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Air pollution expert Dan Westervelt discusses this summer's wildfires and resulting air quality in New York City and beyond....

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AGU serves as a pathway for scientists to disseminate their research to colleagues and the public through publications, conferences, and collaborations with communities, universities, and NGOs throughout the globe. Our 24 top quality research journals, including Geophysical Research Letters and Earth's Future and the dedicated professionals who sustain them play a vital role in ensuring high...

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"Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations. You slur over work of the utmost finesse a...

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Imagine. You are being put in charge of planning for a future major volcanic eruption. All you have is an incomplete list of volcanoes in the world, some experience of past eruptions, and a few volcanologists as consultants. The politician who gave y...

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Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis This story begins some 125 million years ago on the lush floodplains of what is now the Isle of Wight, back in the Cretaceous.Forget the cool, windswept English coastline of today. This was a warm, subtropical worl...

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The Eastern Pacific is roaring ahead. Now the Atlantic is waking up--and the season's peak could pack a bigger punch closer to land.

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It is summer conference season once again, and following the British Planetary Science Conference in June, various member of the group are presenting their work at other conferences this summer. This year's Goldschmidt conference is taking place Mo...

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The project team of a recent visit to the study basin in central Taiwan. BGS © UKRI.

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Arguably Iceland's most iconic artist, Björk often draws on the island's geologically active terrain as metaphor and mood. Across her ten studio albums, two stand out for how deeply they connect human emotion with natural processes: Biophilia (2011) and Vulnicura (2015). Biophilia is analytical and curious, framing natural forces through scientific-like lenses. Vulnicura, in contrast, is raw and personal, using geological metaphors to chart the emotional devastation of heartbreak.

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Introduction When people hear the word „volcano", they usually think of a magmatic volcano with impressive pyroclastic eruptions or lava flows. However, mud volcanoes are different. Mud volcanoes erupt what we call mud breccias, a mixture of gas,...

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Papua New Guinea (PNG) rarely features in the E&P headlines, but in fact, the country has a lot to offer when it comes to the exploration scene. TotalEnergies and partner Petronas are likely to be drilling PNG's first deepwa­ter well, Mailu-1, later this year, target­ing a carbonate reef, which has the po­tential to be a...

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By Okunowo Oluwafemi Olutayo, AGU Voices for Science International Fellow As Earth scientists, we spend countless hours studying the Earth's systems, collecting data, and developing solutions to environmental challenges. Yet one question continues to shape my work: How do we ensure that scientific knowledge reaches the people whose everyday decisions determine the health of our environment?

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My Estonian friend and colleague Olev Vinn led a team reviewing the ecological innovation of organisms encrusting the interiors of mollusk shells in the Ordovician. It is yet another example of the extraordinary diversification of marine organisms in this period. The image above is a reconstruction of bryozoans and cornulitids in an empty snail shell on an Ordovician seafloor. Our paper is just out as early access in Scientific Reports (Vinn et al., 2026).

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Mike Tidwell, climate activist and founder of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, posits that, if you were to throw a dart at a spinning globe, no matter where the dart punctured the surface of the globe, that actual spot on the Earth would have a...

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For decades, scientists have thought that there is a ceiling to how intensely Earth responds to solar storms. However, a NASA-led paper published Wednesday in Nature suggests this upper limit is an illusion. If so, it means solar storms could have f...

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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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