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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The probe aims to bring back a sample from the asteroid Kamo'oalewa....

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Remember to cast your vote for Group I at the bottom of this post! France - 33/20/11/8 Chaîne des Puys region of France. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Colonies mean that some countries end up with volcanoes are far flung areas. France might h...

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For most of human history, darkness was not an exception in urban life. It was part of the ordinary condition of inhabiting the world. Nighttime framed resting, shaped social rhythms, protected ecosystems, and connected human beings to realities larg...

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The loss of glaciers across the Andes and the Himalayas impacts not only water supplies, but also the cultural and spiritual lives of local communities....

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Hello blog readers! It's Jean-Baptiste and Alexis. With EGU26 now behind us and summer approaching fast, we wanted to announce the start of the 9th blogging season for the Geodynamics division and introduce the team for the 2026-2027 year. We bot...

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You may recall our dog, Eleanor, a.k.a. the Dire Floof. She definitely has "domestication forehead". Despite looking pretty darned wolf-y at times. I dearly love this dog, but I take one look at that photo -- or watch her literally shake the ...

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While pulling together some data today for our latest Water Matters podcast, I was surprised by the dry streak we've been in. The last above average monsoon here was 2018. (Episode posts tomorrow - 6/23 - I'll try to remember to update th...

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In the decade before the Normanpedia appeared and all and sundry decided to slavishly copy John Sibbick's  work, Giovanni Caselli's illustrations for Halstead's The evolution and ecology of the Dinosaurs were often held up as the gold standard...

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Remember to cast your vote for Group H at the bottom of this post! Spain - 9/8/4/2 Volcanic gases from the 2021 eruption of La Palma in the Canary Islands. Credit: Mike Peel / Wikimedia Commons The volcanoes of Spain are dominated by the ...

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This fierce predator with the luxurious coat is Smilodon fatalis -- a compact but robust killer that weighed in around 160 to 280 kg and was 1.5 - 2.2 metres long.Smilodon is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. It is one of ...

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"Let's start at a situation where we are drilling a 10,000 ft horizontal well in a prospective but yet undrilled shale play," Jessica Fallon starts her explana­tion, "and we frac the shale along the full horizontal length of the well. The frac is pumped in isolated stages along the wellbore and can easily take between...

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Last week, I published an OpEd at The Hill arguing that the Trump Administration has fundamentally altered the United States' relationship to the international maritime community and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It's tough to capture ...

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