Villains, tyrants and heroes alike are immortalized in the scientific literature as researchers don each new species a unique scientific name -- and rename geographic sites with a settlers' mindset. If you pick through the literature, it is a w...

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Almost 100 million years ago, the Kokorkom Desert stretched across the region now occupied by the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén in Argentina; it was a vast system of mobile dunes in a hot and arid climate, shaped by the wind. This fossil-rich zone, which is part of La Buitrera, discovered and studied over the last 25 years by Dr. Sebastián Apesteguía and his team, has been the site of numerous significant paleontological finds. This landscape was home to a diverse community of animals adapted to extreme conditions: legged snakes, lizards, sphenodonts, omnivorous crocodiles, and herbivorous dinosaurs such as Jakapil, alongside carnivores such as Buitreraptor and Alnashetri. In this environment emerged Antusuchus rionegrinus, a medium-sized terrestrial crocodile, comparable in size to a modern dog.

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The unusually straight, somewhat flattened mandibles of the gray whale Eschrichtius robustus - skeleton on display at the Charleston Marine Life Center in Charleston, Oregon (not THAT Charleston!). Photo by the author.I've been studying fossil baleen...

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The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil. What looks to be a rather unremarkable ballooning at the top of a cave is actually the mould of a small rhinoceros, preser...

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How Earth's tilted axis causes our seasons....

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Logan's Run is a sci-fi movie from the 1970s, in which humans live in domes protected from a ravaged world outside. In these domes they live lives of pleasure and luxury. Until they reach the age of thirty, when they go to the Carousel and "rene...

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Three excellent cli-fi novels envision a plausible future where sea level rise and climate change-intensified hurricanes cause massive economic disruption in the U.S.

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Archita Bhattacharyya is an Environmental Scientist and a research and development fellow at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural affairs, England. For 2026, she is the Early Career Scientist Representative for the Hydrological Sciences division.

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Science never ceases to impress! For decades, many researchers and water managers viewed water management through a narrow lens that often forced nature's complex plumbing into simplified and generalised boxes. Yet once we let data from over 14,000 watersheds speak for itself, this study shows that protecting our water future requires us to listen to the rhythm of the landscape; literally! It seems like there is no one-size-fits-all solution, the variation inherent in the system needs to be met with equally variable and flexible policies. This is because a policy that secures water in the snow-dependent land (the west) will totally miss the mark in the geology-driven East, hence the need for specialised, regional-specific investigations AND legislation.

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'Merrington church stands at the east end of the village, and, from its elevated situation, is one of the most conspicuous land-marks in the county of Durham. The Norman portion of it is of great antiquity, being coeval in style with that o...

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The island of Maio, Cabo Verde, 600 km the west of Senegal, is the only place where Cretaceous mid-ocean floor of the distal Mauritania - Senegal - Guinea Bissau - Conakry (MSGBC) Basin is exposed, providing a unique opportunity to study the early stages of mid Atlantic opening at outcrop. The Basement Complex of Maio comprises...

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Let's be honest. Most of us got into conservation science because we wanted to save something. We envisioned our data serving as a shield, protecting a fragile ecosystem or an endangered species from the relentless march of human expansion. We writ...

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A grab bag from my friends and colleagues working on Colorado River issues.... The good news From friend of Inkstain Karl Flessa (the guy who helped get me started thinking about the Colorado River Delta), a new analysis concluding that despite...

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After two super intense days, Terese Thoni, Frank Schreier III, and I finished filming the studio parts of our Teaching Sustainability MOOC yesterday! Let me know if you would like to be notified when it launches! Source...

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Remember to cast your vote for Group F at the bottom of this post! Netherlands - 3/2/0/0 The Quill, a volcano in Lesser Antilles, is technically part of the Netherlands. Credit: Walter Hellebrand / Wikimedia Commons There are a number of ...

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Understanding these dynamics can help geologists assess the risk of future eruptions....

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Here is a fellow to strike terror into your heart. Meet Suchomimus tenerensis, a large, long-snouted spinosaurid theropod who prowled what is now Niger during the Early Cretaceous, roughly 125 million years ago. If you imagine a T. rex that...

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 The joint was jumpin' under the ocean of the ancient Monterey Bay 5-million years ago ......

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The journey to a Ph.D. is never smooth sailing, plenty who have dared to tackle it will agree. But what if this strenuous, maybe even torturous, endeavor is the easiest part of your life? Welcome to my journey, which I am calling "Transitioning during your PhD".

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A friend of mine brought to my attention a paper (not peer-reviewed) which claims that because EEI (Earth's energy imbalance) is growing linearly (since the year 2000), temperature should grow quadratically -- and if that keeps happening, not only...

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Isabelle Wicks  What is blue ice? Most the surface of Antarctica is covered in snow and firn (snow that has survived at least one melt season) (see firn). However, in mountainous regions and around the coast of Antarctica, areas of blue ice ca...

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New research highlights that without a coordinated global agreement, AI risks accelerating the very crises it could help solve....

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What if there were an educational program that could ignite a sense of wonder in middle school students, bring science to life in unforgettable ways, and nurture a stewardship ethic? That is precisely what the Sturgeon in the Classroom program is doi...

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Remember to cast your vote for Group E at the bottom of this post! Germany - 3/1/0/0 Laacher See caldera in Germany. Credit: Df1paw / Wikimedia Commons One of the most impressive volcanic deposits I've seen is in Germany. Just south of ...

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