As it feasts on near-record oceanic warmth, Genevieve will stay safely out to sea.

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Let us know your thoughts about Momentum, The Planetary Society's philanthropic newsletter....

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Climate economist Gernot Wagner argues public climate finance should de-risk private investment, fund adaptation for vulnerable countries and help multilateral development banks scale proven climate technologies faster....

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More than 50 years after the Apollo missions, we are still making major scientific discoveries from the lunar samples returned to Earth. Recent advances in analytical techniques are allowing researchers to extract new information from these colle...

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Matt and I had a great time at DinoCon 2026 this weekend just gone. One of the highlights for me was running into Tim Versteeg and Joschua Knüppe, who run the PaleoStream channel. They had a stall in the vendor hall, stocked with some fantastic palaeoart.

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Ooids are sedimentary grains that form by precipitation of calcium carbonate around a nucleus. The nucleus may be an organic particle, or a mineral grain, or a shell fragment.Repeated precipitation results in a concentric coating around the nucleus. Depending upon the saturation state of the sea and other variables like temperature, ooids may be made up of either calcite or aragonite. Both have the same chemical formula, CaCO3, but they differ in their atomic structure.Ooids form in shallow seas where wave energy is vigorous. The turbulence results in the particles getting suspended and redeposited on the sea floor, resulting in an even coating around the nucleus. Beaches, tidal channels and regions near reefs are areas where ooids are accumulating today in tropical seas around the Bahamas, Caribbean, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea.The picture shows an ancient ooid. This particle is around 350 million years old from the Mississippian Period, deposited in a warm shallow sea which occupied the State of Alabama in North America. I collected the rock sample on a field trip during my PhD days.

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We are excited to announce the 21st edition of Geodesy Campfire - Share Your Research in August. 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, Shrishail Raut and Michal Cuadrat-Grzybowski. Below, you can find the details of the topics awaiting us. We will have time to network after the presentations.

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This ELI is useful for teachers planning their lessons. It is also fun to do while out and about.  'View to the future - and the past; using a viewpoint or overview educationally'.

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Guest blogger: Anna Lundquist (ESCI and PHIL double-major, class of 2027)

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What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shell from hosting immature bivalves that shared the seas with these Middle Jurassic, Upper Callovian, Lamberti zon...

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Our tech overlords tell us that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon create a world of abundance while solving our major problems such as climate change. Just so you know who I'm talking about, I have previously defined our ...

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In thinking about who trust whom and why (not), it's always interesting to see how people talk about other people, in this case how teachers talk about first generation students. Forsyth et al. (2022) investigate how teachers talk about the experie...

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Communities continue to face different groundwater realities, different economies and different views about water management. But as groundwater challenges become harder to ignore, many are reaching the same conclusion: Waiting for someone else to s...

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This graceful beauty, with its elegant, sail-like fins and armour of shimmering scales, is Albertonia sp.--an Early Triassic ganoid fish whose lineage once glided through the recovering seas of what is now western Canada. Belonging to a group o...

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Note: I reserve the right to make posts NOT about climate change. Like this one. My wife and I watched Christopher Nolan's new movie "Odyssey" last weekend. We liked some of it, disliked some of it, and had a lot ... Continue reading ??'...

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See Mars from Viking 1 and Psyche, or with your own two eyes....

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Look how epic this little guy is! He is a crab -- and if you asked him, the fiercest warrior that ever lived. While that may not be strictly true, crabs do have the heart of a warrior and will raise their claws, sometimes only millimetres ...

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Guinea-Conakry is among the West African countries actively developing its offshore prospects. Encouraged by discoveries in other parts of MSGBC basin, the country is now gearing up for the next phase. The progression is driven by improved geological understanding, strengthened institutional capacity, and a landmark development: ENI's acquisition of exploration rights for 15 offshore blocks....

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We want to make this our most successful season of hurricane reporting to date, and that's why we're asking for your help today.

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Several members of the group were at the Goldschmidt Conference in Montréal, Canada, last week. Now they are back from their adventures and recovered from the jetlag, we've some photos to share. A list of all abstracts by group members is in t...

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This Sunday, July 26, marks the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. We are currently experiecing critical crossroads globally, where groundbreaking data on global forest recovery collides with the immediate threats of an escalating climate crisis.El Niño is pushing Pacific sea surface temperatures toward levels that rank among the highest on record, and climate specialists expect damaging marine heat reaching almost half of the globe till the end of 2026. In the past, this kind of climatic settings have tipped mangroves' resilience almost to a collapse point. So continue reading to learn about how these significant coastal buffers are faring on the front lines, and why our approach to protecting them must urgently evolve.

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A long time ago, bored with painting exploding spacecraft for others, I started painting alien creatures for my own pleasure.

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Lower Curtis Glacier terminus in 2025 with overall results of our work 1984-2025. 2026 Field Season: For the 43rd consecutive summer we are heading into the field to measure and communicate the impact of climate change on North Cascade glaciers. T...

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Let's be honest. Most of us got into conservation science because we wanted to save something. We envisioned conducting science that would be serving as a shield, protecting a fragile ecosystem or an endangered species from the relentless march of ...

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