I nearly missed this insect as I was sipping my evening coffee.

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Zeke Hausfather has reported that since 2014, CO2 emissions have leveled off. Not only that, he has estimated how much that has reduced the atmospheric CO2 load, compared to what is would have been if CO2 emissions kept increasing like ... Continue r...

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For decades, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was defined by a single, highly polarized debate: the battle between pro-whaling and anti-whaling nations over commercial catch quotas. Today, however, the landscape of the IWC has radically evo...

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A train transports eight booster motor segments for the SLS (Space Launch System rocket) that will power NASA's Artemis III mission from Northrop Grumman's Railyard Shipping Facility in Corinne, Utah, June 2, to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in F...

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In November 2025, one of the first climate-related asylum appeals was reviewed in the UK, by the UK's First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and approved on human rights grounds. In FA v Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD), the appellant (FA) argued that climate-related hardship, poor mental health relating to the loss of his house to a typhoon, and family (partner) separation would constitute a violation of his human rights if he were returned to the Philippines, particularly the right to private and family life (Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)). The Tribunal Judge determined that the individual would be allowed to remain in the UK, preventing his removal back to his home country, the Philippines. This blog post discusses how this case fits in with the UK legal system, other European climate migration cases, and broader legal approaches to climate-related migration to receiving countries. It proceeds by providing a background on the UK asylum system and the FA case, how the case tackled the question of 'climate refugees', how the case relates to decisions by other domestic courts, and pathways forward for potential climate-related protections for those seeking asylum in the UK. With the latter, it considers the impact of a potential case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

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Mist clings to the moss-draped cedars, and the river below churns with the silver flash of salmon fighting upstream. Then, out of the shadows, a pale figure steps onto the slick stones--a spirit bear, its coat glowing against the emerald forest...

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The 2023 round of The Planetary Society's Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) Grants awarded $50,000 USD to a team led by Dr. Andrew Palmer of the Florida Institute of Technology to study deep-space agriculture to address the chal...

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 Spoiler warning!   Have you ever watched a science fiction movie and thought, huh, I wonder if that is actually possible? Now, I hope by the time the dinosaurs turned up during this film, that this transient thought had departed from your mind, bu...

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AI changed everything, also the way we search for literature, create figures, and write summaries. Teaching a course on collecting, processing and presenting geoscientific information and having published two editions of a book on the topic, it was t...

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The Southern Patagonian Icefield is the largest expanse of ice in the Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica. The mass of glacial ice extends hundreds of kilometers along the spine of the Andes, feeding dozens of dynamic outlet glaciers that grind their way down from higher elevations. Many of these rivers of ice terminate in the sea or in proglacial lakes.

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Between 1984 and 1996, British geophysicist Geoff King and I wrote eight papers together. We worked in the field in California, Nevada and Greece, and we worked in each other's offices and homes in Menlo Park, Cambridge, Boulder and Strasbourg.

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The next step in NASA's plan to bring humankind back to the Moon....

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Bursting the Academic Bubble: Why Scientists Must Bridge the Gap Between Research and Policy Jelis J. Sostre Cortés, AGU-sponsored CASE workshop participant and PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology As someone who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, I have been exposed to countless natural hazards. I have witnessed firsthand how a disconnect between scientists and policymakers...

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As we start the 2026 Volcano World Cup I wanted to give everyone a primer in how to read the country information you will see across the competition. Think of it like the chyron used when a batter steps to the plate in baseball -- it has all the imp...

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Columbia Climate School experts explain what a strong El Niño could mean for the planet this year....

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A period of unsettled weather brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to California's Bay Area on May 27, 2026. That afternoon, a break in the clouds left downtown San Francisco and nearby communities beneath mostly cloud-free skies, allowing an astronaut aboard the International Space Station to take this photograph.

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It was perhaps the most destructive event in Hawai'i in memory. And it was raised again in the blog comments recently. It turns out we have published a post on it in the past, written by Hector: https://www.volcanocafe.org/mauna-loa-from-1852-to-18...

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A new study examines how "undone science" has shaped the conflict between mining and glacier conservation in Chile over the past two decades....

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Gregory Wenzel's gorgeous Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic is well deserving of a second entry, especially as I showed my terrible theropod bias last time. Given the predominance of carnivores in the previous post, why not kick off with the complet...

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Of all the rock quarries in our hills since Oakland was founded, I'll focus today on what may be the most striking one. It's had several different names, but I call it the Davie quarry because for nearly a century it's been a memorial to one of Oakland's most colorful mayors, John L. Davie, and is home to the Davie Tennis Stadium.

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How the technology of Artemis II builds on the past and relies on the new....

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A recent preprint (not yet peer-reviewed) reports that when global average lower-troposphere temperature (TLT) is adjusted to remove the influence of ENSO (el Niño Southern Oscillation) and of aerosols, the resulting adjusted data reveal unambiguous...

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In honor of this annual U.N. event, we are highlighting our coverage of ocean research and education initiatives at the Columbia Climate School and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory....

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 Our ELI today is 'What am I made of? - a comparison between the chemistry of the human body and the rest of the Earth'.

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About an hour's drive east of Dubai's gleaming towers and artificial islands, a quieter, more natural landscape takes shape. At the far northern edge of the Rub' al Khali, a saffron-colored sand sea laps against the Al-Hajar Mountains. A series of pale ridges rises finlike from the desert plain, with the largest--Jabal al F?yah--standing 412 meters (1,352 feet) above sea level.  

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