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Saglek Basin Sediments Suggest a Grand Canyon Connection
9/11
When the Dust Settles: Investigating Lingering Health Questions 10 Years After 9/11
Abandoned Mines
All That Glitters... Acid Mine Drainage: The Toxic Legacy of Gold Mining in South Africa
Acid Mine Drainage
All That Glitters... Acid Mine Drainage: The Toxic Legacy of Gold Mining in South Africa
Bringing Geoscience to Bear on the Problem of Abandoned Mines
Congress Mulls Options for Abandoned Mines Legislation
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Mining for Iron Oxides in Coal Mine Sludge
Mix of Acid Mine Drainage and Fracking Fluid a Recipe for Remediation?
Acid Rain
Acid Rain Recovery in the Northeast
Acid Rain Triggered Deadly Chinese Landslide
Acoustic Survey
Ice (Re) Cap: June 2015
Listening for Gas Bubbles
Aeolian
Giant Dunes, Not Mega-Tsunami Deposits?
Aerodynamics
A Whale of a Wind Turbine
Aeroecology
Mysterious Disease Sounds the Death Knell for Bats
Aerosol
Air Pollutants From "Megacities" a Growing Problem
Blogging on EARTH: Controversy Over the Weekend Effect
Clouds Can Form Without Particles
For Cloud Formation, a Little Aerosol Goes a Long Way
Hurricanes Suppressed by Air Pollutants
Marine Microorganisms Drive Summer Clouds Over Southern Ocean
Natural Dust May Be Harmful to Ocean Organisms
New Global Volcanic Emissions Map Debuts
Secondary Aerosols a Primary Cause of Chinese Smog
To Cool the Planet, Volcanoes of the Future Will Need More Firepower
Volcanic Aerosols Not Enough to Cause Mass Extinctions?
Afghanistan
A Dry and Ravaged Land: Investigating Water Resources in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Mineral Resources Laid Bare
Afghanistan's Mineral Wealth
Building Resource Corridors in Afghanistan: A Solution to an Interminable War?
Comment: Rebuilding Geology Faculty in Afghanistan
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Finding Water in the Heart of Darkness: Afghanistan's Ongoing Water Challenges
Rebuilding Afghanistan
Rescuing Geologic Maps During a Coup
Saving Afghanistan: Redevelopment One Resource at a Time
Africa
Ancient Floods Degassed Lake Kivu
Battery Recycling Underlies Elevated Lead in African Soils
Benchmarks: August 15, 1984 & August 21, 1986: African Killer Lakes Erupt
Double Trouble: Volcanic Eruption Leads to Strong Earthquake Eight Months Later
Earliest Stone Tools Pre-Date Homo
Early Humans Dealt With Ethiopian Supervolcanoes
Finding and Tracking Conflict Minerals in the Heart of Darkness
Getting There and Getting Around Kalahari
Glass Shards Reveal a Fiery History in Ethiopia
Irrigation Drives Rain Away in East Africa
Mapping How Malaria Risk Changes as New Dams Go Up
Modern Humans Arrived in South Asia 25,000 Years Later Than Previously Thought?
Monkeys in the New World Earlier Than Thought
Oceanic Records Paint a More Complex Picture of Human Evolution
One Whale's Incredible Journey Details East Africa's Uplift
Out of Africa, Time and Again
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and Into Arabia?
Teaching Geology to Biologists: An Essay on an Interdisciplinary Field Trip in Africa
The New Anthropology: From Bones and Stones to Biology and Behavior
Travels in Geology: Tracking African Animals and Deranged Drainages Across the Kalahari
Trio of Studies Track Stone Tool Technology in Kenya
Widespread Malaria Risk From African Dams
Aftershock
Highlights of 2011: New Zealand: After 8,000 Aftershocks, When Will It Stop?
Remote Triggering of Ice Quakes
Scientists Find Earthquakes Trigger Instantaneous Aftershocks on Neighboring Faults
We're All Living in the Global Aftershock Zone
Aftershocks
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake Devastates Western China
Agi
Down to Earth With: Anna Henderson
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
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Mineral Resource of the Month: Aggregates
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aluminum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Mineral Resource of the Month: Asbestos
Mineral Resource of the Month: Barite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Beryllium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bismuth
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cadmium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Clay Minerals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cobalt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Copper
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cultured Quartz Crystal
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diamond
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diatomite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Dimension Stone
Mineral Resource of the Month: Feldspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Ferrous Slag
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gemstones
Mineral Resource of the Month: Germanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gypsum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hafnium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hydraulic Cement
Mineral Resource of the Month: Indium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel Slag
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Ore
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Oxide Pigments
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Oxide Pigments
Mineral Resource of the Month: Kyanite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lead
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lithium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Magnesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Manganese
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mercury
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mica
Mineral Resource of the Month: Molybdenum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Nickel
Mineral Resource of the Month: Perlite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Mineral Resource of the Month: Platinum Group Metals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Potash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rare Earth Elements
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rhenium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Salt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Selenium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silver
Mineral Resource of the Month: Soda Ash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Talc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tantalum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tellurium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thorium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tungsten
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vanadium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vermiculite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Wollastonite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Agricultural Development
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
Neolithic Farmers Impacted Sedimentation
Pollutants Threaten the Everglades' Future
Agriculture
'P' Is for Phosphate: Could Urine Solve a Fertilizer Shortage?
Ants Developed Farming Millions of Years Ago
Burning Grass Releases More Nitrogen Pollution Than Burning Wood
Climate Impacting a Few of Our Favorite Foodstuffs
Climate, Terroir, and Wine: What Matters Most in Producing a Great Wine?
Comment: Peak Soil: Does Civilization Have a Future?
Crystal Ball EARTH: Agriculture: The Future Will Have a Different Face Than the Past
Did Early Agriculture Knock the Climate Off Track?
Dividing Line: The Past, Present and Future of the 100th Meridian
From Farm to Filter: Restored Wetlands Remediate Nitrogen Pollution
Geologic Column: Lighting Out for the Territory
Geologic Column: September 26, 1774: The Man, the Myth, the Legend of Johnny Appleseed Is Born
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to Protect Crop Diversity
Grapes Reveal Impacts of Sulfur-Rich Samalas Eruption on 13th-Century Climate
How to Feed 11 Billion People: Addressing the 21st Century's Biggest Challenge
Humans Accidentally Created New Rivers in Europe
Irrigation Drives Rain Away in East Africa
Neonicotinoids: Prominent Pesticides Escape Into the Environment
Nineteenth-Century Cows Muddied Southern California Continental Shelf
Pre-Settlement Erosion Rates Illuminated
Rome's Hidden Water Trade Led to Glory, Maybe Ruin
Take a Stand (Or Sit) for Better Water Quality Management
Tibetan Plateau Populated Long Before Advent of Agriculture
Toxic Gardens: The Long Legacy of Urban Lead
Uranium Contamination in Aquifers Could Be Linked to Nitrate
Virtual Water: Tracking the Unseen Water in Goods and Resources
Weedy Seeds Gathered in Once-Green Sahara
When Agriculture Went to Our Heads
Agu
AGU: Aloha, Magma! Geothermal Engineers Drill Into Surprising Lava
AGU: Climate Science Report Questions Likelihood of Abrupt Climate Change
Bare Earth Elements: Past and Present Directors Dissect the Future of USGS
Be Prepared: Navigating the Risks of Hazards Research
Blogging on EARTH: "Climategate" Scientist Tells His Side
Blogging on Earth: Driveway Sealants Add PAHs to Environment
Blogging on EARTH: Yellow Submarine Robot Debuts at AGU Meeting
Comet ISON Still Intrigues and Inspires, Even After Its Demise
Curiosity Finds an Ancient Habitable Environment in Mars' Gale Crater
Did Three Convicts Survive Their Escape From Alcatraz? Modern Modeling Adds to a Decades-Old Mystery
Is Aviation 'Whitening' the Sky?
Juno Salutes Its Home Planet and Heads to Jupiter
Satellites Can Detect Underground Nuclear Explosions
Science and Soccer: They're Both Child's Play
Science as a Family Affair
Simple Organic Compounds Detected by Curiosity on Mars
Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.
Two NASA Spacecraft Reveal Ancient Underground Cracks From Moon's Formation
Undressing Vesta
Air Force
Breaking the Energy Barrier
Air Pollution
Acid Rain Recovery in the Northeast
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog Smothers London
Burning Grass Releases More Nitrogen Pollution Than Burning Wood
Chinese Air Pollution Clears Up Mystery of London's 1952 Hazardous Haze
Dust Influences Pollution Levels in Eastern China
India's Urban Areas Punch City-Shaped Holes in Fog
Kilauea Increases Asthma Risk
Neutralizing the Rain: After Much Success in the Battle Against Acid Rain, Challenges Remain
Secondary Aerosols a Primary Cause of Chinese Smog
Sunlight Liberates Nitrogen From Urban Grime
Unexpected Nanoparticles Trace Coal Pollution
Air Quality
Chinese Air Pollution Clears Up Mystery of London's 1952 Hazardous Haze
Alaska
Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Erupts at Last
Alaskan Megathrust Fault More Active Under Kodiak
Alaskan Subduction Zone Mirrors Tohoku Zone That Unleashed Tsunami
Augustine Volcano's Earthquakes and Explosive Eruption Caused by a Clogged Conduit
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami Drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
Buried Sands Tell of Tsunami Hazard From Creeping Megathrust Fault
Denali's Asian Dinosaurs
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Early Spring Thaw Triggers Arctic Greenhouse Gas Release
First All-Digital Geologic Map of Alaska Released
Fish Evolved Quickly After Earthquake
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Scientists Assess Redoubt's Fury
Tackling "Boundary Faults" Across the Alaska-Yukon Border: A Report From the Field
Testing Methane's Potential on the North Slope
USGS Finds Giant Gas Hydrate Deposits on North Slope
Alberta
Reclaiming Alberta's Oil Sands Mines
Algae
Algae Ate Themselves to Death and Caused a Global Extinction
As Green as It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Bacteria Back From the Brink
Ice (Re)Cap: January 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
Iron Fertilization Foiled by "Shrimp"
Mysterious Antarctic Algae Blown in by High Winds
Origins of Plant Photosynthesis Illuminated
Removing Predators Increases Carbon Emissions
Survey Says: U.S. Lakes Getting Murkier
Toxic Tide
Warty Algae-Like Sheets Survived Snowball Earth Events
Algal Bloom
A New — And More Toxic — Normal? Harmful Algal Blooms Find New Habitats in Changing Oceans
Iron Fertilization Foiled by "Shrimp"
Toxic Tide
Alps
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches Sweep Through Austrian Towns, Killing Dozens
How Deep Do the Alps Go?
Mountaintops Get Less Lonely for Alpine Plants
On Hannibal's Trail: The Clues Are in the Geology
On the Trail of Hannibal's Army - And Elephants - In the Alps
Sculpting the Alps
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World Heritage Preserved in Salt
Travels in Geology: Zermatt: Europe Meets Africa in Switzerland's Iconic Alps
Alternative Energy
A Whale of a Wind Turbine
Around the World in the Solar Taxi
As Green as It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Bailout Bill Passes, Extends Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Biofuels and Food: Mutually Exclusive?
Dry Dock to Wet Tap: Old Ships Become Floating Desalination Plants
Dye-Ing for Efficient Solar Power
Energy Mission: "Kilowatt Ours"
Energy's the Hot Topic This Week on the Hill
Geologic Column: Saving the World? or Just Saving Money?
GSA Meeting: Biofuels vs. Food - Developing Countries Suffer Most
Highlights of 2010: Offshore Wind in Texas and the Curious Case of Massachusetts
Making Electric Grids Smarter
Raising Bees and Capturing Rainwater: U.S. Prisons Go Green
Sea Sprawl: Into the Blue Frontier of Ocean Development
Wal-Mart to Use Wind Energy
Aluminum
March 23, 1821: Bauxite Discovered
The Washington Monument's Apex
Amazon
Aerosols Help Mitigate Ill Effects of Amazon Fires
No Pre-Columbian Deforestation of the Western Amazon
Sediment Load Shapes Rivers
American Geophysical Union
Blogging on EARTH: A Proposed Twist on Carbon Trades at AGU
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Artifact Is Otherworldly
First Complete DNA Sequences From Egyptian Mummies
Travels in Geology: The Pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an Ancient World
Ancient Rome
Antimony May Have Poisoned Pompeii's Drinking Water
Blogging on EARTH: New Lessons From Antiquity, This Time on Construction
Geologic Column: The Dog Days of July
Rome's Hidden Water Trade Led to Glory, Maybe Ruin
Rome's Lead Water Pipes Likely Not a Health Risk
Travertine Buildup Reflects Ancient Rome's Water Usage
Ancient Ruins
Earthquakes Shaped Ancient Greek Culture
Travels in Geology: Peninsular Greece: A Gorgeous State of Collapse
Travels in Geology: Turkey's Storied Turquoise Coast
Underwater Roman Marble Traced to Greece, Italy and Turkey
Andaman Islands
Asia's Hazardous Month
Andes Mountains
Colonial Mining Left Its Mark in Andean Ice Cores
Travels in Geology: Patagonia: The Ends of the Earth
Travels in Geology: Peru's Petrified Forest: The Struggle to Study and Preserve One of the World's Most Remarkable Fossil Sites
Travels in Geology: Skiing Into the Heart of an Andean Volcano
Travels in Geology: Sky-High Adventure on Bolivia's Altiplano
Travels in Geology: Trekking the Inca Trail
Turtle Finds Lower Altiplano Elevation Estimate
Anniversary
Benchmarks: December 16, 1811-February 7, 1812: the New Madrid Earthquakes Strike the Heartland
December 27, 1888: The Geological Society of America Is Founded
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Ancient Volcanic Island Arc Blocked Antarctic Current Formation
Seafloor Topography Drives Earth's Great Conveyor Belt
Antarctica
A Mysterious First
Ancient Volcanic Island Arc Blocked Antarctic Current Formation
Antarctic No Place to Hide During End-Cretaceous Extinction
Antarctic Rift Was Active More Recently Than Thought
Antarctic Trees Surprise Scientists
Astronomy Under the Ice: Scientists Use Antarctic Ice to Study Some of the Tiniest Particles in the Cosmos
Bare Earth Elements: Cool Time-Lapse Shows Movement of Ice and Animals in Antarctica's Ross Sea
Bare Earth Elements: IceCube Observatory Spurs "Dawn of New Age" in Astronomy
Beached Iceberg Alters Antarctic Marine Communities
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Benchmarks: February 5, 1931 and February 20, 1935: Antarctic Firsts for Women
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Blogging on EARTH: Yellow Submarine Robot Debuts at AGU Meeting
CryoScoop: Green Light to McMurdo
CryoScoop: Massive Rift Portends Antarctic Berg
CryoScoop: Two-Decade Antarctic Drilling Effort Complete
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Ted Scambos
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Down to Earth With: Underwater Cave Explorer Jill Heinerth
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Kayla Iacovino
First Antarctic Tetrapods
Five Outstanding Questions in Earth Science
Getting There and Getting Around in Antarctica
Giant Icebergs Spur Carbon Storage in Southern Ocean
Glacier Moves in Fits and Starts
Globe-Trotting Bacteria Found at Both Poles
Globe-Trotting Kelp Set New World Record
Gyres Spin Up, Currents Get Muddled
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: February 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: June 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
Iron Meteorites Likely Hidden Below Antarctic Ice
Looking for Life in Coldest, Driest Antarctica
Montreal Protocol Affects More Than Just Ozone
Mysterious Antarctic Algae Blown in by High Winds
Past Penguin Populations Not Dependent on Ice Extent
People of the Ice
Protecting the Mineral Treasures of Antarctica's Larsemann Hills
Recovery of 1960s Sea-Ice Satellite Images Wins Dark Data Contest
Seafloor Topography Drives Earth's Great Conveyor Belt
Ship Life
Student Scientists Cast a Long Shadow
The Amazing Minerals of the Larsemann Hills
Travels in Geology: Antarctica: Following in the Footsteps of Giants
Unearthing Antarctica's Mysterious Mountains
Anthropology
Before Lucy: Older Hominid Ardi Challenges Thinking About Human Evolution
Comparing Apples to Oranges, Hyenas to Humans
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Earliest Fossil Evidence of Humans in Southeast Asia?
Homo Erectus Footprints Show Modern Way of Walking
It's a Dirty Job, but Someone's Gotta Do It
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and Into Arabia?
Questions Arise Over Earliest Evidence of Human Tool Use
Silk Road Routes May Have Followed the Herds
The New Anthropology: From Bones and Stones to Biology and Behavior
There and Back Again: Alien From Earth Tells the Tale of the Hobbit
Antietam
Lay of the Land: Terrain's Toll on the U.S. Civil War
Ape
"Missing Link" or Major Hype?
It's All in the Wrist: Humans Lack a Knuckle-Walking Ancestor
Apollo
A Memoir: A Decade-Plus of Tracking Lunar Larceny
Apollo Science, 40 Years Later: Scientists Reopen a Lunar Cold Case
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First Astrogeologist on the Moon
Down to Earth With: Planetary Geologist James W. Head III
Moonquake Mystery Deepens
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices From the Moon"
Appalachian Mountains
A Real Rift in the Midcontinent
Tectonic Rejuvenation in North America's Ancient Mountains
Travels in Geology: The Geological Riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Travels in Geology: Thrills and Spills at West Virginia's New River Gorge
April 2009
Benchmarks: April 26, 1986: Nuclear Explosion at Chernobyl
Benchmarks: The First Earth Day
Coal-to-Liquids: Can Fuel Made From Coal Replace Gasoline?
