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Contribute Your Lab to Emriver/SERC!

EMRiver News | 14 September, 2026
Emriver is happy to introduce a new online venue for river and coastal labs. We've partnered with SERC (the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College) to create a platform where educators can share ideas, pro tips, and content lessons across the globe. There are about 900 Emriver stream tables and flumes globally, and SERC has more than 5 million visitors to its site each year. By tapping into the expertise and creativity of teachers and researchers like you, we can help improve education about rivers and coasts around the world.
Categories: Category 2;

Adventures in Time | 14 September, 2026
 https://youtu.be/IULLrU3O9iw?si=dlH-xXvHfcCjo716...
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Dinos of Disney - Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain

The Geology P.A.G.E | 14 September, 2026
Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain
Categories: Dinos in Pop Culture; Dinos of Disney; disney; Disneyland; Geology of Disney; Paleo in Pop Culture;

Piedmont’s secret lake

Oakland Geology | 14 September, 2026
Tyson Lake is a small pond on the upper edge of Piedmont at the top of Indian Gulch's watershed. It's invisible to everyone but the homeowners around it.
Categories: Oakland streams and water;

Unused Natural Gas Behind NYC’s $300 Million Waste of a Potent Greenhouse Gas

State of the Planet | 14 September, 2026
New research may offer cities an overlooked pathway for reduce methane emissions while potentially saving consumers millions of dollars lost to wasted natural gas....
Categories: Climate; Energy; Press Release; climate; climate change; greenhouse gas emissions; greenhouse gases; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; methane; natural gas; Roisin Commane;

Fieldwork demonstrations to help understanding

Earth Learning Idea | 14 September, 2026
We are continuing with our fieldwork theme. Have you tried using "Fieldwork: interactive re-creation; activities using simple transportable apparatus to simulate features in the field"?
Categories: Investigating the Earth;

Pipeline "solution" to Strait of Hormuz closure gone in a flash

Resource Insights | 13 September, 2026
The East-West Pipeline in Saudi Arabia which delivers oil to the shores of the Red Sea has been an important workaround to the choking of tanker traffic by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, the only exit for tankers from the Persian ...
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Quoting Aristotle

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 12 September, 2026
Aristotle on the wisdom of Colorado River Compact litigation: Now, it is of great moment that well-drawn laws should themselves define all the points they possibly can and leave as few as may be to the decision of the judges.... [L]aws are made a...
Categories: Colorado River; mind;

Grief, Recovery and the Environmental Lessons of 9/11

State of the Planet | 11 September, 2026
Michael Gerrard revisits the profound grief and overlooked environmental hazards of the World Trade Center attacks, including asbestos and toxic debris....
Categories: Health; Viewpoints; environmental health; Michael Gerrard; Sabin Center for Climate Change Law;

Twenty-Five Years After September 11th, New York City Changed the Way We Prepare for Disasters

State of the Planet | 11 September, 2026
The strongest response is rarely about one institution having all the answers. It is about people knowing whom to call, trusting one another, and being willing to share what they know....
Categories: Peace and Conflict; Viewpoints; National Center for Disaster Preparedness; Thomas Chandler;

American Summer

Open Mind | 11 September, 2026
This summer (June/July/August) was America's hottest on record, at an average temperature of 74.7 °F: That's the summer average of daily mean temperature (which is the average of the daily high and daily low) for the conterminous U.S. (a.k.a. CO...
Categories: climate change; Global Warming;

The next generation

Planetary Society Weblog | 11 September, 2026
A new shape on Saturn, new Artemis spacesuits, and a new look at Star Trek....
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Challenges in accessibility and code quality of the climate models that underpin our understanding of climate change

Climate models are particularly challenging because they are developed over decades by large international teams and contain millions of lines of code. As models evolve, older versions can become difficult to locate, maintain, or even identify.
Categories: Climate of the Future; CMIP; reproducibility; software engineering;

Climate of the Past at 20: Celebrate Open and Collaborative Paleoclimate Science With Our Webinars!

EGU Geolog | 11 September, 2026
In 2025, Climate of the Past celebrated its 20th anniversary. Over the past two decades, the journal has become a leading open-access publication in paleoclimatology. It provides a platform for research into how the Earth's climate has changed over time, and how these changes can inform our understanding of the current climate system.
Categories: EGU Webinar; Publications; Science Communication; climate change; Climate of the past; Paleoclimatology; publications; webinars;

Will Antarctic ice shelves embark on their last journey soon?

