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It was a real pleasure today to lead an outing of my city's stair-and-pathway walkers that visited four former quarries (using a bunch of paths and stairways, of course). The four sites had been transformed into, respectively, a shopping center, a city park, a municipal tennis center and a huge ...

In a development that has been years in coming, scientific drillers on Sunday succeeded in reaching a dark body of ice water called Lake Vostok, hidden beneath almost 4 kilometers of the central Antarctic ice cap. It was a thrilling technical achievement that involved the use of kerosene and fre ...

The magazine Geology Today is turning its content into an event, "Minerals and Fossils Explained 2012," during March. The magazine's articles will be bundled for public access, and a panel ...Read Full Post

A lot of geologists have a strong allergy to "the Gaia hypothesis," which is popularly known as the "Earth is alive theory." Geologists in general are allergic to all sorts ...Read Full Post

My last post, and the commenters to it, mentioned various sounds distinctive to geology. After a while the subject turned to sights, beginning with the legendary green flash, a rare occurrence as the sun sets or rises in very clear weather. It's the 100th item in Geotripper's geological bucket l ...

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...

My views from above the Columbia Basin inversion posted a couple days ago above-inversion-in-columbia-basin were from Jump-Off-Joe. Many Washington communities have their mountain. For Seattle and Tacoma it is Mount Rainier. For the lower Skagit Valley and western Whatcom County it is Mount Bake ...

What are these plants doing, besides advertising for Walmart?They are photosynthesizing.  While other grassland plants have shut down for the winter, Yucca glauca continues to crank out sugars when the sun is shining and temperatures are not too low.  The tough fibrous leaves are resistant to fr ...

In a recent interview for a Norwegian magazine (Teknisk Ukeblad, 0412), the IPCC chair Rajendra Kumar Pachauri told the journalist that he had received death threats in connection with his role as a head for the IPCC. There have also been recent reports of threats and harrasment of climate scie ...

We showed this video yesterday at the AIPG-Arizona Section annual meeting held in the AZGS offices in Tucson, and it got a lot of favorable comments. So, I want to share it with you. Jordan Matti compiled it using the new Microsoft Layerscape software (we've been working with Microsoft Researc ...

As a journalist, I learned early to pay attention to the budget. It’s where we take all our policy ideas, goals and plans and make them real. Which makes tomorrow my journalistically favorite day of the year – the day the President’s annual budget proposal starts the process of deciding how our ...