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Natural climate solutions offer cost-effective ways to reduce carbon emissions, provide ecosystem benefits, and increase resiliency to climate change
The National Science Foundation (NSF) should create an initiative to explore the interactions between human society and the systems of the natural world, says a new
Note: This is not making fun of actual sacred cows. Cows are sacred! This is just an expression.At the heart of every institution or large company are core beliefs. I'm not disputing them, but they lead to great stupidities.Here's a list, [...]
Note the question mark. That's a common trick in headlines to strongly imply something, yet releases all the nasties. Of course this will be denied, but wow, all the ducks line up and are quacking.First the location.If you zoom into that big [...]
Dear Australia - you are on a craton, which is a continental landmass. As such, the earthquakes follow the rules of Stable Cratons. Not anything that the USGS has put out. In my former job, I read everything there was about this, and then came [...]
A sharp rise in temperatures on land is linked to unusual heating of the Atlantic Ocean, and changes in wind patterns that send that warmth
Last winter was dominated by these guys, and it is starting early. Dust off your furnace!Although there is a big cold front all over North America right now, a true air glacier is defined (by me) as being total clear of any precipitable water in [...]
Sólo tres años después de que Robert T. Bakker publicase «Dinosaur Renaissance» en Scientific American, Jack Kirby dibujó los nueve cuadernillos que componen la miniserie Devil Dinosaur (1978). Aunque es el joven Moon Boy (al que Kirby nos [...]
It appears that just like the gas crisis in Europe, this one was years in the making. The European energy crunch should not have come as a surprise given Europe's decisive shift away from fossil fuels and the consequent underinvestment in local [...]
Here is a cool picture of an Atrypa (Hall, 1862) brachiopod fossil (note the circle in the top left corner probably made by a gastropod). The fossil was found in the Genshaw Formation at Carmeuse Quarry, Rogers City, Michigan USA. The creature [...]