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Geologists have a keen interest in disasters, and not only because the geologic past is dense with floods, eruptions, greenhouse catastrophes, Strangelove oceans, cosmic impacts and mass extinctions. The natural...

Talk about a geeky project: the remarkable mantleplumes.org site is compiling, from volunteer submissions, a "Foundations" list of the top 100 publications. It's at 69 items right now, and skews...

The publication of what appears to be a sloppy hit-piece book on Barack Obama has prompted the netherworld topic of abiotic petroleum to bob up into the media spotlight. Jerome...

Forum members bring in a steady stream of solid objects, seeking help identifying them. This week forum member pdc7897 showed us this lovely piece of slag, found long ago beneath...

Saturn's moon Titan is a fascinating object for Earth scientists because it has so many Earthlike features: clouds, rain, lakes, sand dunes—but all of these involve methane, ethane and ice,...

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...

On 18 August a Red Alert was imposed by the La Araucanía regional government on a number of localities around Llaima because of increased seismicity. ONEMI’s bulletin on this development notes that ‘The seismic activity recorded in recent days is comparable to that recorded in the days before t ...

How do you tell someone that the cigarettes are going to kill them? Even today, after 30-40 years of clear connections between smoking and cancer, people don't take the warnings seriously. Why? I don't smoke, and I never understood the intensity of the addiction. But part of it is the long delay bet ...

Every neighborhood in Oakland with a “mont” in its name has bedrock exposed. Crestmont is a good example. Most of the Crestmont neighborhood, north of Redwood Road and east of Holy Names University, sits on serpentine rock—more precisely, serpentinite. This is the biggest exposure, at the int ...

I’m still thinking about perceptions of how geologists think about climate change. But this time I’m not going to try to explain it. This time I’m going to tell a story. Before I get started, let me get one thing straight. I’m not going to go through the arguments for anthropogenic global wa ...

The national League of Women Voters has called for a 10-year moratorium on new coal-fired power plants. “Global warming is happening now,” said national League President Mary G. Wilson. “If we wait for federal action from our congressional leaders, it will be too late. We must take immediate ...