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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Energy stock, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch state-owned company Gasunie, is working on a project called HyStock, which aims to facilitate underground hydrogen storage as a crucial element in the hydrogen econo­my. As part of this project, and prior to any potential cavern development, salt producer Nobian has start­ed to drill three wells...

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The western burrowing owl is North America's only owl that lives underground. They typically use ground squirrel burrows but may also occupy larger burrows made by mammals such as foxes or badgers. I've been fortunate to watch burrowing owls during their recent nesting season in open fields near Three Forks, Montana. Not only are the owls and their owlets fascinating to watch, I'm also interested in their burrows. My interest stems from work that colleagues and I are doing on Eocene fossil burrows (about 39-36 million years in age) located north of Dillon. We are still wrestling with the genesis of the fossil burrows, but it does help to look at a variety of present-day burrows and their associated inhabitants.

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A tropical storm watch was issued for the western Florida Panhandle on Sunday, July 19, after large but disorganized circulation over the northeast Gulf of Mexico was designated Tropical Depression 2 by the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center on Sunday morning. Although it may struggle to approach hurricane strength, TD 2 could develop a core of [...]

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Wals (2022) argues that the classical key competencies for sustainability are not sufficient, that we also need to learn to disrupt, and then learn from the resistance against that. Interesting!! Wals (2022) describes the current systemic dysfunction...

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Computer code is becoming increasingly complex, making it difficult for beginners to understand. Minimal coding offers a possible solution. Here is an example of minimal code for a periodogram. The periodogram code from the Signal Processing Toolbox ...

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I am taking a break this week and plan to post again on Sunday, July 26....

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Three Fonts and The World of Rock Rudston Reighton Flamborough John Bull's World of Rock ...

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Computer code is becoming increasingly complex, making it difficult for beginners to understand. Minimal coding offers a possible solution. Here is an example of minimal code for a principal component analysis. The PCA code from the Statistics and Ma...

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GREAT BEAR NA?NHiking in BC, both grizzly and black bear sightings are common. Nearly half the world's population, some 25,000 Grizzly Bears, roam the Canadian wilderness -- of those, 14,000 or more call British Columbia home. These highly int...

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My office mate, pal, and podcast co-host Rin Tara and I switched things up for this week's episode of our Water Matters! podcast, with Rin interviewing me about the Berrens-Fleck project Ribbons of Green. Among other things, Rin zeroed in on "gar...

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Barnes Ice Cap having in Landsat image with well developed melt channels from crest to margin of ice cap. Snow cover has been lost with over a month left in melt season. Barnes Ice Cap located in the center of Baf?n Island, Canada covers an area...

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Most of the fires grew out of control under extreme heat conditions made up to five times more likely by climate change.

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Hawaii's March 2026 flooding exposed more than damaged roads and homes. True recovery must prioritize local needs and long-term preparedness....

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How the Trump Administration has yet again hobbled the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration has officially finalized a rule stripping habitat destruction from the definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a joint...

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Finding craters, speaking out against anti-science policies, preventing asteroid impacts, making art -- these are all great ways to make a difference....

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Beneath the elegant halls of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris is the fossil skeleton of one of the Pleistocene's most formidable predators: Smilodon, the celebrated--and slightly misleadingly named--sabre-toothed cat.With its ...

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On the implications of total Mead-Powell storage reaching record lows: The big questions that are implied by where we're at are ones that absolutely need to be addressed, but they're not going to be addressed now. I mean, we can't even have...

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Yes folks, we have finally reached the Volcano World Cup final. After 48 countries and over a month of matches, we are down to two countries. Thanks everyone for voting and now you get to decide who walks away with the Cup! Finals: Japan v. Méxic...

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