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Real Science, Right Now: How High School Students Are Researching Climate Solutions

State of the Planet | 1 October, 2026
Through Columbia Climate School programs, students conducted hands-on climate research to build scientific, analytical and communication skills....
Categories: Climate; Ecology; Education; climate change; cs highlights; Dannie Dinh; Earth Networks; education; education news; K12; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Laurel Zaima-Sheehy; Radhika Iyengar;

Tropical moisture, stalled front fueling flood threat across the Central Plains

Eye On the Storm | 1 October, 2026
A pipeline of tropical moisture is feeding a slow-moving storm system, unleashing repeated downpours from Texas to the Central Plains....
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Bob Henson; drought; hurricane; Irene Sans; Jeff Masters;

Happy New Water Year!

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 1 October, 2026
Wettest rainfall September in Albuquerque history. Driest Rio Grande flow water year in history? (Those missing May days aren't gonna tip the 1977-2026 scales.) Whiplash....
Categories: Albuquerque; Ribbons of Green; water;

They know not what they do

Open Mind | 1 October, 2026
When I use measurements of something (like atmospheric CO2) to estimate its growth rate (how fast it's increasing or decreasing), I have to choose a "time scale" on which to do so. If the time scale is long then there's ... Continue reading ?...
Categories: Global Warming; climate change;

Meet the Snow Dunes of Antarctica

EGU Geomorphology Division | 1 October, 2026
By Marine Poizat, PostDoc at the Geological Survey of Finland. Email: marine.poizat@gtk.fi, website: https://www.gtk.fi/en/experts/poizat-marine/.
Categories: Report; Aeolian transport; antarctica; dunes; Snow dunes;

New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Oct 2026)

Paleoseismicity | 1 October, 2026
This time we have two whole books in our list that will be surely of interest. One is about Himalayan Hazards, the other one is about the geomorphological impact of earthquakes. A rather large number of studies deals with faults, tsunamis, and earthquakes in Europe. Of course we also have plenty of papers covering other regions and methodological studies.Enjoy reading!
Categories: Paper; abstract; archeoseismology; earthquake; environmental effects; fault; meeting; paleoseismology; paper; tsunami;

SV-POW! at 19, and trying to see what’s not there

Today is SV-POW!'s birthday. Not a nasty, dirty, wet birthday, like a 2nd or a 13th, nor yet a grand, nice-round-number birthday like a 10th or a 20th: it is our 19th birthday, and that means we've been around a while. I decided to celebrate by posting surprising facts about RNA.
Categories: Apatosaurus; Barosaurus; brachiosaurids; cervical; chicken; diplodocids; Diplodocus; Giraffatitan; neck muscles; stinkin' mammals; stinkin' SV-POW!sketeers; stinkin' theropods;

The Last British-Irish Ice Sheet in Northeast Ireland

AntarcticGlaciers.org | 30 September, 2026
The post The Last British-Irish Ice Sheet in Northeast Ireland appeared first on AntarcticGlaciers.org.
Categories: geomorphology; Ireland; LGM; UK;

The best space images of the month

Planetary Society Weblog | 30 September, 2026
All of our favorite space photos from the past month....
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EGU Campfire Geodesy – Share Your Research – 23rd Edition

EGU Geodesy Division | 30 September, 2026
We are excited to announce the 23rd edition of Geodesy Campfire - Share Your Research in October. The Geodesy EGU Campfire Events "Share Your Research" give (early career) researchers the chance to talk about their work. We have two exciting talks by our guest speakers, Saqib Mehdi and Laura Giaccio. Below, you can find the details of the topics awaiting us. We will have time to network after the presentations.
Categories: EGU Campfire; early career scientists; ECS;

The Sassy scientist – Where are the disabled geologists?

EGU Geodynamics Division | 30 September, 2026
  Dear Sassy Scientist, In my institute I never see any disabled people. Only one or two people in wheelchair at the EGU GA. Considering the statistics in the global population, I'm sure some people are impared, but tell me : Where are the disab...
Categories: Ask The Sassy Scientist; Career; Mental Health; The Sassy Scientist;

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during September!

EGU Geolog | 30 September, 2026
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 September, we are featuring Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP),Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI), and Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (ESSI). They are represented by the journals Solid Earth (SE), Geoscientific Model Development (GMD),Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI), and Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).
Categories: GeoRoundup; News; Publications; EGU news; EGU publications; GeoRoundUp; media; open access; publication highlights;

The New European Bauhaus has a dreamland trio of connected goals: sustainability, participation, and beauty. What does beauty mean?

