Japan's largest volcano lies hidden. It can be found, if you know where to look, by starting from the southern island of Kyushu. Find the active volcano Sakurajima. (We will come back to it later. But this is not that volcano.) Sakurajima lies in-b...
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Categories: Historical volcanoes; Japan; Kikai caldera; Kikai-Akahoya eruption; Large Eruptions; Satsuma-iojima;
On Sunday, July 5, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of the asteroid Torifune....
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Trees ? living, dead, and transformed ? play roles in the lives of three communities in New Haven, CT. Because trees themselves have life cycles, interact with other living and non-living actors, and have material and symbolic significance, they ...
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Categories: Essay; North America; People & Communities; Awareness; Communities; Gardens; Green Infrastructure; Stewardship; Trees;
The World Meteorological Organization says a strong El Niño could drive extreme weather in many regions....
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Categories: Climate; Natural Disasters; Viewpoints; Andrew J. Kruczkiewicz; climate models; El Niño; extreme weather; flash floods; natural disasters; Red Cross;
Researchers working with one of NASA's DRIVE (Diversify, Realize, Integrate, Venture, Educate) Science Centers are closer to unraveling a long-standing solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the Sun's tachocline layer, a region critic...
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Categories: Blogs; Heliophysics; Heliophysics Division; Heliophysics Research Program; NASA Directorates; Science & Research; Science Mission Directorate; The Sun; The Sun & Solar Physics;
If ever there were a dinosaur that looked like it had dressed for a gala while everyone else showed up in sensible hiking boots, it was Oviraptor.Picture yourself standing on the warm floodplains of Mongolia some 75 million years ago. The air shimmer...
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Categories: andrews; chapman; clutch; DINOSAUR; dinosaurs; eggs; feathered; gobi; oviraptor; roy;
In recent months, several articles emphasising the historical, technical, and human aspects of the evolving "apertura" in Venezuela have been published in the AAPG Explorer and GEO EXPRO. In the former, Brown provided geopolitical and historical perspectives and an indication of "the size of the prize". Smith Llinas, also in the Explorer, pursued more personal...
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Categories: From the Industry; From the industry; Venezuela;
Guest blog by Christopher B. DuRoss from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
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Categories: Paper; Uncategorized; abstract; earthquake; paleoseismology; paper; salt lake; USGS;
Researchers studying a lake drainage event in Greenland determined that large amounts of meltwater drainage can lead to massive glacier calving events and accelerate ice sheet loss....
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Categories: GlacierHub; glaciers; Greenland; Greenland Ice Sheet; Jonathan Kingslake; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory;
"Seaton Tramway operates narrow gauge heritage trams between Seaton, Colyford and Colyton in East Devon's glorious Axe Valley," according to their website, providing superb views across the wetland habitats of curlews, lapwings, egrets, shelduc...
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Categories: Attraction Review; Deinonychus; edmontosaurus; Gallimimus; Jurassic Discovery; Kokoro; oviraptor; robots; Seaton; Triceratops; tyrannosaurus; velociraptor;
Match 1: Ecuador v. Norway
Ecuador Volcano Fun Facts:
Guagua Pichincha is one of my favorite volcano names but did you know it was built on an older volcano that is called Rucu Pichincha?
Ecuador shares a volcano with Colombia: Chiles-Cerro...
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Categories: Volcano World Cup; eruption; geology; volcano; volcanoes;
This artist's concept shows a quasar, which is a galaxy with large quantities of material spiralling into its central supermassive black hole. Extreme gravitational and frictional forces heat the material to millions of degrees, generating more lig...
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Categories: Active Galaxies; Euclid; Galaxies; Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Quasars;
Bavi is expected to gradually weaken this week and threaten northern Taiwan and Japan's Ryukyu Islands as a Category 3 storm on Friday.