Down to Earth With: Michael Novacek
Earth: The Movie (Not the Magazine)
Earthquake Prediction: Gone and Back Again
Earthquake Rocks Central Italy
Energy Notes: December 2007-2008
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Iron Fertilization Foiled by "Shrimp"
Jupiter Breaks Out in Spots
Lack of Water Threatens "Garden of Eden"
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Mining for Iron Oxides in Coal Mine Sludge
Oil Barrel Politics
Running Into the Brick Wall of Creationism Again
Seal Missing Link Found in the Arctic
Storms Brewing Over Volcanoes
Travels in Geology: Exploring Lake Baikal, the Sacred Sea
April 2010
Blogging on EARTH Linkfest: More on the Iceland Eruption
Can Snowstorms Be Categorized Like Hurricanes or Other Hazards?
China Quake Kills at Least 400
Comment: Peak Soil: Does Civilization Have a Future?
Down to Earth With: Andrew Feustel
Energy Notes: December 2008-2009
Hazardous Living: Good Reading - Is the Apocalypse Upon Us?
Large Earthquake Rattles Baja California
Mineral Resource of the Month: Salt
Offbeat Betting: Volcano Betting Gathering Steam
Pacific Northwest Earthquake Threat Heightened?
Paleo Patrol: A Hominin Family Reunion at the Smithsonian
Tracking Volcanic Ash: Helping Airplanes Avoid Catastrophe
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: From Parasitic Cones to Equatorial Glaciers
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
April 2011
Bacteria Back From the Brink
Blogging on EARTH: EGU: Geologists Help Law Enforcement
Blogging on EARTH: First Dispatches From EGU
Blogging on EARTH: Second Dispatches From EGU
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Energy Notes: December 2009-2010
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
Mineral Resource of the Month: Feldspar
Saturn's Rings: The Remains of an Icy Moon
Science and the Social Media
Strategies to Meet Our Water and Energy Needs: Insight From a Texas "Treemap"
The Rise of Community Remote Sensing
Tracking Trace Elements and Isotopes in the Oceans
Tracking Yellowstone's Activity
Travels in Geology: Trekking the Inca Trail
Voices: Nuclear Plants and Natural Disasters: Fukushima's Fallout
Voices: The Confounding Economics of Natural Disasters
Voices: What Does "The Nation's Report Card" Tell Us About Science Education?
Voices: What Happened at Fukushima?
April 2012
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii Tsunami Ushers in a Pacific-Wide Warning System
Blogging on EARTH: Congress Considers Severe Weather Policy Options
Blogging on EARTH: Wisconsin's Microquake Mystery
Danger in Paradise: The Hidden Hazards of Volcano Geotourism
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
Energy Notes: December 2010-2011
Foretelling Next Month's Tornadoes
Getting There and Getting Around Chile
IceGoat: The Next Generation
La Niña Could Set the Stage for Flu Pandemics
Managing the Seismic Risk Posed by Wastewater Disposal
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aggregates
Mobile Mapping With Lidar Hits the Road
The Trouble With Tornado Tracking
Travels in Geology: Chile: Exploring the Archaeology, Volcanoes and Hot Springs of the Northern Atacama Desert
U.S. Navy Navigates a Sea Change in the Arctic
Voices: Defending Science: The Link Between Creationism and Climate Change
April 2013
Apollo Science, 40 Years Later: Scientists Reopen a Lunar Cold Case
Bare Earth Elements: Mars-Observing Fleet Set to Face Silent Treatment
Benchmarks: April 1916: "Jingo the Stegosaurus" Campaigns to Keep the U.S. Out of World War I
Big Quakes Topple Traditional Views of Fault Behavior
Blogging on EARTH: Spring Has Sprung, at Least in Some Places
Community College at Sea: Research Experiences for Community College Students Build the STEM Pipeline
Denying Sea-Level Rise: How 100 Centimeters Divided the State of North Carolina
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
Energy Notes: December 2011-2012
Getting There and Getting Around New York
How the NC-20 Succeeded
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diatomite
National Weather Service Introduces Impact-Based Warnings for Tornadoes
Spotlight on UCORE Projects
Travels in Geology: Adventuring in Upstate New York and Remembering a Life Cut Short
Why Is the U.S. So Insecure About Its Energy Security? Measures of Energy Independence Show It Is Increasing, Not Decreasing
Widely Used Index May Have Overestimated Drought
April 2014
A New Tool for Atmospheric Studies
A Truly Global System
April 20, 1832: Arkansas' Hot Springs Named the First National "Park"
Down to Earth With: Sally Jewell
Energy Notes: November 2012-2013
Faking Quakes at Full Scale: Giant Shake Tables Simulate Earthquakes to Make Buildings Safer
Fieldwork Revises Ice-Free Corridor Hypothesis of Human Migration
Getting There and Getting Around Gubbio
Mapping How Malaria Risk Changes as New Dams Go Up
Massive Earthquake Strikes Chile
Mineral Resource of the Month: Wollastonite
Naturally Occurring Methane Found in Groundwater in New York
Observing a Plate Boundary
Precise to a Fault: How GPS Revolutionized Seismic Research
Resolving a Misplaced Source of Volcanism in the Galapagos
Scientists Go to Extremes to Monitor Arctic Permafrost Loss
Scientists Look Wider and Deeper to Predict the Next El Nino
Social Sciences Improve Tornado Warnings
The Chesapeake Bay Gets Some Good News
The Trouble With Turtles: Paleontology at a Crossroads
Travels in Geology: Gubbio, Italy: A Geologist's Mecca
Volcanic Lightning Generated in a Bottle
April 2015
A Front-Row Seat at a Fire-and-Ice Show
A Journey to Pluto and Beyond With New Horizons
Andean Ski Volcanoes
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record Winds Buffet Mount Washington
Beyond the Bomb: The World's Nuclear Watchdog Expands Its Science
Bird Genomes Untangle Branches of Avian Family Tree
Can Dam Releases Restore River Ecosystems?
Chaitén's Vigorous Volcanic History Revealed
Coastal Cities Will See Regular Flooding
Comment: Our Flawed Perceptions of Risk
Comment: When Scientists Come Under Legal Attack
Did a Geographic Shift Trigger the Cambrian Explosion?
Did Three Convicts Survive Their Escape From Alcatraz? Modern Modeling Adds to a Decades-Old Mystery
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
Down to Earth With: The USGS Landslide Response Team
Earliest Primates Were Tree Dwellers
Fire-Driven Clouds and Swirling Winds Whipped Up Record-Setting New Mexico Blaze
Geologic Column: Nature for Couch Potatoes
Geologic Column: The Rumpelstiltskin Factor
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Geomedia: Books: Rediscovering the Science Behind Thoreau's 'Walden'
Geoscience on Film: A Parting Ode to an Awe-Inspiring Land
Geoscience on Film: Of Tides and Tigers in the World's Largest River Delta
Getting There and Getting Around Nepal
Getting There and Getting Around the Andean Volcanoes
Ground-Shaking Research: How Humans Trigger Earthquakes
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
Kamikaze Typhoons Spared Japan From Kublai Khan
Methane Be Dammed!
Mysterious Rapid Radio Burst Captured Live
Of Temperature and Tone: Has Climate Shaped Human Languages?
On-Site Inspections
One-Two Punch of Past Warming May Hold Lessons
Peak's Appeal - And Hazard - Endures Today
Rome's Hidden Water Trade Led to Glory, Maybe Ruin
Shrinking Snowpack Projected in Western U.S. as Rain-Snow Boundary Climbs Higher
Small Tremor Could Have Triggered Big Chilean Quake
Soft-Bodied Fossils Cast in Fool's Gold
Some Coral Reefs Bounce Back After Bleaching
Travels in Geology: A Trek Through Himalayan Geology in Nepal
Travels in Geology: Skiing Into the Heart of an Andean Volcano
Two New Looks at Titan's Dunes
Wedge Approach Proposed to Lower Water Stress
Where on Earth? - April 2015
April 2016
A Long Layover on the Bering Land Bridge
An Absentee Note for Ancient Blueschist: Lack of Metamorphic Rock Does Not Date Onset of Plate Tectonics
Bat Signals
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE Is Launched
China's Red Deer Cave People May Have Survived Until the Last Ice Age
Comment: GAVRT: Learning Science by Doing Science
Comment: How Long Have Humans Been Altering Earth's Climate?
Crippling Heat Stress Projected by Midcentury in Densely Populated Regions
Down to Earth With: Tectonicist Eldridge Moores
Downgoing Plate Topography Stopped 2005 Sumatra Rupture
Eerily Quiet Katla
First All-Digital Geologic Map of Alaska Released
Fossil Leaves Provide Clues to Ancient Australian Habitat
Geologic Column: At the End of the Earth
Geologic Column: May: Nature's Forces in Collision
Geomedia: Film: 'A Beautiful Planet' Inspires With Vivid Views of Life on and Off Earth
Getting There and Getting Around Gotland
Going With the Flow: Mapping the Mantle Under the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Hekla the Heckler
Humans Evolved Early to Be More Efficient Sleepers
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
Inside an Icthyosaur's Brain
King Oraefajokull
Lunar Atmosphere More Active Than We Thought
Magnesium Part of Earth's Magnetic Field Engine
Making Tracks Through the Dinosaur Diamond
Mass Measured for Smallest Exoplanet Yet
Medieval Earthquakes in Nepal May Help Reveal the Region's Tectonic Future
Mercury Levels Support Volcanic Role in End-Cretaceous Extinction
Model Targets Better Understanding of Recurring Indian-Pacific Storm Systems
Museums and Exhibits in the Dinosaur Diamond
North Sea Uplift Caused Jurassic Cooling Event
Protracted Drought Threatens California Levees
Rainbows Reclassified
Reading the Ridges: Are Climate and the Seafloor Connected?
Sailors Right About Sneaky Rogue Waves
The Softer Side of Hydrothermal Vents
The Ups and Downs of an Island
Travels in Geology: Gotland Getaway: Sweden's 'Tropical' Escape in the Baltic
Turtle Finds Lower Altiplano Elevation Estimate
Underground Ants Can't Take the Heat
Where Fire Freezes: All Eyes, Ears and Instruments on Iceland's Volatile Volcanoes
Where on Earth? - April 2016
April 2017
An Undersea Volcano Yields Its Secrets
And Then There Was One: Ceres' Disappearing Ice Volcanoes
Ash vs. Airplanes
Benchmarks: April 24, 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope Is Launched
Breakup of Pangea Led to Thicker Oceanic Crust
Comment: Atmospheric Rivers Increase Water Supply in California — But Only to a Point
Dental Plaque Reveals Later Start Date for Hominin Cooking
Did the First Humans Arrive in North America a Lot Earlier?
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
Down to Earth With: Planetary Geologist James W. Head III
Early Spring Thaw Triggers Arctic Greenhouse Gas Release
Earth's Magnetic Field Illuminates Ocean Temperatures
El Niño Gets Animated
Geologic Column: Evolution of an Ape-Man
Geologic Column: My China Syndrome
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" Takes Listeners to the Edge of the Universe and Beyond
Getting There and Getting Around Easter Island
Grapes Reveal Impacts of Sulfur-Rich Samalas Eruption on 13th-Century Climate
Lucy Liked Hanging Out in Trees
Massive Dust Storm Caused by Climate, Not Conflict
Mastodon Bones Point to Significantly Earlier Human Presence in North America
Maui Reef Degradation Linked to Contamination in Coastal Groundwater
Neonicotinoids: Prominent Pesticides Escape Into the Environment
New Research Suggests Syrian Refugees Must Be Accounted for in Seismic Risk Models
Of Airplanes and Ash Clouds: What We've Learned Since Eyjafjallajökull
Pyroclastic Flows, Not Caldera Collapse, Caused Santorini Tsunamis
Red Planet Roundup: April 2017
Scientists Crack the Secret of Dinosaurs' Incubation Time
Seafloor Volcanism Linked to Glacial Cycles
Shale Boom Could Fuel Batteries
Six New Deep-Sea Species Discovered
Soil Acidity Changes Quickly From Place to Place
Tallying Temperature Drops Inside Tornadoes
Tectonics Trigger Underwater Volcanism
Tiny Dinosaur-Era Marsupial Packed a Big Bite
To Find a Mate, Go Big or Go Small, Just Don't Go Medium
Travels in Geology: Easter Island's Enduring Enigmas
Tropical Rainfall Shifts Resulted in Greener Sahara
Venezuela, Central Africa Are Earth's Lightning Hot Spots
Warning: Ash Ahead!
Where on Earth? - April 2017
White Cliffs of Dover on the Retreat
Wintering in the High Arctic Reveals Surprising Results
April 2018
Acid Rain Triggered Deadly Chinese Landslide
Battery Recycling Underlies Elevated Lead in African Soils
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Found Using Modern Oceanography Tools
Carbon Emissions Spike When Continents Rift
Ceres: A Bright Spot in the Asteroid Belt
Chemical Tipping Point Triggers Eruptive Transitions
Climate Change Linked to Specific Weather Events for the First Time
Disrupting the Deep: Ocean Warming Reaches the Abyss
Down to Earth With: Conservation Engineer Emily Pidgeon
Down to Earth With: National Park Service Senior Paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Earth's "Hum" Heard at Ocean Bottom
From Farm to Filter: Restored Wetlands Remediate Nitrogen Pollution
Geologic Column: Over the Hills and Far Away
Geomedia: Books: Solar Eclipses Past, Present and Future
Geomedia: On the Web: How Will Melting Ice Impact Your City?
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" Is Superlative
Geoscience on Film: Roadcuts and Rockfalls in Mountainous Mizoram
Getting There and Getting Around Oman
Getting There and Getting Around the Causses
Globe-Trotting Bacteria Found at Both Poles
Gyres Spin Up, Currents Get Muddled
Hot Tropics Drove Out Ancient Reptiles, but They Came Back
How Borneo Got Its Elephants
Lidar Preserves Record of Destroyed Theropod Tracks
Measuring Earthquakes Using Fiber-Optic Cables
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
No River Meant No Floods for Ancient Indus Settlements
No River Meant No Floods for Ancient Indus Settlements
Oldest "Third Pole" Ice Core Recovered
Origins of Plant Photosynthesis Illuminated
Pairing Geoheritage and Economic Development: China's Guizhou Province Offers a Modern Model
Pesky Ticks Even Plagued Dinosaurs
Radium Levels Suggest Arctic Ocean Chemistry Is Changing
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Residual Strain Explains Later Quakes
Slumgullion: Colorado's Natural 'Lab' Offers Insights Into Landslides Worldwide
Surveying Forests From Afar
Travels in Geology: Underground Awe in France: The Caves of the Causses
Unprecedented Exploration of Undersea Volcano Yields Surprising Results
Whatever Happened to Thagomizers and Other Tail Weapons?
Where on Earth? - April 2018
World's Longest Underwater Cave Found in Mexico
April 2019
After Hurricanes, U.S. Beach Homes Are Rebuilt Bigger
Folding Drone Flies Into Tight Spaces
Geoethics in the Field: Leading by Example
Inside the Inferno: How Large Firenadoes Form
Wind or Water? Hurricane Harvey's Most Destructive Force
Aquaculture
Sea Sprawl: Into the Blue Frontier of Ocean Development
Aquifer
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's Aquifers With Filmmaker Tom Fitz
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Storing CO2 in Fizzy Water Underground
Arabia
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and Into Arabia?
Arabian Plate
Large Earthquake Rocks Iran Oil Port
Archaea
Tree of Life Reshaped
Archaeology
A Labyrinth of Silver Mines Uncovered on the Shores of the Aegean Sea
A Story in the Sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" May Have Been Real
Archaeologists Hit Pay Dirt in Medieval Latrines
Chaco Canyon: Garden of Eden or Salty-Soiled Pilgrimage Site?
Comet Finished Off North American Big Game Animals, Cooled the Planet?
Did the Medieval Warm Period Welcome Vikings to Greenland?
Down to Earth With: Industrial Archaeologist Fred Quivik
Down to Earth With: Molecular Biologist Sarah L. Anzick
Earliest Fossil Evidence of Humans in Southeast Asia?
Earthquakes Shaped Ancient Greek Culture
Easter Island Inhabitants Drank Brackish Water to Survive
Environmental Changes Contributed to Mediterranean Cultural Crisis
Fats on Neolithic Pottery Pinpoint Climate Cooling Event
First Complete DNA Sequences From Egyptian Mummies
Getting There and Getting Around Jordan
Golden Gate Ghost Ships Rediscovered
How the Spanish Invasion Altered the Peruvian Coast
Humans Arrived Down Under Earlier Than Thought
It's a Dirty Job, but Someone's Gotta Do It
Jerusalem Tower Facelift Reveals It's 1,000 Years Younger
Mastodon Bones Point to Significantly Earlier Human Presence in North America
Message in a Bottle Gourd
Museums: Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt
No River Meant No Floods for Ancient Indus Settlements
No River Meant No Floods for Ancient Indus Settlements
Northern Finns Didn't Starve During Little Ice Age
Old Landscapes See the Light Thanks to Improved Imaging
On Hannibal's Trail: The Clues Are in the Geology
Platinum May Point to Impact Theory for Younger Dryas
Rome's Lead Water Pipes Likely Not a Health Risk
Silk Road Routes May Have Followed the Herds
Stonehenge's Mysterious Stones
The First Americans: How and When Were the Americas Populated?
