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Climate Risk Meets Retail: Inside Princess Polly’s SoHo Flagship

State of the Planet | 26 October, 2026
This M.A. in Climate and Society capstone team worked closely with Princess Polly to assess climate risks and identify opportunities to strengthen its sustainability and resilience....
Categories: Climate; capstone projects; climate change; cs impacts; education; education news; fashion; impacts; sustainable development; sustainable fashion;

Geology in Pop Culture - Volcanoes Part 2: The Scream

The Geology P.A.G.E | 26 October, 2026
 Volcanos Part 1: The Scream (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...
Categories: Geology in Art; Geology in Pop Culture; volcano;

Making of the tidal canal, second half

Oakland Geology | 26 October, 2026
The tidal canal was meant to be important, and there was much angst in its making. The canal crossed a peninsula and turned Alameda into the Island City. By the time it was finished, it wasn't needed but was still hotly desired. Today it's just ...
Categories: Deep Oakland; Oakland streams and water;

Record flooding hits the U.S. as powerful tropical storms threaten Asia

Eye On the Storm | 26 October, 2026
Miami faces its longest-ever streak of moderate coastal flooding, historic floods sweep across the Southwest, and Typhoon In-fa and Cyclone Arnab threaten the Northern Mariana Islands and eastern India....
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Bob Henson; flood; hurricane; Irene Sans; Jeff Masters; sea level rise;

How a Massive Ancient Ice Shelf Stabilized Glaciers—and What It Means for Antarctica

State of the Planet | 26 October, 2026
New research could lead to more accurate predictions about how quickly Antarctic glaciers might retreat and raise sea levels....
Categories: Climate; Earth Sciences; Press Release; Antarctica; Brendan Reilly; climate science; Core Repository; Greenland Ice Sheet; ice sheet; ice shelf; Jacqueline Austermann; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Laurentide Ice Sheet; research;

How will landscapes be affected by storms?

Earth Learning Idea | 26 October, 2026
Our ELI today is certainly relevant to large parts of the UK and to many areas of the world - 'How can storms affect erosion rates? - predict what will happen to a landscape if it is affected by a storm.'
Categories: Earth energy / processes;

The beetle, the storm, and the carbon sink: On Europe’s climate defence and its deterioration

EGU Geolog | 26 October, 2026
The real realisation here is that forest stewardship is actually going to look messier and more counterintuitive than our climate policy models often predict. It means accepting that safeguarding these sinks might actually require stepping back into the woods with chain saws and planting bags while punching holes in the dark canopy and thinning out the rows. Maybe, it's time to give up the neat, comforting illusion of the orderly green fortress in exchange for something patchier, less predictable, and actually equipped to survive what's coming...
Categories: Biogeosciences; Beetle; biomass; carbon; carbon storage; Europe;

The contrarian long view: AI, bonds, and oil

Resource Insights | 25 October, 2026
It seems that everywhere you look in the financial media these days there is persistent hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and the companies developing it. Right alongside this great investment boom is doom and gloom about the ...
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Farmington flood

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 24 October, 2026
The group chat among my Colorado River posse blew up again this morning as the nerds compared reservoir and stream gage readings resulting from a storm for the ages in the Four Corners.
Categories: climate change; climate variability; New Mexico; water;

End an Era in Kennewick

Over the past several years I frequently used this spot as my workstation at my mom's house.That era is now ended as my mom died late this summer after a long life. Between my siblings, our spouses and a couple of her grandkids we managed to keep mom...
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Testimonials

AntarcticGlaciers.org | 23 October, 2026
I have used the website extensively with teaching my A-Level students. It has provided both CPD for me in better understanding the subject but also is an excellent resource for the students themselves.
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Beyond Net-Zero Targets: Lisa Sachs on Designing Systems for Decarbonization

State of the Planet | 23 October, 2026
Sachs, director of Columbia's Center on Sustainable Investment, argues that durable climate progress begins with systems diagnosis, not isolated technologies, targets or promises....
Categories: Climate; Education; Sustainability; climate finance; Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment; decarbonization; Jeffrey D. Sachs; Lisa Sachs; MS in Climate Finance; Sustainable Development Goals;

Sudden changes and slow burns

Planetary Society Weblog | 23 October, 2026
A mission to a Martian moon launches, what the upcoming U.S. elections will mean for NASA, and new possible landing sites for Artemis....
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GeoPolicy: How the geography of risk is changing for Europe’s wildfires

