Right now my neighbour is hanging from a ladder up on the roof. "In the 47 years I worked, I never had an accident." I can't stand watching him, drilling with no eye protection.
It has become a thing with us baby boomers to sell our comfy Toronto houses and go up North to the rugged ruggedness. My relatives just did it to a big house-cottage on extremely rugged land, that's like a cliff
Algorachelus
peregrinus es una tortuga recientemente descrita en la localidad
española de Algora, en Guadalajara. Su hallazgo resultó singular por varios
motivos. Las faunas de tortugas del Cretácico Inferior y las del Cretácico
más superior, ambas bien representadas en España, son muy diferentes. El
material de Algorachelus fue hallado
en niveles del Cenomaniense, es decir, de la
Schmelzwasserseen unter dem antarktischen Eisschild beschleunigten Rückzug von Gletschern in der Erdgeschichte
Unter dem Eispanzer der Antarktis gab es auch während der letzten
Eiszeit - als der [...]
The North West Highlands Geopark is running a crowdfunder with a deadline of Monday 5 June - find out more! Continue reading →
Quaternary landslides (red) near I-17 in central AZ (AzSLID).
Ann Youberg, Senior Research Scientist who oversees the AZGS geologic hazards group, will be participating in the North American Symposium on [...]
In physics terms, the El Nino is a time when the Earth dumps a huge amount of heat into space. You can't expect this to be a uniform process, especially when chaotic ocean currents are involved. And this [...]
The Earth Institute is seeking a research assistant to work with Dr. David Maurrasse. Research will focus on how partnerships involving various stakeholders across sectors (government, higher education, health [...]
The implications of withdrawal are more intricate than what people have been fixating on so
Experts from across the Earth Institute give their reactions to the news that the U.S. will exit the Paris climate
Yochanan Kushnir: "As a climate scientist who directly engages in studying the phenomena and mechanisms of climate variability and change I am convinced that we are headed towards a different, and to many [...]
Today (02-June-2017) there have been two earthquake swarms taking place in Iceland. Both are minor in terms of magnitude, the second earthquake swarm is now getting close to 60 – 80 earthquakes at the [...]
La Barde, France — Today we traveled west to the Gironde Estuary on the southwest coast to continue our survey of Campanian fossils. It looks like we will be working on the sclerobionts found with the [...]
Mannheim/Denver. Cub Creek Energy hat Mitte Mai sieben Bohrungen vom Hailey-Bohrplatz abgeschlossen und in der Zwischenzeit weitere Bohrungen vom Litzenberger-Bohrplatz
(by Stefan Rahmstorf and Anders Levermann) In the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, the world’s nations have committed to “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above [...]
Extinction is the ultimate fate of all species. More than 95% of all species that ever lived are now extinct. But prior to the 18th century, the idea that species could become extinct was not [...]
Vor wenigen Wochen berichtete ich über die neuen Eintrittsreglungen am Vulkan Yasur auf der Insel Tanna (Vanuatu). Nun schreibt mir Leser „Micha“ über eine Erhöhung der Eintrittspreise von 65 € auf [...]
If you've had a geology or earth science course, do you remember what you learned about basalt? Basalt, the low-silica volcanic rock, the one that flows instead of exploding. The one that isn't all that [...]
1 June 2017 Washington, D.C. – The following statement is attributable to Chris McEntee, Executive Director and CEO of the American Geophysical Union: “When signed in December 2015, the Paris [...]
Readers of the Beyond Bones Blog may recognize this little guy from some of our other Fabergé blogs. This week I’ve decided that he (or she?) has been in the background too long. You wouldn’t think much [...]
This star map shows the Houston sky at 10 pm CDT on June 1, 9 pm CDT on June 15, and dusk on June 30. To use the map, put the direction you are facing at the bottom. The Big Dipper is high in the north. [...]
Mannheim/Denver. Cub Creek Energy hat Mitte Mai sieben Bohrungen vom Hailey-Bohrplatz abgeschlossen und in der Zwischenzeit weitere Bohrungen vom Litzenberger-Bohrplatz
Der japanische Vulkan Sakurajima hat seit gestern 8 Eruptionen produziert, die vom VAAC Tokyo registriert wurden. Die Vulkanasche stieg bis zu 3 km hoch auf und driftete mehrere Kilometer weit. Auf der [...]
A couple of days ago I was able to finally sit down with Professor Jian Lin to discuss the big picture about the South China Sea and the important [...]
Today (01-June-2017) a earthquake swarm took place in Bárðarbunga volcano. This earthquake swarm was in the regular location at north-east part of the caldera. Two earthquakes with magnitude 3,2 took place [...]
Entre los personajes antropomorfos de tus ilustraciones y tebeos llama la atención la abundancia de dinosaurios. La mayoría de aficionados a los bichos prehistóricos lo somos desde pequeños, ¿es tu [...]