NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world. I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.

Our boat just returned to Kinshasa after a month cruising down the Kasai River for the #TropSEDs project. It was a beautiful, tough, and successful journey that adds important wet season samples to our growing collection.

Geologists reject the designation of the "Anthropocene" as an official epoch theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

If you or anyone you know is looking for a postdoc studying the biogeochemistry of central African tropical forests, take a look at this opportunity with the awesome Marijn Bauters! jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Post…

For the german speakers! A very nice talk by colleague and co-author Matti Barthel on our Ruki River study and some of our Congo Basin work youtube.com/watch?v=HFfH9t…

Nice summary of our Ruki River study by Lindsey Doermann at NASA Earth! SAE Group johansix Kristof Van Oost scitechdaily.com/ruki-rivers-ca…

Just in – data from our newest Earth-observing satellite, PACE! With PACE data, scientists can study microscopic life in the ocean and particles in the air, allowing us to monitor ocean health, air pollution, and impacts of climate change. More: go.nasa.gov/4aNNGe2

Very cool to see my friend Jenna Forsyth listed by Time 100 Health for her awesome research on lead contamination of turmeric! Talk about impactful research! time.com/6968416/jenna-…

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When are we going to create a new category for scientific "authorship" that is "only provided a few data points to a massive global synthesis"? These hundred+ author papers that get cited a ton should be listed in a different category...

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

Depth‐Partitioning of Particulate Organic Carbon Composition in the Rising and Falling Stages of the Amazon River - agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20… We explore depth trends in the concentration and composition of POC in the Amazon River Mainstem at Obidos. Sarah Z Rosengard Drew Steen

The war in Ukraine is also a war for soil. Sebastian Doetterl, Professor for #SoilResources at ETH Zurich explains what makes Ukrainian soil so valuable and why it will become even more geopolitically significant. ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

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Wildfires have surged globally in August 2024, mainly in Africa. The chart shows the weekly area burned by wildfires globally and in Africa from 2012 to 2024. This August saw an abrupt increase in the area burned by wildfires, with most of this rise coming in a single week.

Congratulations to Laura Summerauer who just successfully defended her PhD thesis! The thesis examines the effect of #deforestation on #soil redistribution and soil #degradation on #croplands along the steep topography of the East African Rift system.

The drivers of the loss of tree cover are different in each region. Recent data from Global Forest Watch shows trends in tree cover loss, split by five drivers: forestry, shifting agriculture, and wildfires, which lead to temporary tree cover loss, while commodity-driven

I am looking for a PhD student (fully funded, 4 years) to start next year at Stockholm University. Apply before 5/11 online. Topic is described in the link but in a nutshell: effect is glacier melt on carbon cycling in Greenlandic fjords su.se/english/about-…