Some fault systems in the world are well known for their destructive potential. Examples are Turkey's North Anatolian fault and California's San Andreas. In both cases, large events in the not-too-distant future are widely predicted. In Turkey, t...

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I am thinking about this for students in year 4/5 in the context of a sustainability course where we challenge them to question a lot of assumptions that they have met throughout most of their studies. We want a course-wide code of conduct, and then ...

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Be sure to vote for Group L in the poll at the bottom! England - 18/14/10/9 - Saunders Landsat false color image of Bristol Island erupting in 2016. The red glow at the summit is the new hot lava. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory. Tackling...

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This is intended to be the third and final installment in this series, and I'll probably forget something in here - but here goes! The Xenorophus monograph was a monumental task to write and publish, and this "cliff notes" version will probably fail to cover everything. There's a LOT of meat in there, so who knows how many additional posts I'll have to make. To see part 1, click here, and for part 2, click here.

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A planet's path around the Sun, a quasi-moon tagging along, and your name a million miles away....

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Another walk, another podcast episode! The Cult of Pedagogy podcast had an episode on "3 fresh ideas for structuring professional development" and their discussions were really interesting! First, they talked about how introducing new teaching me...

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This blog post and the "Deep Dive" podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on "Dynamically downscaled future projections of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean across low to high emissions scenarios" by Kim et al. (2025). This paper evaluates f...

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Remember to cast your vote for Group K at the bottom of this post! Portugal - 13/13/5/1 Pico on Pico Island in the Azores. It saw its last eruption in 1720. Credit: David Stanley / Wikimedia Commons. All of the volcanoes of Portugal are no...

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Of course, a spacecraft is not a prison or a hospital, but the comparison, maybe closer to a submarine or an Antarctic base; also total institutions, helps us understand why rights and responsibilities cannot be left vague. A legal and ethical framework does not mean controlling every personal gesture or belief. Rather, it helps clarify how freedom of conscience, cultural practices, privacy, non-discrimination, and mission constraints can coexist.

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Imagine determining the position of a point on Earth with millimeter precision using radio signals from celestial objects billions of light-years away. This may sound like science fiction, but it is exactly what Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) allows scientists to do.

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The Antarctic ice sheet is losing mass through the ice shelves fringing the continent, contributing to global mean sea level rise. The warm ocean brings heat towards the floating ice shelves and into the ocean beneath them, called ice shelf cavities. The ocean heat melts the ice from beneath, which then allows the ice sheet to slide forward into the ocean and raise sea levels. However, the processes that happen at and below ice shelves are complex and involve both small and large spatial and temporal scales. They are also hard to observe due to their remote nature (if you are curious about observing the interface between ice and ocean, check out this post). Therefore, it is important that we invest in developing robust and reliable models of ice shelf processes to accurately predict their influence on future climate and sea level.

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A day later, it is not yet fully understood whether this was two faults, two ruptures on the same fault in different sections or in the same section. Nevertheless, there are a couple of valuable takeaways that are emerging (CBC image). The f...

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Sometimes, I cannot prevent the feeling that the CO2 storage business is not so much about putting CO2 in the ground, but rather to keep an en­tire academic research community, a conference industry, and a contingent of geoscientists in a job. When it comes to academia, I see professors winning grants to do research that...

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I just returned from Lviv after 3 weeks. This European city of 700,000 in Galicia contains an amazing tapestry of people, culture, and history. Churches are filled to the brim by believers of the Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Armenian Catholic, and...

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Speakers explored how climate attribution research is shaping lawsuits, policy and public health....

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On Columbia's global research vessel, the R/V Marcus G. Langseth, Bahlau serves as the key link between scientists, crewmembers and operations on shore....

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Another example of the Trump Administration ignoring science There are many ways to make an endangered species less inconvenient. You can weaken regulations. You can exempt industries from environmental review. You can convene the Endangered Species ...

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Spinosaurus, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur MuseumEgypt is often celebrated for its pyramids and pharaohs, but beneath those golden sands lies a much older and equally astonishing legacy -- the fossil record of a land that has shifted from lush tropical...

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Remember to cast your vote for Group J at the bottom of this post! Argentina - 52/32/6/3 The Tromen Volcanic Plateau, the location of the most recent volcanic eruption wholly in Argentina. Credit: Mariano Mantel / Flickr. Argentina looks l...

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For more than a decade, I have spent a large part of my time not only doing research in planetary science, but also visiting schools, science festivals, public events, and talking to children, teachers, and everyone interested in geosciences. During these outreach activities I repeatedly encountered the same problem. People were genuinely curious about volcanoes, earthquakes, plate tectonics, or the interior of our planet, but when teachers asked me where they could find simple experiments to demonstrate these processes in the classroom, I often realized that I did not have much practical material to recommend.

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On June 1, 2026 the snowline is near the terminus of Argentiere Glacier at 2300 m, by June 24, 2026 the snowline has rise upglacier 3.3 km to 2700 m. The French Alps have expereienced a significant June heat wave that has driven a rapid rise in g...

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Yesterday at 6 pm local time (3 pm in Arizona) pair of large earthquakes occurred in rapid succession along the northern coast of Venezuela. The first, an M7.2, ruptured at a depth of about 20 km and about 180 km west of Caracas. 40 seconds later (w...

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By Bethan Davies (Lead Author, IPCC AR7, Chapter 2)

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The MEIGA dataset for Ardlochan is already playing a key role in refining a new generation of exploration targets, especially those associated with gold-rich porphyry-breccia systems. A major advantage of the datasets is that they capture Ardlochan at a time when the area was largely unforested. This allowed for far more detailed bedrock mapping than is possible today and provides a clearer geological framework from which to work.

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Classic Riedel shears are the first subsidiary fractures that form prior to breakthrough of a master fault. They appear as low-angle (~15°) en echelon arrays oriented synthetically to the principal displace­ment zone (PDZ), sharing the same sense of slip. This synthet­ic-first sequence is widely assumed to control fault nucleation in brittle crust. Although best known...

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