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  • To explore career opportunities outside of academia, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Nina Ridder about their career path from a postdoctoral scholar to a Senior Climate Advisor at Suncorp Group Limited.

    • Graham Simpkins
    • Nina Ridder
    Q&A
  • To explore career opportunities outside of academia, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Clare Davis about their career path from postdoctoral researcher to senior editor at Communications Earth & Environment.

    • Graham Simpkins
    • Clare Davis
    Q&A
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment launches a new series of articles — Climate Chronicles — that document the characteristics and changes of select climate variables each year.

    Editorial
  • To explore career opportunities outside of academia, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Giuliana Viglione about their career path from a graduate student to a climate journalist at Carbon Brief.

    • Graham Simpkins
    • Giuliana Viglione
    Q&A
  • 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