Ice shelves, the floating margins of the Antarctic ice sheet, play an important role in the estimation of future sea-level rise. By their presence, they act as a brake on the flow from the grounded ice sheet to the ocean and therefore modulate how much of this ice is added to the ocean. As the atmosphere and ocean warm, melt is occurring at their surface and at their base, putting their existence under threat. In this context, the future of ice shelves looks grim. When can we expect them to disappear and what's the main driver behind it? This is what we explored in a recent study...
Categories: Climate Change & Cryosphere; Antarctica; climate change; Ice shelves;

Museu de História Natural de Sintra

Louisville Fossils and Beyond | 10 September, 2026
 When in Portugal, I was able to visit the Sintra Natural History Museum. Sintra is about a 40 minute train ride from Lisbon, expect a lot of stops though. The town is known for the attractions: Pena Palace, Quinta da Regaleira, and Castelo dos Mour...
Categories: miguel barbosa; sintra museum of natural history;

Earth just had its hottest August on record

Eye On the Storm | 10 September, 2026
The intensifying super El Niño, combined with global warming, is favored to make 2026 the hottest year on record, with 2027 expected to be even hotter....
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Bob Henson; Jeff Masters; Monthly summary;

Dangerous Hot Days Are Spreading Beyond Summer

State of the Planet | 10 September, 2026
Extreme heat has become more common. But a new study finds that these events are no longer confined to the warmest part of the year; they are also becoming more frequent in the months before and after....
Categories: Climate; Health; cities; cities and climate change; climate; extreme heat; NASA-GISS;

88th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society

Earth & Solar System | 10 September, 2026
In August, a group of us went to Frankfurt for the 88th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, hosted by Goethe University. We enjoyed meeting colleagues old and new from around the world, celebrating 50 years of Antarctic meteorite hunting, and...
Categories: Uncategorized;

A river returns

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 9 September, 2026
My office mate and podcast hosting buddy Rin Tara had the good sense to pull out their phone and record some stuff while we were out at the Rio Grande Thursday, beneath the I40 bridge, waiting for the pulse flow to arrive. We had the good fortune to ...
Categories: Albuquerque; Ribbons of Green; water;

We just had the hottest August, hottest summer, and hottest year to date in U.S. history

Eye On the Storm | 9 September, 2026
NOAA data show unprecedented heat across the contiguous U.S., as deepening drought, shrinking reservoirs, and a severe wildfire season underscore the growing impacts of a warming climate....
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Weather Extremes; Bob Henson; drought; Heat;

Methane in India: Why precise measurements and cutting-edge technology matter for climate action

That shorter lifetime and high global warming potential make methane one of the fastest levers available for slowing near-term warming.
Categories: Atmospheric Science; guest author; asia; atmospheric pollution; atmospheric science; global warming; greenhouse gas; india; IPCC; methane;

The Hidden Topography of the Deep Earth

EGU Geodynamics Division | 9 September, 2026
The only fluid part of the Earth's interior is the outer core, which undergoes vigorous turbulent convection and maintains our planet's magnetic field through a process called the dynamo. Geodynamo theorists and planetary scientists have been trying to recreate this process on computer since the 90s (Glatzmaier & Roberts, 1997). Since then, the models have grown remarkably good enough to reproduce the Earth's magnetic field not just what looks like today, but how it likely behaved millions of years in the past. However, most of these models till date were built considering the core-mantle boundary (CMB) to be a perfectly smooth surface (as shown in an example simulation in Figure 2). But...
Categories: Geodynamics 101; CMB topography; Dynamic Topography; inverted mountains; Length of Day; stably stratified layer;

Hurricane Lowell slams Hawaii, triggering historic tornado watch and widespread flooding

Eye On the Storm | 8 September, 2026
Lowell never officially made landfall, but its widespread impacts made it one of Hawaii's most consequential tropical cyclones in decades....
Categories: Eye on the Storm; Feature Article; Bob Henson; hurricane; Irene Sans;

A Visit to the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa Museu Geológico in Portugal

Louisville Fossils and Beyond | 7 September, 2026
After returning from the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa Museu Geológico in Lisbon, Portugal in August of 2026, this post is about that visit. My trip began walking from the hotel near to the waterfront to Lisbon Academy of Sciences which house thi...
Categories: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa Museu Geológico; jurassic; minerals; miocene; portugal; Roman;

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Latest: Sabrina Koetter is defending her MS thesis: “Clarity for Lakes and Communities: Understanding the Communication Practices and Role Perceptions of Volunteer Lake Monitors”

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