Nootka Fossil Field Trip. Photo: John FamThe rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers spectacular views of a wild British Columbia. Here the seas heave along the shores slowly eroding the magnificent deposits that often contain fossils. Just...

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Last week I watched the 1973 dystopian film thriller "Soylent Green" for the first time in probably 30 years. The film depicts a society in which climate change has put most of the world into a hellish, near perpetual heat wave (a...

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Miles Glacier and Van Cleve glacier lake (VC) near its maximum size on June 19th and after drainage on July 9th in Sentinel images. Glacier margin black dots. Miles Glacier terminates in an embayment on the east side of the Copper River, Alaska. A...

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One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida, (Carpenter, 1864).  While rare today, these are British Columbia's only native oyster. Had you been dining on their brethren in the...

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In June, climate negotiators from around the world met in Bonn, Germany for the annual Subsidiary Body meetings in preparation for the Conference of the Parties....

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Hayabusa2 and Tianwen-2 get up close and personal with two asteroids....

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Ja-dai-aich, the outer islandThere is an old saying that history is written by the victors. In paleontology, it is often written by whoever got to publish first.Villains, tyrants, heroes, eccentrics and the occasional delightful oddball all find a me...

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It is time for the quarterfinals of the Volcano World Cup. I am going minimal here with merely a single photo of a volcano in each of the remaining countries . Cast your vote on these four matches to see who moves to the Semifinals! Quarterfinal M...

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Berlin just went through a brutal heatwave, and then out of nowhere, the temperature crashed between June 28 and 29. The daily mean temperature dropped from nearly 33°C to 25°C--a dramatic drop of about 8°C in just 24 hours (based on ERA5 reanalysis data structure accessed via Open-Meteo.

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Another General Assembly has come to an end, and perhaps, many would agree on how inspiring and enriching the week was. Yet this year, being inside the EGU bubble felt particularly strange while the world outside is quite literally on fire. Wars, systemic violations of international laws and the acceleration of environmental crises continue to unfold across the globe In this context, geoscientists have increasingly been called to step outside the ivory tower and reflect on their role, responsibility, and influence.

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Protoceratops has become something of a model organism for assessing sexual selection in dinosaurs A new paper came out recently looking at the cranial ornamentation of abelisaurids (Pereyra et al., 2026) and found support for the idea that these ...

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To predict the shrinkage of the ice sheet that is caused by melting, we usually run different climate models, but unfortunately, they are computationally expensive. In our recent paper, we show a new fast machine learning-based method that allows us to skip one of the most expensive steps in projecting Greenland's sea-level rise contribution and enables us to downscale a large amount of global climate model output. This allows us run large ensemble simulations which can ultimately decrease uncertainties.

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Let's not mince words: the last eighteen months have been an absolute nightmare for federal ocean and conservation policy. Landmark environmental protections have been rolled back or severely hobbled, while agency budgets were slashed more than Jan...

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The Greater Bay Area in China is implementing nature-based solutions to build climate resilience amid rapid urbanization, biodiversity loss and worsening storms....

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An astonishing heat wave in Europe June 22-30 broke 10 all-time national heat records and set 394 all-time heat records at stations with a long-term period of record of at least 40 years.

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Cannibalistic Comb JelliesThis festive lantern looking lovely belongs to a group of invertebrates known as comb jellies.Comb jellies are named for their unique plates of giant fused cilia, or combs, which run in eight rows up and down the length of t...

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For episode 11 of HydroTalks, we welcomed Prof. Thom Bogaard of Delft Technical University and visiting professor at Kasetsart University, Bangkok. His research explores the intersection of hydrology, geomorphology, ecology, and natural hazards. We discussed his work on understanding how water triggers landslides, improving regional early warning systems, and developing practical solutions that reduce disaster risk. We also touched on Prof. Bogaard's role as the chair of IAHS-HELPING Hydrological Decade.

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We are pleased to announce the release of the drilling report alongside the borehole data packs for the construction of the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Cheshire. These will provide a unique resource for scientists working on the geology and hydrogeology of the Sherwood Sandstone Formation, which is well suited for geothermal energy in the UK, ensuring this valuable information can be used for future subsurface science and engineering.

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Our TopoToolbox webinars on June 2 and 3 were a success with ~90 participants! The webinars covered the functionalities of TopoToolbox 3 and its integration into both MATLAB and Python, and highlighted tools including GraphFlood and TRANSECT. Be sure to check out the TopoToolbox gallery, which hosts example workflows contributed by TopoToolbox users and developers.

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Columbia Climate School and the Paris Climate School at Sciences Po are launching a new dual master's program at the intersection of climate science and ecological governance....

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Match 5: Scotland v. France Scotland Volcano Fun Facts: Can you believe Scotland made it this far without a single potentially active volcano? Even if the volcanoes are very old in Scotland we can still learn about active volcanic processes...

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Raukar: Gotland, Sweden's Limestone Sea Stacks Along the rugged Baltic shoreline of Sweden's enchanting island of Gotland, hundreds of towering limestone sea stacks known locally as raukar rise from the coast like ancient stone guardians.If ther...

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Liberia is often described as one of West Africa's last true frontier basins, an offshore province with world??'class geology but still awaiting its first commercial discovery. As the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) intensifies seismic reprocessing, regulatory reform, and investor outreach, the country is positioning itself for a new phase of exploration activity. Few...

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Screen dump from Copernicus C3S climate pulse showing the status on sea surface temperature (SST) on July 6, 2026. The curve on the left shows the global mean SST -record-high - and the right hand panel presents SST anomailes in the Pacific wher...

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