetation, topsoil and water reveal contaminated landscapes of the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany	25
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state	25
Crustal remelting origin of highly silicic magmatism on the Moon	25
The unexpectedly short Holocene Humid Period in Northern Arabia	25
Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO2 uptake in Earth system models	25
Extraordinary 2021 snowstorm in Spain reveals critical threshold response to anthropogenic climate change	25
A millennium of cold and humid climate decreased carbon accumulation in the subtropical monsoon peatland	25
Deformed alluvial terraces record an excess of slip over the last few centuries on the Himalayan Topographic Frontal Thrust of central Bhutan	25
Author Correction: Global warming risks dehydrating and inflaming human airways	25
Author Correction: The diurnal variation of wet bulb temperatures and exceedance of physiological thresholds relevant to human health in South Asia	25
Experimental evidence for a shallow cumulate remelting origin of lunar high-titanium mare basalts	25
Author Correction: Australian water quality trends over two decades show deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef region and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin	25
Heterogenous westerly shifts linked to Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdowns	25
Author Correction: The conservation value of forests can be predicted at the scale of 1 hectare	25
Chlorine peroxide reaction explains observed wintertime hydrogen chloride in the Antarctic vortex	25
An assessment of different transition pathways to a green global economy	25
Association of western US compound hydrometeorological extremes with Madden-Julian oscillation and ENSO interaction	24
Diminished contribution of spring phenology to early-season carbon uptake in a changing climate	24
Mechanics of coseismic and postseismic acceleration of active landslides	24
Author Correction: Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests	24
Plant response to decreasing soil moisture under rising atmospheric CO2 levels	24
Climate-driven 21st century Caspian Sea level decline estimated from CMIP6 projections	24
Consistent responses to black carbon and carbon dioxide at global and 100 m model resolutions	24
Widespread exposure to altered fire regimes under 2 °C warming is projected to transform conifer forests of the Western United States	24
Declining severe fire activity on managed lands in Equatorial Asia	24
Marine heatwaves in a shifting Southern Ocean induce dynamical changes in primary production	24
Mesophotic foraminiferal-algal nodules play a role in the Red Sea carbonate budget	24
Finnish forest-related laws need to acknowledge climate change risks and integrate adaptive strategies to enhance resiliency	24
Standing shock prevents propagation of sparks in supersonic explosive flows	24
Unprecedented shifts in aerosol pollution sources in China under a decade of clean air actions	24
Enhanced phosphorus regeneration linked to Ediacaran ocean oxygenation	24
Generation of long-chain fatty acids by hydrogen-driven bicarbonate reduction in ancient alkaline hydrothermal vents	24
Author Correction: Email outreach attracts the US policymakers’ attention to climate change but common advocacy techniques do not improve engagement	24
Eliciting attachment security with social norm messages is linked to reduced energy consumption in extreme heat in the United Arab Emirates	24
The influence of mantle hydration and flexure on slab seismicity in the southern Central Andes	24
Microscale iron and sulphur isotopic compositions reveal pyritization pathways during early diagenesis	23
Draining of an ancient lake in the Hexi Corridor 4500 years ago triggered migration of the Hei Shan civilization	23
Rapid 20th century warming reverses 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine	23
Digital twins of the Earth with and for humans	23
Diminishing control of evaporation on rising land surface temperature of the Earth	23
Plastiphily is linked to generic virulence traits of important human pathogenic fungi	23
Submarine volcanic microbiota record three volcano-induced tsunamis	23
Wheat trade tends to happen between countries with contrasting extreme weather stress and synchronous yield variation	23
A likely role for stratification in long-term changes of the global ocean tides	23
Observations suggest that North African dust absorbs less solar radiation than models estimate	23