Accelerating interest in ocean-based carbon dioxide removal often focuses on how much CO2 the ocean could absorb from the atmosphere, but how confidently can we measure this removal?
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Breaking Data Scarcity Loops in Mountainous Regions
Living labs foster codesigned landscape and hydrological monitoring efforts and tools, thereby improving the reliability and adoption of satellite products and models in decisionmaking.
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What We Could Lose by Trying to Make Mars Habitable
The rock, ice, and atmosphere of Mars hold a largely unread archive. Terraforming could erase it before the biggest scientific questions are answered.
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Life in the Skies Links Ecosystems Near and Far. It Deserves More Attention.
Our understanding of Earth’s biology and its responses to environmental change is limited by an incomplete picture of the planet’s dynamic aerobiome.
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Underground Hydrogen: Two High-Reward Bets, One Indispensable Science
Regardless of the commercial implications, there is a solid scientific case for research into underground hydrogen storage and natural hydrogen production.
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Prioritizing Quality Before Synthesis in Paleoenvironmental Hazard Science
The field needs methodological and workforce development. A proposed new center should invest there first.
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A Hybrid Approach for Revealing Headwater Hydrology
Coordinated work to compile existing data and apply models pairing physical understanding with machine learning could substantially improve streamflow predictions for little-known headwater basins.
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Archetypes Could Accelerate Agricultural Adaptation to Less Snowpack
Measurable characteristics can be used to develop archetypes of complex agricultural systems, helping stakeholders to assess where different adaptation strategies are more likely to succeed.
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The Governance Gap Threatening Long-Term Ecological Archives
To save multigenerational science from administrative indifference, we must mandate stewardship continuity before closing physical facilities.
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The Global Impact of Losing U.S. Sea Level Science
Cuts to climate science risk halting or even erasing decades of progress in global change research—just as risks from rising seas demand better data, informed decisionmaking, and faster action.