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The Copenhagen climate talks featured a strong protest by the lowest nations of the world—mostly island countries that stand to suffer degradation, even extinction, by rising seas in the coming century. One of them, the nation of Tuvalu, offered a stricter version of the Kyoto Protocol called the ...

Thanks to Phil Leinart for pointing out a lovely new item from Good Nature Publishing Company: a poster displaying the fossils to be found all over Washington state . There's everything from trilobites and cycads to whales, camels, mammoths and ginkgos, plus a few oddities like D.B. Cooper, Bigfoot, ...

As the Copenhagen climate meetings go on for the next few days, it's worth contemplating the risks and benefits of simplicity. When it comes to what I'll just refer to as the climate problem, public awareness relies on simplicity. And the climate policy problem being debated in Copenhagen is so comp ...

It's an old cliché among geologists that humans will leave their mark in the rock record of the future as a layer of petrified garbage, and stratigraphers will call our age the Broken Glass Epoch. Paul Crutzen put it more formally in 1990 with the proposal to name a new geologic age called the Anth ...

The BBC will start running its colossal series " How Earth Made Us " next month. But a slight preview is available on photographer Paul Williams' blog Iron Ammonite , where he recounts his experience filming in the Cueva de los Cristales, the Mexican mine chamber where preposterously large gypsum cr ...

Isen omkring Nordpolen forsvinder hurtigere, end selv de mest skeptiske...

Det svenske Vattenfall overtog tre danske kulfyrede kraftværker –...

I Sverige har en mineralsamler fundet de første svenske diamanter...

Dig og klimaet Informationscenter for Miljø og Sundhed har i dag (1....

Jordskred, som det der onsdag aften rev 400 meter af motorvej E6 og 300 meter...

According to a telephone survey conducted by Rasmussen, 43% believe urgent action is necessary to combat climate change, while 43% do not.  Fourteen percent are undecided.  This split is virtually unchanged since January 2009. Rasmussen also reports that 46% of Americans believe global warming to ...

After visiting some of the Duke City’s less inspired buildings I want to explore a couple of structures that caught my interest not just for their stone. My favorite building is the Cathedral of St. John. I am a sucker for sandstone, especially when completed in an historical style. Austin desc ...

Article The project designer and geologist, Markus Haering, has been charged with property damage and will have to stand trial in a Basel court next week. He could be sentenced to up to five years in prison. I suppose they will put him into the stocks and throw rotten fruit at him. Alas, I have not ...

I have, in the past, tried to explain how the Earth's magnetic field is generated by convection in the Earth's molten outer core. Here, in Scotland, however, it seems that they have their own ideas (sorry for the poor picture quality): If you've never experienced the excessively scary orangeness ...

A new Late Triassic basal theropod, Tawa hallae , is described by Nesbitt et al. (2009) in a new paper out today in Science. Tawa is known from two relatively complete skeletons and other isolated material from the Hayden Quarry at Ghost Ranch New Mexico [ another link ]. The Hayden Quarry is in the ...