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  • Growing awareness of environmental risks and mounting regulatory and consumer pressure have driven unprecedented demand for environmental science expertise in the corporate sector. Recruiting skilled individuals with academic backgrounds and fostering collaboration among businesses, research institutions, universities and environmental professionals are vital for enhancing environmental knowledge and capability in companies.

    • Alexey K. Pavlov
    • Daiane G. Faller
    • Jane E. Collins
    Comment
  • To explore career opportunities outside of academia, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Tim Armitage about their career path from a postdoctoral researcher to a geoscience consultant at the British Geological Survey.

    • Erin Scott
    • Tim Armitage
    Q&A
  • To explore career opportunities outside of academia, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Sarah Clancy about their career path from a postdoctoral researcher to a technical policy advisor at Northumbrian Water.

    • Erin Scott
    • Sarah Clancy
    Q&A
  • To explore career opportunities outside of academia, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Sandra Snæbjörnsdóttir about their career path from postdoctoral researcher to Chief Scientist at Carbfix.

    • Graham Simpkins
    • Sandra Ó. Snæbjörnsdóttir
    Q&A
  • Antarctica and the Southern Ocean provide numerous ecosystem services that benefit people globally, but many are ‘invisible’ to markets and to some decision makers. A subset of these services — Antarctic tourism, commercial fisheries, and a suite of inter-related regulating services — are conservatively valued at ~US $180 billion annually, highlighting their importance.

    • Natalie Stoeckl
    • Vanessa Adams
    • Satoshi Yamazaki
    Comment
  • Ana Cristina Vasquez discusses how Cu isotopes can trace metal pollution sources from anthropogenic activities, such as urban pollution, traffic emissions, mining and smelting

    • Ana Cristina Vasquez
    Tools of the Trade
  • Sonification uses non-speech audio to convey complex data patterns in both space and time, overcoming visual and language barriers to science communication. Data sonification is primed to aid interpretations of multi-dimensional Earth and environmental data streams, perhaps even revealing unrecognized patterns and feedbacks in unwieldy datasets.

    • M. Russo
    • T. M. Gernon
    • T. K. Hincks
    Comment
  • An article in Geophysical Research Letters outlines that a positive trend in the Southern Annular Mode is unlikely to have caused observed cooling in Southern Ocean sea surface temperatures.

    • Graham Simpkins
    Research Highlight
  • Disaster risk communication traditionally focuses on authorities conveying hazard and risk information to at-risk populations, with little consideration of local community knowledge. To enable risk reduction and resilience, disaster management must forge partnerships with local communities and empower citizen-led initiatives.

    • I. S. Stewart
    • E. Sevilla
    • E. Yahya Menteşe
    Comment
  • An article in Soil & Environmental Health finds ghost forests are distinct from freshwater forested wetlands and salt marshes.

    • Laura Zinke
    Research Highlight
  • An article in Marine Policy assessed the abundance and causes of discarded fishing gear in Kerala, India, to help inform fishing debris management practices.

    • Erin Scott
    Research Highlight
  • An article in Space Weather estimates that an event like the Halloween solar storm of 2003 could cause large economic losses in the aviation sector if it occurred in the present day.

    • Laura Zinke
    Research Highlight
  • Infrastructure development and biodiversity conservation are often planned and executed in isolation. However, outcomes from these efforts are interlinked, with coordinated actions required to jointly address sustainability challenges. Natural infrastructure — encompassing a spectrum of natural to conventional solutions — is key to the infrastructure–biodiversity connection and should be brought into large-scale application.

    • S. Kyle McKay
    • Seth J. Wenger
    • Todd S. Bridges
    Comment
  • An article in Science Advances models the noise reduction potential of slowing down marine vessels and how this can mitigate impacts on marine mammals.

    • Laura Zinke
    Research Highlight