From October through June, Columbia Climate School researchers and students will host sessions exploring climate and sustainability topics including biodiversity, climate finance, climate action in professional sports and wildfire management....

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If ever there were a case for playing the long game, space exploration is it....

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Aberfan is located in the South Wales Valleys and developed as a coal mining village during the industrial revolution in the mid-1800s. The village is much like any of the other villages scattered across the region - rows on rows of small terrace houses, nestled into the sides and bottom of steep, glacially eroded valleys. However, this quiet, beautiful village is also known across the world for its connection to one of the UK's worst mining disasters.

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Let's get the joke out of the way first, because I made it to myself more than once while finishing this piece: "explosive inside, effusive outside" is a fairly accurate description of the average Early Career Researcher trying to hold it together inside the current state of academia. Calm, composed, professionally cheerful on the surface; a small pyroclastic flow of funding anxiety, precarious contracts, growing responsibilities for the lowest payslips and looming deadlines going off somewhere just beneath it. It turns out this is also, with slightly more rigour and considerably less existential dread, a pretty good description of a silicic volcanic dome.

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As part of our Advancement Services team, the Membership Assistant is often a member's first point of contact with the Society, whether by phone, email, or in person at our beautiful office in Pasadena, CA....

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The Golden State has a long history of cataclysmic floods....

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The post Introduction to permafrost and periglacial phenomena appeared first on AntarcticGlaciers.org.

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Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed....

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Yesterday, an AI posted a comment on this blog -- or tried to. It was superficially helpful, relevant to the top of the post it was on, and turned out to contain that characteristic blend of things we already knew and things that are (subtly or blatantly) wrong. Needless to say, we shoved it in the spam folder.

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A juvenile male northern elephant seal hauled out on a beach near Ano Nuevo in March, at the tail end of breeding season. Photo by author.Introduction Elephant seals are some of the most famous and conspicuous marine mammals along the California coa...

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The good people at the Copernicus Climate Service regularly update their global surface temperature record (and make it public through the excellent website Climate Pulse). Besides reporting global surface temperature (T2m, air temperature at altitud...

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As Champi buzzsaws its way across the Western Pacific this week, the U.S. coast from North Carolina to New Jersey is bracing for several days of high water from a slow-moving nor'easter that could take on subtropical characteristics....

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For the first-time traveler to Hawai'i, a word about the birds. There are two groups of birds, the species native to the Hawaiian Islands, and the introduced, or invasive species. There are also two groups of birds, the ones you are likely to see d...

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Sulfur has become an indispensable element for the modern industrial system including for agriculture. Before the outbreak of the Iran war, 24 percent of the world's supply of sulfur passed through the Strait of Hormuz. I can fi...

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We're continuing our landforms theme with 'Picturing Landforms 1 - Visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.

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Another paper has appeared showing an increase in the rate of global warming since about 2011, and using their new rate estimates to forecast when we will pass the 1.5°C and 2°C thresholds of global temperature warned about in the ... Continue read...

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Old stars may offer a rainbow of color, while a Mars rover sets a new record, and a JWST image gets an artistic makeover....

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Welcome to the second post in our GeoLog series on communicating uncertainty! Written by students from an interdisciplinary course at the University of Tübingen led by Dr. Solmaz Mohadjer, this series highlights how reframing the unknown as a strength can transform science communication. In this piece, Ana Isidora Ciobanu and Sarah Lind show why uncertainty is far from a scientific flaw, but is, in fact, the very engine of scientific progress. By drawing parallels to how we manage everyday unknowns, like checking weather forecasts or route traffic, they unpack concepts like epistemic versus aleatory uncertainty, falsifiability, and the Information-Gap Theory. Using a vivid metaphor of science as a growing tree, they demonstrate why embracing what we don't know fuels curiosity and prevents knowledge from hardening into dogma, concluding with a practical three-step guide to help readers navigate uncertainty-related stress.

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The weathering crust of ice sheets or glaciers is a layer of porous ice, bordering on impermeable ice below and influencing the meltwater storage and production. This physically complex environment harbors a wide range of microorganisms that themselves affect the weathering crust and contribute to darkening of ice surfaces. The two factors - microbial community and ice structure - and their respective impacts on the melting of ice sheets and glaciers are difficult to separate in field experiments which is why modeling of this environment is beneficial. A model is a simplified representation of a real-world system or process in mathematical terms, that allows scientists to test different scenarios. 

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As promised, here's another look at Karen Carr's work as published in Lone Star Dinosaurs, a book about Texan dinosaurs (duh) written by Texan palaeontologist Louis Jacobs and published by Texas A&M University Press in 1995. Do go and read the f...

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Due out in early 2027, it's the best climate change documentary I've ever seen. The producers need donations to finish it....

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While the Atlantic slumbers, we need to watch two potential rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones in the Pacific....

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A story of Citizens' Stewardship that helped achieve nature-based goals within neighbourhoods of Mumbai in the 2020s. Published ? May 2150. This story begins more than a century ago, in the days when the city was still learning that concrete coul...

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Drawing inspiration from new research shared by EGU scientists, this column brings you some of the latest publications. This edition covers the globe, from the air we breathe in Ireland and China to the waves that stitch the tropics to the Southern Hemisphere.

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Inspired by the freedom found in the mountains, this M.S. in Sustainability Management alum calls for restoring ecosystems and building communities where every living being can flourish authentically....

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