People in rural communities are often hit disproportionately hard by natural hazards, largely because of in-equitable and inflexible risk reduction policies. But there are ways to change that.
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La comprensión de nuestro medio ambiente requiere una cosmovisión indígena
A medida que las comunidades de geociencias y de creación de políticas comienzan a reconocer la importancia de incluir el conocimiento indígena en su trabajo, debemos darle el valor adecuado con tiempo y financiación equitativos.
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Student-Led Diversity Audits: A Strategy for Change
A group at the University of Oxford designed a new way to identify and present solutions to faculty that address inequities in the school’s Department of Earth Sciences.
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Enhancing Food Security Through Earth Science Data
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.
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Graduate Student Perspectives on Equitable Remote Learning
Remote learning can be a catalyst for instructors and institutions to invest in teaching practices that reinforce growth mindsets and that help students share responsibility for learning outcomes.
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Charting Satellite Courses in a Crowded Thermosphere
As the number of satellites in low Earth orbit grows by leaps and bounds, accurate calculations of the effects of atmospheric drag on their trajectories are becoming critically important.
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How to Combat Bullying and Discrimination in the Geosciences
Here are 10 practical steps that scientists can take to counteract the detrimental effects of abusive academic work environments.
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Affordable Clean Energy Rule Threatens Progress of Clean Air Act
The scientific community must act to minimize the adverse air quality and health impacts of relaxed EPA regulation.
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Data Sets Are Foundational to Research. Why Don’t We Cite Them?
The lack of clear references to and descriptions of data sets in published literature limits the usefulness of data, as well as the reproducibility and credibility of scientific findings.
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Reframing the Language of Retreat
With so many communities facing relocation from a changing climate, reframing “managed retreat” is needed to respect people’s self-determination.