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 ...

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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 ...

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"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...

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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 ...

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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....

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

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ??'...

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

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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'.

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By Dr Kate Winter, Elena Field, Dr Adrian Fox

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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...

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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...

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The outline of conditions and topics for a negotiated settlement of the U.S.-Iran conflict called a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and signed by both sides last week in all probability won't prevent the approaching energy...

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Whirlwinds come in variations. The weaker category is known as dust devils, and the range extends to full-blown tornadoes - and even hurricanes can in some ways be seen as an outsized members. What they have in common is whirls, winds and heat. You...

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José Fernando BonaparteOne of the hardest-working, most intense and multi-faceted palaeontologists to ever grace our planet was José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 - 18 February 2020).We often imagine the great scientific pioneers as figures lo...

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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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