Paleoclimate databases are powerful tools for improving climate models. The recent work of speleothem researchers offers lessons on creating a lasting database and fostering the needed mindset.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Observations from the newest geostationary Earth-observing satellites are offering valuable views of fire progression and smoke plume development and helping simulate impacts from large wildfires.Read More »Mathematical Geophysics
Lower-income urban communities bear the brunt of environmental burdens, even in wealthy green cities around the world.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Scientists call for joint efforts to combine real-time global rainfall data with high-resolution local hydrology to better forecast floods. Read More »Science Policy & Funding
When most agriculture in the world is rural, getting crucial geoscience information to farmers is a technical challenge that a few organizations are just starting to figure out.Read More »Biogeosciences
A 15-year-old partnership among Chinese and U.S. scientists studying challenges in our food, energy, and water systems has revealed that solutions are best achieved through international collaboration.Read More »Biogeosciences
Tackling data challenges and incorporating physics into machine learning models will help unlock the potential of artificial intelligence to answer Earth science questions.Read More »Mathematical Geophysics
A new cross-journal special collection invites contributions on how machine learning can be used for solid Earth observation, modeling and understanding.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
In classic paleomagnetic data processing uncertainties are calculated at a single level only, but there is now a more lucid way to include error propagation.Read More »