News & Comment

Visibility is important, but to be truly inclusive, we need to create strong, resilient, and intersectional geoscience communities that confront the violence from both within and outside of academia, argues Rob Ulrich.

For Pride month, we celebrate our LGBTQ+ colleagues, recognise the challenges they face in traversing academia and the role the majority must play in fighting injustice.

Coming out means becoming human, to share common struggles, to become vulnerable. In this space, fear of rejection about sexual identity dissipates into “I am” but human, and it can start as simply as with a conversation with someone you like and trust, states Jef Caers.

Having multiple intersections of identity makes navigating geoscience complicated. Now is the time for non-marginalized people to take action and dismantle the biased system, outlines Jazmin Scarlett.

Come out, come out, wherever you are: the geosciences need LGBTQI+ allies, says Anson Mackay.

An article in Communications Earth & Environment finds that global harmful algal bloom occurrence has not significantly increased.

Kristin Chilton describes the use of point load testing in measuring bedrock strength and its application to geomorphology.

An article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explored the potential for strike-slip earthquakes to generate large tsunamis in narrow or shallow bays.

Emma Pearce discusses the use of hammer source seismic surveys to provide glaciological insight.

An article in Environmental Research Letters documents how end of life strategies impact the carbon emissions associated with a pair of jeans.

Hamed Gamal El Dien describes the application of atom probe tomography to the geosciences and discusses its use in understanding mantle heterogeneity.

A study in JGR Earth Surface examines the link between Hurricane María and sediment mobilization by landslides in Puerto Rico.

An article in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reports detailed magma movement through dikes during a rift episode in 2017 at the Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland.

Mónica Ramírez-Calderón outlines the use of fission track dating to provide constraints on the break up of the Pangea supercontinent

Krystal Vasquez describes chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS) and its use in atmospheric chemistry.

A study in the Journal of Hydrology explores the connections between climate conditions, intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams across four countries.

Matthew Payne describes the use of satellite imagery in tracking and understanding deforestation for oil palm.

Sarah Crump explains the use of sedimentary DNA analyses in paleoecology studies.

An article in Nature Food documents how food systems contribute approximately one-third of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

An article in Nature Communications reports a high-temperature melting curve of MgSiO₃ at pressures > 245 GPa, with implications for mantle melting during the formation of rocky planets