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On July 3, the Office of Management and Budget released the Trump Administration's Unified Agenda for 2026. The document, typically released once or twice a year, compiles all regulatory actions that an administration plans to take during the covered period. Consistent with President Trump's aim of downsizing government, a large portion of the proposed rules reflect rollbacks of existing regulations. Many of these proposals would reverse important federal climate safeguards, including by reducing protections for federal lands; removing incentives for and imposing regulatory hurdles to the buildout of clean energy; and significantly scaling back air and water pollution limits. 

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Climate change is already reshaping our brains. How do we act earlier, build resilience and change the trajectory for generations to come?...

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The Greenland Ice Sheet sits in the Arctic, from 59-83°N, covering about 80% of the island of Greenland. It has a huge volume of ~2.9 million km3 (which would be equivalent to 7.42 m sea level rise1), and is drained by a series of outlet glaciers, where ice flows constantly to the margin2.

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Why do coral reefs flourish along some continental margins, while elsewhere they form scattered platforms and isolated atolls? In this new blog post, Dr. Zhibin Lei explores this question through the lens of biogeodynamics, showing how tectonics ca...

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Data centers are straining Singapore's limited clean energy supply, but a proposed Sumatra-Singapore grid interconnection could help solve the problem....

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Following my first post on Usborne's Children's Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Life (aka Prehistoric Life, part of the In School and At Home series in Russia in the '90s), at least four people wanted me to carry on and review some of the non-Mes...

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"Maybe we should acknowledge the invisible. It's not somewhere else. It's in the visible, right here. If this elemental air were not invisible, I wouldn't see anything else, wouldn't see you. And that's the place of the spirits and the pl...

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Atmospheric chemist V. Faye McNeill explains our new, smoky normal--and how to stay safe....

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The Dogfish Kootéeyaa Pole in Saxman Totem ParkRural Tennessee has electricity for the same reason Southeast Alaska has Totem Parks--to help the nation recover from The Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, created several federal...

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The forest in Canada is burning, and the smoke is a big problem for both Canadians and Americans as it makes its way across their country and into ours. Our president has blamed Canada for mismanaging their forests and threatens ... Continue reading ...

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I've seen lots of summaries and references to the "WONKHE report" on AI, so I had to check it out. It is based on focus group interviews and a survey with responses from more than 1k UK students, and it is a bit difficult to read because it is ...

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As with any exploration story, this story be­gins with a map that hides a secret. Salt, tall as a mountain, buried clear white veils of fluid rock, and a target that dares to wrap itself against its throat. We are in Guinea-Bissau, and it is the year 2004. A rig hums, hoses hiss, and the...

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Sakurajima in the Aira Caldera erupting in 2010. Credit: Kimon Berlin The Japanese football (soccer) team may not have progressed far in real World Cup but Japan dominated its way to the 2026 Volcano World Cup Championship. The country with hundre...

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One of the highlights of DinoCon 2025 for me was getting to meet Andy Frazer, who you may know from Dragons of Wales, Novosaurs, and his numerous and mind-blowing life restorations of dinosaurs. We had a few minutes for an unhurried, one-on-one conversation, and I bought some prints, a no-AI-in-paleoart button, and his book EX|TINCT, a hardcover omnibus of his EX|TERRA art books.

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Left: An aerial photo showing (foreground) high sequoia mortality in an area that had not experienced fire in many decades, and (background) high sequoia survival in an area that had been treated with prescribed fire in 2012.Right: General Sherman, a...

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Last month, three Members of Congress introduced a bill to provide $125 million ($25 per year for five years) in funding for research into methane removal, a relatively novel set of proposed approaches aimed at mitigating climate change. This marks the first time such a bill has been introduced into Congress, and, if passed, it would place the U.S. at the forefront of methane removal research.

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The tropical system is forecast to spread heavy rain and storm surge threats as its wind field expands.

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Working with marine carbonate-system observations has taught me how much effort lies behind every row of an oceanographic dataset: long hours at sea, careful sampling, laboratory analyses, calibration and quality control. A single bottle of seawater may represent only one place, one depth and one moment, but when many such samples are brought together, they can reveal how the ocean is changing.

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This is a walk I led recently, and I like it so much I'm writing it down. As we visit these two major former quarries in the Piedmont bedrock block, we explore some distinctive terrain created during the Pleistocene epoch. We also experience how this beautiful landscape appealed to the people who developed this part of Oakland and Piedmont.

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Behind the glass of the Natural History Museum in London rests the skull of a lion that once prowled--not across the sun-baked mountains of North Africa--but within the stone walls of medieval London.This is the skull of a Barbary lion, Panthera le...

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Pan-European catalogue of key parameters for offshore windfarm citing BGS © UKRI.

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A good children's activity for outside in hot weather is 'Mud, Mud, glorious mud; make your own bricks'.

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Every time something burns incompletely --whether in a car engine, a factory furnace, a cooking fire, an agricultural field set alight after harvest, or a vast wildfire sweeping through savanna grasslands-- tiny particles of black carbon are released into the atmosphere. You might know these more simply as soot. These particles are so small that thousands of them laid side by side would barely stretch across the width of a human hair. Yet despite their minuscule size, black carbon (also known as aerosols) are one of the most powerful and perplexing drivers of climate change on the planet.

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