Some experts and advocates say the government's push for liquefied natural gas is standing in the way of renewable energy goals....

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Shonisaurus sikanni / Sikanni Chief River More than 200 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangaea was still knitting the world together, a leviathan moved through the warm Panthalassan seas that covered what is now northeastern British Colum...

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Another article that I read just now and that really resonated with me is Laidlaw (2026), where they explore teachers' reactions to GenAI as an identity crisis, not a skills gap. Similarly to what Laidlaw (2026) describes, I have met a lot of colle...

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Nearly 500,000 comments were submitted in response to a rule change proposed by the White House Office of Management and Budget that would fundamentally change how science is funded in the United States. Here's what comes next....

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The Niger Delta has delivered many of West Africa's defining hydrocarbon discoveries, but every so often a well comes along that exceeds expectations. JK??'004 marks the first major success under Renaissance's refreshed exploration strategy. The well was drilled in shallow waters and encountered approximately 1,000 feet of hydrocarbon-bearing column. It cuts across seven distinct reservoirs...

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If you have ever tried to draw a geological cross-section under a fantasy map, Homer is surprisingly cooperative (and if you remember my Middle-earth geology post, you already know I live for this). The Odyssey is full of real places and real people--Troy, Mycenae, Sparta--stitched together with storms, monsters and divine interventions that would make any structural geologist reach for a stress tensor. But there is one stubborn problem in this otherwise satisfying world: Ithaca, Odysseus' homeland, is... kind of missing.

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Michigan has recently taken steps to centralize and streamline the siting of renewable energy projects, in response to ongoing challenges from local opposition. In 2023, the Michigan state legislature enacted, and Governor Whitmer signed, Public Ac...

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Already, tropical cyclones are peppering the Pacific and skipping the Atlantic, and U.S. temperatures are topsy-turvy.

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At Lake Mead and Lake Powell, a historic low On Sunday, the Colorado River passed a grim milestone. Total combined storage in Lake Mead and Lake Powell dropped to a historic low. It was my Wilburys colleague Jack Schmidt who noticed the milestone: ...

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JULY 14, 2026 By Emma Wilson, ECW Ltd., UK & Associate of Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI) With its beautiful coastline and quaint fishing villages, Cornwall - in the far south-west of England - is a popular holiday destination. The regio...

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Located three hours east of Vancouver, most folks head to Harrison Lake to enjoy its crisp waters, soak in the hot springs, camp or four-wheel-drive immersed in rugged scenery, or look for the elusive Sasquatch reported to live in the area. But ...

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We're down to the semifinals! Two teams will move on (sorry, no consolation match here). Cast your vote now! Semifinal Match 1: Japan v. New Zealand Japan quite handily beat Ecuador 69%-31%. Although Ecuador does the largest population of peo...

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Approaching the holiday season each year, as people start sharing their holiday snaps online, I am always fascinated to see how many feature a little bit of the local geology as a memento -- the inevitable outcome of my life spent as a professional geologist.

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Most of the world shows a notable, and statistically significant, rise in extreme summer heat. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. The reason is: global warming. That's a fact. The consequences include a lot of unnecessary deaths, a tremendous ...

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"Our industry is back in business," says Lone Margrethe Olstad enthusiastically when we meet on Teams. And so is AGR, the company she joined four months ago, as it has the ambition to grow the subsurface consultancy, evalu­ations and reserves and resources due diligence advisory. Not only in Norway, where they have broad experience and...

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Two major decisions in recent weeks are giving building electrification advocates good reason to be optimistic about the future of buildings that don't burn gas. In the first--Association of Contracting Plumbers v. City of New York ("Plumbers")--the Second Circuit upheld New York State and New York City's laws restricting the use of fossil-fuel-burning appliances in new buildings. In the second--Rinnai America Corporation v. South Coast Air Quality Management District ("Rinnai")--the Ninth Circuit upheld the district's zero-nitrogen oxides rule.

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Most of you will have heard about the devastating wildfires occurring at the moment (July 2026) in Spain. On this blog, we try to publish relevant up-to-date activities but sadly, we do not have an ELI about wildfires. Is there anyone out there who would like to write one for us?

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Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria / Permian Salt Diapir The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding specimens of more than 500 ammonite species. Along with diversified cephalopod fauna  -- orthoceratids, n...

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During the Oligocene and Miocene, a 2,000 km long zone of extension developed that formed the Red Sea-Gulf of Suez rift system. In this outcrop photo, we are looking south in the Wadi Nukhul region on the east coast of the Gulf of Suez, and observe the pre-syn-rift unconformity (arrows) that developed as a result...

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Map extracts from the ODM, TAM, RHEM and DataDist. The background greyscale digital terrain model (DTM) is an extract from the OS Terrain® 50 DTM product. Contains OS Terrain® 50 DTM data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

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Nootka Fossil Field Trip. Photo: John FamThe rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers spectacular views of a wild British Columbia. Here the seas heave along the shores slowly eroding the magnificent deposits that often contain fossils. Just...

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Last week I watched the 1973 dystopian film thriller "Soylent Green" for the first time in probably 30 years. The film depicts a society in which climate change has put most of the world into a hellish, near perpetual heat wave (a...

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Miles Glacier and Van Cleve glacier lake (VC) near its maximum size on June 19th and after drainage on July 9th in Sentinel images. Glacier margin black dots. Miles Glacier terminates in an embayment on the east side of the Copper River, Alaska. A...

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One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida, (Carpenter, 1864).  While rare today, these are British Columbia's only native oyster. Had you been dining on their brethren in the...

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Check it out! :-) Glessmer, M. S., ?...rvik, A. D., and Daae, K. (2026). Students co-creating their Community of Inquiry. Oceanography 39(2), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2026.e208. Source...

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