By tracing the evolutionary history of beneficial soil microbes, scientists hope to unearth a sustainable solution for producing food to feed a growing global population.
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Empowering Genderqueer Geoscientists: Being and Building the Change
A joint AGU-AMS panel outlined how individuals, institutions, and professional associations can take action to expand opportunities for those with traditionally marginalized identities.
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Global Change Research for a More Secure World
Orienting global change science so that it informs national security issues will help us develop interventions that promote social stability and ecological well-being.
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Impulsando el apoyo para estudiantes y profesionales en etapas tempranas de sus carreras
Los grupos de estudiantes y profesionales en etapas tempranas de sus carreras (E&PETCs) pueden construir comunidades, impulsar cambios equitativos en las instituciones y promover el bienestar de las personas que recorren, los muy a menudo, caminos tortuosos hacia carreras científicas.
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Snapping Science in the Field
Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app, offers a range of features that make it an unexpectedly useful tool for geoscientists on the go.
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From Newsworthiness to News Usefulness in Climate Change Research
Current approaches for deciding what science is covered in the media portray only a narrow slice of climate change research and aren’t well suited for stoking climate action.
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Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Physical Geography
Geography, a discipline combining geosciences and social sciences, is becoming more demographically diverse overall. But physical geography is lagging behind and needs to catch up.
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A Transformative Carbon Sink in the Ocean?
Water-rock reactions in some hydrothermal systems produce both hydrogen, which could be tapped for clean energy, and alkaline solutions that could help draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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How to Address Publication Overload in Environmental Science
Combining traditional human-curated syntheses of scientific research with the search and visualization tools of artificial intelligence could guide researchers through avalanches of publications.
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The Supreme Court Is Bypassing Science—We Can’t Ignore It
The court’s exclusion of scientists from the environmental rulemaking process comes full circle as the EPA strips federal protections for wetlands.