A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive. This could be how they get us sick....

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The first mission to land on a moon of Mars could launch as soon as Oct. 19, carrying with it a sample collection instrument that The Planetary Society helped develop....

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Before I go much further, I want to stress how serious earthquakes are. It's not really a laughing matter if you live as I do in earthquake country. Millions of people have died from earthquakes in the last century or two, and they are still recovering bodies in Venezuela from the quake last June (6,500 dead so far with tens of thousands still missing).

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Volcanos Part 1: Frankenstein (AKA the influence of volcanic eruptions)Volcanic eruptions have had many pop-culture influences over the years including influencing art, literature, and even music. We are going to look at three notable instances. The...

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At a Climate Week symposium, Columbia Engineering convened members of government, industry and academia to examine critical mineral supply chains and emerging energy sources....

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The great project to build the Oakland harbor in the inlet of San Antonio Creek -- the Estuary -- began with an act of Congress in 1873. It would rely on redirecting natural processes to serve human needs. The plan the federal engineers came up with, in 1874, depended on harnessing the daily tides to keep the shipping channels clean of the fine suspended mud that would otherwise fill up the harbor in a few decades. It was designed to collect and direct as much water as nature could provide.

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The new ELI for October is field based - 'Burbage Valley Part 2 - Landforms; identifying and interpreting landforms'.

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I was working away at my laptop Friday afternoon when the front doorbell rang. It was a guy asking me if I was missing a tortoise. I was not, but I was curious, so I went to go see what was up. The situation in a nutshell: a decent-sized male Sulcat...

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2002 I've been leading geology field studies trips to lots of places in the American West for 38 years and started to take digital pictures in 2001. I sometimes struggle to find new things to photograph when I visit a place for the 38th time, but ...

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The leader of the most visible company hawking the future of artificial intelligence (AI), Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told Politico a little over a week ago that "the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits ...

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The longest continuous regional temperature record in the world is Central England Temperature, a.k.a. CET (data available here). It reports the mean temperature over a large region of central England, giving monthly averages since 1659, daily values...

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Cat 4 Simon eyes Puerto Vallarta, while Tropical Storm Rachel heads for Baja California before hauling moisture into the U.S. Southwest....

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Climate Central says climate-warmed Gulf waters made Isaias's winds 7 mph stronger than they otherwise would have been. This would result in over a doubling of the hurricane's damages, because of the exponential rise in damage with winds....

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The first major Atlantic hurricane of 2026 threatens the Gulf Coast with a storm surge of up to 9 feet, damaging winds, flooding, and tornadoes, with impacts spreading across the Southeast on Saturday. With the Tropical Storm Watch on the West Coast ...

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Record-high temperatures in September encompassed the largest area of the globe for any month since records began....

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A NASA spacecraft bakes in a furnace, a planet possibly forms from its dying star, and a cloud arises by a Mars volcano....

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As COP31 and COP32 approach, a Climate Week panel brought together climate leaders to discuss how the world can turn Paris promises into action....

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Using stable isotopes to uncover a hidden step in Earth's water cycle The Indian summer monsoon transforms South Asia's landscape. Rivers swell, reservoirs replenish, crops receive life-sustaining water, and millions await relief after months of ...

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The most likely landfall intensity of Isaias has an unusually large range, from a strong tropical storm to a strong Category 2 hurricane....

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Five Lamont scientists received major 2026 honors recognizing research on sea-level change, ocean carbon uptake, seafloor mapping and Earth's deep interior. William B. F. Ryan receives the Maurice Ewing Medal; Jacqueline Austermann, Gisela Winckler...

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Research cruises are a fundamental part of the cryospheric sciences. As the Arctic warms, the systems that shape our world look much different from one season to the next, making it more critical than ever to measure the changes of our icy world. Here, three early-career researchers share insights from a cruise they took part of this summer aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough as part of a British Antarctic Survey campaign. 

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Marta presented me with a living family heirloom during my 2025 visit to Lviv, Ukraine: The small satchel she gave me contained the 15 small black and 21 large white beans shown below. The seeds came to me with a 100-year old story, they left Ukraine...

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Isaias is expected to quickly strengthen into the season's first hurricane by early Thursday - the latest first-forming Atlantic hurricane in reliable records by a wide margin....

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One year after NYC launched its congestion pricing policy, fine particulate pollution inside Manhattan's congestion relief zone was 13 percent lower, according to a new analysis....

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If we look at Mars today, we'll see a cold, dusty desert, but peel back the surface geology, and the planet tells quite a different story! Networked river valleys, ancient deltaic fans, carved impact crater lakes, and potential palaeoshorelines all...

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