Tibetan Plateau Populated Long Before Advent of Agriculture
Travels in Geology: The King's Highway: The Crossroads of Ancient Jordan
Turkey DNA Reveals Mesa Verde Denizens Moved to New Mexico
Turning Modern "Eyes" on Ancient Sites
Underwater Archaeology
Underwater Roman Marble Traced to Greece, Italy and Turkey
Widening the Window of Human Dispersal Into Arabia
Archaeopteryx
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx Is Discovered and Described
Dinosaurs' Active Lifestyles Suggest They Were Warm-Blooded
Dinosaurs' True Colors Revealed
Archaeoseismology
Old Photos Help Scientists Relocate 1906 San Francisco Quake Rupture Point
Thinking Outside the Rocks in the Search for Ancient Earthquakes
Archean
Ancient Asteroids Boiled Earth's Oceans
Early Earth's Atmosphere Weighed Half as Much
Giant Bolide Hit South Africa 2.5 Billion Years Ago
Architecture
Blogging on EARTH: New Lessons From Antiquity, This Time on Construction
Arctic
Arctic Climate Change Marked by Warmer, Wetter Conditions
Arctic Humidity on the Rise
Arctic Soils Retain More Carbon
Arctic Warming Causes Siberian Cooling
Belugas, Climate, Mercury and Cancer
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus Crosses the North Pole
Comment: Arctic Warming and Midlatitude Weather: Is There a Connection?
Comment: Crazy Times in the Arctic
CryoScoop: A Must-Read Special Issue
CryoScoop: Sea Ice Synopsis and a Whale Tale
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Driftwood Reveals Ancient Arctic Currents and Sea-Ice Levels
Early Results
Early Spring Thaw Triggers Arctic Greenhouse Gas Release
Earth: The Movie (Not the Magazine)
Endangered Icebreakers: The Future of Arctic Research, Exploration and Rescue at Risk
Globe-Trotting Bacteria Found at Both Poles
How the Arctic Became Salty
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
IceGoat: The Next Generation
Massive Icebergs Scoured Arctic Seafloor
New Map of Arctic Geology Published
Parasites Spread Across the Arctic Under the 'New Normal'
Polar Dino Tracks Show Full Ecosystem
Radium Levels Suggest Arctic Ocean Chemistry Is Changing
Recovery of 1960s Sea-Ice Satellite Images Wins Dark Data Contest
Scientists Go to Extremes to Monitor Arctic Permafrost Loss
Seal Missing Link Found in the Arctic
Seasonal Ice-Cover Reduction Throughout Arctic Waters Mapped
Subarctic Lakes Belch More Methane on Brighter Days
The Arctic Is Open for Research
The Thrill to Drill in the Chill
Travels in Geology: Antarctica: Following in the Footsteps of Giants
U.S. Navy Navigates a Sea Change in the Arctic
Warm River Water Melted Arctic Sea Ice
Wintering in the High Arctic Reveals Surprising Results
Ardi
Before Lucy: Older Hominid Ardi Challenges Thinking About Human Evolution
Not the Oldest Hominid
The Vital Statistics
Ardipithecus
Before Lucy: Older Hominid Ardi Challenges Thinking About Human Evolution
Not the Oldest Hominid
The Vital Statistics
Argentina
A Terribly Low Voice for a New Terror Bird
Getting There and Getting Around Patagonia
Travels in Geology: Exploring Mountains and Eating Llama in Northern Argentina
Travels in Geology: Patagonia: The Ends of the Earth
Venturing Into Argentina
Arizona
Arizona Road Hazard Has Surprising Source
Benchmarks: April 1, 1877: Prospector Begins Search for Tombstone's Silver
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Getting There and Getting Around Flagstaff, Arizona
Getting There and Getting Around in Tucson
Isotopes Suggest Ancient Turquoise Mine Was Prolific
November 10, 1934: Arizona Declares War Against California at Parker Dam
Searching the Stars
Travels in Geology: Cones and Craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
Travels in Geology: Sedona: A Journey to the Edge of a Supercontinent
Travels in Geology: Winter Sun and Tectonic Tales in Tucson
Arkansas
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Travels in Geology: Arkansas: A Geologic Diamond in the Rough
Arkstorm
Hazardous Living: Preparing for the Storm of the Century
Army Corps of Engineers
Benchmarks: November 27, 1873: Red River Logjam Removed for Good
Court Rules Against Army Corps in New Orleans Flooding Case
Arsenic
Arsenic in Wells in Vietnam Suggests Dig-Deeper Approach Has Issues
Arsenic Levels in China May Be Predicted by Modeling
Blogging on EARTH: Arsenic Provides a G#ALA Event in the Science World
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Mapping Safer Drinking Water
Mineral Resource of the Month: Arsenic
Natural Arsenic Levels in Ohio Soils Exceed Regulatory Standards
Tracking Trace Elements and Isotopes in the Oceans
Treated Water That's Too Pure Lets Arsenic Sneak In
Art
Ancient Cave Art Discovered in Indonesia
Art and Dinosaurs
Art Joins Science in Coral Communication
Artists Draw Inspiration From Fire and Ash
Cave Paintings Confirm Mystery European Bison Species
Citizen Science (And Art)
Commissioned Artwork
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Down to Earth With: Planetary Geologist James W. Head III
Earliest Art Found in South Africa
Geologic Column: Combining Art and Geology in the Sand
Geomedia: Mixed Media: Geo-Art Collaboration Shifts Perspectives on Earth Materials
Geoscience Inspires Glass Artist Adam Frus
Illustrating Geology: Great Images That Transformed the Field
Isotopes Reveal Sources of Centuries-Old Alabaster Artifacts
Piecing Together the Big Picture of Coral Reef Health
Science Illustrators: Making the Invisible Visible
Science Meets Art: Tiny Trilobite Gets Huge Makeover
Tools of the Trade
Art Evolved
Art and Dinosaurs
Arthropods
Burgess Shale Fossil Find Offers Glimpse of Early Parenting
From Fearsome Predator to Filter Feeder
Re-Examining the Burgess Shale
Artisanal Mining
Gold, Lead and Death in Nigeria
Asbestos
Asbestos Found in Nevada and Arizona: Roadblock and Potential Health Hazard?
Dangerous Dust: Erionite - An Asbestos-Like Mineral Causing a Cancer Epidemic in Turkey - Is Found in at Least 13 States
Investigating Erionite, Asbestos' More Carcinogenic Cousin
Ash
Ash vs. Airplanes
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Blogging on EARTH Linkfest: More on the Iceland Eruption
Chaitén's Vigorous Volcanic History Revealed
Cretaceous Volcanic Ash Seeded U.S. Oilfields
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Fire and Ice Produced Eyjafjalla's Explosion
Hazardous Living: Guatemala and Ecuador Under Volcanic Siege ... and Other Hazards
Hazardous Living: Iceland Afire
How Often Should We Expect Volcanic Ash Clouds Over Europe?
Kilauea Eruptions Could Shift From Mild to Wild
Modeling a Big Mess From Yellowstone
Of Airplanes and Ash Clouds: What We've Learned Since Eyjafjallajökull
Sand Shouldn't Stand in for Volcanic Ash in Jet Engine Tests
Shifting Winds Blow Away Taupo's 'Ultraplinian' Title
Tracking Volcanic Ash: Helping Airplanes Avoid Catastrophe
Voices: Volcanoes Everywhere ... Is There a Link?
Volcanic Ash Feed Southern Ocean Plankton
Warning: Ash Ahead!
Asteroid
2012: The End of the World or Just Another Year of Living in Harm's Way?
Africa's Impact Is One That Even the Dinosaurs Would Have Seen Coming
Ancient Asteroids Boiled Earth's Oceans
Bids in Space: When Should We Outsource Government Science?
Deciphering Mass Extinctions
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Giant Dunes, Not Mega-Tsunami Deposits?
Highlights of 2010: Definitive Statements: A New Trend?
It's an Asteroid, No Wait, a Comet, No Wait…
Mineral in Chelyabinsk Meteorite Reveals Past Collision
Small Asteroid Spotted Circling Earth
Undressing Vesta
What Are the Odds?: Automated System Calculates the Likelihood That Asteroids Will Hit Earth
Astrobiology
Bare Earth Elements: Mars Rocks Wear Manganese Coats
Danger and Wonder in Nat Geo's "Giant Crystal Cave"
Down to Earth With: Jacob Haqq-Misra
Geomedia: Books: A Brief History of Our Cosmic Origins
Looking for Life in Coldest, Driest Antarctica
Astronomy
An Aurora Named Steve
Astronomers Find Missing Half of the Universe
Astronomy Under the Ice: Scientists Use Antarctic Ice to Study Some of the Tiniest Particles in the Cosmos
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar Eclipse "Proves" Relativity
Blogging on EARTH: Rarity the Only Reason for Venus Transit Fever?
Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize Winner Adam Riess
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and Astronomer Tom Kaye
MESSENGER Mission Ends With a Bang, and More Data
Mysterious Rapid Radio Burst Captured Live
North Star Loses Mass but Still Shines Bright
Online Stargazing With GigaGalaxy Zoom
Sun Shapes Titan's Atmospheric Makeup
Super-Earths: Mirrors of Our World?
Venus in Transit to the Transit
Astrophotography
Online Stargazing With GigaGalaxy Zoom
Titan's Dunes Form the Same Way as Earth's
Astrophysics
High-Powered Simulation Tracks Evolution of Universe in Detail
Super-Earths: Mirrors of Our World?
Atlantic Ocean
Atmosphere, More Than Ocean, Might Drive Atlantic Climate Variation
Cruising the Atlantic to Trace Elemental Movements
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: An Encouraging Start, an Inauspicious End
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: The Art of Clean Sampling
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: The Final Chapter
New Subduction Zone May Close Atlantic Ocean
Atlantis
Hazardous Living: Atlantis' Final Countdown
Atmosphere
A Flammable Planet: Fire Finds Its Place in Earth History
Air Pollutants From "Megacities" a Growing Problem
Ancient Wildfires Suggest Rising Atmospheric Oxygen Helped End Past Ocean Anoxia
As an Aerosolizer, Dust Devils Demoted
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Blogging on EARTH: Controversy Over the Weekend Effect
Carbon Tet Still Offensive to Ozone Layer
Cloud Feedbacks Drive Climate Sensitivity
Clouds Can Form Without Particles
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA Keeps Watch on a Changing Planet
Dust Influences Pollution Levels in Eastern China
Early Earth's Atmosphere Weighed Half as Much
Earth's Largest Jet Stream Unexpectedly Disrupted
Earth-Like Atmosphere Enough to Set Some Exoplanets Spinning
El Nino "Flavors" Affect California Rainfall
Greening the Friendly Skies
Is Aviation 'Whitening' the Sky?
Marine Microorganisms Drive Summer Clouds Over Southern Ocean
Montreal Protocol Affects More Than Just Ozone
Mountains May Cause Huge Waves in Venusian Clouds
New Satellite Maps Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks in High Definition
Newly Discovered Earth-Like Worlds Are Rocky, Not Gassy
Rainbows Reclassified
Raindrop Study Splashes Old Assumptions
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Santa Ana Winds Get a Fiery Boost From the Stratosphere
Sipping Carbon-Neutral Fuel From the Atmosphere
Smokier U.S. West as Climate Changes
Solar Eclipse Mimics Conditions on Mars
Still in a Haze: What We Don't Know About Black Carbon
The Chesapeake Bay Gets Some Good News
Winter Precipitation in Southwestern U.S. Tied to Kiwi Coast
Atmospheric Chemistry
"Blob"-Related Warming Contributed to Pacific Northwest Ozone Spike
AGU: Colorado Ski Industry Owes Great Salt Lake Thank You Note
Beryllium: The Rain Bringeth and the Rain Taketh Away
Carbon Tet Still Offensive to Ozone Layer
Fossil Fuels Diluting Atmospheric Radiocarbon
Hydrogen Chloride on the Rise in Northern Hemisphere Skies
Link Between Volcanoes and Drought Cools Geoengineering Prospects
Lofted by Hurricanes, Bacteria Live the High Life
Reconstructing Ancient Oxidant Levels and Their Climatic Effects
Sudden Gas Eruption Shakes the Ground Near Rome's Airport
Thank Subduction for Earth's Nitrogen-Rich Air
Atmospheric River
Comment: Atmospheric Rivers Increase Water Supply in California — But Only to a Point
Hazardous Living: Preparing for the Storm of the Century
Rivers in the Sky: Improving Predictions of Atmospheric Rivers to Reduce Risk
Sahara Dust Brings Rain and Snow to California
Atmospheric Science
A New Tool for Atmospheric Studies
Atmosphere, More Than Ocean, Might Drive Atlantic Climate Variation
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The Era of Aviation Launches With the First Balloon Flight
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine Links the Geomagnetic and Sunspot Cycles
Bolts of Insight on Earthly Gamma Ray Showers
Exoplanet Forecast: Quartz With a Chance of Feldspar
Fire-Driven Clouds and Swirling Winds Whipped Up Record-Setting New Mexico Blaze
Five Outstanding Questions in Earth Science
Lollipop-Shaped Ice Found in Clouds
More Warming May Mean More Lightning
Rivers in the Sky: Improving Predictions of Atmospheric Rivers to Reduce Risk
Subarctic Lakes Belch More Methane on Brighter Days
Undergraduates Build and Launch a Satellite to Measure Atmospheric Drag
Why Meteors Snap, Crackle and Pop
Atmospheric Spectrum
Venus' Gentler, Earth-Like Past
Audification
Earth Tides in a Major
Musical Magnetic Reversals
Putting Earth's History to Sound
Audio
Putting Earth's History to Sound
August 2009
Asia's Hazardous Month
Benchmarks: August 17, 1959: Hebgen Lake Earthquake and Landslide
Down to Earth With: Ted Irving
Energy Notes: April 2008-2009
Getting a Master's in Social Geology
Mineral Resource of the Month: Ferrous Slag
Moonquake Mystery Deepens
Re-Examining the Burgess Shale
The Long Legacy of Peru's "Mine of Death"
Travels in Geology: Arkansas: A Geologic Diamond in the Rough
August 2010
Age Changes You: Torosaurus Actually Just Old Triceratops
Benchmarks: August 1975: Geotimes Magazine Inspires Name of Rock Formation: A Q&A With Tony Alabaster
Benchmarks: August 2, 1922: Marines Invade Teapot Dome, Deepen Scandal
Blogging on EARTH: Previously Unknown Fault Responsible for Haiti Quake
Earliest Fossil Evidence of Humans in Southeast Asia?
Energy Notes: April 2009-2010
Florida Swamps - Ancient Sinkholes
Getting There and Getting Around Zürich
Hazardous Living: New Orleans, Five Years After Katrina
Mineral Resource of the Month: Perlite
Opening Up Space Travel to Everyone
Sinkholes: Florida Grapples With the Wonders of the Not-So-Deep
Travels in Geology: Lower Engadine Valley, Switzerland
Voices: Must We Capture and Store Carbon From Coal to Meet Emission-Reduction Targets?
Water Wise: An Oil Plume at Depth, and NOAA vs. the White House
Water Wise: Where Will the Oil Spilled in the Gulf Go?
August 2011
A Day Without Glory
Benchmarks: August 1576: False Gold Found in Meta Incognita
Blogging on EARTH: The Lighter Side of Geo-Jargon
CryoScoop: Green Light to McMurdo
CryoScoop: Ice Islands and a New Antarctic Map
Down to Earth With: Deanna D'Alessandro
Energy Notes: April 2010-2011
Geologic Column: Snow Globes, Light Shows and T-Shirts
Getting There and Getting Around the Blue Mountains National Park
Great Lakes Geologic Sunken Treasure
Is There Really a Minerals Crisis?
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gypsum
Thinking Outside the Rocks in the Search for Ancient Earthquakes
Travels in Geology: Australia's Blue Mountains Delight the Senses
Travels in Geology: Glacial Pools to Sea Caves: a Tour of New Zealand's South Island
Travels in Geology: Twin Coral Reefs Separated in Time in Western Australia
TV: Discovery Channel Grows More Curious
Voices: A Growing Need for Geoscience Diplomacy
When the Dust Settles: Investigating Lingering Health Questions 10 Years After 9/11
August 2012
2012: The End of the World or Just Another Year of Living in Harm's Way?
Bare Earth Elements: Let the Real Curiosity Begin
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross Is Found, Photographed and Mapped
Blogging on EARTH: Curious to Watch Curiosity Land on Mars?
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Do–it–yourself Lava Flows: Science, Art and Education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
Energy Notes: April 2011-2012
Getting There and Getting Around Nevada
Hazardous Living: Watching Curiosity Land Safely Was Exhilarating
How the School of Rock Came to Be
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hydraulic Cement
On the Web: Shake, Rattle and Roll: What Does an Earthquake Sound Like?
School of Rock: Educating Educators at Sea
The Syracuse University Lava Experiments
Trash-to-Treasure: Turning Nonrecycled Waste Into Low-Carbon Fuel
Travels in Geology: Lake Tahoe Jewel of the Sierra Nevada
Voices: Italian Quakes and Deaths Point to Industrial Facilities as Death Traps
August 2013
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
Bare Earth Elements: The Field Camp Experience in Photos
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits Are Described
Building Resource Corridors in Afghanistan: A Solution to an Interminable War?
