Of possible relevance to the current bosque dieback in New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande? From PNAS: Predicting forest resilience requires knowing whether trees can physiologically acclimate to drought. Drawing on global in-situ field experiments,...

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Glen Echo Creek has had more than one name in the past. A while ago I wrote about the lower part of Glen Echo Creek, the part that flows through residential territory. This is a closer look at the upper part, where the creek is born in a bedrock valley and flows through beautiful Mountain View Cemetery, which uses it to water the grounds.

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Thinking about doing fieldwork? 'The do-it-yourself dip and strike model (with DIY clinometer); using a model to measure and understand dip, dip direction, strike and apparent dip'.

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Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. For August, we are featuring the Natural Hazards (NH), Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV), and Geodesy (G). They are represented by the journals Solid Earth (SE), Geoscientific Model Development (GMD),and Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).

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We have been undergoing a dramatic quest for green in the face of climate change, green in the urban, green in the rural, from greening the desert to reforestation and afforestation. These "green" solutions (afforestation, exurban tree-planting, ...

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Google maps is showing their true face: stupidity and cowardice, by bending over for Dumbass Trump and pretending he gets to re-name Lake Ontario, or anything else. Fuck you, google....

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Use the blank bracket to plan out your campaigns or lesson plans, print and post in a hallway to update each match, or even fill out with your predictions for bragging points! (Filling out a bracket is not necessary to play.) Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup26.

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NASA's next flagship orbital observatory will reshape what we know about planets throughout the galaxy....

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All this means that it is going to be increasingly difficult to import one's way out of food shortages as the whole of world agriculture becomes affected. Few in positions of civilian or military leadership have yet to comprehend this.

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 Good morning, Monterey Bay. This is an uncommonly accurate true natural cast of one of Santa Cruz's most iconic fossil species, Anadara trilineata, Purisima Formation rock layer, Santa Cruz, May 16, 2026, c. 3 million years ago. These rather rare...

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I monitor climate-related data, including the total wildfire area burned in the USA according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Here's the yearly total acres burned since 1983 (the figure for 2026 is year-so-far): The straight-line fi...

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 Disneyland's Matterhorn BobsledsMy next entry in the Geology of Disney are Disneyland's Matterhorn Bobsleds ride. Based on the real Matterhorn peak in the Swiss Alps on the Italian-Switzerland Border, the ride was initially opened in 1959 and is no...

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In our new paper, we explore the potential origins of a rare lunar rock type - granites. Since the return of Moon rocks by the Apollo missions, our ideas of how the different rock types that make up the crust formed have generally held true. How...

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Glacier collapse, not an earthquake, was the direct cause of the disaster that has left thousands missing....

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From Mars' tiny Phobos to NASA's mammoth Vehicle Assembly Building, apparent size depends on where you're looking from....

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Hello Solmaz and thank you so much for chatting with me today! I'm so happy you are launching this blog series and I'd love to learn more about this initiative. What inspired you to design and teach a dedicated course on "Communicating Uncertainty in Science" at the University of Tübingen this summer?

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You are observing the construction of a bridge that will be initiated on the two banks of a river simultaneously, in such a way that the works will eventually meet in the middle of the river. You wonder, how do they make sure that the construction on the two sides will stay aligned with the millimeter precision that this project requires? You are aware of previous constructions where small miscalculations led to embarrassing results, such as the Laufenburg bridge between Germany and Switzerland (2003) [1] or the Gokhale Bridge in Andheri, Mumbai (India, 2024) [2]. In your case, you fully trust the construction team's skills and are sure all the distances have been double-checked.

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Dolly is expected to weaken before reaching the northeastern Caribbean islands, bringing some much-needed rainfall but limited wind impacts....

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This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as well as new research on unexpected trends in U.S. extreme rainfall. Here are additional studies worth noting....

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A paper published a few weeks ago on the topic of early animal evolution in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution caught my eye. The time period I am referring to is the Early Cambrian, roughly 539 -510 million years ago. A great diversification of animal life occurred during this interval. Many explanations for this phase of rapid animal evolution have been put forth. Expanded shallow marine habitat due to continental rearrangements, an increase in dissolved oxygen, an influx of calcium and zinc to the oceans from continental weathering, both essential for physiologic function and shell building (in case of calcium), and predator prey arms races that drove evolution of novel morphology.The recent study by Julien Kimming and Russel Bicknell proposes that fecal matter that early animals were expelling also played a role in Cambrian animal radiation. Fecal matter is preserved as lumps of calcium carbonate known as coprolites. 

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On 26th August 2026, devastating floods hit Nepal and Tibet. At time of writing, 1400 people were missing, and 270 bodies had been recovered, but this toll is sadly expected to rise.

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"Plants carry traces of past weather. Reading them may help us navigate a hotter, drier world."  Wenli Zhao

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The new initiative at Columbia's Climate School is designed to strengthen university-wide collaboration on issues spanning climate, Earth, society and sustainability....

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An unusual year.   It was 96F (35.5C) when I rode my bike home after class at 6:15 p.m. last night. "3.91 standard deviations above the long term record" is not terribly intuitive to me, the graphs above helped me visualize how extraordinar...

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