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This is the week when major league baseball starts up again. Right now, a small army of groundskeepers is at work readying the fields of play. And that means their ...Read Full Post

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

Isen omkring Nordpolen forsvinder hurtigere, end selv de mest skeptiske...

Det svenske Vattenfall overtog tre danske kulfyrede kraftværker –...

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Arucaria mirabilis sliced and polished "pine" cone fossil found in the petrified forest formation of Santa Cruz province, Argentina. Fossil dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (Callovian) or about 160 million years old. Learn more about this fossil at The Virtual Fossil Museum web site and Wikip ...

On Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald and psychologist Prof. Frederick Coolidge have an entertaining discussion on Neanderthal behavior. Apparently, the fossil record suggests that the Neanderthals recovered from injuries sustained above the waist, but injuries to the foot were generally ...

The Ornithischian Who Came in from the Cold: The Iguanodon model in front of the Berlin Aquarium – previously shown without snow here. Share this:EmailFacebookDiggLinkedInRedditStumbleUponTwitterLike this:Be the first to like this post.

Photographer: David W McAllister Summary Author: Colin McChristie; David W McAllister; Jim Foster The photo above showing lovely cloud iridescence was snapped in the Scottish Highlands near Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland on the morning of January 12, 2012. This display persisted for almost two hou ...

The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land’s edge also, the granite Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses Its hints of earlier and other creation: . . . The sea has many voices, Many gods and many voices.                             ~ T.S. Eliot, from The D ...