Barnacles All Closed Up One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles. They cling to rocks at the waters' edge, closed to our curiosity, their domed mounds like little closed beaks shut to the w...

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I walked right by these Coralroots! Fortunately I returned the same way and saw them.Welcome to the The Monthly Orchid, a series of blog posts about South Dakota orchids. This one features Coralroots, genus Coralloriza--small inconspicuous plants bu...

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People are finally starting to say the quiet parts, the parts so many Upper Basin people have been grumbling about in private, out loud. Via an incredibly important Heather Sackett story: Colorado Sen. Dylan Roberts, a District 8 Democrat who rep...

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Bavi is expected to undergo rapid intensification before bringing super typhoon conditions to the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands this weekend.

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As a dangerous early-summer heat wave covers swaths of the globe, Columbia Climate School experts discuss the impacts of extreme heat....

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It is day three of the Round of 32. Check out the full bracket here. You can still vote for Day 1 and Day 2 as well! Match 9: Scotland v. Netherlands Scotland: 0% live within 100 kilometers of a Holocene volcano. What am I supposed to do ...

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Today, the Sabin Center published a new white paper, The Impact of New York's 2026 Climate Law Retreat. The paper examines the implications of the State's 2026 Amendments to the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), including how the changes will affect planning, permitting, implementation, and litigation.

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With today's post, I would like to temporarily leave (geo)myths behind and enter (geo)history. I was first introduced to the following historical account by Professor Francesco Brozzetti of the University of Chieti (Italy), whose extensive knowledge of the Apennines of Central Italy extends well beyond geology.

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Steve's argument goes back to a challenge set by the London Petrophysical Society. They invited petrophysicists to derive a function describing how water saturation varies with depth. Most responses followed the traditional route, searching for increasingly complex saturation vs. height relationships. Steve took a different approach; he focused on bulk vol­ume of water (BVW), a...

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The Old Woman Stone on Bamford Moor High Peak Derbyshire In December 1931 this lovely Bronze Age 2.4m standing stone was deliberately broken and thrown down by the owners of the grouse moor to prevent it from being used as a waymarker by wal...

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Global alpine mass balance in 2024 as reported to the World Glacier Monitoring Service. Solid line is the cumulative balance, bars are the annual balance. Each of the last 15 years I have summarized the annual mass balance of alpine glaciers globa...

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This month's open thread on climate topics. Impending El Niño, fossil fuel funded wedges, retirements, heat waves, and the same old, same old, from the usual suspects. Try to discuss these things calmly! The post Unforced Variations: July 202...

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Great to see that The College of Wooster Earth Sciences Annual Report is now out. Thanks to Nat McCoy (ESCI Administrative Coordinator) and Dr. Meagen Pollock (ESCI Chair) for their hard work in assembling this record of all the activities over the past year. You can access a copy here.

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With the 2026 FIFA World Cup underway, NASA air quality information is helping CDC support public health planning near tournament sites.NASA/Luna Posadas Nava As the United States men's national team takes the field against Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

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Two deadly earthquakes rocked northwestern Venezuela on June 24, 2026. In a remarkable sequence, a magnitude 7.2 foreshock was followed 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5 mainshock (the two separate USGS Shakemaps are shown below). The region has ha...

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The resolution, spearheaded by Tajikistan (along with Peru and Bhutan), marks a historic first for Central Asia. It emphasizes the importance of Indigenous populations affected by glacier loss....

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It is day two of the Round of 32. Check out the full bracket here. Match 5: Colombia v. England Colombia: 7.2% (3.26 million) live within 30 kilometers of a Holocene volcano; 30% (13.41 million) live within 100 kilometers of a Holocene volcano....

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There is a version of Vancouver Island that few ever see.Not the emerald forests draped in moss, the crashing Pacific surf or the towering Douglas firs reaching skyward, but another world hidden beneath our feet. A world of silent limestone cham...

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This report strengthens the UK's critically assessment by integrating market dynamics, supply-chain interdependencies, geopolitical risks and climate vulnerabilities through multiple complementary indicators. Material flow characterisation strengthens trade-based indicators, while the integration of climate vulnerability into the ESG criteria addresses a critical gap with minimal methodological disruption. Corporate concentration and production forecasting were also evaluated and deemed to offer the best value for targeted, deep-dive analyses and potential stress-testing of industry supply chains, but data limitations prevent systematic application in criticality assessments.

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The Geodynamics programme  of the General Assembly starts with your ideas. With the call for session proposals for the 2027 EGU General Assembly approaching, the Geodynamics Division President Laetitia Le Pourhiet shares her thoughts on what makes a successful session proposal, and how to help shape next year's scientific programme.

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For some reason-and it may very well just be my personal bias-today's list has a lot of studies on active tectonics of the Americas and Central Asia. But then the western US and the Andes plus Central Asia make up a good portion of the total seismic moment release apart from subduction quakes, so perhaps this is not unusual. At some point I'd like to make a world map showing seismic moment release vs. number and distribution of scientific studies...Enjoy reading and please let me know if I've missed something.

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On June 25, 2026, I attended a presentation by Dr. Kate Bulinski, Professor of Environmental Science at Bellermine University who talked about Faith and Science as part of the Theology on Tap Summer Speaker Series. It was a well attended talk after t...

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Two earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 and less than a minute apart broke the same right-lateral fault west of the capital. The physics of how they ruptured concentrated stress in the one direction Caracas cannot ignore.

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Mathieu Hélie To find space for nature in cities, we first consider what kind of nature belongs in a city. The deep ocean and the Antarctic are natural ecosystems, but they are obviously not fit for a city. Human beings have been creating cities sin...

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