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With a World Day for Glaciers on March 21, the UN is initiating a campaign to promote action to preserve the world’s
Stemec suntokum, Sooke FormationThe diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum, a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada.We all dream of finding new species, and new fossil species in particular. This happens more than you think. As [...]
Early flight out for the kids today. Temperature at -15C. Car warmed up for 15 minutes, still felt like lead. Everybody in Toronto is really sick. We all hate everything American, including [...]
It's just a big muck, not interested.ps. everything is a greenhouse gas, since that doesn't exist.At the level of hydrogen, we hae oxygen and nitrogen. Get rid of the whole atmosphere!ps the Arctic has recharged more than a dozen [...]
This is probably the only monthly plot we get these days. noaa is out.It's just static with the huge drop in January. The spencer plot also has the general drift caused by urbanization. This plot also shows [...]
This week’s list of papers has some interesting work on soft-sediment deformation and quite a number of studies from the Mediterranean region. But you’ll also find something interesting if you’re more into earthquakes in the Americas, South [...]
Nobody wants to hear the harsh reality. I don't want to say it. Win - win all around. I have things to do, so I can fight off my compulsion to write. Good-bye for
The azhdarchid pterosaurs are well known for including the largest flying animals of all times in their ranks. Giants like Quetzalcoatlus could reach 10 m in wingspan, and in addition to being huge overall, they had large heads on often very long [...]
AC Transit’s 54 bus line is a fine traverse through Oakland’s topography, from the Fruitvale BART station up to Merritt College in the high hills. Like the 33 line, it’s also the way to reach side trips to many interesting localities along the [...]
What is geoscience? With only two states requiring an earth or environmental science course to graduate high school, most people either don’t know or think it’s just about rocks. “How can we, as a field, communicate what we do better—or more [...]