The strongest response is rarely about one institution having all the answers. It is about people knowing whom to call, trusting one another, and being willing to share what they know....

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This summer (June/July/August) was America's hottest on record, at an average temperature of 74.7 °F: That's the summer average of daily mean temperature (which is the average of the daily high and daily low) for the conterminous U.S. (a.k.a. CO...

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A new shape on Saturn, new Artemis spacesuits, and a new look at Star Trek....

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Climate models are particularly challenging because they are developed over decades by large international teams and contain millions of lines of code. As models evolve, older versions can become difficult to locate, maintain, or even identify.

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In 2025, Climate of the Past celebrated its 20th anniversary. Over the past two decades, the journal has become a leading open-access publication in paleoclimatology. It provides a platform for research into how the Earth's climate has changed over time, and how these changes can inform our understanding of the current climate system.

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Ice shelves, the floating margins of the Antarctic ice sheet, play an important role in the estimation of future sea-level rise. By their presence, they act as a brake on the flow from the grounded ice sheet to the ocean and therefore modulate how much of this ice is added to the ocean. As the atmosphere and ocean warm, melt is occurring at their surface and at their base, putting their existence under threat. In this context, the future of ice shelves looks grim. When can we expect them to disappear and what's the main driver behind it? This is what we explored in a recent study...

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 When in Portugal, I was able to visit the Sintra Natural History Museum. Sintra is about a 40 minute train ride from Lisbon, expect a lot of stops though. The town is known for the attractions: Pena Palace, Quinta da Regaleira, and Castelo dos Mour...

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The intensifying super El Niño, combined with global warming, is favored to make 2026 the hottest year on record, with 2027 expected to be even hotter....

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Extreme heat has become more common. But a new study finds that these events are no longer confined to the warmest part of the year; they are also becoming more frequent in the months before and after....

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In August, a group of us went to Frankfurt for the 88th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, hosted by Goethe University. We enjoyed meeting colleagues old and new from around the world, celebrating 50 years of Antarctic meteorite hunting, and...

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My office mate and podcast hosting buddy Rin Tara had the good sense to pull out their phone and record some stuff while we were out at the Rio Grande Thursday, beneath the I40 bridge, waiting for the pulse flow to arrive. We had the good fortune to ...

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NOAA data show unprecedented heat across the contiguous U.S., as deepening drought, shrinking reservoirs, and a severe wildfire season underscore the growing impacts of a warming climate....

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That shorter lifetime and high global warming potential make methane one of the fastest levers available for slowing near-term warming.

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The only fluid part of the Earth's interior is the outer core, which undergoes vigorous turbulent convection and maintains our planet's magnetic field through a process called the dynamo. Geodynamo theorists and planetary scientists have been trying to recreate this process on computer since the 90s (Glatzmaier & Roberts, 1997). Since then, the models have grown remarkably good enough to reproduce the Earth's magnetic field not just what looks like today, but how it likely behaved millions of years in the past. However, most of these models till date were built considering the core-mantle boundary (CMB) to be a perfectly smooth surface (as shown in an example simulation in Figure 2). But...

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Lowell never officially made landfall, but its widespread impacts made it one of Hawaii's most consequential tropical cyclones in decades....

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After returning from the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa Museu Geológico in Lisbon, Portugal in August of 2026, this post is about that visit. My trip began walking from the hotel near to the waterfront to Lisbon Academy of Sciences which house thi...

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Location: Anak Krakatau, Indonesia Situation: Anak Krakatau, literally "child of Krakatau" has had some large explosive eruptions over the past week including ash plumes that reached ~50,000 feet (15 kilometers). More importantly, the ash was ...

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Hurricane Lowell to bring impacts to Hawaii, isolated 14 inches of rain could produce flash floods, and could cause streams to overflow....

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Visualizing the pulse flow (click on the image to embiggen). Hitting "reload" and keeping track of six open browser tabs was making my head hurt - this helped. Back story here via Paul Tashjian, written as the pulse flow was getting underw...

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Countries around the world are planning missions to Mars, including rovers and a sample return from the moon Phobos....

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Our new ELI today involves planning some careful fieldwork using, as an example, the Burbage Valley in the Peak District, UK - 'Burbage Valley Part 1 - An ancient river system; using field measurements to determine the origins of a sandstone sequence'.

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Wooden bats. Turned into the Mount Calvary Cemetery heading home from my Sunday bike ride, stopped in the shade to cool off before heading up the hill, home. From across the street in Santa Barbara Park, I could hear the sound of a ballgame, chatte...

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A few months ago, a friend who has followed my writing and recent travel documentary work said, "You travel differently than anyone I know. You should teach a class." That comment stayed with me. It made me think about what I actually do when I a...

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I've been writing for more than a decade and a half about a broad category of metals often nowadays dubbed "strategic" because they are crucial to high-tech applications such as solar photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, electric veh...

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Karen Carr is one of those artists whose lack of presence on this blog seems to defy explanation; originally from Texas (but now living in New Mexico), she has a huge palaeoart back catalogue, with work featured in a wide range of institutions and pu...

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