Communications Earth & Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Communications Earth & Environment is 13. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary2180
Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition227
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality202
Sustainably intensified fresh-market vegetable production with compact bed plasticulture196
High-resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains191
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China187
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability154
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle147
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change140
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality131
Short-term recovery of inland and marine environments after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna flood131
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019128
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020128
Bedrock-soil geochemistry dominates free-living nitrogen fixation in soils but not in litter via interspecific microbial associations115
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future115
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis114
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site106
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality106
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China106
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation105
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity101
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments98
Author Correction: Field in the frame: flying over the Ocean98
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes96
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change95
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States95
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow94
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach94
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current94
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability89
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals88
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability87
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy85
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific85
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations84
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity83
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation83
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence79
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy79
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting79
Andean volcanism, ocean fertilization, marine ecosystem turnover, and global cooling in the Late Miocene78
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis76
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming76
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture75
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy75
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles75
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate75
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic75
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea73
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage72
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems71
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland70
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment69
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production69
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks68
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning67
Controls of root-system overlap on hillslope stability66
Thermodynamic insights into the reliability of mineral-based thermobarometers63
Vertical transitions of marine heatwaves influenced by seasonally varying atmospheric forcing and coastal upwelling system63
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation63
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China62
Distinct glacial-interglacial amplitudes of Asian monsoon water isotopes during the last deglaciation62
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’62
Field in the frame: fossilised Ediacaran faunal diversity62
Intensified annual cycle of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature regulates Pacific cooling62
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods62
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines62
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks61
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation61
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining60
Pre- and co-seismic stress loading promoted low-angle splay fault during the 2025 Mw7.1 Tingri earthquake60
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments60
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations59
Rapid revegetation after the Wenchuan earthquake offsets landslide-induced carbon losses59
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden58
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography58
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate57
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping56
Global mapping of potential coastal compound flood risk at 0.1∘ resolution56
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands56
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China56
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–202356
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile55
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests55
Tidewater glacier fronts are an important foraging ground for an Arctic marine predator55
Air and soil warming have different effects on soil organic carbon storage54
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits54
Contrasting evolution of the Arabian Sea and Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones during the Miocene53
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning53
Indirect stratospheric moisture increase after a Pinatubo-magnitude eruption can be comparable to direct increase after 2022 Hunga53
Video-based measurements of the entrainment, speed and mass flux in a wind-blown eruption column53
Aperture and roughness govern iron oxide passivation in olivine fractures during carbon mineralization52
Atmospheric rivers as mediators between climate teleconnections and burned area variability in North America52
Timing of a future glaciation in view of anthropogenic climate change52
A hydrologically informed agricultural land use intensity index for assessing ecological impacts on streams and rivers52
Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming51
Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster51
Irrigation cooling effect reduced by water-saving practices51
A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity51
Universal neural networks for real-time earthquake early warning trained with generalized earthquakes51
Natural process-based coastal wetland restoration by relocating river flow paths in a river-dominated delta51
Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes51
Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva51
Fault geometry and rupture speed as controls on off-fault deformation in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes50
Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time50
U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte50
Supraglacial and subglacial ecosystems contribute differently towards proglacial ecosystem communities in Kuoqionggangri Glacier, Tibetan Plateau50
Over 60% precipitation transformed into terrestrial water storage in global river basins from 2002 to 202150
Evidence of limited N2 fixation in the Southern Ocean50
Chronology of Ediacaran sedimentary and biogeochemical shifts along eastern Gondwanan margins50
Original vegetation condition and precipitation growth rate bifurcate sediment flux trend on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau50
Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau50
Precious metal enrichment during impacts on the Moon49
Climate-driven interannual variability in subnational irrigation areas across Europe49
Target methane49
Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions49
Fault–fracture mesh development produces tectonic tremor in fluid-overpressured serpentinized mantle wedge49
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation49
An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap48
Extreme typhoon events trigger long-lasting power outages and require demand-side solutions to enhance energy resiliency47
Unique (Al,Cu)-alloys discovered in a micrometeorite from Southern Italy47
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum46
A market-based insurance approach aligns environmental and economic outcomes in maize nitrogen management46
The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene46
Rainfall amplified sea-level control on silicate weathering in the Indo-Pacific Convergence Zone during Quaternary glacials45
Airspace restrictions due to conflicts increased global aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions in 202345
Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns45
Author Correction: Tremor signals reveal the structure and dynamics of the Oldoinyo Lengai magmatic plumbing system45
Hydroclimate intensification likely aided glacier survival on Svalbard in the Early Holocene45
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India44
Drivers of the summer 2024 marine heatwave and record salmon lice outbreak in northern Norway44
Tetracarbonates in silicate melts may be at the origin of a deep carbon reservoir in the deep Earth44
Migrating subaqueous dunes capture clay flocs44
Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures43
Urbanization brings earlier onset of summertime compound heatwaves43