The Nature of Cities | 29 September, 2026
Monica Morales Nuñez Read this in English. Fragilidad y Reproductividad de la Belleza Un acto de resistencia La belleza, como definición, parece un concepto muy complejo, sobre todo si lo miramos desde una mirada occidental, formal, institucional y...
Categories: Art & Awareness; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North America; RoundTable; Art; Awareness; Experiencing Nature; South America;

What Can Fossil Corals in the Cook Islands Teach Us About Global Sea Level Rise?

State of the Planet | 29 September, 2026
Scientists are studying fossil coral reefs in the Cook Islands to reconstruct sea levels during the Last Interglacial, and hoping to improve projections of future change....
Categories: Climate; Earth Sciences; Viewpoints; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; fieldwork; Jacqueline Austermann; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; sea level rise; West Antarctica;

After two landfalls in Mexico, Hurricane Polo’s rainmaking journey has just begun

Eye On the Storm | 29 September, 2026
Moisture from Polo and ex-hurricane Odalys is helping spawn heavy rain and potential flooding from northwest Mexico into the southwest and central U.S....
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Bob Henson; drought; flood; hurricane; Irene Sans; Jeff Masters;

The Monthly Orchid—a Letter to the Earth

... its broad extremity is folded over and backwards in a peculiar manner, so as to form a sort of shoe ... Hence arises the English name of Lady's Slipper. (photo by Matt Lavin).Let me start by explaining how honored I was when Ms. Plantsandrocks a...
Categories: Charles Darwin; Cypripedium; evolution; history of botany; Lady Slippers; orchids; pollination;

Columbia Climate School Hosts City Leaders to Address Energy Affordability and Climate Action

State of the Planet | 29 September, 2026
Sustainability leaders from Ann Arbor, Atlanta and NYC shared the ways they are working at the local level to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs, while also reflecting on the challenges they face....
Categories: Climate; Energy; Poverty / Development; Alexis Abramson; cities; climate; cs highlights; cs impacts; education news; energy independence; Sheila Foster; sustainable energy; utilities;

Geology in Pop Culture - Taylor Swift's "Opalite"

The Geology P.A.G.E | 28 September, 2026
Taylor Swift's "Opalite"Released on October 3rd, of 2025 on The Life of a Showgirl album, "Opalite" is the third track on the album and was later released as a single on January 12th, 2026. Discussing the album on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fa...
Categories: Geology in Pop Culture; Minerals;

Hurricane Nolo takes another turn, Polo to bring deep tropical moisture to Southwest desert

Eye On the Storm | 28 September, 2026
Polo aims for Baja California, Nolo flirts with Category 5 strength, and Rachel intensifies as the Pacific's relentless late-September storm train rolls on. Meanwhile, Hanna is born in the Atlantic....
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Bob Henson; Hawaii; hurricane; Irene Sans; Jeff Masters; Mexico;

The training wall saga

Oakland Geology | 28 September, 2026
Oakland has performed many large feats of civic strength on its way to greatness. I think the largest one was turning a shallow slough into a world-class harbor. It began with a pair of big stone walls.
Categories: Deep Oakland; Geoheritage; Oakland stone;

The jigsaw puzzle of the continents

Earth Learning Idea | 28 September, 2026
We are continuing our plate tectonics theme with "The continental jigsaw puzzle; can you reassemble a super-continent from a 'jigsaw puzzle'?"
Categories: Earth energy / processes;

A tale of two university museums: there is still time to save the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Sternberg Museum

The Coastal Paleontologist | 27 September, 2026
September 2026 has been a pretty dispiriting month for American paleontologists. In early September, Drexel University gave a surprise announcement that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP) would be closing its doors at the end of the month - now just a few days away. And, just this week, news leaked that the Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas, would be closing sometime in the next 3-8 months. These are both important museums, and the ANSP is one of the oldest museums in the country - founded in the early 19th century. You may be asking yourself the following questions: 1) What the hell is going on? and 2) What can I do about it? I will address each of these below.
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Hurricane Polo approaches Mexico as coastal storm grips Northeast, New England

Eye On the Storm | 27 September, 2026
Noteworthy storms, tropical and otherwise, continued to pepper the Eastern and Central Pacific and North Atlantic on Sunday. The big landfall threat is Hurricane Polo (see below), but several other systems were making news this weekend - including...
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Bob Henson;

Dry Gulch Pass

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 27 September, 2026
Albuquerque's South Valley, September 2026. I took advantage of the break between Storm 2 and Storm 3 to wander the South Valley this morning. It was a great ride - lots of ditch banks, some weird urbanity (the Walmart parking lot where Frank H...
Categories: Albuquerque; Ribbons of Green; Value of Water; water;

Taking a break - no post this week

Resource Insights | 27 September, 2026
I am taking a break this week and plan to post again on Sunday, October 4....
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