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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, ...

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 Co ...

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...

Quick work from the NASA Earth Observatory team: they have posted an image of Mayon captured yesterday, 15 December 2009, by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 ( EO-1 ) satellite. A plume is visible emerging from Mayon’s summit crater and blowing away to the west. The close proximi ...

A press report in the Philippines quotes Phivolcs head Renato Solidum as warning that two lava domes are currently growing in Mayon’s crater: Two lava domes have formed at the crater of the Mayon Volcano, raising concerns among government volcanologists over the possible extensive damage should thes ...

I think the most complete skeleton of a mammoth I have ever seen was at the museum in Lausanne (anyway one of the most intact ever found in Europe). It was really impressive. So far it was thought that the mammoth died out about 12,000 years ago, but new research indicate that (pockets of) mammoths ...

Yesterday’s highlight for me was, without a doubt, the Bowen lectures. Tim Holland & and Roger Powell have been recognized for their contributions to Metamorphic Petrology for their efforts in the creation of their internally consistent thermodynamic data set and their Thermocalc program which uses ...

Today, the third day of the AGU meeting is a nice, mellow day for me. I have no crises I need to solve, and the schedule of talks/posters I wanted to see happens to list only posters for today, so no time constraints this morning. As a result, in addition to going to look at the posters I’d added t ...