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Efforts to decarbonize research often focus on air travel and on energy use in laboratories. Yet, in many fields, repeated collection of original data — through field campaigns, experiments or high-performance computing — represents the bulk of emissions. It also demands considerable funding and labour, especially from early-career researchers who must secure grants for bespoke data collection, even when relevant data sets already exist.
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Nature 643, 913 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02318-y
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