Mountain landscapes are as much a product of erosion as they are of uplift. It is certainly true that glaciers can carve uplifted regions, increasing their topographic relief.

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Ever since the introduction of electronic devices with touch controls, interactive 3D graphics objects have become increasingly popular in multimedia electronic books (ebooks). The Lidar Toolbox and the Computer Vision Toolbox from MathWorks provide ...

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Today's list of papers includes a large number of publications on the Tibetan Plateau, but earthquake aficionados will also find interesting studies on methodological aspects of earthquake geology and case studies from Europa, the Americas, and Aotearoa / New Zealand. Enjoy reading and let us know if we've missed something!

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Proposed NASA cuts would cancel dozens of space missions -- including spacecraft already paid for, launched, and making discoveries....

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The rock and ice avalanche that overtook Blatten was exceptionally large for the Alps. Read More......

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The decorative streetlights, the hanging planters, the Chamber of Commercial-style tourist banners, the antique stores, the nascent brew pub scene. The old motels, with their seen-better-days charm. The newer motels (but still old), out by the interstate, with U-Hauls in the parking lot and their seen-better-days lack of charm.

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If you frequent the eastern coast of North America north of Maine to the western tip of Europe, along the coast of Norway near Svalbard you may have glimpsed one of their chubby, dark silver-grey and white residents. Hooded seals, Cystophora cri...

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Environmental sound artist Mary Edwards turns field recordings of glacial phenomena in Svalbard into a collaborative musical performance....

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Antarctica is Earth's most remote continent, barely touched by human activities.

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Left, Polypodium saximontanum, leaves to 25 cm long (Matt Berger); right, P. virginianum, leaves to 40 cm long.For May, the South Dakota "Monthly Fern" series features polypodies--Polypodium saximontanum and P. virginianum. The genus name comes fr...

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Canadian wildfires produced smoke plumes so vast they were visible from deep space and caused hazy skies as far south as Florida. Read More......

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Back in the seemingly long-vanished and quasi-mythical past of...2019, I wrote an article reflecting on the original Walking With Dinosaurs, two decades on from its debut. At the time we were still awaiting an obvious successor; while a number of se...

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The Sabin Center's newest publication, Legacy Liabilities for Oil and Gas Wells under the Mineral Leasing Act, examines the laws and regulations that allow the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") to pursue the prior owners and operators of oil and gas wells on federal land for the costs of plugging those wells, removing other infrastructure, and generally "cleaning up" at the end of operations. These costs, which we refer to as "legacy liabilities," are meant to be paid by oil and gas operators but, in recent years, have increasingly fallen on taxpayers as operators have skirted their legal requirements.  Our new report documents the history of legacy liabilities on the BLM-managed land, highlights key gaps in the MLA's legacy liability rules, and recommends reforms to the laws governing well-plugging and other clean-up on federal land.

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We have a promising update regarding the case for which AGU is one of the plaintiffs. In AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO, et al., v. Donald J. Trump et al., Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the request for a preliminary injunction, which blocks the government from executing any of their reduction-in-force (RIFs) and reorganization plans until the case comes to a full resolution. This order is the largest and most significant setback to the President's authority to reorganize the government without Congressional approval.  

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In a move that worried politicians and space scientists alike, President Trump announced on 31 May that he will withdraw his nomination of Jared Isaacman for the position of NASA administrator, according to Semafor. Isaacman's nomination received bipartisan support and he was expected to easily pass a Senate confirmation vote in a few days.

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For the next few weeks, we will be considering geological time. The ELI today is 'The toilet roll of time; make a geological timeline to take home'.

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Colorado River Basin reservoir storage. Jack Schmidt* and John Fleck** *Center for Colorado River Studies, Utah State University **Utton Transboundary Resources Center, University of New Mexico School of Law 1 June 2025   We now begin June, when the...

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This month's open thread. Please stay on climate topics and try to be constructive.

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I am taking a break this week and plan to post again on Sunday, June 8....

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The Mississippi River has shaped the landscape in southeastern Louisiana, supporting agriculture and connecting the region with vital trade and navigation routes. Read More......

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Over multiple generations of CMIP models Arctic sea ice trend predictions have gone from much too stable to about right. Why?

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The University of Canterbury has an interesting open position in ?tautahi / Christchurch, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Active Tectonics and Geomorphology: https://jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/ajid/wO5F9/Lecturer-Senior-Lecturer-in-Active-Tectonics-and-Geomorphology,26259.

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This post is about my discovery of a tiny slice of life in this country, dating back to the early 20th century.  This isn't a story about paleontology or even natural history.  Rather, it's about the attraction of exploring and making some sense of a world that seems familiar but which is also distinct in many ways from mine today.  Though not a matter of deep time, it feels a bit like it.  The attraction of this research is quite analogous to what I experience when engaging with paleontology or natural history.  (This is my thin justification for uploading this post.)

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Rockfalls overwhelmed one of Vallunaraju's glacial lakes, unleashing a destructive debris flow that struck the city of Huaraz. Read More......

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