To all our authors, reviewers, editors, and readers, happy holidays, and best wishes for a healthy, and peaceful New Year!

Happy World Soil Day :)

🚨New #openaccess study provides a spatial analysis of urine zinc (Zn) concentration for women of reproductive age & school age children in #Malawi. Zn is an essential micronutrient & its deficiency remains a major global #publichealth challenge! Link :rdcu.be/b6GPs

Congratulations to our Associate Editor, Andy :)

Fascinating new study uses trail cameras to track geophagy (eating #soil substrates) in wild animals such as bison & deer in #kudurs to see if this might be related to the presence of rare earth elements exposed to the soil surface by spring waters. Link: rdcu.be/b5540

Increasing evidence that Mn in drinking water is a health risk to children. New article sheds light on the variation in manganese (Mn) concentrations in well water & factors that affect Mn concentr. in groundwater in the natural environment in #Finland. rdcu.be/b5Az7.

In 2019 the journal published 15 papers by #EarlyCareerResearchers covering a wide range of topics in geochemistry & health! We thank all of you & encourage submissions from #ECR's all around the world. Enjoy free-access to these papers for 8 weeks: bit.ly/2BvEAaI

So pleased to announce that the 2019 #EarlyCareerResearcher Best Paper Award winner is PhD student Daniel E. González-Santamaría @uam_madrid for 'Impact of a tire fire accident on soil pollution & the use of clay minerals as natural geo-indicators! rdcu.be/b5nZR📣👏#ecr

New editorial highlights a need to provide @SocEGH #earlycareer researchers training & #mentorship opportunities, prizes, visibility, ECR chaired conference sessions, & #ECR edited (& reviewed) special issues! Link: link.springer.com/article/10… #phd #postdoc #geochemistry #health

So pleased to announce that the #impactfactor of @EGAH_Journal has increased to 3.472. JIF's reflect the yearly avg. no. of citations that articles published in 2017-2018 have received in 2019. Thank you to our authors, reviewers & readers for their continued support. 🙏

Are you a student or researcher in the natural sciences who is new to #peerreview or do you simply wish to refresh your skills? Register and take advantage of this free online course with Nature masterclasses! masterclasses.nature.com/onl… #earlycareer #PhD #postdoc

Must Read: New article evaluates possible impacts on of atmospheric mercury emanations from the Popocatépetl #volcano during intense activity on human health! rdcu.be/b4Qtu @UNAM_MX #mercury #mexico

New review article presents results of bibliometric analysis of publications focusing on toxic organophosphate contaminants since 1990 using @webofscience & @scopus. Read via: rdcu.be/b4uRQ @chijilisa @MandelaUni