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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...

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...

Thanks to Rhiannon George of Meridian Geoscience for her help with this - the images and most of the information have been provided by her. The press coverage of the recent (English) all time record rainfall event in Cumbria (in the area most commonly known as the Lake District in NW England) has fo ...

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, ...

http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/ Most of Arizona is now covered with the USGS's "next generation" topographic map, " US Topo ." In an announcement, USGS says US Topo maps are available free on the Web. Each map quadrangle is constructed in GeoPDF® format from key layers of geographic data – orthoim ...

The world may experience a shortage of uranium to fuel nuclear power plants in the next decade or so, according to international energy experts as reported in the Economist magazine. The problem is that 40% of the world supply comes from recycling uranium from weapons and other sources, that are be ...

Top photo by Enrico Stirl, others by Garry Hayes As noted in the previous post , California has established two official state ghost towns, one for the gold rush, and the other for the "silver rush". Bodie, the official "California State Gold Rush Ghost Town", lies on a high windswept plateau in the ...