This image is of a Pleurojulus sp (Fritsch, 1899) millipede fossil on display at Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) (August 2024). It dates to the Late Carboniferous Period. The fossil was found in Ný?any Czech Republi...

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Ever since the words "insurance premium" began appearing on contracts in the Republic of Venice in 1255, modern global trade and now our broader society depend on insurance to mitigate risk of loss to enterprises and individuals for...

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An astronaut photographed Alexandria's coastal development, agricultural zones, harbors, and salt ponds. Read More......

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It's that time of year when the family collects agave sightings around our Albuquerque neighborhood, detouring our drives and walks and bike rides to follow their progress, sharing locations and pictures whenever we're out and about.

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Iceland experienced an unusually warm and sunny May, with record high temperatures averaging 10 C above average. This led to a rapid rise in the snow line to elevations more typical of late June than May on the ice caps in southern Iceland, here both Vatnajökull and ?-ræfajökull. We use Sentinel images (Mauri Pelto annotated) and photographs from (Jill Pelto) to illustrate. The University of Maine Sea to Sky Experience explored Iceland in May, and Jill as the artist faculty for the program had a chance to see Iceland with blue sky days. . Most days during the my two weeks in Iceland, most days were full sun. Most days had high temperatures from 10-15 C, with the heatwave reaching into the low 20 C range, rare even for summer here. The lower parts of outlet glaciers already had lots of bare ice, even though melt season should not really have begun yet. Locals were shocked by the weather, and most I heard from were not happy about it, even though it was "nice" out.

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Farming of this valuable product has become common in recent decades in the waters of Tanzania's Pemba Island. Read More......

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Slow-moving landslides "are really mysterious because they get saturated and they flow. But they don't typically fail catastrophically," Roering says. "These slow-movers are really interesting because rather than evacuating all that unstable material, they just kind of progressively creep."

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The centre of South Africa is an amazing place. The long drive from Cape Town in-land is exciting for the first two hours, while you climbing up through the mountains, past vineyards and valleys full of fynbos. Once on the high interior plateau of So...

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The Sun's activity is peaking, while NASA's budget is facing historic lows....

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California produces more than a third of the vegetables and three quarters of the fruits and nuts in the United States. But water constraints are leaving more and more fields unplanted, or "fallowed," particularly in the state's famed farming hub, the Central Valley.

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It's pride month and we are delighted to feature a post on queer inclusion in fieldwork written by members of EGU's pride group. Queer Quarterly is the blog series of the EGU pride group, an LGBTQIA+ team of geoscientists engaged to uphold and improve the rights of the community at EGU. This quarterly post is based on the EGU Webinar Uneven Ground 2 on improving fieldwork accessibility for LGBTQIA+ people.

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  St. Stephen's Cathedral is located in Vienna, Austria. In 1137 the first Romanesque church was built at the site. The second Romanesque church was built 1200-1225. In 1433 the South Tower was completed and the North Tower finished by 1578. The f...

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I really do feel like blogging is onto its second wind. The amount of influence you can have on the world by consistently blogging about a subject is just as high today as it was back in the 2000s when blogging first started.

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Attached is the powerpoint presentation that I used in Lake Paul, Tatamagouche and Wolfville in early June 2025 as part of the campaign to stop the Nova Scotia Provincial Government from allowing Uranium exploration.

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A powerful weather system brought heavy snow to southern African mountains, plus high winds and flooding to the lowlands. Read More......

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Via Allen Best, Brad Udall's critically important comments at last week's Getches-Wilkinson Colorado River conference:

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key driver of global climate change and the ability to monitor human-based emissions of this gas is crucial for quantifying the effectiveness of carbon-reduction policies. In recent years, space-based platforms like the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2 and OCO-3) missions have provided atmospheric CO2 observations with near-global coverage and efforts to ingest these data into local, regional, and national carbon accounting methodologies have been successful. However, space-based observations are influenced by physical and environmental factors that affect their coverage.

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The Midwest state has flat land, fertile soils, and the nation's largest soybean harvest.   Read More......

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At MR2025, local and international scientists, policymakers, academics and community members will join representatives from different sectors to discuss climate mobility, adaptation and wellbeing....

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I've posted recently about adjusting global surface temperature for known influences (el Niño, volcanoes, and solar variation), which reduces the noise level and improves the precision of trend estimates. This in turn enables us to detect trend ch...

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Climate.gov, NOAA's portal to the work of their Climate Program Office, will likely soon shut down as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired on 31 May, according to The Guardian. The site is funded through a large NOAA contract that also includes other programs. A NOAA manager told now-former employees of a directive "from above" demanding that the contract remove funding for the 10-person climate.gov team.

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Hurricane Barbara and Tropical Storm Cosme lined up off the western coast of Mexico. Read More......

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To view data centers as mainly energy-intensive off-takers misses their potential as digital and energy infrastructure multipliers....

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Misty shores, moss covered forests, a rich cultural history, dappled light, fossils and the smell of salt air--these are my memories of Haida Gwaii.The archipelago of Haida Gwaii lays at the western edge of the continental shelf due west of the cent...

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Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The June 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, and why it is interesting. How t...

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