In addition to what might be expected of a climate negotiations simulation, Make it Work enlisted the creative help of artists, actors and dancers to use stage work and meditative methods to improve the [...]
Over 80,000 years ago, somewhere on a southern California beach, a mammoth wanders across the sand. The beast
The June issue of Elements magazine appeared online today. All contributing geoscience societies have a Society News Section. In June, I have the great pleasure of being one of three students portrayed in the [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:10]
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High peaks, winding river channels and a barren landscape all feature in today’s Imaggeo on Mondays image, brought to you by Katja Laute, a geomorphologist from Norway. This photo was taken from an [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [11:26:00]
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Los primeros representantes de Hupehsuchia se descubrieron en los años 50, pero es curioso que hasta hace relativamente poco no tuviéramos mucha idea de lo que eran estos animales. Hoy en día, sin embargo, [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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I think this Trilobite is a Metacanthina issoumourensis. The key identifier, for me, is the little horn on the back of the cephalon (otherwise known as an occipital spine). The specimen is missing the genal [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:40:11]
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One of the most common claims (by those who got their education about atmospheric physics staring at a computer screen in the basement) is that the increase in Antarctic Sea ice proves the planet is not [...]
Evan Hobart es un artista norteamericano que inició su pasión por la escultura de niño, en el San Geronimo Valley de West Marin (California, Estados Unidos). Posteriormente, en 2004, comenzó sus estudios [...]
A nine story apartment building in Guiyang city, China collapsed last week following heavy rains. Officials noted a landslide or mudslides were the apparent cause. There were as many as 16 people missing as [...]
A popular Earthlearningidea in May was "The space within - the porosity of rocks; investigating the amount of pore space between the 'grains' of a model 'rock'"
Underground water supplies and [...]
Geology for Global Development [15:59:29]
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Whilst geologists are often trained in the technical aspects of natural hazards, our courses are often devoid of information on what causes disasters, how we can better avoid them and effective disaster [...]
An El Niño has supposedly set in (starting when, exactly, I'm not sure). And if precipitation continues to be anything like it has been during the last several weeks, I hope it's here for the the long haul, [...]
Geological Society of London blog [11:40:52]
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Geoscientist Editor Ted Nield reviews the latest geology-related cinema release. A divorced search and rescue helicopter pilot (Ray, played by Dwayne Johnson) goes in search of his daughter in earthquake-hit [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:37:24]
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It’s an oddity that in eight years of SV-POW!, we’ve never written about one of the best of all the Wealden-formation sauropod specimens: the forelimb and associated skin impression NHMUK R1870 [...]
United Arab Emirates Oil and Gas ReportEnergy Information Administration Alberta Does Not Need the Keystone XL PipelineMining.com EPA Expands Protections of Clean Water ActLos Angeles Times Dozens of Fires in [...]
Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! Xplorations Summer Science Adventures Begin Monday, June [...]
Bob Brown with Arizona Foundation Repair, a foundation repair contractor, has a nice blog post about the need for better standards for forensic investigations for residential foundation investigations. He [...]
This is the second in a series (link to 1st) about the genesis of the Success soil, which was the topic of my master’s research. This part has to do with using petrography to identify soil constituents [...]