Soils are home to diverse microbial communities that cycle nutrients, support agriculture, and trap carbon — an important service for climate mitigation. Globally, around 80% of Earth’s terrestrial carbon stores are found in soils. Due to climate warming and other human activities that affect soil microorganisms, this important carbon sink […]
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Institutional environments trap disabled geoscientists between a rock and a workplace
Credit rating: CC0 General public Domain Inaccessible workplaces, normative departmental cultures and ableist academic techniques have all contributed to the continued underrepresentation and exclusion of disabled scientists in the Geosciences, in accordance to an posting revealed Thursday 8 June in Nature Geoscience. The write-up argues that adjustments to both doing […]