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The Irreversible Global Impacts of Earth’s Lost Frozen Regions

State of the Planet | 10 July, 2026
In June, climate negotiators from around the world met in Bonn, Germany for the annual Subsidiary Body meetings in preparation for the Conference of the Parties....
Categories: GlacierHub; Advanced Consortium on Cooperation Conflict and Complexity; COP; glacier loss; glaciers; Joshua D. Fisher; Maria Antonia Tigre; Sabin Center for Climate Change Law; UN; UNEP; warming;

Say hello to our little friends

Planetary Society Weblog | 10 July, 2026
Hayabusa2 and Tianwen-2 get up close and personal with two asteroids....
Categories: None

HORNBY ISLAND EXPLORERS AND THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY

Fossil Huntress | 10 July, 2026
Ja-dai-aich, the outer islandThere is an old saying that history is written by the victors. In paleontology, it is often written by whoever got to publish first.Villains, tyrants, heroes, eccentrics and the occasional delightful oddball all find a me...
Categories: arbutus; British; captain; cook; explorer; explorers; first; HISTORY; hornby; island; komoks; menzies; names; nation; Vancouver;

Volcano World Cup – Quarterfinals!

Eruptions | 10 July, 2026
It is time for the quarterfinals of the Volcano World Cup. I am going minimal here with merely a single photo of a volcano in each of the remaining countries . Cast your vote on these four matches to see who moves to the Semifinals! Quarterfinal M...
Categories: Volcano World Cup; eruption; geology; volcano; volcanoes;

Sudden Temperature Change in a Warming World: Why Future Temperature Swings Are a Global Tug-of-War?

Berlin just went through a brutal heatwave, and then out of nowhere, the temperature crashed between June 28 and 29. The daily mean temperature dropped from nearly 33°C to 25°C--a dramatic drop of about 8°C in just 24 hours (based on ERA5 reanalysis data structure accessed via Open-Meteo.
Categories: Climate of the Present; adiabatic; advection; diabatic processes; Global Tug-of-War; Sudden Temperature Change; Warming World;

The myth of scientific neutrality: A vacuum we can no longer ignore

EGU Geolog | 10 July, 2026
Another General Assembly has come to an end, and perhaps, many would agree on how inspiring and enriching the week was. Yet this year, being inside the EGU bubble felt particularly strange while the world outside is quite literally on fire. Wars, systemic violations of international laws and the acceleration of environmental crises continue to unfold across the globe In this context, geoscientists have increasingly been called to step outside the ivory tower and reflect on their role, responsibility, and influence.
Categories: Accessibility and inclusivity at EGU; EGU GA 2026; ethics; global conflict; Neutrality; science;

Sexual selection and the end of species recognition

Protoceratops has become something of a model organism for assessing sexual selection in dinosaurs A new paper came out recently looking at the cranial ornamentation of abelisaurids (Pereyra et al., 2026) and found support for the idea that these ...
Categories: Uncategorized; Dinosaurs; evolution; fossils; palaeontology;

Using Generative Modelling to Downscale Climate Data for Ice Sheets

To predict the shrinkage of the ice sheet that is caused by melting, we usually run different climate models, but unfortunately, they are computationally expensive. In our recent paper, we show a new fast machine learning-based method that allows us to skip one of the most expensive steps in projecting Greenland's sea-level rise contribution and enables us to downscale a large amount of global climate model output. This allows us run large ensemble simulations which can ultimately decrease uncertainties.
Categories: Highlighted Paper; artificial intelligence; downscaling; generative modeling; Greenland; ice sheets; Machine Learning; Surface mass balance;

For when the madness ends: a 5-point plan for getting conservation back on track in the US

Southern Fried Science | 9 July, 2026
Let's not mince words: the last eighteen months have been an absolute nightmare for federal ocean and conservation policy. Landmark environmental protections have been rolled back or severely hobbled, while agency budgets were slashed more than Jan...
Categories: Conservation; Blue wave; policy; policy analysis; strategy; tactics; Trump Administration; trump administration ocean policy;

Beyond Borders: What It Takes to Build a Climate-Resilient Megalopolis

State of the Planet | 9 July, 2026
The Greater Bay Area in China is implementing nature-based solutions to build climate resilience amid rapid urbanization, biodiversity loss and worsening storms....
Categories: Climate; Sustainability; Viewpoints; China; Johanna Lovecchio; Lisa Allyn Dale; MA in Climate and Society; nature-based solutions; Resilient Ecosystems; Thaddeus Pawlowski; Xinyu Zhang;

June 2026: Earth’s 2nd-hottest June on record

Eye On the Storm | 9 July, 2026
An astonishing heat wave in Europe June 22-30 broke 10 all-time national heat records and set 394 all-time heat records at stations with a long-term period of record of at least 40 years.
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Jeff Masters;

