From the Editors

As 2025 draws to a close, Elements is grateful to celebrate another successful year of literary rigor and collaboration in the geosciences.This has been a particularly exciting time as 2025 marked Elements' 20 th anniversary-two remarkable decades of connecting our global geoscience community through the shared language of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology.Highlights of the year included gallery exhibits, special sessions, and other activities at Goldschmidt 2025 in Prague (Czech Republic) and IAGC3 in Cagliari (Italy), where so many of you joined to reflect on Elements' journey-from its bold inception in 2005 to its continued evolution as a leading society publication in the natural sciences.To celebrate Elements' milestone year, we also launched the Elements Heritage Series, which ran throughout 2025 and featured one reflective article per issue.Each piece captured a different facet of our shared