For the past few weeks I have been sitting on some news, which turns out to be a surprisingly difficult thing to do when part of your job is literally talking to people about science. Today the embargo has finally lifted: the European Research Counc...

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The year 2026 is expected to be Earth's 2nd-warmest year on record, with 2027 likely to be the warmest....

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The report warns that space-based data centers are likely to become a reality within the next few years--well before the risks of large-scale deployment can be fully understood....

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El Niño is a natural phenomenon in which warm water in the western Pacific ocean near the equator spreads eastward, until much of the equatorial Pacific is warmer than usual. When that happens, it affects temperature and rainfall patterns worldwide ...

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Our new Science Mission Impact study and dashboard examine 143 NASA science missions and 148,534 peer-reviewed papers. Our main finding: In every science division, the cheapest missions can't replace the science return of larger ones....

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The platypus already seems determined to keep zoologists busy.It is a mammal that lays eggs. It has a broad bill, webbed feet and dense fur. Males possess venom-delivering spurs on their hind legs. A perfectly ordinary afternoon in Australian natural...

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This post in made in conjunction with the Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division of EGU

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Drought is inherently difficult to quantify due to its complex and multiscale nature. As a result, our ability to assess and monitor this phenomenon depends heavily on the availability of high-quality datasets. 

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Texas has seen more than 1.2 M wells drilled throughout its history. The Railroad Commission (RRC), the oil and gas regulator in the Lone Star State, currently lists more than 12,000 wells as legally orphaned, a figure that has grown by more than a third in the past year. But the population of wells showing...

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Neuropteris sp.A coal mine drill core can bring up more than rock. Sometimes, it reveals a beautifully preserved fragment of an ancient forest. This Carboniferous fossil is tentatively identified as Neuropteris sp.--the "sp." means the species i...

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Above is B4 lidar topography data showing Wallace Creek in its glory.

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A Lamont-led study finds that global carbon budgets may underestimate how much carbon dioxide the ocean absorbs by roughly 5% to 15% because they do not fully account for the effects of rain....

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  Volcanos Part 3: The Stradivarius Violin  (AKA the influence of volcanic eruptions)Volcanic eruptions have had many pop-culture influences over the years including influencing art, literature, and even music. We are going to look at three notab...

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A cool, wet winter in the South is par for the course during El Niño, but a record-warm Gulf and Atlantic may boost the odds of extra-high tides and flooding rains (and could temper the hopes of East Coast snow lovers)....

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Drillcore samples laid out for examination in one of the NGR viewing labs. BGS © UKRI

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It was the summer of 1989. After a year of kicking around the North Sea, for several reasons I ended up in a Toyota Land Cruiser a few hours south of Jebel Dhanna, United Arab Emirates. We approached a land rig sheltering on the rocky desert floor under the bulk of a vast, crouching sand...

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On 9 November 2026, AGU joined a coalition letter urging appropriations leadership in the House and Senate to support the highest possible funding in FY27 for the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS provides objective, non-regulatory scientific information that protects lives and safeguards property, supports economic development, enhances natural resource management...

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Published by Hamlyn in 1989 as part of their Dinosaur Fact File series and authored by Mary O'Neill, The End of the Dinosaurs is all about, well, the extinction of the (non-avian) dinosaurs. As one might expect. Naturally, what caught my eye while...

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I had a little time to kill in Northallerton so decided to take a walk around All Saints Church. The church is Grade 1 listed, it's described by Pevsner as being 'A dark and imposing church', it is a big church but I think 'dark and impos...

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Climate scientist Marco Tedesco reflects on moderating a recent U.N. panel about early warning in a time of melting ice and sea-level rise, and why this work must extend beyond COP31....

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We tend to picture sloths hanging quietly in a tree, looking as though their next appointment is sometime on Thursday.Their fossil relatives had other plans. Some went into the ocean.Meet Thalassocnus, a group of extinct sloths that lived along the P...

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How do you study an ocean that is difficult to reach, frequently covered by sea ice, and far from most research institutions? Collecting observations is one challenge. Finding the measurements that already exist can be another.

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New broadband reprocessing reveals geological complexities around postdrill well-to-seismic calibration When reprocessed seismic AVO analysis results change conclusions for mapped targets at borehole and undrilled locations, systematic AVO QC is essential to demonstrate that amplitude fidelity is preserved during reprocessing and improvements are achieved without compromising these attributes. Workflows that interrogate and showcase that the...

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As I write this article, Ioto/Iwo-Jima erupts anew, ever since October 27, and I turn my attention back to this historically renowned island and dangerously overlooked volcanic system south of Japan, and I turn back my attention to quests I left unfi...

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