Researchers studying a lake drainage event in Greenland determined that large amounts of meltwater drainage can lead to massive glacier calving events and accelerate ice sheet loss....

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"Seaton Tramway operates narrow gauge heritage trams between Seaton, Colyford and Colyton in East Devon's glorious Axe Valley," according to their website, providing superb views across the wetland habitats of curlews, lapwings, egrets, shelduc...

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Match 1: Ecuador v. Norway Ecuador Volcano Fun Facts: Guagua Pichincha is one of my favorite volcano names but did you know it was built on an older volcano that is called Rucu Pichincha? Ecuador shares a volcano with Colombia: Chiles-Cerro...

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This artist's concept shows a quasar, which is a galaxy with large quantities of material spiralling into its central supermassive black hole. Extreme gravitational and frictional forces heat the material to millions of degrees, generating more lig...

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Bavi is expected to gradually weaken this week and threaten northern Taiwan and Japan's Ryukyu Islands as a Category 3 storm on Friday.

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A few weeks ago I managed to get on the list for a field trip with the Northern California Geological Society (where I serve as webmaster/social media chief). We visited four memorable spots on the Sonoma coast. The first one was Bodega Head, where I'd been once a long time ago. The second was Shell Beach, my third visit. The third was Goat Rock, which I'd photographed long ago but where I'd never actually stood. And the last one, which had seemed like an afterthought, was an illuminating surprise.

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The "Freedom 250" activities in Washington DC have been controversial for a number of reasons, but after the fireworks display in the early hours of July 5th, the environmental and health impacts of this event became a concern. In the aftermath o...

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Hi, my name is Chloe and I am a 2nd year PhD student in the group. This summer, I am working with the Meteor Physics Group at Western University all the way over in Ontario, Canada, working on a project looking at meteor-dropping fireballs observed b...

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By Tamara Gerber Aniso... what? Glaciers and ice sheets move by sliding over their bed and by deforming internally under their own weight. How easily the ice deforms depends not only on temperature and stress, but also on the way the ice crysta...

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Fossil Sand Dollar in LimestoneLong before the Nile carved its fertile valley, and before the pyramids rose from the desert sands, Egypt was home to warm tropical seas and lush river deltas teeming with life. The rocks surrounding the Giza Plate...

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Hi, The 2026 General Assembly is over. Now it's time to introduce our existing ECS Network, which has been enriched by a few new members. Let's meet our ECS Network members-   ECS Representatives (2025-2026) (1) Piyal Halder Hello my GMPV br...

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Hovgard Kystland Glacier in Sentinel image from July 4, 2026 with margin indicated by black dots. The 2020 margin seen below is indicated by green dots. Hovgard Kystland Glacier is an outlet glacier in West Greenland between Alison and Hayes Glac...

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The new ELI today is 'The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"; how ocean currents trap our plastic waste'.

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Hall anchor being dragged through undrained, very loose sand. Modelled using the material point method. © Durham University.

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"Having a look at our lineament map," says Jon Engström from the Geological Survey of Finland, "that is the first thing you need to do when you're planning a subsurface project in our country." Jon is a structural ge­ologist who has extensive experience in mapping of structural deforma­tion in Finland's subsurface, mostly gained through the...

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Blackfeet Burning Crow Buffalo Range, painting by Charles Marion Russell. (1904) Source: Wikimedia.org (Public Domain) Images of modern prairie burns in the Flint Hills near Council Grove, Kansas have been captured by National Geographic photojour...

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Fossil Coral -- A City within a CityHere are some beauties for you -- lovely fossil coral, frozen in stone yet once very much alive. At first glance it looks like a single organism, but that's the clever bit. Corals are really bustling li...

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Depending on whom you talk to the Colorado River serves either 35 million or 40 million people, all of whom are having to reconsider how much water they use and how they use it in the wake of an ongoing megadrought that ...

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This lovely with her colourful body is an octopus. Like ninety-seven percent of the world's animals, she lacks a backbone. To support their bodies, these spineless animals -- invertebrates -- have skeletons made of protein fibres. This fl...

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Bavi is expected to pass through the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands near Tinian and Saipan islands Sunday afternoon (U.S. EDT) as a Cat 5, potentially causing catastrophic damage.

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has kicked off an epic mission to map the Universe, including potentially dangerous asteroids....

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Some places stay with you long after you've left them.Tyaughton, north of Gold Bridge beneath the rugged skyline of Castle Peak, is one of those places for me. It is wild, breathtaking country where glaciers cling to the mountains, marmots whist...

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First things first, this article is not a reflection of thorough research. It is a reflection of conversations I had recently, combined with some observations on social media. And let's start with that. A connection on LinkedIn this week shared that she was leaving her employer, Shell, after spending a couple of decades with the...

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It is final day of the Round of 32. Check out the full bracket here. You can still vote for Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 as well! Match 13: Argentina v. Spain Argentina: 0.05% (23,700) live within 30 kilometers of a Holocene volcano; 1.5% (618,000...

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