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Gladys Brown WEST - Female Mathematician & Creator of Satellite Geodesy Models (GPS)

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Gladys WEST and Sam SMITH , U. S. Navy ; Link Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, dies at 95 (Michael S. ROSENWALD, New York Times ; January 27, 2026) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/science/gladys-west-dead.html Gladys West - The hidden figure who helped invent GPS (Aamna MOHDIN, The Guardian UK; 19 November 2020) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/19/gladys-west-the-hidden-figure-who-helped-invent-gps Gladys WEST pictured with her husband, Ira WEST , Unknown Author ; Link Dr. Gladys WEST - 2018 Inductee in the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame , U. S. Air Force ; Link
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Nature's Self-Repairing Ecological Engine is Slowing due to Climate Change Effects

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Biodiversity and related topics in the MaRDI Knowledge Graph ,  Daniel MIETCHEN ;  Link "This engine is grinding to a halt" - Nature slowing down as climate change gains pace (News Release, Queen Mary University of London ; 9 February 2026) https://www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cbs/news/5338/this-engine-is-grinding-to-a-halt-nature-slowing-down-as-climate-change-gains-pace/ Featured Research Article: Widespread slowdown in short-term species turnover despite accelerating climate change (NWANKWO and ROSSBERG, 2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68187-1 Also... Ecological Communities with Lotka-Volterra Dynamics (BUNIN, 2017) http://phsites.technion.ac.il/bunin/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2018/08/PhysRevE.95.042414_LV_communities.pdf
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Earth's Atmospheric Transfer to Lunar Soils

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PARAMANICK et al. , 2025 The moon has been secretly feasting on Earth's atmosphere for billions of years (Harry BAKER, LiveScience ; January 6, 2026) https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/the-moon-has-been-secretly-feasting-on-earths-atmosphere-for-billions-of-years Featured Research Article: Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the near side lunar regolith during the history of Earth's dynamo (PARAMANICK et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02960-4
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Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science | The Conversation

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Record Breaking Temperatures in Greenland ,  European Union Copernicus Climate Change Service Data (CMES) ; Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data,  Link Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science (Martin SIEGERT, The Conversation ; January 9, 2026) https://theconversation.com/why-greenland-is-indispensable-to-global-climate-science-273064 Simplified Geologic Map of Greenland showing Basement terrains and Sedimentary basins ,  Flemming G. CHRISTIANSEN ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link
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Another Planetary Boundary Crossed: Ocean Acidification

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Ocean Acidification ,  Sky SMITH/UCSD Scripps Institute of Oceanography ;  Link Explainer:  The latest science on Ocean acidification (Anna NAPOLITANO, Dialogue Earth ; December 23, 2025) https://dialogue.earth/en/ocean/explainer-the-latest-science-on-ocean-acidification/ Also... From Global Emissions to Local Impacts:  Spatially Explicit Modelling of Ocean Acidification in Life Cycle Assessment (ANDERSON et al. , 2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.5c02069
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