Atmospheric chemist V. Faye McNeill explains our new, smoky normal--and how to stay safe....

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The Dogfish Kootéeyaa Pole in Saxman Totem ParkRural Tennessee has electricity for the same reason Southeast Alaska has Totem Parks--to help the nation recover from The Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, created several federal...

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The forest in Canada is burning, and the smoke is a big problem for both Canadians and Americans as it makes its way across their country and into ours. Our president has blamed Canada for mismanaging their forests and threatens ... Continue reading ...

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I've seen lots of summaries and references to the "WONKHE report" on AI, so I had to check it out. It is based on focus group interviews and a survey with responses from more than 1k UK students, and it is a bit difficult to read because it is ...

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As with any exploration story, this story be­gins with a map that hides a secret. Salt, tall as a mountain, buried clear white veils of fluid rock, and a target that dares to wrap itself against its throat. We are in Guinea-Bissau, and it is the year 2004. A rig hums, hoses hiss, and the...

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Sakurajima in the Aira Caldera erupting in 2010. Credit: Kimon Berlin The Japanese football (soccer) team may not have progressed far in real World Cup but Japan dominated its way to the 2026 Volcano World Cup Championship. The country with hundre...

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One of the highlights of DinoCon 2025 for me was getting to meet Andy Frazer, who you may know from Dragons of Wales, Novosaurs, and his numerous and mind-blowing life restorations of dinosaurs. We had a few minutes for an unhurried, one-on-one conversation, and I bought some prints, a no-AI-in-paleoart button, and his book EX|TINCT, a hardcover omnibus of his EX|TERRA art books.

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Left: An aerial photo showing (foreground) high sequoia mortality in an area that had not experienced fire in many decades, and (background) high sequoia survival in an area that had been treated with prescribed fire in 2012.Right: General Sherman, a...

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Last month, three Members of Congress introduced a bill to provide $125 million ($25 per year for five years) in funding for research into methane removal, a relatively novel set of proposed approaches aimed at mitigating climate change. This marks the first time such a bill has been introduced into Congress, and, if passed, it would place the U.S. at the forefront of methane removal research.

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The tropical system is forecast to spread heavy rain and storm surge threats as its wind field expands.

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Working with marine carbonate-system observations has taught me how much effort lies behind every row of an oceanographic dataset: long hours at sea, careful sampling, laboratory analyses, calibration and quality control. A single bottle of seawater may represent only one place, one depth and one moment, but when many such samples are brought together, they can reveal how the ocean is changing.

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This is a walk I led recently, and I like it so much I'm writing it down. As we visit these two major former quarries in the Piedmont bedrock block, we explore some distinctive terrain created during the Pleistocene epoch. We also experience how this beautiful landscape appealed to the people who developed this part of Oakland and Piedmont.

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Behind the glass of the Natural History Museum in London rests the skull of a lion that once prowled--not across the sun-baked mountains of North Africa--but within the stone walls of medieval London.This is the skull of a Barbary lion, Panthera le...

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Pan-European catalogue of key parameters for offshore windfarm citing BGS © UKRI.

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A good children's activity for outside in hot weather is 'Mud, Mud, glorious mud; make your own bricks'.

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Every time something burns incompletely --whether in a car engine, a factory furnace, a cooking fire, an agricultural field set alight after harvest, or a vast wildfire sweeping through savanna grasslands-- tiny particles of black carbon are released into the atmosphere. You might know these more simply as soot. These particles are so small that thousands of them laid side by side would barely stretch across the width of a human hair. Yet despite their minuscule size, black carbon (also known as aerosols) are one of the most powerful and perplexing drivers of climate change on the planet.

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Energy stock, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch state-owned company Gasunie, is working on a project called HyStock, which aims to facilitate underground hydrogen storage as a crucial element in the hydrogen econo­my. As part of this project, and prior to any potential cavern development, salt producer Nobian has start­ed to drill three wells...

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The western burrowing owl is North America's only owl that lives underground. They typically use ground squirrel burrows but may also occupy larger burrows made by mammals such as foxes or badgers. I've been fortunate to watch burrowing owls during their recent nesting season in open fields near Three Forks, Montana. Not only are the owls and their owlets fascinating to watch, I'm also interested in their burrows. My interest stems from work that colleagues and I are doing on Eocene fossil burrows (about 39-36 million years in age) located north of Dillon. We are still wrestling with the genesis of the fossil burrows, but it does help to look at a variety of present-day burrows and their associated inhabitants.

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A tropical storm watch was issued for the western Florida Panhandle on Sunday, July 19, after large but disorganized circulation over the northeast Gulf of Mexico was designated Tropical Depression 2 by the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center on Sunday morning. Although it may struggle to approach hurricane strength, TD 2 could develop a core of [...]

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Wals (2022) argues that the classical key competencies for sustainability are not sufficient, that we also need to learn to disrupt, and then learn from the resistance against that. Interesting!! Wals (2022) describes the current systemic dysfunction...

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Computer code is becoming increasingly complex, making it difficult for beginners to understand. Minimal coding offers a possible solution. Here is an example of minimal code for a periodogram. The periodogram code from the Signal Processing Toolbox ...

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I am taking a break this week and plan to post again on Sunday, July 26....

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Three Fonts and The World of Rock Rudston Reighton Flamborough John Bull's World of Rock ...

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Computer code is becoming increasingly complex, making it difficult for beginners to understand. Minimal coding offers a possible solution. Here is an example of minimal code for a principal component analysis. The PCA code from the Statistics and Ma...

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GREAT BEAR NA?NHiking in BC, both grizzly and black bear sightings are common. Nearly half the world's population, some 25,000 Grizzly Bears, roam the Canadian wilderness -- of those, 14,000 or more call British Columbia home. These highly int...

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