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By the way, I'm in the field this week, trying to see and absorb as much New York/New England geology as I can before Friday. Look for some posts during...

Too often in the field, you'll be looking at a hillside and there are no outcrops of bedrock. A poor second choice is relying on float—isolated stones in the soil...

I've been putting together this photo introduction to the geology of the California coast, and I realized that the Franciscan is the key to it all. Northern California is defined...

Not long ago, the mountains of California were on fire. This week, they're sending mudslides down on the villagers. Those two things are not always just a coincidence, because fires...

Not long ago, the mountains of California were on fire. This week, they're sending mudslides down on the villagers. Those two things are not always just a coincidence, because fires...

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...

The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management published proposed regulations to establish a commercial oil shale program that could result in the addition of up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from lands in the western United States. The largest known deposits of oil shale a ...

Climate change will impact Arizona with early snowpack, degraded air quality, urban heat islands, wildfires, heat waves, and drought, according to a new report released by EPA, and as result, climate change will have a "substantial" impact on human health. The report from the interagency Climate Ch ...

The MSHA is set to release its findings tomorrow about the August 6, 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine collapse . It will be interesting to see what they say. A May, 2008 report entitled, Chairman Miller Statement on Findings of Investigation into Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster , by U.S. Representative Georg ...

Today we welcome Christina, who says she will keep an eye on this blog. Yeah! She wrote a nice piece on nimbyism , and the very silly path that our current gov'ts are following. She might be able to help us on preventing the Bruce disaster, but I don't know if anyone can help us there. Some topic ...

The ShakeOut is designed to promote earthquake safety and preparedness through drills and an initiative to get people thinking about how they can make their home, office, or community gathering place safer for everyone. So what can you do to ShakeOut? In addition to performing the Drop, Cover, and H ...