Core Skills in the Geosciences: The Geoblogosphere Chimes in on What Students Need to Know
Digitizing Earth: Developing a Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First Astrogeologist on the Moon
Energy Notes: April 2012-2013
Geologic Column: Assessing Energy and Mining Workforce Needs
Getting There and Getting Around in Cuba
Hidden Graves Give Up Their Secrets to Geologists
Home Sweet Home for Field Campers
Hurricane Hunters Fly Toward Improved Storm Forecasts
Location, Location, Location
Mapping Field Camp's Past and Present: Exploring a Mainstay of Geoscience Education
Mineral Resource of the Month: Kyanite
On the Web: Mount St. Helens Goes Online to Reach the Masses
Rescuing Data From the Dark
Trans-Niño Years Could Foster Tornado Outbreaks
Travels in Geology: Journeying Through Cuba's Geology and Culture
August 2014
A Real Rift in the Midcontinent
A Watery Surprise From Earth's Depths: Mineral Provides First Direct Evidence for Water in Mantle's Transition Zone
Acid Oceans Followed Chicxulub Impact
Africa's Impact Is One That Even the Dinosaurs Would Have Seen Coming
Ancient Food Web Shows Modern Structure
Ancient Seawater Found in Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
Ancient Skeleton Found in Underwater Cave Reveals DNA of Earliest Americans
Are Slow-Slip Earthquakes Under Tokyo Stressing Faults?
Augustine Volcano's Earthquakes and Explosive Eruption Caused by a Clogged Conduit
Benchmarks: August 15, 1984 & August 21, 1986: African Killer Lakes Erupt
Benchmarks: July 15, 1806: Zebulon Pike Launches Southwest Expedition
Benchmarks: September 1, 1957: Fossil Cycad National Monument Is Dissolved
Between Rocks and Hard Places
Books: The Once and Future San Andreas Fault
Changing the Landscape: Geoscientists Embrace 3-D Printing
Comment: Energy 360: Let Science Speak, Not Agendas
Comment: The Search for Clarity on Climate Change
Crowdfunding Science: A New Piece of the Research Grant Puzzle
Crowdfunding Spotlight
Desert Dust Influences Monsoon Rains
Down to Earth With: Chris Strong
Down to Earth With: Kerry Sieh
Down to Earth With: Martin Lockley
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Energy Notes: February 2013-2014
Energy Notes: March 2013-2014
Extra Rib May Be Sign of Mammoth Decline
Floating Nuclear Plants May Be Safer From Tsunamis
For Toothed Whales, Ecolocation Is an Ancient Art
Geologic Column: By Train or Pipeline: That Is the Question
Geologic Column: How T. Rex Got Its Street Cred Back
Geomedia: 'Dinosaur 13' Chisels Away at the Story Behind Discovery of Sue
Geomedia: Books: The Earth System Symphony
Getting There & Getting Around the Aussie Outback
Getting There and Getting Around the Causeway Coast
Hell Creek Formation Reveals a 'Chicken From Hell'
Human-Induced Earthquakes Shake Less
Humans Causing California's Mountains to Grow
Infrasound Reveals Lava Lake Levels
La Brea Climate Adaptation as Different as Cats and Dogs
Longer Season for Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
Magma Mobilizes Quickly Beneath Mount Hood
Mars Monthly
Mineral Resource of the Month: Arsenic
Mineral Resource of the Month: Peat
Natural Arsenic Levels in Ohio Soils Exceed Regulatory Standards
New Model Predicts Pumice Drift Patterns
Ocean Waves Explain Which La Niña Events Will Linger
People's Earthquake Reports Influenced More by Locomotion Than Location
Pike's Peak
Pompeii-Like Eruption Fossilized Dinosaurs in Death Poses
Rings Not Just for Planets Anymore
Scientists Look Wider and Deeper to Predict the Next El Nino
Solar Wind Gives Lightning a Boost
South American Fossils Offer Revised View of Gondwana Assembly
Striped Pyrites Link Earthquakes to Gold Deposition
Sunken Logs a Delicacy for Ocean Bottom-Feeders
The Legend of Finn Maccool's Causeway
The Subcontinent's Sturdy Mammals
Travels in Geology: Aussie Outback Adventure
Travels in Geology: Basalt Cliffs and Columns Along Nothern Ireland's Causeway Coast Way
Unlocking the Cascadia Subduction Zone's Secrets: Peering Into Recent Research and Findings
Unprecedented Low Water-Vapor Levels Detected on Exoplanets
Volcanic Ash Feed Southern Ocean Plankton
Warm River Water Melted Arctic Sea Ice
August 2015
A Pair of Moons With Underground Oceans
A Terribly Low Voice for a New Terror Bird
Ancient Marine Reptiles Born Alive and Ready to Hunt
Arctic Climate Change Marked by Warmer, Wetter Conditions
As an Aerosolizer, Dust Devils Demoted
Bark Beetles Not to Blame for Big Fires?
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus Crosses the North Pole
Comment: Who Should Be Worried About Space Weather
De-Evolving the Bird Beak
Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
Down to Earth With: Industrial Archaeologist Fred Quivik
Early Earth Enriched by Iron Rain
Earth-Like Atmosphere Enough to Set Some Exoplanets Spinning
Endangered Icebreakers: The Future of Arctic Research, Exploration and Rescue at Risk
Energy Notes: February 2014-2015
Energy Notes: January 2014-2015
Fate of Atolls Not Necessarily Tied to Sea-Level Rise
From Fearsome Predator to Filter Feeder
Geologic Column: Field Sketches
Geology for Everyone: Making the Field Accessible
Geomedia: Books: Iceland's Eruption of Biblical Proportions Explored in 'Island on Fire'
Geomedia: Toys: LEGO® Geoscientists Break Through the Brick Ceiling
Getting There and Getting Around Texas' Trans-Pecos
Hazardous Living: Maps, According to Geologists
Hurricane Wrath May Be Reduced by Rainfall
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Makeovers for Two Popular Dinosaurs
Map Shows Where Lightning Zaps Most
Megafloods Mostly Shaped Icelandic Canyon Landscape
Meteorite Reveals Rare Irregular Crystals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gemstones
Nonnative Plants Not a Problem in Britain
Ocean 'Sneezes' Spread Algae-Infecting Virus
Oldest Birds Unearthed in China
Racing to the Future of Automotive Efficiency and Performance
Sea-Level Rise Accelerating
Seismometers Listen for Falling Rocks
Snake Forebear Had Two Back Legs but No Front Legs
Southbound Icebergs Off the Hook for Ice-Age Cooling
Stalled Slabs Sometimes Stopped by Mineral Strengthening
The Arctic Is Open for Research
Thorny Plant Marks West African Diamond Deposits
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
Trip-Planning Resources
Volcanic Lightning Turns Ash Into Glass
Where on Earth? - August 2015
Widening the Window of Human Dispersal Into Arabia
August 2016
Ancient Dinosaur Migrations Analyzed
Artists Draw Inspiration From Fire and Ash
Asian Bats Resist White Nose Fungus
Benchmarks: August 25, 1916: The National Park Service Is Established
Bubble Accumulation Could Explain Massive Volcanic Sulfur Releases
Denisovan DNA Found in Modern Pacific Islanders, Ancient Spaniards
Down to Earth With: National Park Service Geologic Resources Division Chief David Steensen
Earthworms Build Big Mounds to Escape Floodwaters
Exploring the Newest Gift to America: Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
Firefighting Gets a Leg Up From Earthquake Sensor Networks
Geologic Column: Editia Elegantis: A Story of Science, Discovery and the Elegance of a Wife's Contribution
Geomedia: Books: 'FORE' Helps You Project the Future, With a Laugh
Getting There and Getting Around Zermatt
Giant Turbidite in Mediterranean Sea Linked to Ancient Earthquake and Tsunami
Helium Escape May Help Predict Volcanic Activity
Hominid vs. Hominin
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Illustrating Geology: Great Images That Transformed the Field
Jawless Fish More Like Jawed Fish Than Thought
Long-Gone Supernova Sprinkles Rare Isotope
Lunar Ice Reveals Moon's Poles Shifted
Mantle Convection Makes Earth's Crust Bob
Mauna Loa's Mysterious Ninole Hills Were Once a Rift
Modeling Io's Weird Mountains
New Dating of 'Hobbit' Sheds Light on When It Lived
Observers at the Edge of the Ice: Smaller, Cheaper Machines Can Safely Go Where Humans Can't
Ocean Acidification Worsens Overnight Along California Coast
On the Trail of Hannibal's Army - And Elephants - In the Alps
Peeling North American Plate Causing East Coast Earthquakes
Redefining Homo: Does Our Family Tree Need More Branches?
Researchers Profile Magma Chamber Beneath North Korean Volcano
Sand Shouldn't Stand in for Volcanic Ash in Jet Engine Tests
Scaling Up: Mega-Dino Babies Were Mini Adults
Sea-Level Rise a Risk for Millions in the United States
Seeds May Have Saved Bird-Like Dinosaurs From Extinction
Snake River Eruption History Offers Glimpse Into Yellowstone Hot Spot Dynamics
Teaching Geology to Biologists: An Essay on an Interdisciplinary Field Trip in Africa
Teeth Hold Clues to Human Success, Neanderthal Decline
The New Kid on the Block
Travels in Geology: Zermatt: Europe Meets Africa in Switzerland's Iconic Alps
Tully Monster Mystery Solved
Underwater Archaeology Reveals Pre-Clovis People Butchered Mastodon in Florida
Vibrations Make Large Rocky Landslides Flow Like Water
Volcanoes and Historical Politics
Where on Earth? - August 2016
Why Is a Gallon of Gas Cheaper Than a Gallon of Milk?
August 2017
A Mammoth King: Was the Legend of King Hygelac in "Beowulf" Inspired by a Fossil Find?
Ancient Wildfires Suggest Rising Atmospheric Oxygen Helped End Past Ocean Anoxia
Asymmetrical Fossil Feathers Fill in Timeline of Flight
Baby Louie Dinosaur Fossil Gets a Formal Name
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 Earthquake Rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery Returns From the West
Bottom Dropping Out of Coral Reefs
Coatings May Prevent Pipeline Clogs
Comment: In Space, Timing Is Everything
Delusions of Grandeur in Building a Low-Carbon Future
Down to Earth With: Cave Microbiologist Hazel Barton
Dust Influences Pollution Levels in Eastern China
Earth-Like Exoplanet Shows Signs of Supporting Life
Earthquakes Make Volcanoes More — And Less — Gassy
Eavesdropping on Old Faithful
Evidence of Devastating Drought Found Beneath the Dead Sea
Geologic Column: Alternative History: Earth in a Funhouse Mirror
Geomedia: Books: Earth Faces Challenges, but Are They Tipping Points?
Geomedia: Books: Exploring Space Is Risky Business
Getting There and Getting Around Austria's Salzkammergut
Horned Dinosaur Find a First for Eastern North America
In a Position to Lead: How Military Technology and Innovation Can Ease the World's Water Challenges
Lidar Sheds Light on Roadside Rockfall Hazard
Massive Trove of Dinosaur Tracks Cataloged in Australia
Mastodon Bones Point to Significantly Earlier Human Presence in North America
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Nineteenth-Century Cows Muddied Southern California Continental Shelf
Reconstructing Ancient Oxidant Levels and Their Climatic Effects
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Stock Traders' Algorithm Finds Slow Earthquakes
T. Rex's Bone-Crushing Bite
Titan's Oddly Oriented Dunes May Be Electrostatically Sculpted
Transylvanian Ice Cave Reveals European Winter Climate Record
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World Heritage Preserved in Salt
Where on Earth? - August 2017
Why Meteors Snap, Crackle and Pop
Young Costa Rican Lavas Might Reflect Pockets of Primordial Mantle
August 2018
A Rocky Source of Nitrogen
An Asteroid Redirected Bird Evolution
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus Creates First Anthropogenic Space Weather
Bolts of Insight on Earthly Gamma Ray Showers
Charting 500 Years of Mississippi Floods
Comment: Leveraging Physical Oceanography in Exoplanet Exploration
Cracking the Temperature of Columnar Jointing
Diamonds and the Eocene Climate of the Bell River Basin
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
European Mammals Will Struggle Under Climate Change
Geologic Column: The Raw and the Cooked
Geomedia: Books: Informative and Inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Geomedia: Books: Revisiting the Galileo Affair
Getting There and Getting Around Cairo
Getting There and Getting Around Vancouver
Gravity Changes Portended 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
Grazing Gave Elephant Ancestors an Edge
Great Barrier Reef Has Died and Recovered Before
Island-Dwelling Mammal Had Small Brain, Keen Senses
Lunar Isotopes Suggest Early Water on Earth
Mercury Links Big Five Extinction Events
Mineral Clue to Finding Perfectly Preserved Fossils?
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mountaintops Get Less Lonely for Alpine Plants
Natural Solutions Could Save $50 Billion in Gulf Coast Flood Damages
New Suspect Emerges in Theft of Earth's Surface Iron
Piecing Together the Puzzle of Pannotia
Place-Based Education: Teaching Geoscience in the Context of Location and Culture
Plumbing Masaya's Lava Lake
Readying the Caribbean for the Next Big Wave
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Rivers in the Sky: Improving Predictions of Atmospheric Rivers to Reduce Risk
Saglek Basin Sediments Suggest a Grand Canyon Connection
Searching for the Volcanic Origins of Iron Ore
Seismic Waves Are Blind to Water
Speartips Point at South-to-North Clovis Dispersal
Sunstones Useful as Viking-Era GPS
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's Vanished Amazon
Travels in Geology: From Sea to Sky in British Columbia
Travels in Geology: The Pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an Ancient World
Where on Earth? - August 2018
Australia
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest Day of Fire Ever Recorded in Australia
Counting 'Tree' Rings in Fish Skulls Provides Climate Clues
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia
Fossil Leaves Provide Clues to Ancient Australian Habitat
Getting There and Getting Around in South Australia
Getting There and Getting Around the Whitsundays
Giant Bolide Hit South Africa 2.5 Billion Years Ago
Great Barrier Reef Has Died and Recovered Before
Great Drying Led to Great Dying Down Under
Humans Arrived Down Under Earlier Than Thought
Massive Trove of Dinosaur Tracks Cataloged in Australia
Travels in Geology: Aussie Outback Adventure
Travels in Geology: Australia's Whitsunday Islands: Sun, Sand and Silicic Volcanism
Travels in Geology: Australia's Wonders, From Ocean to Desert
Travels in Geology: Glaciers and Grapes in South Australia
Travels in Geology: Twin Coral Reefs Separated in Time in Western Australia
Voices: Harassment of Scientists Reaches a Fever Pitch
Australopithecus
Move Over Homo Habilis: Early Human Evolution Remapped
Paleo Patrol: Was Mankind's First Leap in a Forest or Savanna?
Australopithecus Afarensis
Tree-Climbing Hominin With Opposable Toes Co-Existed With Lucy
Austria
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World Heritage Preserved in Salt
Avalanche
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches Sweep Through Austrian Towns, Killing Dozens
Slipping Point: Snow Scientists Dig in to Decipher Avalanche Triggers
Aviation
Greening the Friendly Skies
Is Aviation 'Whitening' the Sky?
Axial
An Undersea Volcano Yields Its Secrets
Bacteria
Antibacterial Clays Could Fight Superbugs
Bacteria Back From the Brink
Blogging on EARTH: Arsenic Provides a G#ALA Event in the Science World
Globe-Trotting Bacteria Found at Both Poles
Lofted by Hurricanes, Bacteria Live the High Life
Oil-Encased Water Droplets Are Mini-Ecosystems for Microbes
Solar Eclipse Mimics Conditions on Mars
Tiny Ocean Bacteria Could Play Big Role in Climate
Tree of Life Reshaped
Baja California
Large Earthquake Rattles Baja California
Bali
Getting There and Getting Around Bali
Travels in Geology: Bali Beckons
Bare Earth Elements
Bare Earth Elements: "Volcano of Fire" Eruption Forces Evacuations in Mexico
Bare Earth Elements: A Geo-Themed Pop Quiz in Honor of 12/12/12
Bare Earth Elements: AGU 2013 Wrap-Up
Bare Earth Elements: Bone Up on Your Spooky Geo-Vocabulary This Halloween
Bare Earth Elements: Cool Time-Lapse Shows Movement of Ice and Animals in Antarctica's Ross Sea
Bare Earth Elements: EARTH's Top 10 Online Stories of 2013 ... (Yes, It's a List)
Bare Earth Elements: GSA Highlights, Day 1
Bare Earth Elements: GSA Highlights, Days 2 and 3
Bare Earth Elements: IceCube Observatory Spurs "Dawn of New Age" in Astronomy
Bare Earth Elements: In Honor of 'Back to the Future Day,' a Few Things Geoscientists Might (Or Might Not) Have Been Thinking About in 1985
Bare Earth Elements: Let the Real Curiosity Begin
Bare Earth Elements: Mars Rocks Wear Manganese Coats
Bare Earth Elements: Mars-Observing Fleet Set to Face Silent Treatment
Bare Earth Elements: Past and Present Directors Dissect the Future of USGS
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
Bare Earth Elements: Search the Seafloor Firsthand (And Live!)
Bare Earth Elements: The Field Camp Experience in Photos
Bare Earth Elements: Tour Brings Hurricane Hunting Aircraft and Expertise to the Masses
Bare Earth Elements: Voices From GSA 2012
Bare Earth Elements: Welcome to the GEOlympics
Blogging on EARTH: Arsenic Provides a G#ALA Event in the Science World
Blogging on EARTH: Rarity the Only Reason for Venus Transit Fever?
Blogging on EARTH: The Lighter Side of Geo-Jargon
Blogging on EARTH: Webb Space Telescope Ensnared in Political Drama
Blogging on EARTH: Wisconsin's Microquake Mystery
Barnett Shale
Natural Gas Production Linked to Earthquakes in Texas
Barrier Island
Hurricane Ike Sent Galveston's Beaches Out to Sea
Basalt
Benchmarks: August 1975: Geotimes Magazine Inspires Name of Rock Formation: A Q&A With Tony Alabaster
Columbia River Basalts Erupted Faster Than Thought
Did Volcanism Drive Earth Into Global Glaciation?
