Posts:
The 10 most frequently clicked posts:
When Charles Darwin arrived to South America, he was only 22 years old. He was part of the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle. By the end of the expedition, Darwin was already earned a name as a geologist and fossil collector. He narrated his [...]
Data choices are critical in assessing the risk of sea level rise faced by people living in low elevation coastal
Undergraduates from Columbia will be able to serve as research assistants on projects related to sustainable development and the
A clipper is peanut butter on toast. The cold air is stuck on top of the descending tropical plume, and the whole thing falls off the table. For Toronto, the warm air always goes beneath us, and the cold air hits. A clipper is fast and [...]
We are getting a classic Alberta clipper. I saw these all the time when I first discovered these maps. A clipper is mixed with cold on the north, and a Pacific plume on the south. It's the main type of cold air incursion for Toronto. The [...]
The showy royal blue Christmas cracker looking fellow you see here is a dinoflagellate. Bioluminescent dinoflagellates are a type of plankton — teensy marine organisms that make the seaways shimmer as you swim through them or the tide crashes [...]
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! As is my (sometimes neglected) tradition, I offer up a very big Christmas tree, the General Grant Tree in Kings Canyon National Park. The tree is so large (268 feet high, 40 feet across at the base) [...]
The global weather is just a big muck.The plumes look like a kicked hornet's nest. The whole North Atlantic is warmer than usual.But the equatorial belts are cold, and under attack from the south polar regions.So, very confused. This usually [...]
Rugops, the red-nose dino (Carlos de Miguel)
Como es habitual por estas fechas, recopilamos algunas ilustraciones navideñas con las que os hacemos llegar nuestra felicitación y buenos deseos para estos días. Los dinosaurios vuelven a ser los [...]
Nuestro prota de hoy, Denis (del que desconocemos apellidos), es estudiante de Biología Marina en el Eckerd College (Florida, Estados Unidos), y le encanta dibujar, los videojuegos, la biología y la paleontología.
Centrándonos en sus [...]