A new two-volume report finds that proposed climate intervention technologies are not ready for wide-scale deployment and are no substitute for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and adaptation efforts to combat climate change. Learn more at a February 26 webinar.

Join science lovers and ocean enthusiasts at the Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture, which this year features Dr. Susan Lozier of Duke University presenting findings that overturn long-held assumptions about ocean circulation. This free event at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History is followed by a reception.

Written with input from the ocean sciences community, a new report identifies priority areas for ocean science research in the next decade, including the rate and impacts of sea-level rise and better approaches for forecasting hazards such as mega-earthquakes and tsunamis. Learn more at the report webinar, and share your response to the report at the Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences website.

Gain-of-function research aims to improve understanding of disease pathways by modifying the ability of an infectious agent to cause disease. The potential benefits of such modifications are to help find targets for vaccines and drugs as well as provide information that can help in surveillance for potentially pandemic strains. But concerns about biosafety and biosecurity risks are also part of current debates over GOF research on the potentially pandemic viruses that cause influenza, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

This report offers a framework for assessing the health, environmental, social, and economic effects of proposed changes to the nation's food system.