Pandemic relief funding should provide a much-needed boost to scientific research. And we should steer those dollars toward where they can do the most good.Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
Challenges to studying the ionosphere’s ability to conduct electrical currents undercut scientists’ efforts to improve space weather forecasting models. Let’s tackle them together.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
An Arctic research team of 150 members that implemented a culture of safety, inclusion, and trust as the foundation for cross-disciplinary science shares lessons from its experiences.Read More »Geohealth
At the intersection of human health and the environment, the emerging field called geohealth can teach us how not to repeat mistakes made in past disasters.Read More »Education
Graduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst redesigned their departmental seminar series to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion, and other institutions could do the same.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Gulf Research Program executive director Lauren Alexander Augustine discusses the impact science can have on communities when given money and time. Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Accurately assessing flood hazards requires a better understanding of the feedbacks between natural and human influences on the characteristics of rivers.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
A student who saw his climate research misrepresented in online forums shares the experience, as well as lessons learned and recommendations for how to counter efforts to distort climate science.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Nonperennial rivers are a major—and growing—part of the global river network. New research and science-based policies are needed to ensure the sustainability of these long-overlooked waterways.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
