Josie Brooks reflects on an exhibit at Maine's Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, which explores Inuit food traditions, hunting, art and community....

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The Atlantic is waking up: Two tropical waves could develop this week, but neither poses an immediate U.S. threat....

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We are excited to announce the 22nd edition of Geodesy Campfire - Share Your Research in September. 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, Brian Bramanto and Arash Tayfehrostami. 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 picture is of a large (greater than 30 cm wide) Knemiceras uhligi (Choffat) ammonite fossil. It was found at Baforeira, Parde, Cascais, Portugal and dates to the Cretaceous Period (Albian, about 110 million years ago). As of August 2026 on displ...

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On one block in Philadelphia's Norris Square neighborhood, there were three active community gardens in 2019. Five years later, in the summer of 2024, only one remained. One former garden has been replaced by a pristine vinyl-sided rowhome, its bac...

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When I read that artificial intelligence (AI) companies are destroying rare books as they feed their contents into what are called their large language models (LLMs) which power their AI applications, I was reminded of a conversation I had many years ago that seems to illustrate what is at stake. (For the record, the companies cut off the spine to give them better access to all the pages and then after scanning the pages, dispose of those as well.)

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Observing our celestial neighbor (and something much farther away)....

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On the evening of August 21, 1986, an unusual stillness blanketed the green highlands of northwestern Cameroon. The local villagers in Nyos, Cha, and Subum were preparing for bed, totally unaware that the crater lake nearby had reached its breaking point. Without warning, a wave of gas burst from the lake and spilled over the volcanic crater rim and cascaded into the valleys. Unseen, heavy, and completely odourless, the cloud swept through the sleeping communities at highway speeds. By the time the morning sun rose over the mist, over 1,700 people and thousands of livestock lay dead…

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SSA's journal Seismological Research Letters has issued a call for papers for a focus section on the destructive 2026 Venezuela and Colombia Earthquakes. Deadline for submissions is 21 December, 2026. Guest editors: Franck Audemard, Benazir Orihuela, Omar J. Pérez, Jorge G. F. Crempien, Carlos E. Reinoza Gómez, and Manuel Alberto Florez. 

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BBC image A guest post from longtime friend of Inkstain (and friend of the Colorado River) Karl Flessa. By Karl Flessa In the classic Monty Python sketch, a customer returns to the pet shop where, just 30 minutes ago, he purchased a parrot. ...

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A recent study led by researchers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory asks how and why the spatial footprint of extreme rainfall in the U.S. has changed since 1980....

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Hello Elisa! Thank you for agreeing to this GeoTalk interview. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your background to our readers?

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Caribou graze on Arctic tundra where the zero curtain effect extends the time that moisture is available for microbes that release carbon-rich gases into the atmosphere.NASA As autumn gives way to winter across the Arctic, the ground doesn't immed...

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I vividly remember attending the 14th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry in 1989 in Paris. I witnessed a presentation by John Hayes during which he introduced both a conceptual framework for interpretation of stable carbon isotopic compositions (?13C values) of biologically-derived compounds (biomarkers), as well as a novel analytical approach to measure ?13C values of individual compounds using isotope ratio monitoring-gas chromatography mass spectrometry (irm-GCMS; today, this is typically abbreviated as GC-irMS). The paper stemming from this presentation (Hayes et al., 1990), as well as another from the same year led by Kate Freeman (Freeman et al., 1990), were the first in a series of seminal contributions from John's group at Indiana University that laid the foundation for compound-specific isotope analysis (now often abbreviated as CSIA) to emerge as a brand-new sub-discipline. While the approach has its roots in biogeochemistry, it has been embraced by many other disciplines, including environmental geochemistry, ecology, petroleum geochemistry, forensic science, paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, and astrobiology.

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Remember a time before The Franchise had a near-monopoly on movie dinosaurs? Me neither. To avoid any references to the Crichton and Spielberg-spawned behemoth, you'd have to travel in time all the way back to the 1980s. And that seems like as good...

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There is an exchange between two characters in Tom Stoppard's mind-bending play Arcadia (1993) that captures in a clever way the essence of science. In Act Two, Scene VII, two characters in the present day on the Coverly estate are discussing even...

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I'm prepared to predict, even two weeks before it's over, that summer 2026 will end up as England's hottest on record. Central England Temperature (CET, data available here) records the average temperature over a large region of central England...

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(I wrote this post eleven months ago, but for some reason didn't get around to posting it. Well, now I have. Not now, when I'm writing this sentence, but now, when you're reading it.)

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Over 110,000 customers remained without power across the islands Monday afternoon amid widespread flooding.

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The new initiative is bringing five renowned experts and changemakers to campus this year. Their work spans climate science, public service, finance, entrepreneurship and the arts....

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Adams Point, the peninsula on Lake Merritt that's now the heart of Lakeside Park, was always open space, but never empty. Activity went on there from Oakland's earliest days. When a long-forgotten structure was discovered at Adams Point in 1893, the story was in all the papers for almost a week. After that it was forgotten again. Until this post.

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Welcome to In the News: A Geomorphologist's Perspective! The intent of this series is to explore the geology and geomorphology of places that are currently in the news.

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Today's ELI is 'Mighty river in a small gutter; sediments on the move'.

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When you picture the western Mediterranean, you likely imagine sun-drenched beaches, terracotta roofs, and bright blue skies. But has it always been this sunny?

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Since early March a previously obscure waterway between Iran and Oman that very few people could name has become the subject of daily reporting around the world after Iran closed it as a response to the attack on Iran by the United ...

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