The correct pronunciation of a word in English is not always straightforward, and this is particularly the case for place names and other proper nouns that are prominent in geoscience research. For example, sedimentary deposits in former coal strip-mining pits in northern Illinois, USA, bear an assemblage of well-preserved Carboniferous fossils, including the enigmatic Tullimonstrum, an extinct soft-bodied

The intense, efficient transfer of organic carbon from the surface to the deep Southern Ocean make it a key component of the global carbon cycle. Observations show that this process isn’t always driven by sinking diatom skeletons, which often don’t make it past the mid-depth twilight zone, challenging the understanding of how climate change may impact the region.

Early career researchers (ECRs), including those in undergraduate and graduate programmes as well as those at the start of their academic careers, are a critical part of the geoscience workforce seeking to understand Earth’s history. This work is especially important for understanding the growing impacts of anthropogenic climate change. However, the recent decommissioning of one of the few ships capable

The level at which Earth is instrumented, observed, and modelled has radically advanced our knowledge of recent and ongoing climate change, but this knowledge lends a false sense of sophistication to our understanding of Earth system behaviour. The geological record has revealed repeated examples of seemingly unimaginable climate scenarios — times when Earth’s climate evolved in surprising ways (for

Cores recovered from below the seafloor provide clues to open questions in Earth science. A looming gap in international ocean drilling requires renewed support and urgent action.

Nature Geoscience spoke with Susanne M. Straub, an igneous geochemist at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory; Susan Q. Lang, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and Yige Zhang, a palaeoceanographer at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, about science supported by deep ocean drilling and the impact of the recent decommissioning the JOIDES Resolution drilling vessel

Correction to: Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01070-6, published online 5 January 2023.

Geologists are seeking new critical mineral resources that are needed to support the world’s transition to net-zero carbon emissions.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly enabling geoscience research. Ensuring community trust in its outcomes requires education and transparency.

Nature Geoscience spoke with Dr Mariana Clare, a machine learning scientist at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts; Prof. Haifeng Qian, an environmental scientist at Zhejiang University of Technology; and Dr Theresa Sawi, a seismologist at the US Geological Survey, about using artificial intelligence (AI) in their research and in geoscience generally.

The world is facing many challenges, most of them in some way associated with nature. And yet, much of the focus on nature within these challenges has been solely on biodiversity, the biotic part of nature. Geodiversity, which encompasses the non-living elements of nature — including things such as rock, minerals, fossils, soils, and landscapes, as well as the processes that create, modify, and destroy