The Syracuse University Lava Experiments
Basalt Pillar
Travels in Geology: Basalt Cliffs and Columns Along Nothern Ireland's Causeway Coast Way
Warring Trolls Explanation for Mysterious Basalt Pillars Revised
Bathymetry
Seeing the Seafloor in High Definition: Modern Mapping Offers Increasing Clarity on Earth's Vast Underwater Landscape
Wealth of Seafloor Features Emerges From New Survey
Bats
Asian Bats Resist White Nose Fungus
Banana-Preserving Bacterium Shows Promise Against Bat-Killing Fungus
Bat Signals
Bats and White-Nose Syndrome = VA Cavers, Please Stay Out
Fossilized Melanin Reveals Bats' True Colors
Mysterious Disease Sounds the Death Knell for Bats
New Federal Guidelines Aim to Combat Bat-Killing Fungus
Southeastern Caves Shuttered to Slow the Spread of Bat-Killing Disease
Beach
D-Day's Legacy: Remnants of Invasion Linger in Beach Sands
Geologic Column: Combining Art and Geology in the Sand
Oceanographers Solve Mysterious Beach Explosion
Travels in Geology: Bali Beckons
Travels in Geology: Navigating the Rocks, Reefs and Waters of Bermuda
Beach Stabilization
Geotextiles: From Sludge to Shoreline Protection to Surfing - What's Next?
Becquerel
Benchmarks: Henri Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity on February 26, 1896
Beer
Comment: A Pitch to Study BREW: The Beer-Renewable Energy-Water Nexus
Geologic Column: Beer's Secret Ingredient: Geology
Benchmarks
A Mysterious First
April 20, 1832: Arkansas' Hot Springs Named the First National "Park"
Bechmarks: June 1, 1873: The Modoc-Lava Beds War Ends
Benchmarks: Henri Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity on February 26, 1896
Benchmarks: April 1, 1877: Prospector Begins Search for Tombstone's Silver
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii Tsunami Ushers in a Pacific-Wide Warning System
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record Winds Buffet Mount Washington
Benchmarks: April 1916: "Jingo the Stegosaurus" Campaigns to Keep the U.S. Out of World War I
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE Is Launched
Benchmarks: April 24, 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope Is Launched
Benchmarks: April 26, 1986: Nuclear Explosion at Chernobyl
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Found Using Modern Oceanography Tools
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler Confirms Saturn's Rings Not Solid
Benchmarks: August 1576: False Gold Found in Meta Incognita
Benchmarks: August 17, 1959: Hebgen Lake Earthquake and Landslide
Benchmarks: August 1975: Geotimes Magazine Inspires Name of Rock Formation: A Q&A With Tony Alabaster
Benchmarks: August 2, 1922: Marines Invade Teapot Dome, Deepen Scandal
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross Is Found, Photographed and Mapped
Benchmarks: August 25, 1916: The National Park Service Is Established
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus Creates First Anthropogenic Space Weather
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits Are Described
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus Crosses the North Pole
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 Earthquake Rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill Disappears
Benchmarks: December 16, 1811-February 7, 1812: the New Madrid Earthquakes Strike the Heartland
Benchmarks: December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami Strikes
Benchmarks: December 3, 1984: Bhopal Gas Leak Kills Thousands
Benchmarks: December 31, 1853: Dinner in a Dinosaur
Benchmarks: December 4, 1992: The Seattle Fault Zone Is Described
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog Smothers London
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur Fossils Lost at Sea in World War I
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin Is Born - And So Began Modern Biology
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. Sign the Treaty of Canterbury, Paving the Way for the Chunnel
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal Vents Are Discovered
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Benchmarks: February 1962 and 1984: John Glenn and Bruce McCandless Make Space Flight History
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches Sweep Through Austrian Towns, Killing Dozens
Benchmarks: February 3, 1953: Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" Is Published, Opening a Window on the Underwater World for Millions
Benchmarks: February 4, 1962: Five Planets Align - But No End of the World
Benchmarks: February 5, 1931 and February 20, 1935: Antarctic Firsts for Women
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest Day of Fire Ever Recorded in Australia
Benchmarks: January 1, 1960: the Discovery of "Extinct Radioactivity" the Quest to Date the Elements That Formed the Solar System
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park Is Founded
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England Prohibits Alchemy
Benchmarks: January 23, 1960: Humans Reach the Deepest Point on Earth
Benchmarks: January 25, 1968: The Last Firefall: A Yosemite Tradition Flames Out
Benchmarks: January 3, 1961: Three Men Die in Nuclear Reactor Meltdown
Benchmarks: January 3, 1970: Lost City Meteorite Is Tracked and Recovered
Benchmarks: January 31, 1961: Ham the Chimpanzee, First Hominid in Space
Benchmarks: January 3–5, 1982: 18,000 Landslides Wreak Havoc on the San Francisco Bay Area
Benchmarks: July 1, 1912: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Officially Becomes the First of Its Kind in U.S.
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA Unraveled
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz Mission Launches Space Collaboration
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral Discovery Ends Meteor Crater Debate
Benchmarks: July 26, 1905: The Rising Salton Sea Swamps the Southern Pacific Railroad
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami Drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting Out for the Copper Country
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera Erupts
Benchmarks: June 15, 1991: Mount Pinatubo Erupts
Benchmarks: June 16, 1963 & June 18, 1983: Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride Become First and Third Women in Space
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga Burns
Benchmarks: June 30, 1972: Timekeepers Add First "Leap Second" to Clocks
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The Era of Aviation Launches With the First Balloon Flight
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" Heat Up
Benchmarks: March 11–13, 1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 Paralyzes New York City
Benchmarks: March 17, 1944: The Most Recent Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Benchmarks: March 18, 1925: Tri-State Twister Kills 695 People
Benchmarks: March 1913: The First Complete Geologic Timescale Is Published
Benchmarks: March 1961: Project Mohole Undertakes the First Deep-Ocean Drilling
Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Benchmarks: May 12, 1905: Andrew Carnegie Donates 'Dippy the Dino'
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake Devastates Western China
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains Earthquake
Benchmarks: May 18, 1952: Stonehenge's Age Solved With Carbon-14
Benchmarks: May 23, 1967: Space Weather Forecasters Avert War
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar Eclipse "Proves" Relativity
Benchmarks: May 3, 2003: New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain Falls
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown Flood Kills Thousands
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine Links the Geomagnetic and Sunspot Cycles
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The Deadly Eruption of Mount Pelée
Benchmarks: November 1, 1755: Earthquake Destroys Lisbon
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado Del Ruiz Eruption Triggers Deadly Lahars
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Is Established
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity Currents Snap Trans-Atlantic Cables
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" Published
Benchmarks: November 27, 1873: Red River Logjam Removed for Good
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 Dust Storm Injures Hundreds
Benchmarks: November 8, 2013: Super-Typhoon Haiyan Tests Philippines Warning Protocols
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a Cold War Ice Fortress Is Built
Benchmarks: October 10, 1913: Atlantic and Pacific Waters Meet in the Panama Canal
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War Begins, Fueled by Discovery of Gold
Benchmarks: October 13, 1947: A Disaster With Project Cirrus
Benchmarks: October 1904: Mineralogy Solves a Murder
Benchmarks: October 2, 1574: Dutch Unleash the Ocean as a Weapon of War
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The Deadliest Wildfire in American History Incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Benchmarks: October 9, 1963: The Vajont Landslide Kills 2,500 in Italy
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, Geologist Who Deciphered Banded Iron Formations
Benchmarks: September 1, 1957: Fossil Cycad National Monument Is Dissolved
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener Begins a Fateful Polar Expedition
Benchmarks: September 21, 1938: The Great New England Hurricane Strikes
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery Returns From the West
Benchmarks: September 23, 1933: the U.S. Oil Industry Arrives in Saudi Arabia
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew Sealed Inside Biosphere 2
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx Is Discovered and Described
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale Coal Mine Fire Kills 110, Igniting Reform
Benchmarks: September 8, 1900: Massive Hurricane Strikes Galveston, Texas
Benitoite: A Rare Gemstone
Conjunction Injunction: Recent and Future Planetary Alignments
Deadly Tornadoes
December 27, 1888: The Geological Society of America Is Founded
From Science to Science Fiction
Gain Some, Lose Some
January 26, 1905: The World's Largest Gem-Quality Diamond Is Unearthed
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Keeler's Legacy
March 23, 1821: Bauxite Discovered
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
November 10, 1934: Arizona Declares War Against California at Parker Dam
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Nuclear Fallout
October 31, 1992: Vacation Reverses Position on Galileo
Peak's Appeal - And Hazard - Endures Today
Public Improvements, Private Funding
Saturn's Rings: The Remains of an Icy Moon
Sauropod Skull Mystery
The First Dinner in a Beast
The Quake's Impact on Western Thinking
The Washington Monument's Apex
Beringia
A Long Layover on the Bering Land Bridge
Early Results
Message in a Bottle Gourd
The Thrill to Drill in the Chill
Bermuda
Getting There and Getting Around Bermuda
Travels in Geology: Navigating the Rocks, Reefs and Waters of Bermuda
Bhutan
Geoscience on Film: Innovation Meets Tradition for Earthquake Safety
Geoscience on Film: Soaking in Beautiful Bhutan
Big Bang
Geomedia: Books: To Tiktaalik and Beyond
High-Powered Simulation Tracks Evolution of Universe in Detail
The Big Turn-On
Big Data
Data-Driven Discovery Reveals Earth's Missing Minerals
Digitizing Earth: Developing a Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
Geologic Column: Data Security: Freezers, Floppies and Flash Drives
Recovery of 1960s Sea-Ice Satellite Images Wins Dark Data Contest
Rescuing Data From the Dark
Biodiesel
Breaking the Energy Barrier
Biodiversity
A Cambrian-Like Explosion of Mammals in the Mid-Jurassic
Dino Deaths Cleared the Way for Frogs
Downgrading the Great Dying
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" Is Only Half-Compelling
Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Subsurface Biodiversity
Meteorites Did Not Spark Ordovician Biodiversification
Biofuel
As Green as It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Biofuels and Food: Mutually Exclusive?
Breaking the Energy Barrier
GSA Meeting: Biofuels vs. Food - Developing Countries Suffer Most
Biogeochemistry
Abiotic Amino Acid Found in Subseafloor Rocks
Cruising the Atlantic to Trace Elemental Movements
Down to Earth With: Biogeochemist Stephen MacAvoy
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: An Encouraging Start, an Inauspicious End
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: The Art of Clean Sampling
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: The Final Chapter
Subseafloor Biosphere Extended to Greatest Depth Yet
Biology
Archaeologists Hit Pay Dirt in Medieval Latrines
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew Sealed Inside Biosphere 2
Counting 'Tree' Rings in Fish Skulls Provides Climate Clues
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea Biologist Stace Beaulieu
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" Is Only Half-Compelling
Life on Land 300 Million Years Earlier Than Thought
Microbes Care About Energy Efficiency
Neonicotinoids: Prominent Pesticides Escape Into the Environment
Six New Deep-Sea Species Discovered
Skate Eggs Found on Hydrothermal Vents
Stable Isotopes Offer Novel Methods of Disease Detection
Toad Behavior Linked to Climate Change
Two-Faced Space Worm Could Inform Regenerative Medicine
Biophysical Economics
Biophysical Economics: The Mississippi Delta as a Lens for Global Issues
Biosphere Ii
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew Sealed Inside Biosphere 2
Bird
A Terribly Low Voice for a New Terror Bird
An Asteroid Redirected Bird Evolution
Are Birds Dinosaurs? New Evidence Muddies the Picture
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx Is Discovered and Described
Bird Genomes Untangle Branches of Avian Family Tree
De-Evolving the Bird Beak
Earliest Bird-Like Lungs Found in China
Early Birds Quacked
Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia
First Fossilized Bird of Another Feather Found in Brazil
Hell Creek Formation Reveals a 'Chicken From Hell'
La Niña Could Set the Stage for Flu Pandemics
Oldest Birds Unearthed in China
Owl Pellets Bridge Ancient and Modern Ecosystems
Quoth the Feathered, Iridescent Microraptor, Nevermore
Seeds May Have Saved Bird-Like Dinosaurs From Extinction
Black Carbon
Aerosols Help Mitigate Ill Effects of Amazon Fires
Ice (Re)Cap: February 2016
Of Char and Carbon: The Story of a Buried Soil
Still in a Haze: What We Don't Know About Black Carbon
Black Hole
The Big Turn-On
Bleaching
Corals Find a Way to Adapt?
Blizzard
Can Snowstorms Be Categorized Like Hurricanes or Other Hazards?
Designing Snowflakes
Voices: If Global Warming Is Real, Why Is It Snowing in DC?
Blurbs
Bailing Through the Boulder Flood: One Neighborhood's Experience
Once a Digger, Always a Digger: Or, How I Learned to Stop Researching and Love Deadlines
Witnessing Geology in Action: A Rockfall in the Garden of the Gods
World War G: Zombies, Energy and the Geosciences
Bolide
Giant Dunes, Not Mega-Tsunami Deposits?
Bolivia
Colonial Mining Left Its Mark in Andean Ice Cores
Getting There and Getting Around Bolivia's Antiplano
Setting Off a Supervolcano
Travels in Geology: Sky-High Adventure on Bolivia's Altiplano
Bone
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur Fossils Lost at Sea in World War I
Did the First Humans Arrive in North America a Lot Earlier?
Earliest Primates Were Tree Dwellers
Gender Equity in Dino Bones
Growing Up Saber-Toothed: Strong From the Start
Mammoths May Have Suffered From Bone Disease
One-of-a-Kind Dinosaur Skull Goes Digital
Sauropod Skull Mystery
Book
Charting a Course Correction: A Review of Earth: The Operators' Manual
Comment: Understanding Earth in the Wider Sense of Science
Geologic Column: Geology for the People: Finding New Paths to Public Outreach
Geologic Column: Newspeak for Kids
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" Recounts the 1755 Lisbon Disaster
Geomedia: Books: 'FORE' Helps You Project the Future, With a Laugh
Geomedia: Books: A Brief History of Our Cosmic Origins
Geomedia: Books: A Changing Literary Climate
Geomedia: Books: Informative and Inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Geomedia: Books: Revisiting the Galileo Affair
Geomedia: Books: Science in Fiction
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
New Map of Arctic Geology Published
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices From the Moon"
Books
Down to Earth With: Award-Winning Sci-Fi Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Geologic Column: Alternative History: Earth in a Funhouse Mirror
Geomedia: Books: "Aerial Geology": A Stunning and Informative Addition to Any Coffee Table
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" Is Only Half-Compelling
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" Shares Copper Country Geoheritage
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" Spotlights Seismic Risk
Geomedia: Books: A Witty Look at "The Ends of the World"
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Geomedia: Books: Earth Faces Challenges, but Are They Tipping Points?
Geomedia: Books: Exploring "The Worst of Times"
Geomedia: Books: Exploring Space Is Risky Business
Geomedia: Books: Iceland's Eruption of Biblical Proportions Explored in 'Island on Fire'
Geomedia: Books: Looking at the World Anew in "The Planet Remade"
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to Protect Crop Diversity
Geomedia: Books: Rediscovering the Science Behind Thoreau's 'Walden'
Geomedia: Books: Solar Eclipses Past, Present and Future
Geomedia: Books: The Danger of Anti-Data Ideologies Is Explored in 'Denying Science'
Geomedia: Books: To Tiktaalik and Beyond
Geomedia: Books: Vivid Anecdotes Abound in "Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens"
Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Boundary Faults
Tackling "Boundary Faults" Across the Alaska-Yukon Border: A Report From the Field
Bp
Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Subsurface Biodiversity
Methane Lingered After Gulf Blowout
Voices: Italian Seismologists: What Should They Have Said?
Water Wise: An Oil Plume at Depth, and NOAA vs. the White House
Brazil
Brazil Says 'No Thanks' to OPEC
First Fossilized Bird of Another Feather Found in Brazil
South American Fossils Offer Revised View of Gondwana Assembly
Budget
2012 Budget Requests a Mixed Bag for Science
Blogging on EARTH: Webb Space Telescope Ensnared in Political Drama
FY 2010 Budget Cuts Yucca, Oil and Gas Programs
GM, Ford, Chrysler CEOs May Carpool to Capitol
Hazardous Living: Atlantis' Final Countdown
VA Geologists Axed Due to Budget Crunch
Voices: Austerity Axes Geological Survey in Greece
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
Burgess Shale
Burgess Shale Fossil Find Offers Glimpse of Early Parenting
Did Mud Volcanoes Set the Stage for Burgess Shale Fossils?
Hallucigenia Finally Finds a Home
Mineral Clue to Finding Perfectly Preserved Fossils?
