All-geo: The best of Geology and Earth Science on the web

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has (probably) arrived at a quasi-moon of Earth

Planetary Society Weblog | 24 June, 2026

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

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Volcano World Cup – Group I

Eruptions | 24 June, 2026

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...

Categories: Volcano World Cup; eruption; France; geology; Norway; volcano; volcanoes;

Why Do Humans Need Darkness?: Light, Imagination, and the Human Rhythm of the City

The Nature of Cities | 24 June, 2026

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...

Categories: Essay; Latin America; Place & Design; Awareness; Conservation; South America; What is urban nature?;

When Glaciers Disappear, So Do Deities

State of the Planet | 24 June, 2026

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....

Categories: GlacierHub; Andes; glacial retreat; Himalayas; MA in Climate and Society;

Introducing the new blog team!

EGU Geodynamics Division | 24 June, 2026

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...

Categories: Editorial; News & Views; Uncategorised; blog team; introduction;

Dogs are experiments in applied genetics

Sauropod Vertebrata Picture of the Week | 23 June, 2026

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 ...

Categories: dogs; domestication; Eleanor; Franklin; stinkin' mammals; stinkin' SV-POW!sketeers; timely;

Recent Albuquerque monsoon history: dry

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 23 June, 2026

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...

Categories: AI; Albuquerque; climate variability; Oh Vegas;

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Prehistoric Life (In School and At Home)

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs | 23 June, 2026

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...

Categories: Vintage Dinosaur Art; 1980s; alamosaurus; apatosaurus; Archaeopteryx; Bob Hersey; Brachiosaurus; Camarasaurus; corythosaurus; Deinonychus; Dimorphodon; Euoplocephalus; hypsilophodon; Iguanodon; Pacycephalosaurus; Parasaurolophus; Polacanthus; pteranodon; Pterodactylus; quetzalcoatlus; Rhamphorhynchus; scolosaurus; Stegosaurus; Triceratops; tyrannosaurus;

Volcano World Cup – Group H

Eruptions | 23 June, 2026

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 ...

Categories: Volcano World Cup; Cabo Verde; eruption; geology; Saudi Arabia; Spain; volcano; volcanoes;

CANADA'S FIRST SMILODON

Fossil Huntress | 23 June, 2026

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 ...

Categories: alberta; biggest; canada; cat; churcher; coast; death; fossil; fossils; paleontologist; sex; smilodon; taxes; west;

Frac hit – how does it work?

GEOExPro | 23 June, 2026

"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...

Categories: Oil & Gas; Oil and Gas;

Undermining the Law of the Sea. Some additional thoughts following my OpEd in the Hill.

Southern Fried Science | 22 June, 2026

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 ...

Categories: Policy; deep-sea mining; Law of the Sea; UNCLOS;

June Research Roundup: Select Papers

State of the Planet | 22 June, 2026

In this month's edition of our research roundup, we highlight a new study on African air pollution; deep Earth carbon recycling; and a Pacific cooling mystery....

Categories: Climate; Earth Sciences; Press Release; Alberto Malinverno; Antarctica; climate change; climate science; cs highlights; Dan Westervelt; Feng Jiang; Geochemistry; Greenland; Kostas Tsigaridis; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Mark A. Cane; research; research roundup; Richard Seager; subduction zones; Terry Plank;

Unprecedented June heat grips Europe this week

Eye On the Storm | 22 June, 2026

Climate change is making extremely dangerous heat waves like this one more common.

Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Bob Henson; France; Heat; spain; UK;

A bigger Oakland geologic map

Oakland Geology | 22 June, 2026

I recently put up a new printable version of the US Geological Survey's geologic map of the Oakland region. You can download it, and the separate page with the key to all the colors and symbols, from the map page. This is a small preview.

Categories: Deep Oakland;

Volcano World Cup – Group G

Eruptions | 22 June, 2026

Remember to cast your vote for Group G at the bottom of this post! Belgium - 0/0/0/0 Grands-Malades near the Muese River in Belgium. Beautiful outcrop, not volcanic. Credit: Grentidez / Wikimedia Commons. The low countries are not volcanic...

Categories: Volcano World Cup; eruption; geology; Iran; New Zealand; volcano; volcanoes;

Thinking about relationships and trust

Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching | 22 June, 2026

Didn't feel like I had time to go for a morning dip, but made the time and am glad I went, both because that's always awesome and because it gave me the chance to listen to the episode "How college students make, keep and lose friends with Jani...

Categories: literature; relationships; sustainability activity example; trust;

Feds stop paying to monitor Santa Fe drinking water source for Los Alamos contaminants

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 22 June, 2026

Via Alicia Inez Guzmán at Source New Mexico, we learn that the federal government is no longer paying the cost of monitoring Rio Grande flows at the intake to Santa Fe communities' Buckman Direct Diversion as part of a joint effort to ensure that ...

Categories: Oh Vegas; water;

LURKING IN THE LATE CRETACEOUS: RAJASAURUS

Fossil Huntress | 22 June, 2026

Rajasaurus narmadensisIn the humid, fern-thick forests of Late Cretaceous India -- about 67 million years ago -- a flash of red moves between the tree trunks.Think oxidized iron and dried blood -- deep crimson-orange broken by pale white striping ...

Categories: biggest; cretaceous; death; DINOSAUR; hunter; killer; massive; paleontology; rajasaurus; sex; strongest; taxes;

Earth’s Energy Imbalance (a few notes on the last post)

Open Mind | 22 June, 2026

I got sloppy with one of the graphs in the last post, because when I computed accumulated EEI values I didn't label the graph properly on the y-axis; I should have called it "Watt-months per square meter." I should also ... Continue reading ??'...

Categories: Global Warming; climate change;

UK and Philippines scientists investigate natural hydrogen generation processes at atomic scale

British Geological Survey News | 22 June, 2026

BGS experimental geochemist Dr Ruth Delina-Agillon sample loading in the I20 beamline at the Diamond Light Source facility. BGS © UKRI 2026.

Categories: BGS news; decarbonisation; energy transition; hydrogen energy;

How the pH of water may change as it moves underground

Earth Learning Idea | 22 June, 2026

Still on our chemistry theme, today's ELI is 'The watery world of underground chemistry; using pH to link the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and lithosphere together'.

Categories: Earth as a system;

Naming places in Antarctica

AntarcticGlaciers.org | 22 June, 2026

By Dr Kate Winter, Elena Field, Dr Adrian Fox

Categories: antarctica; Geopolitics;

Quoting Charles Brackett

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 21 June, 2026

August 1: Dull day. Spent a good deal of the morning in Howard's office, interviewing Barbara Stanwyck, a pleasant, heavy-faced girl, very wrong for Sugarpuss...

Categories: journalism; mind;

OWLS: MASTERS OF THE HUNT

Fossil Huntress | 21 June, 2026

They move through the night as if stitched into it, seamless and soundless. You don't hear an owl arrive. You feel it--the brief shift in the air above your head, a whisper of movement. It always feels me with a sense of awe. The silence...

Categories: death; fossils; hunt; hunting; id; identify; owl; owls; pacific; paleontology; plumage; sex; species; taxes;