I find much to like about house wrens, including their scientific name: Troglodytes aedon.  It's very appropriate for this vigorous singer and cavity nester. Troglodyte is from the Greek for "hole or cave dweller," while aedon, also Greek in ...

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Welcome to the world of bees. This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus Bombus sp., family Apidae. We know him from our gardens where we see them busily lapping up nectar and pollen from flowers with their ...

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When Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump agree on something, that agreement deserves examination. Both are touting the idea that the federal government should have an ownership stake in major artificial intelligence (AI) compa...

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Cradled within the soft blue-grey embrace of the Gault Clay lies this beautifully preserved Proeuhoplites subtuberculatus, collected from Bed II (iv) of the Folkestone Gault in Kent, southeast England. Measuring just 35 millimetres across, this ...

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Lead researcher Federico De Pascalis of the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) holds a Mediterranean storm petrel.A. Benvenuti You might think birds skimming over the ocean wouldn't seek wind unless it was pushin...

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Even as trees photosynthesize late into the year, their growth stops by mid-summer, which impacts their carbon uptake....

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Getting people into space takes the right tech, the right talent, and the right policies....

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Apoderoceras / Stonebarrow FossilsMeet Apoderoceras, one of the Jurassic's finest ammonites.This beauty is a personal fav of mine and you can see why!These elegant ammonites were masters of sexual dimorphism. The macroconchs -- females -- could gro...

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Be sure to vote for Group B in the poll at the bottom! Canada - 37/24/1/0 Mount Meager in British Columbia. Credit: David Steers / Wikimedia Commons I think many people don't believe that Canada has volcanoes. Not that it is a conspiracy...

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Pride month arrives this year against a backdrop of institutional irony. In the United States, federal research funding has been thoroughly weaponised and forced a massive scientific brain drain across the Atlantic. In Europe, a multi-million-euro ef...

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Geodesy is fundamental to understanding our dynamic planet. From monitoring sea-level rise and glacier melt to maintaining precise terrestrial reference frames for GNSS and Earth observation, geodesy provides the scientific backbone for many disciplines represented within the EGU and beyond. Despite its importance, geodesy often remains invisible outside the scientific community. Even within geosciences, many people use geodetic products daily without fully realizing the complex infrastructure and science behind them.

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The first time I stood on sea ice, I could not tell which direction the coast was. A community member named Bryan could. That gap in situational awareness, between what a trained remote sensing scientist could read from the landscape and what a local hunter understood instinctively, turned out to mirror almost exactly the gap in our satellite data: ICESat-2 produces reliable freeboard across the central Arctic but goes systematically blind within 25 km of every coastline. This post traces that coastal data gap from its algorithmic roots through its ecological and human consequences, and asks what it would mean to build satellite products that close it on the terms of the communities who need them most.

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THE REALITY BEHIND FLASHY JOB TITLES I recently spoke with someone who works for a large international operator. To me, as a representative of a very small company, the job titles these people have always sounded very impressive. Exploration manager, this or that, it all suggests major responsibility and momentum. But when I bluntly asked...

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The largest Philippines shock in a half century -- a magnitude 7.8 event -- struck an earthquake-weary country on June 7, 2026, shaking the southernmost island of Mindanao. As of this writing, the Philippines authorities are reporting 47 deaths, several building collapses, and extensive building and infrastructure damage in General Santos City, which lays 55 kilometers (35 miles) north of the epicenter (Figure 1). In addition, a tsunami of 0.5 meters struck Davao City. Fortunately, the 55 kilometer depth of the quake, and its location 25 kilometers offshore, reduced its tsunami potential and its peak shaking intensity on land.

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The author reflects on Jeffrey Sachs, the U.N., and the need to redesign global institutions for a world shaped by climate change, poverty and geopolitical strain....

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The arrival of El Niño is increasing confidence in a quieter-than-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. Colorado State University now expects only 11 named storms this year, well below average. Still, forecasters warn that it only takes one landfalling hurricane to cause significant impacts, regardless of seasonal totals.

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One of my former political ecology teachers, Robert Biel, has had this incredible ability to use political theories to connect the deeply theoretical with the banal everyday, the micro with the macro, and the natural with the social sciences. He woul...

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Physics of the Cosmos...Physics of the Cosmos CommunityGW SIG Seminar, 17...AboutCommunityProgram Analysis Group (PhysPAG)Science GroupsMeetingsCosmic PathfindersScience GapsEarly Career WorkshopsOpportunitiesMissionsStudiesNews & EventsResources  ...

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For this  episode of HydroTalks, we're thrilled to welcome Dr. Ilias Pechlivanidis, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor (Docent) in hydrology and water resources at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), and Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University.

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Researchers tested soccer balls aboard the International Space Station to study how internal mass affects motion and stability in microgravity....

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Ordovician SeasOrdovician seas, some 485 to 444 million years ago, were gloriously alive. If the Cambrian was Earth's exuberant dress rehearsal for complex life, the Ordovician was opening night. The oceans swelled with innovation, diversit...

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Volcano World Cup - Group A Remember to cast your vote for Group A at the bottom of this post! Pool A Mexico - 76/30/9/5 - Popocatépetl Popocatépetl in Mexico. Image by Russ Bowling / Flickr. Mexico has a lot of volcanoes. Some...

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Microbiologist Arwyn Edwards discusses the complex role of microbial life in glacial ecosystems and the impact of climate change on his field....

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Projected number of properties highly likely or extremely likely to be affected by clay shrink-swell due to climate change compared with London boroughs at greatest risk of being affected by 2070. BGS © UKRI 2026.

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"When people make a creaming curve for a basin," says Ian Longley from GIS-Pax, "they draw a line, and say that's going to be the future for the basin." "The problem with that methodolo­gy is, when you predict to find, let's say, 500 MMbbl in ten years, there is noth­ing to inform you about whether...

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