In honor of Tharp's birthday, Ferrini discusses the geologist's pioneering work and how it paved the way for her own collaborative efforts to map the ocean floor....

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Mike insisted that I (deep breath) stop the process of resubmitting one of our collaborative manuscripts to post this, which is the clearest example of recursion I've ever seen or heard of....

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Mars has two small, rocky, irregular moons. Exploring them could solve long-standing mysteries about the Solar System's history....

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Dolphin is the planet's fifth Category 5 tropical cyclone of 2026, putting 2026 ahead of the pace from the all-time record of 1997, when 12 Cat 5s occurred globally.

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Under the second Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has radically altered its priorities. Whereas it previously championed climate spending legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), its new leadership, headed by Administrator Lee Zeldin, promptly moved to roll back implementation of IRA programs. Indeed, as part of those efforts, EPA froze the funds of grantees of programs created by the IRA and other climate-related legislation (e.g., the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL) and later cancelled many grants altogether.

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The short answer is: we look to Mars because it is similar to Earth's own history and potential future. In our solar system, Mars can be described as our closest environmental relative. It possesses a solid surface, an atmosphere, polar ice caps, and a day-night cycle that mirrors our own. To study Mars is to investigate how planetary bodies evolve, how atmospheres erode, and how climates collapse. In other words, studying Mars means we can maybe, just maybe, learn about what turned what may have once been a habitable environment to a barren land, and hopefully prevent Earth from a similar demise.

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AGU is pleased to welcome our latest Voices for Science cohort! Click through their photos to learn more about these amazing scientists committing to a year of outreach and policy work. [See image gallery at thebridge.agu.org]...

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New York State has joined a growing movement to make climate education a required part of K-12 learning, following years of student demand and widespread support from teachers and parents....

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Slip beneath the surface of a Late Cretaceous ocean--if you dare--and you enter the domain of one of Earth's most spectacular marine predators: the mosasaur. Long before whales ruled the deep, these muscular, paddle-limbed lizards patrolled ...

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Forearc ranges are a striking example of how tectonic processes shape our planet. The Nahuelbuta Range in southern Chile is one of such settings. This week, Ambrosio Vega-Ruiz from the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany, is telling us the story of this remarkable range, exploring how climate feedback can influence tectonic uplift across coastal forearcs.

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DISKOS recently turned 30, and it got me thinking about the role of Na­tional Data Repositories (NDRs) today, and how they can stay relevant as times change. Historically, NDRs served as a custodian of posterity - a place where seismic records and well logs went to be archived, protected by regulatory mandates but often isolated...

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The people who support this organization are not just donors or members. They are participants. You and your support are, in fact, part of the mission....

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Istanbul's Northern Watersheds provide drinking water to sixteen million people. Stretching across forests, reservoirs, wetlands, and agricultural landscapes on the northern edge of the metropolitan region, they perform ecological functions without...

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The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researcher is helping launch an AI working group to explore how AI can support climate research without undermining ethics, equity or scientific judgment....

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At first glance they look like ordinary stones--rounded, weathered, unassuming. But then you notice the delicious hints: a spiral ghosting through the surface, a faint rib, a seam where time is ready to split wide open--it's magic!Ammonites, l...

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Turquoise lakes. Towering Himalayan peaks. A maze of rock, ice and meltwater. At first glance, this hardly looks like a glacier at all (Figure 1)... Yet as glaciers thin and retreat across the Himalayas, networks of meltwater ponds and glacial lakes are forming both on glacier surfaces and at their margins: one of the most visible signs of a changing high-mountain landscape. I spent four weeks in Nepal's Sagarm?th? National Park in May and June 2025 as part of the Glacial Lake Observatory (GLO) project surveying these lakes and their downstream valleys using drones. The goal: to collect thousands of aerial images that can be transformed into detailed maps and 3D models, helping us better understand how these lakes are evolving and the flood hazards they may pose. What followed was more than 200 km+ in trekking, 12,000 m in elevation gain, thousands of drone photos, countless cups of Chiya (Nepali milk tea) and an unforgettable field season.

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It sounds odd, bearing in mind the quality of broadband seismic data available these days: unlocking an offshore gas province without using seismic DHI's to de-risk exploration drilling. Yet, that is what happened in the Southern North Sea, where the Upper Permian Rotliegend sandstones proved to be gas-bearing in many closures that were primarily drilled...

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The contribution from Sergio León-Ríos, Associate Researcher at the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC) at the University of Chile, where he does seismology research. Post edited by Adam Ciesielski prior to publication.

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As it feasts on near-record oceanic warmth, Genevieve will stay safely out to sea.

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Let us know your thoughts about Momentum, The Planetary Society's philanthropic newsletter....

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Climate economist Gernot Wagner argues public climate finance should de-risk private investment, fund adaptation for vulnerable countries and help multilateral development banks scale proven climate technologies faster....

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More than 50 years after the Apollo missions, we are still making major scientific discoveries from the lunar samples returned to Earth. Recent advances in analytical techniques are allowing researchers to extract new information from these colle...

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Meet one of the most wonderfully peculiar animals to ever grace our ancient seas. This five-eyed marvel swam through the Cambrian oceans some 508 million years ago, its soft body drifting above the seafloor of what is now British Columbia--pres...

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