Old stars may offer a rainbow of color, while a Mars rover sets a new record, and a JWST image gets an artistic makeover....

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Welcome to the second post in our GeoLog series on communicating uncertainty! Written by students from an interdisciplinary course at the University of Tübingen led by Dr. Solmaz Mohadjer, this series highlights how reframing the unknown as a strength can transform science communication. In this piece, Ana Isidora Ciobanu and Sarah Lind show why uncertainty is far from a scientific flaw, but is, in fact, the very engine of scientific progress. By drawing parallels to how we manage everyday unknowns, like checking weather forecasts or route traffic, they unpack concepts like epistemic versus aleatory uncertainty, falsifiability, and the Information-Gap Theory. Using a vivid metaphor of science as a growing tree, they demonstrate why embracing what we don't know fuels curiosity and prevents knowledge from hardening into dogma, concluding with a practical three-step guide to help readers navigate uncertainty-related stress.

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The weathering crust of ice sheets or glaciers is a layer of porous ice, bordering on impermeable ice below and influencing the meltwater storage and production. This physically complex environment harbors a wide range of microorganisms that themselves affect the weathering crust and contribute to darkening of ice surfaces. The two factors - microbial community and ice structure - and their respective impacts on the melting of ice sheets and glaciers are difficult to separate in field experiments which is why modeling of this environment is beneficial. A model is a simplified representation of a real-world system or process in mathematical terms, that allows scientists to test different scenarios. 

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As promised, here's another look at Karen Carr's work as published in Lone Star Dinosaurs, a book about Texan dinosaurs (duh) written by Texan palaeontologist Louis Jacobs and published by Texas A&M University Press in 1995. Do go and read the f...

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Due out in early 2027, it's the best climate change documentary I've ever seen. The producers need donations to finish it....

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While the Atlantic slumbers, we need to watch two potential rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones in the Pacific....

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A story of Citizens' Stewardship that helped achieve nature-based goals within neighbourhoods of Mumbai in the 2020s. Published ? May 2150. This story begins more than a century ago, in the days when the city was still learning that concrete coul...

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Drawing inspiration from new research shared by EGU scientists, this column brings you some of the latest publications. This edition covers the globe, from the air we breathe in Ireland and China to the waves that stitch the tropics to the Southern Hemisphere.

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Inspired by the freedom found in the mountains, this M.S. in Sustainability Management alum calls for restoring ecosystems and building communities where every living being can flourish authentically....

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A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive. This could be how they get us sick....

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The first mission to land on a moon of Mars could launch as soon as Oct. 19, carrying with it a sample collection instrument that The Planetary Society helped develop....

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Before I go much further, I want to stress how serious earthquakes are. It's not really a laughing matter if you live as I do in earthquake country. Millions of people have died from earthquakes in the last century or two, and they are still recovering bodies in Venezuela from the quake last June (6,500 dead so far with tens of thousands still missing).

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Volcanos Part 1: Frankenstein (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 notable instances. The...

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At a Climate Week symposium, Columbia Engineering convened members of government, industry and academia to examine critical mineral supply chains and emerging energy sources....

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The great project to build the Oakland harbor in the inlet of San Antonio Creek -- the Estuary -- began with an act of Congress in 1873. It would rely on redirecting natural processes to serve human needs. The plan the federal engineers came up with, in 1874, depended on harnessing the daily tides to keep the shipping channels clean of the fine suspended mud that would otherwise fill up the harbor in a few decades. It was designed to collect and direct as much water as nature could provide.

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The new ELI for October is field based - 'Burbage Valley Part 2 - Landforms; identifying and interpreting landforms'.

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I was working away at my laptop Friday afternoon when the front doorbell rang. It was a guy asking me if I was missing a tortoise. I was not, but I was curious, so I went to go see what was up. The situation in a nutshell: a decent-sized male Sulcat...

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2002 I've been leading geology field studies trips to lots of places in the American West for 38 years and started to take digital pictures in 2001. I sometimes struggle to find new things to photograph when I visit a place for the 38th time, but ...

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The leader of the most visible company hawking the future of artificial intelligence (AI), Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told Politico a little over a week ago that "the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits ...

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The longest continuous regional temperature record in the world is Central England Temperature, a.k.a. CET (data available here). It reports the mean temperature over a large region of central England, giving monthly averages since 1659, daily values...

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Cat 4 Simon eyes Puerto Vallarta, while Tropical Storm Rachel heads for Baja California before hauling moisture into the U.S. Southwest....

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Climate Central says climate-warmed Gulf waters made Isaias's winds 7 mph stronger than they otherwise would have been. This would result in over a doubling of the hurricane's damages, because of the exponential rise in damage with winds....

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The first major Atlantic hurricane of 2026 threatens the Gulf Coast with a storm surge of up to 9 feet, damaging winds, flooding, and tornadoes, with impacts spreading across the Southeast on Saturday. With the Tropical Storm Watch on the West Coast ...

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Record-high temperatures in September encompassed the largest area of the globe for any month since records began....

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A NASA spacecraft bakes in a furnace, a planet possibly forms from its dying star, and a cloud arises by a Mars volcano....

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