EGU Geolog | 23 October, 2026
Dr. Marta López-Saavedra (Natural Risks Assessment and Management Service (NRAMS)) represented EGU's Science for Policy Climate Hazard and Risk External Advisory Group at the CCEC Symposium on European and Global Wildfires, Budapest, September 2026. This blog represents Marta's reflections of the event, of Europe's current landscape of wildfire risk, and how research can be integrated into European policymaking.
Categories: GeoPolicy; Climate Hazard and Risk Task Force; disaster risk reduction; fire management; policy; Science for policy; wildfire;

Walking on ice: a multi-perspective view on lake ice

Lake ice is mostly seasonal ice that forms on water bodies such as lakes and lagoons when the air temperature is below 0°C for long enough to drop the surface water temperature to or below 0°C. First, some ice crystals begin to form at the lake surface and then develop into a continuous layer that covers the surface partially or completely.
Categories: Climate Change & Cryosphere; heritage; lake ice; lake ice phenology;

Climate Change Stopped the Next Ice Age

State of the Planet | 22 October, 2026
New research shows that 2,000 years ago, remnants of an Arctic ice sheet began growing again, marking the start of a new glacial period--what we commonly call an ice age. But by the 1960s, global warming had raised summer temperatures enough to reve...
Categories: Climate; Earth Sciences; Press Release; climate; climate change; glacial retreat; glacier loss; Global Warming; Ice Age; ice ages; ice sheet; Joerg Michael Schaefer; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Nicolas E. Young;

Subtropical Storm Josephine forms in the Atlantic

Eye On the Storm | 22 October, 2026
Damage from Josephine has closed the only highway to North Carolina's Outer Banks; king tide flooding is predicted to bring some of the highest water levels of the past 10 years to portions of the Southeast U.S. early next week....
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Bob Henson; Irene Sans; Jeff Masters;

Highlights From the 2026 Open House at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

State of the Planet | 22 October, 2026
More than 2,500 visitors explored hands-on activities, lectures and installations at Lamont's campus on Saturday, October 17....
Categories: Climate; Earth Sciences; climate change; climate science; cs highlights; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Open House;

In-depth articles

AntarcticGlaciers.org | 22 October, 2026
The post In-depth articles appeared first on AntarcticGlaciers.org.
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Trying to categorize SV-POW! posts

As you may know, SV-POW! uses the excellent Rogue Scholar service to archive all our posts and to allocate DOIs. There's plenty more going on at Rogue Scholar, and one of the in-progress initiatives is an attempt to categorize scholarly blog posts. Martin Fenner, who created and maintains Rogue Scholar, has tentatively proposed a simple split into seven categories, and is seeking feedback.
Categories: navel blogging;

Announcing the Women in Planetary Science Discussion Hour 2026 – Hybrid Event at the DPS Meeting – Spokane, WA – Monday, October 26, 2026

Women in Planetary Science | 21 October, 2026
Please join us for the annual Women in Planetary Science (WiPS) discussion hour! This event is an informal meeting for all interested parties.  This means you do not have to identify as a woman to support women in science or be interested in learni...
Categories: planetary science;

Space in the 2026 elections

Planetary Society Weblog | 21 October, 2026
A space advocate's guide to the U.S. midterm elections...
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Discover Climate LIVE K12 Sessions for 2026-27

State of the Planet | 21 October, 2026
From October through June, Columbia Climate School researchers and students will host sessions exploring climate and sustainability topics including biodiversity, climate finance, climate action in professional sports and wildfire management....
Categories: Climate; Education; Alumni News; Andrew J. Kruczkiewicz; Climate Live; Columbia Climate School in the Green Mountains; education news; K12; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Laurel Zaima-Sheehy; MA in Climate and Society; MS in Climate; MS in Climate Finance; MS in Sustainability Management; National Center for Disaster Preparedness; Pre-College Programs; professional learning workshops;

Momentum October 2026

Planetary Society Weblog | 21 October, 2026
If ever there were a case for playing the long game, space exploration is it....
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“Buried Alive by the National Coal Board”: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan Mining Disaster

EGU Geolog | 21 October, 2026
Aberfan is located in the South Wales Valleys and developed as a coal mining village during the industrial revolution in the mid-1800s. The village is much like any of the other villages scattered across the region - rows on rows of small terrace houses, nestled into the sides and bottom of steep, glacially eroded valleys. However, this quiet, beautiful village is also known across the world for its connection to one of the UK's worst mining disasters.
Categories: Education; Energy, Resources and the Environment; Aberfan; coal; Cymru; disaster; mining; Wales;

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Latest: Sabrina Koetter is defending her MS thesis: “Clarity for Lakes and Communities: Understanding the Communication Practices and Role Perceptions of Volunteer Lake Monitors”

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