Benin's upstream sector is entering a new era. After nearly three decades without production, the West African nation is preparing for a revival thanks to the redevelopment of the historic Sèmè field. Akrake Petroleum drilled a successful horizontal well earlier this year and the start of production is imminent. At the same time, there is...

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Post DinoCon, Matt is staying at my house, and we are trying hard to push out some science. This morning as he tried to innocently drink his coffee, I bombarded him with a passage from Taylor et al. (2025:87-88), read out loud. Instead of telling me to shut up and go away, he suggested I post it verbatim here. So here we go.

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Definitely worth watching: Who's really to blame for wildfires? Despite lots of complexity and nuance in the issue, this remains: "No matter where you look, climate change is pouring gasoline on the fire." You can help this blog! Feel free ... ...

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Visit to Carbfix facilities to discuss carbon mineralisation and subsurface characterisation. BGS © UKRI

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Near-extinct oryx are returning. Farms are prospering as irrigation water reaches fields for the first time in decades. Farmers are even nurturing new trees on their land. Once a byword for drought and famine, the African Sahel region on the souther...

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The study used continuous ground-based measurements to determine that landfill methane emissions are likely much higher than current assessments....

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A new analysis of imagery collected during NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's 2015 encounter with Pluto provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to Pluto's surface through cracks in the northern edge of the Sputnik Planitia, part of the ...

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Fig. 3 from Xue et al. 92025): Evidence of super El Niño-induced climate regime shifts (CRSs) across various regions and climatic variables. Time series of standardized anomalies for sea surface temperature (SST), surface air temperature (SAT), and ...

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This short survey (~6 minutes) aims to capture information on who uses AntarcticGlaciers.org and why, and how to improve the offering from AntarcticGlaciers. I am interested in understanding how the website is used, and what difference it makes. Your feedback helps me (Bethan Davies) to understand what is working well, and to identify areas where I can make positive changes across the website.

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Applications are invited for the IDASH Training Programme (Integration of Data and Approaches for Seismic Hazard Assessment in CEI Regions).

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When Homer wrote The Odyssey nearly three thousand years ago, he described a journey filled with storms, uncertainty, unexpected detours, and the relentless hope of eventually reaching Ithaca. Today's journeys may no longer cross the Mediterranean,...

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In a recent special issue of EAGE's journal First Break, dedicated to underground storage, one finds the usual articles that one would expect for such a publication. But there happened to be one little outlier. Or maybe a slightly larger outlier. A paper published by Ruud Weijermars and Simone Pilia, both affiliated with the King...

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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Contributed by Kathleen Benison, 2026 GSA James B. Thompson, Jr. Distinguished International Outbound Lecturer As the 2026 Geological Society of America's James B. Thompson, Jr. International Distinguished Lecturer, I spent the first two months ...

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Volcanology involves a lot of watching. It has that in common with another science: astronomy. Both are sciences where it is not really possible to do experiments. Instead we have to wait until nature decides to do something, and study events as and ...

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Most assessment practices are really not up to the job, but instead of completely rethinking, most often existing assessments are only tweaked and only marginally improved. Thomas & Widdop Quinton (2026) propose a way to do things differently by co-c...

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This month, we covered the 2026 Environmental Performance Index; how gas bubbles shaped K?lauea's lava flow; and the Pacific's contrasting effects on wildfires. Here are some additional studies worth noting....

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Deepwater pro­duction remains a core part of the long-term ener­gy supply mix. While pro­duction from conventional onshore and shallow-water assets is expected to re­main broadly flat under our base case, Welligence estimates that global deep­water oil production will grow from its current level of around 8 MMbbl/d to close to 10 MMbbl/d by the early...

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"Twin films" is a term that refers to a pair of movies released by different studios around the same time, which have similar plots or are inspired by the same source material. Museums will likewise produce "twin exhibits" from time to time. ...

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A small, friendly Dumbo Octopus named Miss Abyss is currently traveling across the United States, and she needs your help.  Miss Abyss carries a message of urgent importance for the future of our oceans. As she makes her journey, she is gathering al...

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Climate change, combined with development in high-risk areas, is making urban wildfires more likely.

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In the hard-edged years of the Great Depression, when darkness settled across the American economy and hope felt threadbare, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched an unprecedented experiment. His New Deal programs sent electricity into rural ...

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Since March 2022 when I covered Glen Echo Creek in detail, the city and citizens have been making improvements. Like many Oakland streams, Glen Echo Creek is overgrown with invasive non-natives like broom and ivy plus other opportunistic plants, some of which are all right.

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I've written repeatedly about how using GenAI for qualitative analyses is a bad idea. In this paper, Nguyen-Trung & Friese (2026) present a different, very interesting and nuanced perspective. My summary below. Nguyen-Trung & Friese (2026) agree th...

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