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Earth science is a big field, and I don't always catch every significant event in it. So I'm late with the news that Jack Eddy died earlier this year. His was a very unusual career that involved crossing scientific boundaries and gaining popular fame. The first stir he caused was in 1970, when as a ...

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 ...

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...

Yes, is the answer at least according to the Indian government. A reader left a comment on my previous post on the distribution of potential basalt and ophiolite carbon reservoirs asking: In your original post you suggested this was probably a non-starter for India, given our unwillingness to imp ...

I try to avoid quick posts on here and lazy cross-linking to other articles in lieu of actually writing something myself. However, I’m still busy and Bill Parker has an excellent post on this exciting little critter over on his blog Chineana . Drop over and take a look. One thing I will add though ...

Earth science is a big field, and I don't always catch every significant event in it. So I'm late with the news that Jack Eddy died earlier this year. His was a very unusual career that involved crossing scientific boundaries and gaining popular fame. The first stir he caused was in 1970, when as a ...

The troubling news out of Switzerland this afternoon is that the geologist on a deep geothermal drilling project in Basel will stand trial for property damage because small earthquakes are believed to have been caused by the project. Press reports say he could go to prison for 5 years. His employe ...

The USGS released the first phase today of a national assessment that estimates "the conterminous U.S. presently stores 73 billion metric tons of carbon in soils and 17 billion metric tons in forests" which is equal to "more than 50 years of America’s current CO 2 emissions from burning fossil fu ...