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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 ...

In 1978 two men came upon a large bone in a riverbank north of Waco, Texas, that local experts identified as the remains of an Ice Age mammoth . The site later yielded the remains of a whole nursing herd, which had perished during a flood some 68,000 years ago. This weekend the Waco Mammoth Site ope ...

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

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

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

Article CLARINGTON -- A proposed 240,000-square-foot Ontario Power Generation office building has cleared the next Municipal hurdle, but until new nuclear reactors here get the go-ahead, the office's construction is on hold. Carrying on the tradition of putting these things in cheerful surroundings.

Article The objective of the half-day session is to provide information on reactor technologies in order to allow the Panel to acquire an understanding of the reactors' principal design features, layouts, key operational parameters, overall normal operation, key safety systems, and the key similarit ...

Carl Gans, a giant in the field of comparative and functional morphology, has died at 86. Dr. Gans has left a profound and lasting impact on vertebrate anatomy and evolution. His work with Glenn Northcutt laid foundations for modern ideas on the role of neural crest in the evolution of the vertebrat ...

The title pretty much sums up my definitive policy statement on climate change deniers. Emily Flake , of the completely rad LuLu Eightball comic strip, explores the intricacies of various "reasons" for actively denying reality. I snagged it, from the interwebs, and reproduce it for you below. ENJOY! ...

INGEOMINAS has raised the alert level at Galeras to the second-highest level of Orange , ‘eruption probable within days or weeks’, following changes in the volcano’s seismic behaviour over the past 24 hours or so. ‘Tornillo’ type earthquakes have been particularly evident, a type of seismi ...