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Today is the last day of the week-long meeting. Only reporters, staffers and generalists come to the whole event, and not even all of them do. But today the exhibitors strike their tents and signs and racks; the pressroom stops feeding the writers; the afternoon sessions sometimes feel a bit forlorn ...

Today has a light schedule of sessions, a short one on earthquake swarms in Washington and Oregon, and in the afternoon a strange set of talks on "Serendipitous Correlations and Synchronized Chaos in Nonlinear Geophysics"—and of course all the posters. Today is also the last day of the exhibition, t ...

Today will be the most strenuous of my week: from 8 a.m. til mid-afternoon I'll be seeing talks on the Terminal Dryas event, purportedly a cosmic impact about 13,000 years ago that caused widespread destruction in North America and sent the world into a thousand-year glacial cold snap. Researchers h ...

Looks like I'll be seeing a lot of talks about earthquakes today, mostly about the latest in early-warning systems. But I'll also drop in on a sessoin on earthquake statistics, for the Nonlinear Geophysics group. Those people intimidate me, being the farthest thing from geologists and the nearest to ...

OK, this is the first day of the big American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. I'll be here all day, all week. Today I'll spend part of the morning at one session on earthquake prediction, another on the evolution of the Earth's mantle, a third on the status of oxygen in the early Earth, ...

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...

A week ago, in my journalism seminar we did a student-produced case study on loss of biodiversity: "The Sixth Extinction." Last week, the lunchtime seminar in my research division at Lamont was a report ...

Stoney Indian Pass in Glacier National Park. Various glacier landforms. Split Mountain, an anticline in Dinosaur NM. Take a look at the gigapan from Ron Schott for a different view and better geology write-up. Labyrinth Canyon of the Green River in Canyonlands NP. Brontosaur tracks at Picket Wire Ca ...

Continuing my photographic review of the year following on from Part 1 … July saw the start of working on the Staffordshire Strategic Stone Study which has seen me spend the summer traversing the county looking at various building stones. This has included visits to two quarries that have provided ...

As promised , here are some more theropod photos from the IVPP. Sinraptor has featured on here before with a photo I took some years ago, but here’s a relative closeup of the skull in the horrible, horrible mount of the holotype. Below the fold is Monolophosaurus , which  appeared on the Musings re ...

Lake Chabot is a reservoir, but geologists still agree with laypeople that it qualifies as a lake. That said, reservoirs differ from most lakes. They have steep banks and deep middles. This gives them a greater variety of habitats. They have jagged planforms on the map because they intrude up every ...