In 2019, Nature Communications published over 5,500 articles. We have put together a collection of our Top 50 articles across Earth and planetary sciences from last year, covering the fields of climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, natural hazards and much more.

Congratulations to all authors who contributed to these highly valuable research papers!

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_{* Based on data from Google Analytics, covering January-December 2019 (data has been normalized to account for articles published later in the year)}

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