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Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Guam; hurricane; Jeff Masters; Northern Mariana Islands;
A few weeks ago I managed to get on the list for a field trip with the Northern California Geological Society (where I serve as webmaster/social media chief). We visited four memorable spots on the Sonoma coast. The first one was Bodega Head, where I'd been once a long time ago. The second was Shell Beach, my third visit. The third was Goat Rock, which I'd photographed long ago but where I'd never actually stood. And the last one, which had seemed like an afterthought, was an illuminating surprise.
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Categories: Oakland conglomerate; Outside Oakland;
The "Freedom 250" activities in Washington DC have been controversial for a number of reasons, but after the fireworks display in the early hours of July 5th, the environmental and health impacts of this event became a concern. In the aftermath o...
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Categories: Conservation; News; acoustic trauma; environmental impact; fireworks; freedom 250; health impacts; pollution; washington dc; wildlife;
Hi, my name is Chloe and I am a 2nd year PhD student in the group. This summer, I am working with the Meteor Physics Group at Western University all the way over in Ontario, Canada, working on a project looking at meteor-dropping fireballs observed b...
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Categories: Space; Canada; Desert Fireball Network; fireball; Global Meteor Network; GMN; meteor; Ontario; Western University;
By Tamara Gerber
Aniso... what?
Glaciers and ice sheets move by sliding over their bed and by deforming internally under their own weight. How easily the ice deforms depends not only on temperature and stress, but also on the way the ice crysta...
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Categories: ice core; ice flow; model; radar;
Fossil Sand Dollar in LimestoneLong before the Nile carved its fertile valley, and before the pyramids rose from the desert sands, Egypt was home to warm tropical seas and lush river deltas teeming with life. The rocks surrounding the Giza Plate...
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Categories: africa; ancient; egypt; famous; fossils; gastropods; giza; id; marine; pyramids; sea; urchins;
Hi,
The 2026 General Assembly is over. Now it's time to introduce our existing ECS Network, which has been enriched by a few new members.
Let's meet our ECS Network members-
ECS Representatives (2025-2026)
(1) Piyal Halder
Hello my GMPV br...
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Hovgard Kystland Glacier in Sentinel image from July 4, 2026 with margin indicated by black dots. The 2020 margin seen below is indicated by green dots.
Hovgard Kystland Glacier is an outlet glacier in West Greenland between Alison and Hayes Glac...
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Categories: climate change glacier retreat; glacier climate change; Glacier Observations; Greenland glacier retreat; Climate Change; Featured; Glacier retreat; Hovgard Kystland glacier retreat; West greenland calving retreat;
The new ELI today is 'The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"; how ocean currents trap our plastic waste'.
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Categories: Oceanography and Environment;
Hall anchor being dragged through undrained, very loose sand. Modelled using the material point method. © Durham University.
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Categories: BGS news; lyell centre; marine geoscience; offshore; quaternary geology;
"Having a look at our lineament map," says Jon Engström from the Geological Survey of Finland, "that is the first thing you need to do when you're planning a subsurface project in our country." Jon is a structural geologist who has extensive experience in mapping of structural deformation in Finland's subsurface, mostly gained through the...
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Categories: Subsurface Storage; subsurface Storage;
Blackfeet Burning Crow Buffalo Range, painting by Charles Marion Russell. (1904) Source: Wikimedia.org (Public Domain)
Images of modern prairie burns in the Flint Hills near Council Grove, Kansas have been captured by National Geographic photojour...
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Categories: Bioregionalism; Hydrology; Research; Soil's Role in the Environment; Blackfeet Tribe; Charles Marion Russell; Cornus drummundii; Crow Tribe; fire ecology; Fort Mandan; Great Plains; Lewis & Clark Expedition; plant competition; prairie grasslands; roughleaf dogwood; soil-plant relations; stable isotope analysis;
Fossil Coral -- A City within a CityHere are some beauties for you -- lovely fossil coral, frozen in stone yet once very much alive. At first glance it looks like a single organism, but that's the clever bit. Corals are really bustling li...
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Categories: changes; cnidaria; coral; environment; evolution; fossil; sea; temperatures;