Coupled permeability–thermal conductivity framework for global reservoir suitability assessment of carbon dioxide hydrate-based carbon sequestration43
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary43
Space-based inversion reveals underestimated carbon monoxide emissions over Shanxi43
The atmospheric connection between the Arctic and Eurasia is underestimated in simulations with prescribed sea ice42
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk42
Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China42
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen is stimulated by agricultural plants42
Fast-get-faster explains wavier upper-level jet stream under climate change42
Future enhanced threshold effects of wildfire drivers could increase burned areas in northern mid- and high latitudes42
European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change42
Sahara greening may have diminished mid-Holocene Atlantic tropical cyclones41
Gliding tremors associated with the 26 second microseism in the Gulf of Guinea41
Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen41
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality41
Electric vehicle fleet penetration helps address inequalities in air quality and improves environmental justice41
Seagrass meadows are important sources of reef island-building sediment41
Mental health is positively associated with biodiversity in Canadian cities41
Trace americium contamination sources in the environment can be detected using 243Am/241Am40
Cooling of hydrothermal fluids rich in carbon dioxide can create large karst cave systems in carbonate rocks40
Marine darkwave as an event-based framework to assess unusual periods of reduced underwater light availability40
A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status40
Slope lineae as potential indicators of recent volatile loss on Mercury39
Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic39
Ancestral and contemporary intertidal mariculture practices support marine biodiversity in the northeast Pacific39
Fiber-optic observations capture wind wave evolution in Lake Ontario39
End-of-century Arctic Ocean phytoplankton blooms start a month earlier due to anthropogenic climate change39
Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years39
Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm39
Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils39
Blue carbon sequestration and storage potential has increased in seagrass sediments from Northern Morocco38
Land aridification persists in vulnerable drylands under climate mitigation scenarios38
Synergistic effect of abalone and macroalgae on carbon storage in a co-culture ecosystem38
Wet-hot days increased faster than dry-hot days during the warm season in Chinese cities over the past four decades38
Marine heatwaves are shaping the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the global ocean38
Sustainable aviation for a greener future38
Scalable flood-risk analysis for New York State culvert infrastructure reveals patterns of dependence38
Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review38
Preserved carbon isotope compositions in 3.7 billion year old detrital organic matter from the Isua Supracrustal Belt38
Global warming may turn ice-free areas of Maritime and Peninsular Antarctica into potential soil organic carbon sinks38
Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations38
Redox evolutions of planetary mantle reservoirs constrained by titanium isotopes37
Anti-repeating earthquakes and how to explain them37
Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans37
Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America37
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon37
Cost‑effective offshore carbon capture, utilization and storage deployment and transport network optimization in southern China37
Aerosol-driven North Pacific High anomaly enhances sea ice loss in the Chukchi Sea37
Estimating nutrient stoichiometry and cascading influences on plankton in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau37
Influence of oxygen on electronic correlation and transport in iron in the Earth’s outer core37
Ice-marginal proglacial lakes enhance outlet glacier velocities across Greenland37
Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States37
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade36
Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan36
Extreme heat and humidity reduce the recreational value of urban green spaces36
Differential effects of climate change on average and peak demand for heating and cooling across the contiguous USA36
Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK35
Closed-loop geothermal system is a potential source of low-carbon renewable energy35
Author Correction: Eating habits and sociodemographic factors impact household dietary greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Great Britain35
Author Correction: Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming35
Reduced aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau following the January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event35
Sub-millimeter molybdenum and uranium isotopes track millennial redox events in the Cambrian ocean35
Natural ocean alkalinization through erosion of glacial till and weathering at the seafloor35
Public support for carbon taxes varies across countries and policy design must consider the national context35
National-scale datasets underestimate vegetation recovery in Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon sequestration projects35
Author Correction: Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks35
Pressure-driven processes explain the decreasing magnetization of the subducting oceanic crust in the Japan Trench35
Enhanced tropical cyclone precipitation variability is linked to Pacific Decadal Oscillation since the 1940s34
Accumulation of rare earth elements in common vine leaves is achieved through extraction from soil and transport in the xylem sap34
Role of volatiles in highly explosive basaltic eruptions34
Tropical Indian Ocean forcing on North American terrestrial and agricultural productivity decline under greenhouse warming34
Atmospheric river activity during the late Holocene exceeds modern range of variability in California34
Arctic sea-ice ridges are biomass hotspots harboring diverse microbial communities34
Root uptake dominates mercury accumulation in permafrost plants of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau34
The impact of polar lows on the underlying ocean varies significantly by location34
Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China34
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation34
Abundant surface resins present on Middle Devonian land plants33
Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore33
Psychological health declined during the post-monsoon season in communities impacted by sea-level rise in Bangladesh33
Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems33
Prudent carbon dioxide removal strategies hedge against high climate sensitivity33
Detrital zircon–apatite fingerprinting challenges glacial transport of Stonehenge’s megaliths33
Community scientists provide knowledge and public education and help enforce environmental regulations in social-ecological systems33
Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data33
Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea33
Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes33
Retraction Note: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy33
Projected Atlantic overturning slow-down is to be compensated by a strengthened South Atlantic subtropical gyre33
Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion33
Forced changes in Atlantic overturning are distinctly fingerprinted by South Atlantic western boundary transports33
Understanding the drivers and predictability of record low Antarctic sea ice in austral winter 202332
Stand structure of tropical forests is strongly associated with primary productivity32
Rapid mineralisation of carbon dioxide in peridotites32
Impact of tropical cyclones and socioeconomic exposure on flood risk distribution in the Mekong Basin32
Distinct sources of uncertainty in simulations of the ocean biological carbon pump at different depths32
Fault-controlled magma pathways driving seismicity and eruption risk in Eastern Turkey32
Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity32
Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration32
Malaria transmission risk is projected to increase in the highlands of Western and Northern Rwanda32
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline32
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget32
Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems32
Far-reaching effects of Tibetan warming amplification on polar sea‑ice retreat32
No detectable trend in mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification32
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria31
Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps31
An automatic sediment-facies classification approach using machine learning and feature engineering31
Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments31
Climate-driven transition in microbial deterioration and protection of stone surfaces at cultural heritage sites31
Decoding organic compounds in lava tube sulfates to understand potential biomarkers in the Martian subsurface31
The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide31
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas31
Equatorial Pacific dust fertilization and source weathering influences on Eocene to Miocene global CO2 decline31
Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests31
River-lake ecosystems exhibit a strong seasonal cycle of greenhouse gas emissions31
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