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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...

If you're like me, and you're currently not in San Francisco, listening to people discuss rapid coastal erosion in the Arctic or argue about whether or not an impact caused the Younger Dryas or show off cool imaging techniques to monitor active volcanoes... well, none of the geoscientists at Science ...

Although AGU 2009 is already half over I’m just getting ready for it! I’ve had an incredibly busy week with non-AGU obligations so tomorrow (Thursday) will be my first day at the conference. Unfortunately I missed a luncheon held for bloggers today, I’d be interested to hear how that was from others ...

Could you use a small 2D flume to teach fluid mechanics to your engineering, stream ecology, and geoscience students? I got this small prototype in working mode today.  We hope to build a version that would sit on the end of our Em2 models .I should thank the amazing Steven Vogel for helping me with ...

There were two highlights of day 3 for me, which to be honest did not have much of interest on landslides. The first was the Geobloggers lunch, which was attended by about 30 bloggers. It was interesting to put names to faces and also to learn about some new blogs. I was struck by two things: 1. ...

Hot on the heels of Ross Elgin ( whose blog has hit rather a hiatus early on as he’s here in Beijing with me, which is also why I’m so busy at the moment), Hebert Bruno Campos has begun a blog on Brazilian pterosaurs (though sadly not in English). He kicks off with a great new Ludodactylus specimen ...