New Burgess Shale Fossil Site Found in Canada's Kootenay National Park
Re-Examining the Burgess Shale
Calcite
Earthworms Churn Out Calcite Crystals
Growth Rings in Rocks Reveal Past Climate
Calendar
Geologic Column: "Collect Rocks Day" Offers Opportunity for Inspiration
Geologic Column: Celebrating Old Rock Day
Geologic Column: Light Amid the Darkness: Celebrations During the Winter Solstice
Geologic Column: Musings on the Autumn Equinox
Geologic Column: New Year's as We Know It Is New
Geologic Column: Pie on Pi Day, and Einstein's Lesser-Known Legacy
Geologic Column: Rebirth on the Vernal Equinox
Geologic Column: The Beginning of "Time" as We Know It
Geologic Column: The Dog Days of July
California
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits Are Described
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park Is Founded
Benchmarks: July 26, 1905: The Rising Salton Sea Swamps the Southern Pacific Railroad
Benitoite: A Rare Gemstone
California Drought Stops Slow-Moving Landslides
California Drying Out
California's Big Trees Dying of Thirst
California: A Profusion of Drought Restrictions With Varying Results
Californians Prepare for the Big One
Comment: After a Disaster, Should You Gamble on Returning? Paradise Edition
Comment: Atmospheric Rivers Increase Water Supply in California — But Only to a Point
Comment: Remarkable Geology Sets New Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Apart
Down to Earth With: Coastal Scientist Gary Griggs
Down to Earth With: Tanya Atwater
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
El Nino "Flavors" Affect California Rainfall
Forecasting California's Earthquake Hazard
Geologic Column: Jack and Jill: The Sequel
Geologic Column: Tarnish on the Golden State
Geomedia: Books: 'Floodpath' Recounts the Deadly Collapse of California's St. Francis Dam
Geomedia: California's Climatic Catastrophes Detailed in "The West Without Water"
Humans Causing California's Mountains to Grow
Inside the Inferno: How Large Firenadoes Form
Jump-Starting Earthquake Insurance Uptake in California
Nineteenth-Century Cows Muddied Southern California Continental Shelf
November 10, 1934: Arizona Declares War Against California at Parker Dam
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Ocean Acidification Worsens Overnight Along California Coast
Protracted Drought Threatens California Levees
Raising California's Sinking Delta
Revealing Potential Tsunami Inundation on California Coast
Robotic Mussels Track Temperature Change
Santa Ana Winds Get a Fiery Boost From the Stratosphere
Sierra Nevada Snowpack Lowest in 500 Years
Sunny Southern California Burns, Missing Its Coastal Clouds
Taking the Surprise Out of Sneaker Waves
The Most Dangerous Fault in America
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A Volcanic Wonderland
Voices: Wildfires and Debris Flows: Federal Mud
Water Weight and Surface Rebound Trigger Small Quakes in California
When Wildfires Attack: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Where Will the San Andreas Fault Rupture Next?
Cambrian
Did a Geographic Shift Trigger the Cambrian Explosion?
Did Tidal Zone Trilobites Lead the Way Onto Land?
Getting There and Getting Around the Burgess Shale
Oldest-Known Skeletal Animals Found
Precambrian Rumblings of the Cambrian Explosion
Re-Examining the Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale Bestseller
Travels in Geology: Famous Fossils and Spectacular Scenery at British Columbia's Burgess Shale
Canada
Closing a Gap in the Tetrapod Fossil Record
Getting There and Getting Around the Burgess Shale
Getting There and Getting Around Tumbler Ridge
Getting There and Getting Around Vancouver
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Reclaiming Alberta's Oil Sands Mines
Siwash Rock as an Urban Geoheritage Icon
Tackling "Boundary Faults" Across the Alaska-Yukon Border: A Report From the Field
The Burgess Shale Bestseller
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's Vanished Amazon
Toad Behavior Linked to Climate Change
Travels in Geology: Famous Fossils and Spectacular Scenery at British Columbia's Burgess Shale
Travels in Geology: From Sea to Sky in British Columbia
Travels in Geology: Stonehammer Geopark: A Billion Years of Stories
Travels in Geology: The Geological Riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Travels in Geology: Tumbler Ridge: Finding Dinosaurs — And Their Predecessors and Descendants — In Northeastern British Columbia
Cancer
Air Pollutants From "Megacities" a Growing Problem
Belugas, Climate, Mercury and Cancer
Dangerous Dust: Erionite - An Asbestos-Like Mineral Causing a Cancer Epidemic in Turkey - Is Found in at Least 13 States
Extinction-Era Coal Linked to Chinese Cancer Epidemic
Canyon
Small Floods Can Carve Big Canyons
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Pacific Northwest's Heavenly Hells Canyon
Canyonlands
Canyonlands National Park: The Southwest's Best-Kept Secret
Capitol Hill
Congress Lets Bans on Outer Continental Shelf Drilling Expire
Carbon
Arctic Soils Retain More Carbon
Buckyballs Behind Milky Way Mystery
Capturing Carbon From Coal Plants: Is It Feasible?
Carbon Emissions Spike When Continents Rift
Cruising the Atlantic to Trace Elemental Movements
Down to Earth With: James White
Early Spring Thaw Triggers Arctic Greenhouse Gas Release
Greening the Friendly Skies
Limestone Reservoirs Boost Volcanic Carbon Emissions
Map Reveals Height of the World's Forests
Methane Emissions Offset Some Blue Carbon Burial Benefits
Ocean Oxygen Levels Control Seafloor Carbon Burial
One-Two Punch of Past Warming May Hold Lessons
Shell-Shocked: How Different Creatures Deal With an Acidifying Ocean
Source Code: The Methane Race
Still in a Haze: What We Don't Know About Black Carbon
Carbon 14
Benchmarks: May 18, 1952: Stonehenge's Age Solved With Carbon-14
Fossil Fuels Diluting Atmospheric Radiocarbon
Frosted Forams Foil Radiocarbon Dating
Nuclear Fallout
Timing of Famed "Millennium Eruption" Pinpointed
Carbon Capture and Storage
Capturing Carbon From Coal Plants: Is It Feasible?
DOE Promises $2.4 Billion for Clean Coal
Nanoscale Carbon Capture
Voices: Must We Capture and Store Carbon From Coal to Meet Emission-Reduction Targets?
Carbon Dioxide
Arctic Soils Retain More Carbon
Blogging on EARTH: A Proposed Twist on Carbon Trades at AGU
Burying the Sky: Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Rock
Capturing Carbon From Coal Plants: Is It Feasible?
Carbon and the City: Tracking Emissions From Megacities
Coal Formation Nearly Froze Earth
Comment: How Long Have Humans Been Altering Earth's Climate?
Comment: Volcanic Versus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide: The Missing Science
DOE Promises $2.4 Billion for Clean Coal
Dry Rivers Secretly Star in Carbon Cycle
Greening the Friendly Skies
Hot as Hell: Firefighting Foam Heats Up Coal Fire Debate in Centralia, Pa.
Iron Fertilization Foiled by "Shrimp"
Nanoscale Carbon Capture
New Satellite Maps Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks in High Definition
Opalescent Pools Shimmer Beneath Santorini
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Red Planet Roundup: June 2017
Red Planet Roundup: May 2016
Removing Predators Increases Carbon Emissions
Rising Carbon Dioxide May Raise Risk of Nutrient Deficiencies in Humans
Scripps Launches Twitter Carbon Dioxide-Meter
Shell-Shocked: How Different Creatures Deal With an Acidifying Ocean
Sipping Carbon-Neutral Fuel From the Atmosphere
Southern Ocean Is Absorbing Less Carbon
Still in a Haze: What We Don't Know About Black Carbon
Storing CO2 in Fizzy Water Underground
Sulfides in Thawing Permafrost Responsible for Carbon Dioxide Release
Surfactants Slow Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Uptake
Swapping One Greenhouse Gas for Another
The Rising Global Interest in Coal Fires
Voices: Must We Capture and Store Carbon From Coal to Meet Emission-Reduction Targets?
Carbon Emissions
Carbon Emissions Spike When Continents Rift
Delusions of Grandeur in Building a Low-Carbon Future
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Volcanism Spiked Global Temps During Past Hothouse
Carbon Monoxide
The Rising Global Interest in Coal Fires
Carbon Sequestration
Burying the Sky: Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Rock
Down to Earth With: Conservation Engineer Emily Pidgeon
Giant Icebergs Spur Carbon Storage in Southern Ocean
Lab-Grown Magnesite a Boon for Carbon Sequestration?
Nanoscale Carbon Capture
Raising California's Sinking Delta
Storing CO2 in Fizzy Water Underground
Carbon Tax
Voices: Harassment of Scientists Reaches a Fever Pitch
Carbon Trading
Blogging on EARTH: A Proposed Twist on Carbon Trades at AGU
Carbonate
Fish Guts Can Alter Ocean's Chemistry
Frosted Forams Foil Radiocarbon Dating
Lab-Grown Magnesite a Boon for Carbon Sequestration?
Microbes Influence Ooid Formation
Career Opportunities
Geologic Column: You Gotta Have a Plan
Careers
Highlights of 2011: Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, but Not Enough People to Fill Them
Caribbean
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The Deadly Eruption of Mount Pelée
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
Readying the Caribbean for the Next Big Wave
Cars
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Cartography
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
Cascades
AGU: Mount St. Helens Has Gone Back to Sleep
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
Geologic Column: A Cautionary Tale About "Sleeping" Natural Hazards
Pacific Northwest Earthquake Threat Heightened?
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A Volcanic Wonderland
Cascadia
Going With the Flow: Mapping the Mantle Under the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Scientists Demonstrate Strengths and Shortcomings of Method for Determining Ancient Earthquake Size
Unlocking the Cascadia Subduction Zone's Secrets: Peering Into Recent Research and Findings
Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea: Negotiation Support System
Gaming the System in the Caspian Sea: Can Game Theory Solve a Decades-Old Dispute?
Cassini
Cassini's Legacy After Two Decades
Heating Up Enceladus' Ice-Covered Ocean
New Map of Titan Shows Moon's Hidden Surface
Cave
Ancient Cave Art Discovered in Indonesia
Ancient Skeleton Found in Underwater Cave Reveals DNA of Earliest Americans
Ancient Storms Recorded in Yucatán Cave
Bats and White-Nose Syndrome = VA Cavers, Please Stay Out
Cave Dripwater Records Wildfires
Cave Paintings Confirm Mystery European Bison Species
Chinese Cave Art Reveals Record of Climate Change
Down to Earth With: Cave Microbiologist Hazel Barton
Down to Earth With: Cave Scientist and Paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and Underground Astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Down to Earth With: Underwater Cave Explorer Jill Heinerth
Geologic Column: Snow Globes, Light Shows and T-Shirts
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's Aquifers With Filmmaker Tom Fitz
Getting There and Getting Around in Cuba
How to Become a Cave Diver
Mysterious Disease Sounds the Death Knell for Bats
New Dates Place Spanish Cave Art as Oldest in Europe
Pairing Geoheritage and Economic Development: China's Guizhou Province Offers a Modern Model
Southeastern Caves Shuttered to Slow the Spread of Bat-Killing Disease
Transylvanian Ice Cave Reveals European Winter Climate Record
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's Hidden Freshwater Gems
Travels in Geology: Navigating the Rocks, Reefs and Waters of Bermuda
Travels in Geology: Underground Awe in France: The Caves of the Causses
World's Longest Underwater Cave Found in Mexico
Cdc
Gold, Lead and Death in Nigeria
Cement
Blogging on EARTH: New Lessons From Antiquity, This Time on Construction
Centralia
Hot as Hell: Firefighting Foam Heats Up Coal Fire Debate in Centralia, Pa.
Cepheid Variable
North Star Loses Mass but Still Shines Bright
Ceres
And Then There Was One: Ceres' Disappearing Ice Volcanoes
Ceres: A Bright Spot in the Asteroid Belt
Undressing Vesta
Cern
The Big Turn-On
Cetaceans
Of Sounds and Cetaceans: Quieting a Noisy Underwater World
Chaco
Chaco Canyon: Garden of Eden or Salty-Soiled Pilgrimage Site?
Charcoal
Trial by Fire
Charles Darwin
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" Published
Chasma Boreale
A Martian Icecap, Now in 3-D
Chemistry
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England Prohibits Alchemy
Lead-Up to Icelandic Earthquakes Seen in Groundwater Chemistry
Pharmaceuticals in Urban Sediments Reveal Wastewater Treatment Effectiveness
Radium Levels Suggest Arctic Ocean Chemistry Is Changing
Science and Soccer: They're Both Child's Play
Chernobyl
Benchmarks: April 26, 1986: Nuclear Explosion at Chernobyl
Flames Fan Lasting Fallout From Chernobyl
Gauging Nuclear Disasters
Chesapeake Bay
Ancient Seawater Found in Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
The Chesapeake Bay Gets Some Good News
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, From Impact Craters to Executive Orders
Chevron
Giant Dunes, Not Mega-Tsunami Deposits?
Chicxulub
Acid Oceans Followed Chicxulub Impact
Africa's Impact Is One That Even the Dinosaurs Would Have Seen Coming
Fossil Leaves Reveal Effect of "Impact Winter"
Travels in Geology: Journeying Through Cuba's Geology and Culture
Chile
A History of "Big Ones"
Chaitén's Vigorous Volcanic History Revealed
Chile Quake/Tsunami News Coverage: The Bad and the Good
Chile's Quake Larger but Less Destructive Than Haiti's
Earliest Americans Were Wide-Ranging Wanderers
Easter Island Inhabitants Drank Brackish Water to Survive
Getting There and Getting Around Patagonia
Getting There and Getting Around Patagonia
Hidden Double Earthquake Spells Trouble for Tsunami-Warning Systems
Residual Strain Explains Later Quakes
Small Tremor Could Have Triggered Big Chilean Quake
Subducting Seamounts Blocked a Big Quake in Chile
Transitional Chilesaurus Fills Gap Between Major Dinosaur Groups
Travels in Geology: Exploring an Icon of Patagonia: Chile's Torres Del Paine National Park
Travels in Geology: Patagonia: The Ends of the Earth
Whirling "Gravel Devils" Show Wind Can Carry More Than Just Sand
Chimpanzee
Benchmarks: January 31, 1961: Ham the Chimpanzee, First Hominid in Space
Humans Evolved Early to Be More Efficient Sleepers
China
A Story in the Sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" May Have Been Real
Acid Rain Triggered Deadly Chinese Landslide
Arsenic Levels in China May Be Predicted by Modeling
Asia's Hazardous Month
Asymmetrical Fossil Feathers Fill in Timeline of Flight
Baby Louie Dinosaur Fossil Gets a Formal Name
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake Devastates Western China
China Quake Kills at Least 400
China's Red Deer Cave People May Have Survived Until the Last Ice Age
Chinese Air Pollution Clears Up Mystery of London's 1952 Hazardous Haze
Chinese Cave Art Reveals Record of Climate Change
Dinosaurs Used the Same Nests Repeatedly
Discovered: One of the Last-Surviving Asian Dinosaurs
Down to Earth With: Hydrogeologist Shemin Ge
Dust Influences Pollution Levels in Eastern China
Earliest Bird-Like Lungs Found in China
Earth's First Footprints
Extinct Gibbon Found in Chinese Tomb
Geologic Column: My China Syndrome
Hammerhead Herbivore Pioneered Vegetarianism in Triassic Seas
How to Hide a Dinosaur
Is There Really a Minerals Crisis?
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Longmenshan Fault Zone in the Spotlight After Two Major Quakes in Five Years
Mini-T. Rex Fossil Found in China
Monsoon Shifts Shaped Early Chinese Cultures
Oldest Birds Unearthed in China
Pairing Geoheritage and Economic Development: China's Guizhou Province Offers a Modern Model
Pompeii-Like Eruption Fossilized Dinosaurs in Death Poses
Researchers Profile Magma Chamber Beneath North Korean Volcano
Secondary Aerosols a Primary Cause of Chinese Smog
Soft-Bodied Fossils Cast in Fool's Gold
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
Two New Species Fill Gap in Dinosaur Family Tree
Christchurch
Cantabrians Keep Humor in the Hardship
Don't Forget About the Christchurch Earthquake: Lessons Learned From Disaster
Highlights of 2011: New Zealand: After 8,000 Aftershocks, When Will It Stop?
Travels in Geology: Glacial Pools to Sea Caves: a Tour of New Zealand's South Island
Chukotka
Early Results
The Thrill to Drill in the Chill
Cinnabar
The Long Legacy of Peru's "Mine of Death"
Circulation
A New — And More Toxic — Normal? Harmful Algal Blooms Find New Habitats in Changing Oceans
Atmosphere, More Than Ocean, Might Drive Atlantic Climate Variation
Disrupting the Deep: Ocean Warming Reaches the Abyss
How the Arctic Became Salty
Hydrogen Chloride on the Rise in Northern Hemisphere Skies
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2017
Ocean Circulation Change Suffocating Gulf of St. Lawrence
Ocean Waves Explain Which La Niña Events Will Linger
Southbound Icebergs Off the Hook for Ice-Age Cooling
Voyage to the Plastic Vortex
Cities
Urban Geology: An Emerging Discipline in an Increasingly Urbanized World
Citizen Science
An Aurora Named Steve
Changing the Landscape: Geoscientists Embrace 3-D Printing
Citizen Science (And Art)
Desktop Seismology: How a Maker-Inspired Device Is Changing Seismic Monitoring
Geomedia: Apps: Join the Crowd: Introducing a New Generation of Geo-Apps
People's Earthquake Reports Influenced More by Locomotion Than Location
The Rise of Community Remote Sensing
Using Citizens in Science Research
Civil War
Geologic Column: Geography as Destiny: How Glaciation Led to the Civil War
Geology Shaped Outcomes of Civil War Battles
Gettysburg Rocks Tell Battlefield Tales
Lay of the Land: Terrain's Toll on the U.S. Civil War
Clathrate
USGS Finds Giant Gas Hydrate Deposits on North Slope
Clay
Antibacterial Clays Could Fight Superbugs
Down to Earth With: Clay Mineralogist Warren Huff
Slow-Moving Slides May Be Triggered by Cold Temperatures
Swelling Clay Slows Landslides
Cleanup
New York's Dirty Secret: The Effort to Clean Up America's Largest Oil Spill
Science and Soccer: They're Both Child's Play
The Quicker Oil Picker Upper
Cleopatra
Museums: Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt
Cli-Fi
Geomedia: Books: A Changing Literary Climate
Climate
A Day Without Glory
A Martian Icecap, Now in 3-D
Are North Atlantic Storm Tracks Shifting South?
