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Mashup Score: 20The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a shift to a plastic circular economy - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - 3 year(s) ago
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating plastic pollution. A shift in waste management practices is thus urgently needed to close the plastic loop, requiring governments, researchers and industries working towards intelligent design and sustainable upcycling.
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Mashup Score: 0Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - 3 year(s) ago
The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has global climatic implications, necessitating understanding of its observed and projected changes. This Review brings together knowledge of ENSO in a warming climate, revealing projected increases in ENSO magnitude, as well as ENSO-related rainfall and sea surface temperature variability.
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Mashup Score: 12“I am” - 3 year(s) ago
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.
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Mashup Score: 6Queer geoscientists need more than visibility - 3 year(s) ago
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.
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Mashup Score: 2A minority within a minority - 3 year(s) ago
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.
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Mashup Score: 13LGBTQI+ allyship in academia - 3 year(s) ago
Come out, come out, wherever you are: the geosciences need LGBTQI+ allies, says Anson Mackay.
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Submarine groundwater discharge transports nutrients from terrestrial to marine systems, but is often ignored in coastal biogeochemistry. In this Review, the fluxes, impacts and management implications of this discharge are examined and compared with riverine fluxes globally.
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Mashup Score: 1Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales - 3 year(s) ago
Mountain building involves complex and debated feedback cycles between both permanent tectonic and transient seismic processes. This Review discusses how the fault architecture and tectonic segmentation of the Himalaya influence the seismic cycle, which in turn impacts the long-term growth of the mountain range.
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Mashup Score: 17The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System - 4 year(s) ago
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial global impact. This Perspective provides insight into the environmental effects of the pandemic, documenting how it offers an opportunity to better understand the Earth System.
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Mashup Score: 0Cutting the carbon cost of academic travel - 4 year(s) ago
Travel is a key part of academic life, and the carbon emissions associated with it are high. Personal decisions to reduce flying can contribute to climate action, and need not compromise research.
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A Comment article published in @NatRevEarthEnv discusses how COVID-19 has worsened plastic pollution and why a shift in waste management practices is necessary to close the plastic loop. https://t.co/KCxtQxVkT0 https://t.co/SVHMD8XD4C