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Thursday, 05 October 2017
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In my post last week about the impressive junipers at Castle Gardens (near Riverton, Wyoming), I only briefly mentioned the petroglyphs. That was because they deserve a post of their own. They’re fairly famous, in part for their style, which is unusual enough to have a name: Castle Gardens Shield Style. And the site is a poster child for rock art vandalism, most notably because of the missing Great Turtle.Castle Gardens used to be part of the Love Ranch, [...]
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In July 2017, Professor Bruce Malamud and Dr Faith Taylor from King’s College London travelled to Mzuzu, Malawi to work in collaboration with Mr James Kushe from Mzuzu University, Malawi. They delivered an EGU funded workshop at Mzuzu University to high school teachers on natural hazards, with major funding provided by EGU, and also supported by Urban ARK and Mzuzu University. Faith and Bruce explain more about the trip… Malawi is a small (118,000 km2) landlocked country in south eastern [...]
These are the monthly charts that I wait for and publish. First, the surprising one.
Our lovely warm September has actually shown up in the global chart. This was a huge event, then, with all those [...]
Ancient humans migrated out of Africa to escape a drying climate, says a new study—a finding that contradicts previous suggestions that ancient people were able to leave because a then-wet climate allowed [...]
Nacido en 1949 en Los Ángeles (California, Estados Unidos), Stuart Gold estudió en University of California Davis con artistas como Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Petersen y Roy Deforest. En 1980, consiguió su [...]
The USGS has started to release maps of landslide impacts in Puerto Rico that have resulted from Hurricane Maria. The damage level is very
Back in February we highlighted an obviously wrong paper by Harde which purported to scrutinize the carbon cycle. Well, thanks to a crowd sourced effort which we helped instigate, a comprehensive scrutiny of [...]
In a lecture at Columbia Law School, Gina McCarthy sharply critiqued the Trump administration’s environmental policies, but offered hope that grassroots movements and other branches of government can make a [...]
Der Vulkan Cleveland in Alaska rumort: seismische Daten lassen vermuten, das ein Lavadom im Krater wächst. Der Alarmstatus des Vulkans ist “orange”. Eine explosive Eruption ist jeder Zeit möglich. [...]
We've returned from a field studies expedition to the eastern Sierra Nevada, and I can report that fall has arrived! We've had a very warm summer, and the heat waves continued into September, but then we had a [...]
Guest commentary by Ben Sanderson Millar et al’s recent paper in Nature Geoscience has provoked a lot of lively discussion, with the authors of the original paper releasing a statement to clarify that there [...]
In the past, many people worries that many home-school parents did so because of religious objections to evolution, climate change science and geology. This is still a concern in the science community, but [...]
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