Editorials in 2024

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.

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.

Sand is an overlooked resource and is being depleted at an alarming rate. Improved management of sand extraction and consumption is imperative to protect sand resources and reduce the impacts of extraction.

Authors can now choose to use Code Ocean upon submission to make the peer review of code easier.

The Holocene flooding and sedimentation history of the Nile illustrates how fluvial geomorphology has long influenced human society.

Artificial intelligence tools have the potential to revolutionize how scientists work and publish. We share our ground rules for managing the inherent risks.

Cloud uncertainties have been a persistent problem in climate science, but innovative approaches are starting to make headway.

Compositional and structural variations within Earth’s lower mantle are a complex puzzle to which seismic data hold clues.

Understanding the ecosystem response to global environmental change requires consideration of geological processes, highlighting the interconnected nature of our Earth system.

Urgent efforts are needed to collect and preserve ice cores from mountain glaciers before these archives are lost.

A picture is worth a thousand words, as is a Nature Geoscience cover image.