Being in the right place at the right time is crucial. Clocks help us to coordinate dates and appointments. This is also important for research of the geological past, as it is the only way to reliably reconstruct cause and effect in the climate system. Geological climate archives must therefore be dated as precisely as possible in order to draw reliable conclusions. An international initiative of researchers, to which Dr. Thomas Westerhold from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, among others, has made a significant contribution, is now calling for the most important marine climate archives to be dated more precisely than ever before across all regions.

Every day across the globe, environmental scientists are collecting approximately 274 terabytes of data, and that data is often collected or sampled from ecosystems that are stewarded by Indigenous peoples. In a new Perspectives piece in Nature Communications, a group of researchers called the Earth Data Relations Working Group provide recommendations for how research practices can improve the governance of Indigenous data.

The study of ‘starquakes’ (like earthquakes, but in stars) promises to give us important new insights into the properties of neutron stars, improving our understanding of the universe and advancing the way we live.