My office mate and podcast hosting buddy Rin Tara had the good sense to pull out their phone and record some stuff while we were out at the Rio Grande Thursday, beneath the I40 bridge, waiting for the pulse flow to arrive. We had the good fortune to ...

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NOAA data show unprecedented heat across the contiguous U.S., as deepening drought, shrinking reservoirs, and a severe wildfire season underscore the growing impacts of a warming climate....

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That shorter lifetime and high global warming potential make methane one of the fastest levers available for slowing near-term warming.

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The only fluid part of the Earth's interior is the outer core, which undergoes vigorous turbulent convection and maintains our planet's magnetic field through a process called the dynamo. Geodynamo theorists and planetary scientists have been trying to recreate this process on computer since the 90s (Glatzmaier & Roberts, 1997). Since then, the models have grown remarkably good enough to reproduce the Earth's magnetic field not just what looks like today, but how it likely behaved millions of years in the past. However, most of these models till date were built considering the core-mantle boundary (CMB) to be a perfectly smooth surface (as shown in an example simulation in Figure 2). But...

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Lowell never officially made landfall, but its widespread impacts made it one of Hawaii's most consequential tropical cyclones in decades....

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After returning from the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa Museu Geológico in Lisbon, Portugal in August of 2026, this post is about that visit. My trip began walking from the hotel near to the waterfront to Lisbon Academy of Sciences which house thi...

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Location: Anak Krakatau, Indonesia Situation: Anak Krakatau, literally "child of Krakatau" has had some large explosive eruptions over the past week including ash plumes that reached ~50,000 feet (15 kilometers). More importantly, the ash was ...

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Hurricane Lowell to bring impacts to Hawaii, isolated 14 inches of rain could produce flash floods, and could cause streams to overflow....

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Visualizing the pulse flow (click on the image to embiggen). Hitting "reload" and keeping track of six open browser tabs was making my head hurt - this helped. Back story here via Paul Tashjian, written as the pulse flow was getting underw...

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Countries around the world are planning missions to Mars, including rovers and a sample return from the moon Phobos....

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Our new ELI today involves planning some careful fieldwork using, as an example, the Burbage Valley in the Peak District, UK - 'Burbage Valley Part 1 - An ancient river system; using field measurements to determine the origins of a sandstone sequence'.

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Wooden bats. Turned into the Mount Calvary Cemetery heading home from my Sunday bike ride, stopped in the shade to cool off before heading up the hill, home. From across the street in Santa Barbara Park, I could hear the sound of a ballgame, chatte...

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A few months ago, a friend who has followed my writing and recent travel documentary work said, "You travel differently than anyone I know. You should teach a class." That comment stayed with me. It made me think about what I actually do when I a...

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I've been writing for more than a decade and a half about a broad category of metals often nowadays dubbed "strategic" because they are crucial to high-tech applications such as solar photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, electric veh...

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Karen Carr is one of those artists whose lack of presence on this blog seems to defy explanation; originally from Texas (but now living in New Mexico), she has a huge palaeoart back catalogue, with work featured in a wide range of institutions and pu...

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 We would like to introduce you to an exciting recent Ice Age discovery from our bay area here; the giant molar of an elephant-like creature that was neither an elephant nor a mammoth!  This is a single molar from the newly described mastodon speci...

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Bad news this week: on Tuesday, September 1st, the longest-operating natural history museum in the United States announced its imminent closure. The Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS) in downtown Philadelphia is set to close forever on September 2...

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Great new stuff from the Colorado River Wilburys - Jack Schmidt, Anne Castle, Eric Kuhn, Kathryn Sorensen, and Rin Tara*: Reductions in Lower Basin water use during the last four years, including forecast use in 2026, are similar to the initial...

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Cogwheels of Bournonite are up against colourful Vesuvianite. It’s a battle of unexpected chemical compositions where Bournonite has four elements and Vesuvianite has (almost) all the rest.

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A hard-right turn this weekend will push the former Cat 5 hurricane toward the state's northwestern islands, with the potential for broader impacts statewide....

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Roman is on its way to make discoveries, including more Solar System moons than you might expect....

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When I joined the European Geosciences Union in 2024 as a media professional, my primary mandate felt straightforward: democratising scientific understanding and building durable, trustworthy bridges that connect scientists, researchers, journalists,...

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From the famous Galapagos Islands comes news about a link between global warming and intensification of El Nino.

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Both zinc ore Sphalerite and calcium plagioclase feldspar Anorthite have perfect cleavage that will split cleanly if you hit them with a hammer, but only one can claim a larger split of your votes!

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Horna, a Stanley Park Climate Finance Scholarship recipient, is pursuing economics and green finance to drive sustainable investment across Latin America....

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