Neuropteris sp.A coal mine drill core can bring up more than rock. Sometimes, it reveals a beautifully preserved fragment of an ancient forest. This Carboniferous fossil is tentatively identified as Neuropteris sp.--the "sp." means the species i...

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Above is B4 lidar topography data showing Wallace Creek in its glory.

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A Lamont-led study finds that global carbon budgets may underestimate how much carbon dioxide the ocean absorbs by roughly 5% to 15% because they do not fully account for the effects of rain....

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  Volcanos Part 3: The Stradivarius Violin  (AKA the influence of volcanic eruptions)Volcanic eruptions have had many pop-culture influences over the years including influencing art, literature, and even music. We are going to look at three notab...

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A cool, wet winter in the South is par for the course during El Niño, but a record-warm Gulf and Atlantic may boost the odds of extra-high tides and flooding rains (and could temper the hopes of East Coast snow lovers)....

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Drillcore samples laid out for examination in one of the NGR viewing labs. BGS © UKRI

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It was the summer of 1989. After a year of kicking around the North Sea, for several reasons I ended up in a Toyota Land Cruiser a few hours south of Jebel Dhanna, United Arab Emirates. We approached a land rig sheltering on the rocky desert floor under the bulk of a vast, crouching sand...

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On 9 November 2026, AGU joined a coalition letter urging appropriations leadership in the House and Senate to support the highest possible funding in FY27 for the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS provides objective, non-regulatory scientific information that protects lives and safeguards property, supports economic development, enhances natural resource management...

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Published by Hamlyn in 1989 as part of their Dinosaur Fact File series and authored by Mary O'Neill, The End of the Dinosaurs is all about, well, the extinction of the (non-avian) dinosaurs. As one might expect. Naturally, what caught my eye while...

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I had a little time to kill in Northallerton so decided to take a walk around All Saints Church. The church is Grade 1 listed, it's described by Pevsner as being 'A dark and imposing church', it is a big church but I think 'dark and impos...

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Climate scientist Marco Tedesco reflects on moderating a recent U.N. panel about early warning in a time of melting ice and sea-level rise, and why this work must extend beyond COP31....

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We tend to picture sloths hanging quietly in a tree, looking as though their next appointment is sometime on Thursday.Their fossil relatives had other plans. Some went into the ocean.Meet Thalassocnus, a group of extinct sloths that lived along the P...

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How do you study an ocean that is difficult to reach, frequently covered by sea ice, and far from most research institutions? Collecting observations is one challenge. Finding the measurements that already exist can be another.

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New broadband reprocessing reveals geological complexities around postdrill well-to-seismic calibration When reprocessed seismic AVO analysis results change conclusions for mapped targets at borehole and undrilled locations, systematic AVO QC is essential to demonstrate that amplitude fidelity is preserved during reprocessing and improvements are achieved without compromising these attributes. Workflows that interrogate and showcase that the...

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As I write this article, Ioto/Iwo-Jima erupts anew, ever since October 27, and I turn my attention back to this historically renowned island and dangerously overlooked volcanic system south of Japan, and I turn back my attention to quests I left unfi...

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From Simon Willison, the guy who brings us pelicans riding bicycles - beep locator! Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven't unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently...

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A new paper came out today, and in some ways it is the end of an era. But the results are also quite important both scientifically and for society. Benjamin Heurgue and Charles Amory, both at the Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement in G...

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October 2026 was the fourth warmest in 132 years of recordkeeping for the contiguous 48 U.S. states, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction reported on Monday. This was a microscopic cooldown at best in the wake of July, August, and S...

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For millions of years, Otodus megalodon occupied a formidable place in marine food webs. Its broad, serrated teeth could slice through flesh and leave deep marks in whale bones. Yet even this mighty predator eventually disappeared. Around 3.6 mi...

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In this month's research roundup, we explore how delayed climate action could trigger abrupt changes in the Arctic; what ancient ocean sediments reveal about carbon storage during the last ice age; how fiber-optic cables are improving earthquake moni...

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The post Improving the circularity of the UK economy - UK CMIC webinar appeared first on British Geological Survey.

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First some good news. Here in the U.S.A., November started with a bang as voters overwhelmingly rejected Donald Trump's Republican party. Democrats now control a comfortable majority in both houses of congress, and Trump will be the lamest of lame-...

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Back in September of 2007, I was moved to launch this blog with a post about an exposure of serpentine rock below a house being built up near the top of Crestmont Avenue. It looked like this at the time.

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Stoppani Glacier in 2015 and 2016 October Landsat images. The snowline is at 350 m in 2015 and at 700 m in 2026. Yellow arrows indicate a significant narrowing of the terminus tongue. Stoppani Glacier is a large valley glacierof the Cordillera Dar...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-based telescope that is creating a 10-year time-lapse video of the night sky to study dark matter, dark energy, the Milky Way, and Solar System objects....

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