Williams has channeled his experience as a comedian and his M.A. in Climate and Society to create "Climate Town," a popular YouTube series and media company that uses meticulously researched satire to explain climate and energy issues....

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My next post about the Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures is from the first half of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. The park is essentially two main parts, the first is the Statue of Liberty, and the second is Ellis Island. And since they are really their own entities, I will treat them separately. 

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Our new ELI for November is 'Probing the ground - by physics; using the remote sensing power of physics, to find what is beneath the ground'.

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Cast your vote for the best of space exploration and science in 2026!...

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Art on the I25 bridge over the Rio Grande south of Albuquerque, Nov. 1, 2026 The camera on my new phone is dope. I love bridge abutment graffiti, but it's so hard to shoot because of the deep shadows and bright light. I love the geometry of th...

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See any frogs? (MWI)Welcome back to The Monthly Orchid, a series about native orchids of South Dakota. This episode features Dactylorhiza viridis, the Frog Orchid, one of the most widespread orchids in the world. It occurs across Eurasia and Canada, ...

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Mongolian Base CampSomewhere in the immense stretch of time before familiar shells, claws and skeletons, our earliest animal ancestors began their evolutionary adventures. Finding out when they appeared is another matter entirely.How do you find the ...

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In June 1973 during a hearing on the Watergate scandal erupting around President Richard Nixon, Sen. Howard Baker, a Republican from Tennessee, uttered the most famous words of his entire career: "What did the president know ...

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Crowds interact with the exhibition. BGS © UKRI 2026.

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This month's open thread for climate topics. Please be constructive and stay on topic. The post Unforced Variations: Nov 2026 first appeared on RealClimate....

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My cousin found these coral fossils today on paleontology field trip. They date to the Devonian Period and were found in Clark County, Indiana USA. Thanks Kenny for the picture.

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Life restoration of Ankylorhiza, shown here attacking plunge-diving gannets. Illustration by the author. Introduction At long last, a new fossil cetacean from the Oligocene of South Carolina - it's been since 2023 that I last named one! This new st...

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A feat of engineering. That's how the Eavor loops in Geretsried could be described. But that's about it. When it comes to contributing to the energy transition, and the advance of geothermal energy, I think Eavor has not achieved much. With the recent announcement that the two rigs at Geretsried have left the project site,...

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A spooky adventure with the Fossil HuntressGather close, curious creatures. Tonight, we're slipping into the shadows to meet animals whose lives are every bit as fascinating as their spooky reputations.Our journey takes us from a vampire's roost ...

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Daniel Swain on the next wave of Four Corners storms expected this weekend (Halloween 2026): The fact that this pair of back-to-back extreme-to-record shattering rain events across the interior Southwest have occurred during the autumn during (on...

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In November 1923, newspapers such as The New York Times reported on a desert whose name was unfamiliar to most Westerners: the Gobi. The Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), led by Roy Chapman Andrews, had returned with tons of fossils and what the press hailed as the first dinosaur eggs ever discovered, preserved in the sandstone of the Flaming Cliffs. The museum took them for the eggs of Protoceratops. Some papers gave their age as ten million years, about seven times too young. The eggs were shipped to New York, where they caused a sensation. The nests had remained intact for seventy million years. Next to them lay the skeleton of a small, toothless, beaked dinosaur, with its skull just four inches (about 10 cm) above the eggs. Henry Fairfield Osborn named Oviraptor, the 'egg-seizer', combining the Latin 'ovum' (egg) with 'raptor' (robber, plunderer). The species name, philoceratops, "lover of ceratopsians," completed the verdict: that beak seemed made for cracking the eggs of Protoceratops. Osborn later recognised that this might mislead us as to its feeding habits. He was right. In 1993, a team from the AMNH and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences found an embryo inside an egg of the same type, showing that these eggs were oviraptorid, not Protoceratops (Norell et al., 1994). In the following years, oviraptorids such as Citipati were found fossilized sitting on their nests with their arms spread over the clutch (Norell et al., 1995; Clark et al., 1999). The supposed thief had been a devoted parent, and one of the researchers, James Clark, even titled a 1995 article "An egg thief exonerated."

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AGU is thrilled to be back in San Francisco and bring you some exciting and informative science policy programming at this year's annual meeting. Whether you're new to science policy or are looking to start a policy career, we have a session for you. This year, all our core programming will take place in AGU Central's theater space, located in the exhibit hall. Sessions will be 45 minutes...

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The Planetary Society is seeking a Community Organizer to establish and scale the Society's grassroots advocacy program....

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John Hillier (Interim Division President): I have a very mixed research background. I started off in marine geophysics and then I moved to glacial geomorphology. At the end of that I worked for an insurance company as a catastrophe modeller, and then returned to the academic space looking at multi-hazard risk. I've been working with the insurance companies, to look at when risks co-occur, identify the natural hazards and their impact on regulations. So I've chased my research all the way from science to communication.

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How do geodesists measure gravity? And what does it reveal about our planet? Gravitation is one of the most familiar forces in everyday life, yet almost no one can explain how geodesists use it to monitor a changing Earth. A new short film from IAG's Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS), "Gravity - The Invisible Force Shaping Our Earth" sets out to change that translating decades of geodetic gravity research into eight minutes that anyone can follow.

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    Lucie Lederhendler When I first received this prompt, I was so smug! My sector, I have said before, despite its flaws and its snobbery, is the one most equipped to locate the work of the soul in creation. I thought back to a roundtable presenta...

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As exploration challenges become increasingly complex, two complementary workflows have emerged as the foundation of effective petroleum systems studies: bottom-up basin modelling and top-down fluid systems analysis. The traditional bottom-up approach reconstructs the geological evolution of a sedimentary basin through time. The principal strength of bottom-up modelling lies in its ability to quantify geological processes...

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One major pillar of science are datasets. Collecting, analysing and understanding data is basically what research is all about. In this blogpost, Claire Treat tells a story about haunting data experiences that researchers from other fields can relate to for sure.

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I was sent a photograph of a bluebird sitting on a nest of eggs in a bird box.  The sitter was definitely a male; it's fairly easy to distinguish the genders with this songbird species.  The sender had been monitoring the bird box and knew there we...

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Lions, leopards, hyenas and rhinoceroses once roamed the European landscape with ancient humans, and deep in a limestone cave, artists painted these animals with exquisite detail and beauty. On my recent visit to safari camps in South Africa, I saw t...

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