Atmosphere, More Than Ocean, Might Drive Atlantic Climate Variation
Blogging on EARTH: "Climategate" Scientist Tells His Side
Blogging on EARTH: Climate Change Threatens Virginia's Vacation Spots
Capturing Carbon From Coal Plants: Is It Feasible?
Cave Dripwater Records Wildfires
Charting 500 Years of Mississippi Floods
Climate Impacting a Few of Our Favorite Foodstuffs
Cloud Feedbacks Drive Climate Sensitivity
Colorado River Basin Sees Severe Groundwater Depletion
Comment: How Long Have Humans Been Altering Earth's Climate?
Comment: The Changing Shape of Local Climates
Crippling Heat Stress Projected by Midcentury in Densely Populated Regions
Crystal Ball EARTH: Policy: A Tale of Two Years
Deforestation Hangs Climate Out to Dry
Did a Massive Eruption Spur Christianity in Iceland?
Did Early Agriculture Knock the Climate Off Track?
Dividing Line: The Past, Present and Future of the 100th Meridian
Double-Dip La Nina Blamed for Colorado's Dry Winter
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
Earth: The Movie (Not the Magazine)
El Niño Gets Animated
End of Ice Age May Have Been Too Wet for Megafauna
Evidence of Devastating Drought Found Beneath the Dead Sea
Fats on Neolithic Pottery Pinpoint Climate Cooling Event
Geomedia: Books: The Earth System Symphony
Grapes Reveal Impacts of Sulfur-Rich Samalas Eruption on 13th-Century Climate
Hazardous Living: Climategate Climatologists Cleared of Wrongdoing
Highlights of 2012: Climate 2012 - A Window Into What to Expect for 2013 and Beyond?
Hot Enough for Ya? Investigating Climate Change in "Heat"
Humans, Megafauna Coexisted in Patagonia Before Extinction
Hurricanes Suppressed by Air Pollutants
Iron Fertilization Foiled by "Shrimp"
Is It Time to Invest in Entrepreneurial Geoengineering?
Lake Sediments Suggest Mild Volcanic Winter After Massive Toba Eruption
Late Antique Little Ice Age Underpinned Unrest and Upheaval in Europe and Asia
Less-Developed Countries With High Climate Risk Need Better Access to Weather and Climate Data
Local Coastal Impacts Underestimated From Sea-Level Rise
Massive Dust Storm Caused by Climate, Not Conflict
Monsoon Shifts Shaped Early Chinese Cultures
Moving Cars Could Help Gauge Rainfall
Mystery Impact May Have Kicked Off Dramatic Warming Event
New Climate Record Challenges Ideas About Recent Glaciations
New Global Volcanic Emissions Map Debuts
No Laughing Matter: Ocean Nitrous Oxide Emissions Greater Than Thought
North Sea Uplift Caused Jurassic Cooling Event
Northeast and Midwest U.S. Projected to Warm Faster Than National Average
Of Temperature and Tone: Has Climate Shaped Human Languages?
Persistent Pacific Warmth Overshadows El Niño
Platinum May Point to Impact Theory for Younger Dryas
Raindrop Study Splashes Old Assumptions
Scientists Look Wider and Deeper to Predict the Next El Nino
Shrinking Snowpack Projected in Western U.S. as Rain-Snow Boundary Climbs Higher
Solar Flare Calibration Reveals Past Patterns of Volcanism and Cooling
Sulfides in Thawing Permafrost Responsible for Carbon Dioxide Release
Sunny Southern California Burns, Missing Its Coastal Clouds
Swapping One Greenhouse Gas for Another
Termites and Climate Change: Here, There and Everywhere?
The Past Is Key to the Future: Historical Observations Strengthen Modern Science
Tiny Ocean Bacteria Could Play Big Role in Climate
To Cool the Planet, Volcanoes of the Future Will Need More Firepower
Transylvanian Ice Cave Reveals European Winter Climate Record
Twentieth-Century Warming Linked to Pacific Trade Winds
Voices: Geologists on the Wrong Side of the Law
Volcanic Ash Feed Southern Ocean Plankton
Warm River Water Melted Arctic Sea Ice
Watch Out Houston, Ike Is Coming
Wedge Approach Proposed to Lower Water Stress
When More Humidity Means Less Water
Why Red Leaves Remain Elusive in Europe
Climate Change
A Day Without Glory
A Hurricane by Any Other Name: How Sandy Changed the Way We Issue Storm Warnings
AGU: Climate Science Report Questions Likelihood of Abrupt Climate Change
AGU: How Scientists Should Talk Climate Change
Ancient Plankton Communities Stressed Before Mass Extinction
Arctic Soils Retain More Carbon
Arctic Warming Causes Siberian Cooling
Bare Earth Elements: GSA Highlights, Day 1
Blogging on EARTH: "Climategate" Scientist Tells His Side
Blogging on EARTH: A Proposed Twist on Carbon Trades at AGU
Blogging on EARTH: Climate Change Threatens Virginia's Vacation Spots
Blogging on EARTH: Second Dispatches From EGU
Blogging on EARTH: Spring Has Sprung, at Least in Some Places
Broadening Ocean Current Could Carry Less Heat Poleward With Climate Change
Burying the Sky: Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Rock
Charting a Course Correction: A Review of Earth: The Operators' Manual
Chinese Cave Art Reveals Record of Climate Change
Climate, Terroir, and Wine: What Matters Most in Producing a Great Wine?
Coastal Cities Will See Regular Flooding
Comment: Arctic Warming and Midlatitude Weather: Is There a Connection?
Comment: Crazy Times in the Arctic
Comment: Energy 360: Let Science Speak, Not Agendas
Comment: How 'Frankenstein' Prevents Us From Tackling Climate Change
Comment: IPCC Faces Challenges in Communicating Climate Science
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or Premature Conclusion? Examining the Ethical Implications of Naming a New Epoch
Comment: The Changing Shape of Local Climates
Comment: The Search for Clarity on Climate Change
Comment: Volcanic Versus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide: The Missing Science
Comment: Why Is It So Hard to Teach Climate Change?
Comment: Will We Eliminate Earth's Ice-Age Cycle?
Corals Find a Way to Adapt?
Counting 'Tree' Rings in Fish Skulls Provides Climate Clues
Delusions of Grandeur in Building a Low-Carbon Future
Denying Sea-Level Rise: How 100 Centimeters Divided the State of North Carolina
Down to Earth With: Award-Winning Sci-Fi Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Down to Earth With: Coastal Scientist Gary Griggs
Down to Earth With: Conservation Engineer Emily Pidgeon
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Down to Earth With: James White
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Drought Outlook Indicates Further Problems in Plains and West
Dry Rivers Secretly Star in Carbon Cycle
Endangered Snow: How Climate Change Threatens West Coast Water Supplies
Environmental Changes Contributed to Mediterranean Cultural Crisis
European Mammals Will Struggle Under Climate Change
Five Outstanding Questions in Earth Science
For Cloud Formation, a Little Aerosol Goes a Long Way
Geomedia: Books: A Changing Literary Climate
Geomedia: Books: Earth Faces Challenges, but Are They Tipping Points?
Geomedia: California's Climatic Catastrophes Detailed in "The West Without Water"
Glaciers Present a Complicated Tale
Hazardous Living: Climategate Climatologists Cleared of Wrongdoing
Highlights of 2010: Definitive Statements: A New Trend?
How to Feed 11 Billion People: Addressing the 21st Century's Biggest Challenge
Humans Are Influencing Some Extreme Weather Events, but Not All
Hurricanes Suppressed by Air Pollutants
IceGoat: The Next Generation
Is It Time to Invest in Entrepreneurial Geoengineering?
Link Between Volcanoes and Drought Cools Geoengineering Prospects
Local Coastal Impacts Underestimated From Sea-Level Rise
Maldives' Residents Looking for a New Patch of Land
Map Provides Clues to Natural Protection of U.S. Coastal Communities
Marine Animals Have Been Migrating for Millions of Years
Montreal Protocol Affects More Than Just Ozone
More Than a Nuisance: Over Time, Small Floods Cost More Than Extreme Events
More Warming May Mean More Lightning
Mountaintops Get Less Lonely for Alpine Plants
Nanoscale Carbon Capture
Ocean Acidification Worsens Overnight Along California Coast
On the Web: Ka-Pow! Superhero Short Films Get Kids Thinking About Climate Change
One-Two Punch of Past Warming May Hold Lessons
Parasites Spread Across the Arctic Under the 'New Normal'
Past Penguin Populations Not Dependent on Ice Extent
Pentagon Report Calls for Military to Prepare for Climate Change
Piecing Together the Big Picture of Coral Reef Health
Pliocene Tropical Oceans Were Warmer After All
Reading the Ridges: Are Climate and the Seafloor Connected?
Robotic Mussels Track Temperature Change
Science Denialism: The Problem That Just Won't Go Away
Scientists Go to Extremes to Monitor Arctic Permafrost Loss
Scripps Launches Twitter Carbon Dioxide-Meter
Sea-Level Rise a Risk for Millions in the United States
Seasonal Ice-Cover Reduction Throughout Arctic Waters Mapped
Shell-Shocked: How Different Creatures Deal With an Acidifying Ocean
Smokier U.S. West as Climate Changes
Social Trends and Shifting Climates Had Complex Effects in Medieval Italy
Southern Ocean Is Absorbing Less Carbon
Still in a Haze: What We Don't Know About Black Carbon
Storing CO2 in Fizzy Water Underground
Subarctic Lakes Belch More Methane on Brighter Days
Swapping One Greenhouse Gas for Another
Termites and Climate Change: Here, There and Everywhere?
The Thrill to Drill in the Chill
Toad Behavior Linked to Climate Change
Travels in Geology: Antarctica: Following in the Footsteps of Giants
U.S. Navy Navigates a Sea Change in the Arctic
Underwater WiFi? Rising Sea Levels Threaten Physical Internet
Voices: Climate Change and Civil Conflict: New Clues From El Nino
Voices: Defending Science: The Link Between Creationism and Climate Change
Voices: Humans at High Temperatures
Voices: If Global Warming Is Real, Why Is It Snowing in DC?
Voices: Making Tough Decisions in a Changing Climate
Volcanoes Sparked - And Prolonged - The Little Ice Age
What Drives Hot Spots of Sea-Level Rise?
What Makes a Disaster? Does This Blizzard Count?
White House Climate Report: U.S. Changes Already Apparent
World War G: Zombies, Energy and the Geosciences
Climate Fiction
Geomedia: Books: A Changing Literary Climate
Climategate
Hazardous Living: Climategate Climatologists Cleared of Wrongdoing
Voices: Geologists on the Wrong Side of the Law
Voices: Harassment of Scientists Reaches a Fever Pitch
Climatologist
Hazardous Living: Climategate Climatologists Cleared of Wrongdoing
Voices: Harassment of Scientists Reaches a Fever Pitch
Climbing
Down to Earth With: John 'Jack' Reed Jr.
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's First Park Geologist Greg Stock
Geomedia: Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival Is Geologic Showcase
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Shasta
Travels in Geology: Rocks and Climbing at Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Clintonville
Blogging on EARTH: Wisconsin's Microquake Mystery
Cloud
AGU: Colorado Ski Industry Owes Great Salt Lake Thank You Note
Cloud Feedbacks Drive Climate Sensitivity
Clouds Can Form Without Particles
For Cloud Formation, a Little Aerosol Goes a Long Way
From Silver to Snow: Full Cloud Seeding Cycle Observed
Lollipop-Shaped Ice Found in Clouds
Mountains May Cause Huge Waves in Venusian Clouds
New Cloud Types Recognized
Red Planet Roundup: February 2017
Clouds
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Sunny Southern California Burns, Missing Its Coastal Clouds
Ups and Downs of Potassium Feldspar May Play Role in Clouds and Climate
Clovis
Down to Earth With: Molecular Biologist Sarah L. Anzick
Speartips Point at South-to-North Clovis Dispersal
The First Americans: How and When Were the Americas Populated?
Underwater Archaeology Reveals Pre-Clovis People Butchered Mastodon in Florida
Co2
Storing CO2 in Fizzy Water Underground
Coal
A Dirty Secret - China's Greatest Import: Carbon Emissions
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale Coal Mine Fire Kills 110, Igniting Reform
Capturing Carbon From Coal Plants: Is It Feasible?
Coal Formation Nearly Froze Earth
Coal-to-Liquids: Can Fuel Made From Coal Replace Gasoline?
DOE Promises $2.4 Billion for Clean Coal
Energy Mission: "Kilowatt Ours"
Extinction-Era Coal Linked to Chinese Cancer Epidemic
Further Reading and International Collaborations
Hot as Hell: Firefighting Foam Heats Up Coal Fire Debate in Centralia, Pa.
Lack of Fungi Did Not Lead to Copious Carboniferous Coal
Mining for Iron Oxides in Coal Mine Sludge
The Rising Global Interest in Coal Fires
Trash-to-Treasure: Turning Nonrecycled Waste Into Low-Carbon Fuel
Unexpected Nanoparticles Trace Coal Pollution
Voices: Must We Capture and Store Carbon From Coal to Meet Emission-Reduction Targets?
Voices: Natural Gas Can Lead the Way
West Virginia Coal: Dirty Water, Dirtier Politics - But Will There Be a Cleaner Future?
Who Deals With Coal Fires?
Cold-Blooded
Dinosaurs' Active Lifestyles Suggest They Were Warm-Blooded
Colombia
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado Del Ruiz Eruption Triggers Deadly Lahars
Slab Tear Explains Perplexing Colombian Earthquake Activity
Colorado
2013 Front Range Flooding: An Ecological Perspective
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross Is Found, Photographed and Mapped
Disaster Strikes Along Colorado's Front Range
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Getting There and Getting Around Denver
Getting There and Getting Around Grand Junction, Colorado
Getting There and Getting Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Making Tracks Through the Dinosaur Diamond
Slumgullion: Colorado's Natural 'Lab' Offers Insights Into Landslides Worldwide
The Snowmastodon Project: Mammoths and Mastodons Lived the High Life in Colorado
Travels in Geology: A Tale of Two Rivers: Grand Junction, Colorado
Travels in Geology: Discovering Denver's Dinosaurs
Travels in Geology: Precipitous Peaks and Dunes in Colorado
Travels in Geology: Roof of the Rockies: Trail Ridge Road
Colorado Flood
2013 Front Range Flooding: An Ecological Perspective
Disaster Strikes Along Colorado's Front Range
When Water, Gravity and Geology Collide: Firsthand Observations of the Impacts of the 2013 Colorado Floods
Colorado Plateau
Canyonlands National Park: The Southwest's Best-Kept Secret
Down to Earth With: Mountain Biking Geologist Kurt Refsnider
Colorado River
Benchmarks: July 26, 1905: The Rising Salton Sea Swamps the Southern Pacific Railroad
November 10, 1934: Arizona Declares War Against California at Parker Dam
Releasing a Flood of Controversy on the Colorado River
Return of the Dust Bowl
Travels in Geology: A Tale of Two Rivers: Grand Junction, Colorado
Colored
Dinosaurs' True Colors Revealed
Columbia
Earthworms Build Big Mounds to Escape Floodwaters
Comet
Comet ISON Still Intrigues and Inspires, Even After Its Demise
Comet Water Unlike Earth's
It's an Asteroid, No Wait, a Comet, No Wait…
Philae: Achievement and Disappointment
Rosetta Mission Ends With a Bang: But the Discoveries Will Continue
Rosetta Spies Cometary Sinkholes
Rosetta's Journey
Rosetta: Off to Decipher a Comet's Secrets
What's in a Name: Rosetta, Philae, and 67P?
Comment
A Dirty Secret - China's Greatest Import: Carbon Emissions
Comment: A Moving Target: What You Need to Know About Drone Regulations
Comment: A Pitch to Study BREW: The Beer-Renewable Energy-Water Nexus
Comment: After a Disaster, Should You Gamble on Returning? Paradise Edition
Comment: Arctic Warming and Midlatitude Weather: Is There a Connection?
Comment: Assessing the Threat From Massive Rock Slope Failures in the Norwegian Fjordlands
Comment: Atmospheric Rivers Increase Water Supply in California — But Only to a Point
Comment: Building Sanctuaries to Increase Civilization's Resilience
Comment: Could NASA Find Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life by 2050?
Comment: Crazy Times in the Arctic
Comment: Did Life Start on a Snowball?
Comment: Exoplanets: Life on the Terminator
Comment: Faster Flood Forecasting to Improve Responses
Comment: GAVRT: Learning Science by Doing Science
Comment: GSW: A Celebrated Society Celebrates Its 1,500th Meeting
Comment: High School Earth and Space Science Should Be Taught by Geoscientists
Comment: How 'Frankenstein' Prevents Us From Tackling Climate Change
Comment: How Long Have Humans Been Altering Earth's Climate?
