Study finds that Canadian mining companies are staking claims on future salmon habitat emerging from the ice as glaciers retreat....

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With the obligatory shovels in pre-softened dirt, a group of political leaders from the Navajo Nation, New Mexico state and local government, and water agencies this morning (Wed. 5/15/2024) formally inaugurated a new pipeline being built to connect the Navajo community of To'Hajiilee to the 3.5 million gallon reservoir in the picture - clean, piped water to a community that now has one working well and water so bad no one drinks it.

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On May 11, 2024, the day-night band of VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the Suomi NPP satellite spotted the aurora borealis over the United States during the strongest geomagnetic storm in over two decades. That same night, ...

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One of the best parts of my role as your president is recognizing and honoring the incredible individual achievements of the members who comprise our inspiring community. On behalf of AGU, I want to congratulate those members who have been elected in 2023 and 2024 to the National Academy of Sciences.  AGU is proud of your contributions to the Earth and space sciences. This recognition is truly deserving, and we ...

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One of the best parts of my role as your president is recognizing and honoring the incredible individual achievements of the members who comprise our inspiring community.

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In this blog post I am expanding on the blog post about the third EGU Climate Great Debate and its survey results on what you thought we can do as scientists. After conducting an interview with Maien Sachisthal, an active member of Scientist Rebellion, I reflected on the Great Debate and scientists within society, sharing insights on the Scientist Rebellion and Scientists 4 Future protest events that took place during the General Assembly in 2024. Make sure to check out the list of resources I curated at the end of the article to find publications on 'activism success' and 'constructive hope', local action groups and more!

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Professor of Climate Jessica Fanzo discusses how a seemingly haphazard career path led to her recent election to the National Academy of Science....

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A legume is a fruit type specific to the pea family. When dry, it splits on two sides to release seeds.Continuing my journey through the South Dakota sylva, this month I'm following (learning about) our four leguminous trees--members of the Legume o...

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Contributed by Josh Martin, GSA Science Policy Fellow

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Two key takeaways from Monday's (May 13, 2024) Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District board meeting:

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An overview of one of international space law's foundational documents....

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On May 10th, Climate and Society students gathered to celebrate their accomplishments during a challenging and illuminating year....

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The new ELI today is 'Chocolate Plates; simulating the properties of a lithospheric plate'.

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My book Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City was released last year on 2 May, so last week marked its anniversary. One reason I wrote it was the one that underlies this blog -- to help us more deeply love the ground we stand upon. In the preface I said, "It has features its managers might better heed and others its residents might treasure."

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We'll get an update on the status of El Vado Dam and related issues at this afternoon's (Mon. 5/13/24) meeting of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District's board of directors. This is an enormously consequential issue for Rio Grande flows through central New Mexico.

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I've spent much of my career investigating marine sclerobionts through time. A sclerobiont is an organism that lives on or within a hard substrate. Among marine sclerobionts are oysters that encrust cephalopod shells, barnacles attached to boat hulls, and clams that bore into coral reef. My favorite historical examples are the sclerobiont communities inhabiting the abundant brachiopod shells in the Cincinnati Group (Upper Ordovician) of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. These diverse assemblages, like those on the brachiopod shell above, are fun to study because they record fossilized organisms in their original positions (in situ) on these hard substrates. This means we can plot out relative timing of community development by mapping overlapping encrusters and borings that cut through the resulting encruster stratigraphy.

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Did you spot the aurora over the weekend? If so, we'd love to see your pictures of the Northern (aurora borealis) or Southern (aurora australis) lights.

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Opposition to mandatory climate risk reporting is the result of the failure of some American businesses and lobbying groups to understand that reducing and reporting on environmental risk is an indication of management competence having nothing to do...

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Here at SV-POW!, we love bifurcated cervical ribs. Those of Turiasaurus are one of the autapomorphies proposed by Royo-Torres et al. (2006:figure 1K). Their diagnosis of the new genus included "accessory process projecting caudodorsally from the dorsal margin of the shafts of proximal cervical ribs". Here is the best example of such a rib in Turiasaurus, attached to its vertebra. (It's a shame the black backdrop doesn't extend beneath the rib, but you can make it out easily enough nevertheless.)

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The imperative to mitigate global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels necessitates substantial systemic changes in the Global North. While much attention has been directed towards clean energy transition and infrastructure investments, addressing unsustainable consumption habits has not received the priority it deserves. The growing challenges in meeting the Paris Agreement objectives ... Continue reading 1.5°C Lifestyles and the City ??'

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Dear friends, our Twitter/X account @paleoseismicity has been hacked. I am not yet sure if I can manage to regain control. Please don't trust any activity over there for now, don't reply to messages, and don't click any links. I am very sorry for this.

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As the weight-loss drug craze has taken off, I couldn't help thinking of a story my mother read to me when I was a child called "The Sneetches". The story was written by famed children's author Dr. Seuss. The key character in ...

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It has been a stunning night. I never believed the auroras would make it into Central California, and most of the predictions suggested it wouldn't. But then reports started pouring in; sightings in South Carolina, northwest Florida, Houston, and the...

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 On September 12, 2022 I posted about acquiring Amadeus Grabau's (1870-1946) book Geology and Palaeontology of Eighteen Mile Creek and the Lake Shore Sections of Erie County, New York from 1899. While looking at my bookshelf for a book to read, I ca...

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From visionary technologies to unusual planetary views, this week's Downlink will challenge your imagination....

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