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Margaret Cramm explains how quantitative stable isotope probing is used to understand microbial activities in the environment.

The textile industry has tried to combat the criticism of fast fashion through overly simplistic solutions at the product and operational level. Fast fashion cannot be fixed — the industry needs to be reconstructed to emphasize long material and product lifetimes.

An article in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems uncovers the source, distribution, and concentration of rare earth elements, yttrium and scandium in sea-floor sediments within the South Pacific Gyre.

Igor Pessoa describes how past environmental conditions can be inferred by measuring trace metals in coral skeletons.

Microorganisms and minerals both contribute to organic carbon preservation and accumulation in soil. The soil microbial carbon pump describes the microbial processes, but a separate soil mineral carbon pump needs to be acknowledged and investigated.

Mariana Gómez-Nicolás describes how coastal groundwater discharge zones can be mapped with electrical resistivity.

Steven Franke explains how high-resolution radio-echo sounding (RES) data enable the reconstruction of past ice sheet behaviour.

An article in Global Environmental Change documents the time of, and spatial variability in, transgression of the nitrogen and phosphorus planetary boundaries.

An article in Global Change Biology investigates the relationship between extreme negative anomalies of vegetation growth and climate extremes.

An article in Earth & Planetary Science Letters finds that post-collisional granites can be derived from a modified primary mantle source, rather than recycled lower crust.

An article in JGR Solid Earth explores the events of the 2018 Kīlauea eruption to assess the hazards posed by magma stored and transported quickly through volcanic flanks.

An article in Journal of Climate documents the changing occurrence of compound tropical cyclone–heatwave events in southeastern China.