CTENOPHORES: CANNIBALISTIC COMB JELLIES

Fossil Huntress | 9 July, 2026
Cannibalistic Comb JelliesThis festive lantern looking lovely belongs to a group of invertebrates known as comb jellies.Comb jellies are named for their unique plates of giant fused cilia, or combs, which run in eight rows up and down the length of t...
Categories: cambrian; cannibalism; china; comb; fossil; HISTORY; jellies;

Cheshire Geoenergy Observatory releases key geological datasets for UK thermal energy storage scheme design

We are pleased to announce the release of the drilling report alongside the borehole data packs for the construction of the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Cheshire. These will provide a unique resource for scientists working on the geology and hydrogeology of the Sherwood Sandstone Formation, which is well suited for geothermal energy in the UK, ensuring this valuable information can be used for future subsurface science and engineering.
Categories: BGS news; decarbonisation; energy transition; geothermal; uk geoenergy observatories;

TopoToolbox webinar recap & resources

Our TopoToolbox webinars on June 2 and 3 were a success with ~90 participants! The webinars covered the functionalities of TopoToolbox 3 and its integration into both MATLAB and Python, and highlighted tools including GraphFlood and TRANSECT. Be sure to check out the TopoToolbox gallery, which hosts example workflows contributed by TopoToolbox users and developers.
Categories: Report; coding; DEM; matlab; open-source; python; quantitative geomorphology; terrain analysis; topographic analysis; Topotoolbox;

Columbia Climate School and Sciences Po To Launch Dual Degree Focused on Climate Action

State of the Planet | 8 July, 2026
Columbia Climate School and the Paris Climate School at Sciences Po are launching a new dual master's program at the intersection of climate science and ecological governance....
Categories: Climate; Education; Press Release; Alexis Abramson; climate change; cs highlights; education news; impacts; MS in Climate;

Volcano World Cup – Round of 16 #2

Eruptions | 8 July, 2026
Match 5: Scotland v. France Scotland Volcano Fun Facts: Can you believe Scotland made it this far without a single potentially active volcano? Even if the volcanoes are very old in Scotland we can still learn about active volcanic processes...
Categories: Volcano World Cup; eruption; geology; volcano; volcanoes;

STONE FORESTS OF THE SILURIAN: GOTLAND'S FOSSIL REEFS

Fossil Huntress | 8 July, 2026
Raukar: Gotland, Sweden's Limestone Sea Stacks Along the rugged Baltic shoreline of Sweden's enchanting island of Gotland, hundreds of towering limestone sea stacks known locally as raukar rise from the coast like ancient stone guardians.If ther...
Categories: ancient; collect; collecting; coral; fossils; gotland; legally; reef; sweden; travel; visit;

Liberia’s quiet rise: Inside the country’s emerging petroleum industry

GEOExPro | 8 July, 2026
Liberia is often described as one of West Africa's last true frontier basins, an offshore province with world??'class geology but still awaiting its first commercial discovery. As the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) intensifies seismic reprocessing, regulatory reform, and investor outreach, the country is positioning itself for a new phase of exploration activity. Few...
Categories: From the Industry; AOW;

This new El Niño is different

RealClimate | 8 July, 2026
Screen dump from Copernicus C3S climate pulse showing the status on sea surface temperature (SST) on July 6, 2026. The curve on the left shows the global mean SST -record-high - and the right hand panel presents SST anomailes in the Pacific wher...
Categories: Climate Science; El Nino; Featured Story;

Ada Lovelace’s spirit at Lake Se?

From 21 to 26 June, the 2026 Ada Lovelace Workshop on Modelling of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics brought together the geodynamics community in Se?, Czech Republic. In this week's blog post, Vojt?ch Pato?ka, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geophysics at Charles University in Prague and a member of the organising committee, offers an offbeat take on the workshop.
Categories: Conferences; News & Views;

New geological mapping underway to help manage flooding along the River Tweed

A BGS Survey Geologist carrying out a peat thickness survey near Coldburn Hill (in the background), Cheviots. Ruggedised tablets are used in the field to record observations and measurements at specific locations and draw linework indicating the extent of the various deposits, supported by aerial photos and digital terrain models. BGS © UKRI.
Categories: BGS news; artificial intelligence; fieldwork; maps and models;

The Kikai eruption

Volcano Cafe | 7 July, 2026
Japan's largest volcano lies hidden. It can be found, if you know where to look, by starting from the southern island of Kyushu. Find the active volcano Sakurajima. (We will come back to it later. But this is not that volcano.) Sakurajima lies in-b...
Categories: Historical volcanoes; Japan; Kikai caldera; Kikai-Akahoya eruption; Large Eruptions; Satsuma-iojima;

Hayabusa2’s flyby of asteroid Torifune

On Sunday, July 5, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of the asteroid Torifune....
Categories: None

Three Tree Communities in New Haven

The Nature of Cities | 7 July, 2026
Trees ? living, dead, and transformed ? play roles in the lives of three communities in New Haven, CT. Because trees themselves have life cycles, interact with other living and non-living actors, and have material and symbolic significance, they ...
Categories: Essay; North America; People & Communities; Awareness; Communities; Gardens; Green Infrastructure; Stewardship; Trees;

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