![Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is a soil biogeochemist and political ecologist, seen here digging and examining soil.](http://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-022-01500-w/d41586-022-01500-w_22755444.jpg)
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is a biogeochemist at the University of California, Merced, and director of the US Department of Energy Office of Science. Credit: T.A. Ghezzehei for Nature
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Nature 606, 218 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01500-w
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Clarification 31 May 2022: An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Asmeret Asefaw Berhe as Asmeret Berhe.