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Tobermory Mackay-Champion describes the use of ambient noise tomography to understand subsurface structure.

An article in Case Studies on Transport Policy quantifies the environmental, social, and governance performances of three ports.

Ellie Hara describes the use of deep UV Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy in detecting organic compounds in rock.

Layla Ghazi describes the use of ramped pyrolysis oxidation coupled to carbon isotope analysis to understand organic matter.

An article in Geology shows how enhanced oxidative weathering could have stimulated the evolution of complex life in the Ediacaran, by increasing nutrient availability and ocean–atmosphere oxygen levels.

Laetitia Guibourdenche explains the use of multiple sulfur isotopes in understanding past and present sulfur cycling.

An article in Nature Food reveals that surface ozone generates annual crop losses totalling US$63 billion for wheat, maize and rice across East Asia.

An article in Geomorphology details the origins and evolution of Iberian rock glaciers.

Gregor Luetzenburg describes how LiDAR built into smartphones can be used to survey coastal cliffs and track their erosion.

Peiqing Lou explains how unmanned aerial vehicles help to monitor thaw slumps on the Tibetan Plateau.

Dong Wang discusses how random forest algorithms can be used to simulate the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks in permafrost regions of the Tibetan Plateau.

Erika Hille discusses how water geochemistry and remote sensing can be used to identify the landscape hydrological processes that influence Arctic rivers.

Michael Angelopoulos describes how electrical resistivity tomography can be used to track subsea permafrost changes.

Permafrost is thawing with rising temperatures. More work and collaboration are needed to understand the impacts of this thaw, and how to mitigate them.

Collaborative permafrost projects have great potential to overcome political and administrative barriers in the Arctic, bridging the gap between Russian and Western scientists, says Oleg Anisimov.

Permafrost is a fascinating but hidden world of ice, frozen soil, bacteria and gases. The transdisciplinary outreach project Frozen-Ground Cartoons (FGC) makes permafrost science accessible and fun for children, their parents and teachers around the globe.