An M.A. in Climate and Society alum shares the inspiration behind his new children's book about climate action....

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Sebastian Marino Estay, University of Exeter UK

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My next post about the Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures is from our move across the country from Utah to New York. Along the way we visited 13 National Parks as well as some other sites. This was the 9th National Park along the way.

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Every year, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, tracks a set of key climate indicators--including the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the Earth's temperature--to assess how global warming is progressing. In their latest report, released last Sunday, the authors decided to include a new measure: the Earth's energy imbalance. "Climate change is often discussed in...

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Following on from looking at metamorphic rocks last week, today we investigate an exceptional piece of slate - 'Every rock tells a story; reading the rock history from an exceptional specimen of slate'.

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n mid February I was invited by my colleague Dr. Win McLaughlin to give a talk at Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC) which has a pretty fantastic science program. Win flew me up for the presentation and a couple of days of fieldwork during a rare dry spell on the perpetually rainy Oregon coast. I had not visited in over a decade, and was thrilled at the opportunity! Here is a bit of a slideshow from my trip. 

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The Lunar Targeting Plan is the Artemis II crew's Moon observing assignment. It is fine-tuned to the exact lighting conditions on the Moon's surface when the Artemis II crew flies by, and for their viewing angle as they're hurtling through space. Like a spacewalk plan, it provides strong, detailed guidance, plus flexibility for the crew to make decisions based on what they're seeing and experiencing in real time. Targets are prioritized based on both their science value and their visibility at the time of observation.

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The morning opened to the beat of "Working Class Heroes (Work)" by CeeLo Green as the Artemis II crew, now flying about 65,235 miles from the Moon, began preparations for their first test objective of the day: an evaluation of the Orion Crew Survival System suit. The crew also heard a special message from Apollo astronaut Charlie Duke.

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Caldera resurgence is either exceptionally boring or unbearably interesting. The slow crawl of the Lazufre system stands in contrast with the dramatic reawakening of Kita-Ioto. Some systems however straddle these lines, not up there with the scariest...

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On April 4, 2026, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon.

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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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Currently unknown investors netted tens of millions of dollars in profit by placing huge trades in the oil futures markets just 15 minutes before President Donald Trump announced he was extending the deadline for strikes on Iran's...

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NASA's Artemis II crew in Orion? completed a manual piloting demonstration and reviewed their lunar flyby plan to wrap up their third full day in space.  

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We previously highlighted Roy Spencer's poor practices in comparing models with observations, but we've now dug down a little deeper, and it's not pretty.

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch reads on a tablet in the dimly lit Orion crew capsule in this April 3, 2026, photo. To the right of the image's center, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen is seen in profile peering out of one of Orion's windows. Lights are turned off to avoid glare on the windows.

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Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one. He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, a species of baleen whale for whom I hold a special place in my heart. Baleens are toothless whales who feed on plankton and other ...

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The Artemis II mission is more than halfway to the Moon.

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Business attire, headsets, and multiple computer monitors are a much different backdrop than hiking gear, rock hammers, and the volcanic fields of Iceland. For Kelsey Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Trevor Graff and Angela Garcia of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, comfort and skill across both environments have made them uniquely suited to be certified as NASA's first Artemis II science officers.  

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, born April 3, 1926, in Mitchell, Indiana. As one of NASA's first seven astronauts, he became America's second astronaut to fly in space when he launched aboard the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft on July 21, 1961, just weeks after Alan Shepard's historic first Project Mercury spaceflight.

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Students and faculty at Columbia's M.S. in Sustainability Management and Sustainability Science programs turned cutting-edge research on microplastics into Moby Filter, a sustainability startup tackling laundry-induced pollution at its source....

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The White House Office of Management and Budget has released its budget for fiscal year 2027. Here's what it includes, and what it means for NASA....

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The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for renewable energy, environmental justice, carbon removal, space science, and climate change education in its FY 2027 budget. The cuts would help fund massive budget increases to Department of War programs, including a 28% increase in discretionary funding, bringing defense funding to $1.5 trillion.

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Back in 2010, I wrote about early artistic depictions of Brachiosaurus (including Giraffatitan). There, I wrote of the iconic mount MB.R.2181 (then HMN S II):

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The number of court decisions upholding building decarbonization laws against federal preemption challenges is growing. After the Ninth Circuit's decision in California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley (Berkeley), building decarbonization laws effectively prohibiting fossil-fuel appliances covered by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA) appeared to be on shaky ground. Since that court denied rehearing en banc, however, state and federal courts in other circuits have been consistently issuing decisions upholding similar building decarbonization laws by employing the reasoning of Judge Friedland's dissenting opinion. Last week, two federal district courts continued that trend, rejecting EPCA challenges to local building decarbonization laws enacted in Montgomery County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. In both cases, the plaintiffs claimed that the building electrification laws are preempted by EPCA, and in support, advanced arguments similar to those accepted by the Ninth Circuit majority. Federal district courts in D.C. and Maryland were less receptive to the arguments.

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This blog post and the "Deep Dive" podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on "Rapid subsurface warming in the subpolar North Atlantic from freshening" by Menviel et al. (2026). Menzviel et al. (2026) study explores how increased fresh...

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