Colonial relationships with Indigenous land and knowledge in geoscience disciplines must be acknowledged to address harm and change how science is done, argues Max Liboiron.
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Liboiron, M. Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion. Nat. Geosci. 14, 876–877 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00861-7
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