Correction to: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00545-x. Published online 4 April 2024.

Following publication of this article, the authors uncovered errors in the code used to calculate the analysis reported. The revised code led to changes in the short summary, key points, “Global TWS changes” section, Fig. 1 and Summary paragraph, which have all been updated in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. For comparison, the original versions of these items are available in the Supplementary Information accompanying this amendment.