Comment: How to Tell a Good Science Story
Comment: In Space, Timing Is Everything
Comment: IPCC Faces Challenges in Communicating Climate Science
Comment: Kitchen Counter Geology: Bringing Rock Identification to a New Audience
Comment: Learning "Minecraft" as a Forty-Something Proves the Game Can Be an Educational Tool for All Ages
Comment: Leveraging Physical Oceanography in Exoplanet Exploration
Comment: Making Social Media Work for Scientists
Comment: Making the First (And Last) Geoscience Class Count
Comment: Mudrock Cement and the Importance of Basic Research
Comment: National Geological Surveys: The Past, Present and Future
Comment: Our Flawed Perceptions of Risk
Comment: Out of Bounds: Rethinking U.S. Flood Risk Delineation
Comment: Peak Soil: Does Civilization Have a Future?
Comment: Pipe Dreams: What Have We Learned From the Volkswagen Clean-Diesel Scandal?
Comment: Preparing for the Volcano in Your Backyard: New Zealand Sets an Example
Comment: Providing Resources for Future Generations - Technical and Human Challenges
Comment: Rebuilding Geology Faculty in Afghanistan
Comment: Remarkable Geology Sets New Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Apart
Comment: Supersites: Sharing Geoscience Data for Science and Society
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or Premature Conclusion? Examining the Ethical Implications of Naming a New Epoch
Comment: The Arrival of the Energy Future
Comment: The Changing Shape of Local Climates
Comment: The Congressional Ecosystem: A Paleontologist's Perspective
Comment: The New Frontier: Homesteading on Mars
Comment: To Intervene or Not to Intervene: Improving the Environment
Comment: Volcanic Versus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide: The Missing Science
Comment: Weathering a Perfect Storm From Space
Comment: What's a Map Worth? the Big Cost and Bigger Benefit of Three-Dimensional Elevation Data
Comment: When Scientists Come Under Legal Attack
Comment: Who Should Be Worried About Space Weather
Comment: Why Is It So Hard to Teach Climate Change?
Comment: Will We Eliminate Earth's Ice-Age Cycle?
Core Skills in the Geosciences: The Geoblogosphere Chimes in on What Students Need to Know
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A Fool's Look Into the Future
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and Gas Around the World
Energy 360: Leaving Our Corners for the Radical Middle: New Zealand Sets an Example
Energy 360: Moving Energy - No Easy Feat, but a Vital Conversation
Gauging Nuclear Disasters
Geologic Column: Saving the World? or Just Saving Money?
Geoscience on Film: Innovation Meets Tradition for Earthquake Safety
Geoscience on Film: Revisiting an Earthquake-Ravaged Region, One Year On
Geoscience on Film: Soaking in Beautiful Bhutan
Geoscience on Film: The View From Outside Kathmandu
Highlights of 2010: Definitive Statements: A New Trend?
Oil Barrel Politics
Our Top Tips for Adding Storytelling to Your Repertoire
Running Into the Brick Wall of Creationism Again
Saving Afghanistan: Redevelopment One Resource at a Time
Saving Mongolian Wildlife, 80 Million Years After Extinction
Science and the Social Media
Tackling "Boundary Faults" Across the Alaska-Yukon Border: A Report From the Field
The Art of Un-Legislating
Three Cheers for Peak Oil!
Voices: An Old Earth for All Muslims but How Does Evolution Fit In?
Voices: Defending Science: The Link Between Creationism and Climate Change
Voices: Does All Scientific Work Deserve Public Attention?
Voices: Geologists on the Wrong Side of the Law
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
Voices: Humans at High Temperatures
Voices: Italian Quakes and Deaths Point to Industrial Facilities as Death Traps
Voices: Making Tough Decisions in a Changing Climate
Voices: Must We Capture and Store Carbon From Coal to Meet Emission-Reduction Targets?
Voices: Natural Gas Can Lead the Way
Voices: Redefining Humanity Through Energy Use
Voices: Should Science Dictate Whether to Rebuild After a Natural Disaster?
Voices: The Confounding Economics of Natural Disasters
Voices: Volcanoes Everywhere ... Is There a Link?
Voices: What Does "The Nation's Report Card" Tell Us About Science Education?
Voices: Wildfires and Debris Flows: Federal Mud
Why Is a Gallon of Gas Cheaper Than a Gallon of Milk?
Commercialization
Geologic Column: The Double-Edged Sword of Commercialization
Commodities
Crystal Ball EARTH: Minerals Management: The Changing Commodities Scene
Communication
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity Currents Snap Trans-Atlantic Cables
Comment: How to Tell a Good Science Story
Comment: Making Social Media Work for Scientists
Comment: Understanding Earth in the Wider Sense of Science
Deep Space Network
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Geologic Column: Digital Divorce!
Geologic Column: Geology for the People: Finding New Paths to Public Outreach
Geologic Column: What Geoscientists Can Learn From TED Talks
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" Aptly Named
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" Takes Listeners to the Edge of the Universe and Beyond
Illustrating Geology: Great Images That Transformed the Field
Our Top Tips for Adding Storytelling to Your Repertoire
Science Illustrators: Making the Invisible Visible
The '100-Year Flood' Fallacy: Return Periods Misleading in Communication of Flood Risk
Tools of the Trade
When Science Meets Film at MIT
Community College at Sea
Community College at Sea: Research Experiences for Community College Students Build the STEM Pipeline
Community Remote Sensing
The Rise of Community Remote Sensing
Compressed Natural Gas
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Concrete
Blogging on EARTH: New Lessons From Antiquity, This Time on Construction
Conference
Comment: Providing Resources for Future Generations - Technical and Human Challenges
Conflict
Caspian Sea: Negotiation Support System
Gaming the System in the Caspian Sea: Can Game Theory Solve a Decades-Old Dispute?
November 10, 1934: Arizona Declares War Against California at Parker Dam
Rescuing Geologic Maps During a Coup
Voices: Climate Change and Civil Conflict: New Clues From El Nino
Conflict Mineral
Building Resource Corridors in Afghanistan: A Solution to an Interminable War?
SEC Mandates Businesses Disclose Use of Conflict Minerals
Congress
2012 Budget Requests a Mixed Bag for Science
Blogging on EARTH: Panelists Weigh in on Tsunami Preparedness Policy
Congress Lets Bans on Outer Continental Shelf Drilling Expire
Hazardous Living: Climategate Climatologists Cleared of Wrongdoing
Is It Time to Invest in Entrepreneurial Geoengineering?
Restarting U.S. Rare Earth Production?
The Art of Un-Legislating
Congressional Fellow
Down to Earth With: New Congressional Science Fellows
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
Conservation
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park Is Founded
Celebrity Climb
Down to Earth With: Conservation Engineer Emily Pidgeon
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Methane Be Dammed!
Protecting the Mineral Treasures of Antarctica's Larsemann Hills
Thirsty Cities: Water Management in a Changing Environment
Travels in Geology: Peru's Petrified Forest: The Struggle to Study and Preserve One of the World's Most Remarkable Fossil Sites
Contamination
New Tracers Can Identify Fracking Fluids
Old Plutonium Reveals New Secrets
Protecting Planets From Us - And Us From Them
Copenhagen
Blogging on EARTH: A Proposed Twist on Carbon Trades at AGU
Copernican Theory
October 31, 1992: Vacation Reverses Position on Galileo
Copper
"Critical Minerals" List Snubs Copper, Sparks Discussion of Criticality
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting Out for the Copper Country
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" Shares Copper Country Geoheritage
Studies Re-Examine How Major Copper Deposits Form
Tracking Trace Elements and Isotopes in the Oceans
Coprolite
Criminals Steal London Dino's Dung
It's a Dirty Job, but Someone's Gotta Do It
Coral
Blogging on EARTH: Finding Prehistoric Souvenirs in Michigan
Bottom Dropping Out of Coral Reefs
Corals Find a Way to Adapt?
Cryptic Creatures Made for a Spectacular Hanging Garden
Maui Reef Degradation Linked to Contamination in Coastal Groundwater
Nautical Charts Reveal Coral Decline Around Florida Keys
Oldest-Known Skeletal Animals Found
Some Coral Reefs Bounce Back After Bleaching
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
Travels in Geology: Twin Coral Reefs Separated in Time in Western Australia
Twentieth-Century Warming Linked to Pacific Trade Winds
Coral Reef
Art Joins Science in Coral Communication
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Is Established
Great Barrier Reef Has Died and Recovered Before
Piecing Together the Big Picture of Coral Reef Health
Coral Reef Roundup
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Core
Ancient Meteorites Reveal Early Magnetic Fields
Are Diatoms Triggering Submarine Landslides?
Glass Shards Reveal a Fiery History in Ethiopia
Introducing Earth's Inner Inner Core
Magnesium Part of Earth's Magnetic Field Engine
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
Of Molten Iron and Magnetism
Corona
Nanoflares Power the Sun's Superheated Corona
Costa Rica
Travels in Geology: The Osa Peninsula - A Different Side of Costa Rica
Young Costa Rican Lavas Might Reflect Pockets of Primordial Mantle
Crab Nebula
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
Crater
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral Discovery Ends Meteor Crater Debate
Buried Lunar Craters Filled by Lava Long Ago
Ceres: A Bright Spot in the Asteroid Belt
Iowa Impact Crater Confirmed
Mars Monthly
Mystery Impact May Have Kicked Off Dramatic Warming Event
Santa Fe Impact Crater Discovery: A Series of Fortunate Events
Scarps and Craters Reveal Moon's Dynamic Side
Travels in Geology: Cones and Craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
Creationism
Creationism Comes to the County Fair
Creationism Creeps Into Mainstream Geology
The Coconino's Starring Role in the Creationist-Geologist Battle
Voices: Defending Science: The Link Between Creationism and Climate Change
Cretaceous
Age Changes You: Torosaurus Actually Just Old Triceratops
Dinosaurs' True Colors Revealed
Pterosaurs Flew Into the Late Cretaceous
Crime
Cold Case Files: Forging Forensic Isoscapes
Criminal
Hazardous Living: Geologists to Be Charged for Not Predicting Earthquake?
Croatia
Getting There and Getting Around Croatia
Travels in Geology: Croatia: Land of Limestone
Crust
Breakup of Pangea Led to Thicker Oceanic Crust
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
When and How Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Earth?
Crustacean
Fossilized Dinosaur Feces Reveal Flexitarian Diet
Re-Examining the Burgess Shale
Shell-Shocked: How Different Creatures Deal With an Acidifying Ocean
Cryoscoop
CryoScoop: A Must-Read Special Issue
CryoScoop: Green Light to McMurdo
CryoScoop: Ice Islands and a New Antarctic Map
CryoScoop: Massive Rift Portends Antarctic Berg
CryoScoop: Sea Ice Synopsis and a Whale Tale
CryoScoop: Two-Decade Antarctic Drilling Effort Complete
CryoScoop: Woolly Rhino Traveled With an Ice Scraper
Cryosphere
CryoScoop: Ice Islands and a New Antarctic Map
CryoScoop: Woolly Rhino Traveled With an Ice Scraper
Crystal Ball Earth
Crystal Ball EARTH: Agriculture: The Future Will Have a Different Face Than the Past
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A Fool's Look Into the Future
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and Gas Around the World
Crystal Ball EARTH: Minerals Management: The Changing Commodities Scene
Crystal Ball EARTH: Natural Hazards: Reducing Society's Risks
Crystal Ball EARTH: Policy: A Tale of Two Years
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA Keeps Watch on a Changing Planet
Crystals
Bacteria Back From the Brink
Danger and Wonder in Nat Geo's "Giant Crystal Cave"
Designing Snowflakes
Earthworms Churn Out Calcite Crystals
Meteorite Reveals Rare Irregular Crystals
Cuba
Getting There and Getting Around in Cuba
Travels in Geology: Journeying Through Cuba's Geology and Culture
Curie
Benchmarks: Henri Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity on February 26, 1896
Curiosity
Bare Earth Elements: Let the Real Curiosity Begin
Bare Earth Elements: Mars Rocks Wear Manganese Coats
Bare Earth Elements: Mars-Observing Fleet Set to Face Silent Treatment
Curiosity Finds an Ancient Habitable Environment in Mars' Gale Crater
Hazardous Living: Watching Curiosity Land Safely Was Exhilarating
Mars Monthly
Red Planet Roundup: March 2015
Red Planet Roundup: November 2015
Simple Organic Compounds Detected by Curiosity on Mars
Cyanobacteria
Natural Dust May Be Harmful to Ocean Organisms
Cyprus
Getting There and Getting Around Cyprus
Northern Cyprus' "Peace Water" Pipeline
Travels in Geology: Cyprus: Island of Oceanic Crust
Dam
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown Flood Kills Thousands
Benchmarks: November 27, 1873: Red River Logjam Removed for Good
Can Dam Releases Restore River Ecosystems?
Damming the Salmon
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Geologic Column: Dams in Distress
Geomedia: Books: 'Floodpath' Recounts the Deadly Collapse of California's St. Francis Dam
Ground-Shaking Research: How Humans Trigger Earthquakes
Iraq's Biggest Dam on Unsure Footing
Widespread Malaria Risk From African Dams
Dark Energy
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize Winner Adam Riess
Darwin
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin Is Born - And So Began Modern Biology
Triassic Park: On the Origin of (Dinosaur) Species
Data Management
All the World's Glaciers in One Global Inventory
Comment: Supersites: Sharing Geoscience Data for Science and Society
Digitizing Earth: Developing a Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
Down to Earth With: CEO and Geo-Data Miner Nicole Barlow
Geologic Column: Data Security: Freezers, Floppies and Flash Drives
Geomedia: On the Web: Personalizing Drought Data With Digital Tools
Recovery of 1960s Sea-Ice Satellite Images Wins Dark Data Contest
Rescuing Data From the Dark
The Past Is Key to the Future: Historical Observations Strengthen Modern Science
Dating
Humans Arrived Down Under Earlier Than Thought
Jerusalem Tower Facelift Reveals It's 1,000 Years Younger
Lava Shaped Lake Tahoe
Magnetic Method Dates Glacial Floods in Iceland
Meteorites Did Not Spark Ordovician Biodiversification
Minerals Deformed by Meteorites Reveal Age of Impact
Move Over Homo Habilis: Early Human Evolution Remapped
No River Meant No Floods for Ancient Indus Settlements
Timing of Famed "Millennium Eruption" Pinpointed
Dawn
Ceres: A Bright Spot in the Asteroid Belt
Undressing Vesta
Dead Sea
Evidence of Devastating Drought Found Beneath the Dead Sea
Getting There and Getting Around the Dead Sea Rift
Travels in Geology: The Dead Sea Rift: Salty Soaks and Ancient Earthquakes in a Storied Land
Death
Geologic Column: Get Busy Living!
New Federal Guidelines Aim to Combat Bat-Killing Fungus
Death Threat
Voices: Harassment of Scientists Reaches a Fever Pitch
Debris
Disaster Debris Hotlines and Fast Grants
Tracking Plastic in the Oceans
Voyage to the Plastic Vortex
Debris Flow
Comment: The Oso Landslide Shows Need for Insurance and Better Planning
Voices: Wildfires and Debris Flows: Federal Mud
Deccan Traps
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Impact or Eruptions: Are Both to Blame in the Great End-Cretaceous Whodunit?
Mercury Levels Support Volcanic Role in End-Cretaceous Extinction
December 2008
AGU: Aloha, Magma! Geothermal Engineers Drill Into Surprising Lava
AGU: Climate Science Report Questions Likelihood of Abrupt Climate Change
AGU: Colorado Ski Industry Owes Great Salt Lake Thank You Note
AGU: How Scientists Should Talk Climate Change
AGU: Mount St. Helens Has Gone Back to Sleep
Benchmarks: December 3, 1984: Bhopal Gas Leak Kills Thousands
Down to Earth With: Maurice J. 'Ric' Terman
EIA: Worldwide Oil Demand Will Plummet in 2009
Energy Notes: August 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Oxide Pigments
Minerals Also Evolve
Swarm of Earthquakes Rattles Yellowstone
Travels in Geology: Australia's Wonders, From Ocean to Desert
December 2009
Before Lucy: Older Hominid Ardi Challenges Thinking About Human Evolution
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Blogging on EARTH: "Climategate" Scientist Tells His Side
Blogging on EARTH: A Proposed Twist on Carbon Trades at AGU
Cash for Clunkers' Footprint
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A Fool's Look Into the Future
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and Gas Around the World
Crystal Ball EARTH: Minerals Management: The Changing Commodities Scene
Crystal Ball EARTH: Natural Hazards: Reducing Society's Risks
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA Keeps Watch on a Changing Planet
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Energy Notes: August 2008-2009
Geomedia: Twitter Gives Heads-Up to Users and Officials About Earthquakes
Mars' Ice Is Pure, Not Dirty
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diamond
Mini-T. Rex Fossil Found in China
Moon Much Wetter Than Thought
Not the Oldest Hominid
Scientists Find Watery Super-Earth
Sunlight Mobilizes Mercury in Wetlands
The Vital Statistics
Thirsty Cities: Water Management in a Changing Environment
Xeriscaping: Not Just Rocks and Cactus
December 2010
Benchmarks: December 31, 1853: Dinner in a Dinosaur
Blogging on Earth: Driveway Sealants Add PAHs to Environment
Blogging on EARTH: Yellow Submarine Robot Debuts at AGU Meeting
Energy Notes: August 2009-2010
Getting There and Getting Around Hawaii
Highlights of 2010: Definitive Statements: A New Trend?
Highlights of 2010: Offshore Wind in Texas and the Curious Case of Massachusetts
Highlights of 2010: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Mineral Resource of the Month: Clay Minerals
The First Dinner in a Beast
The Sleeping Giants
Travels in Geology: Kilauea: Experiencing Pele's Wrath Through the Eyes of a Young Geologist
Voices: Geologists on the Wrong Side of the Law
December 2011
Afghanistan's Mineral Resources Laid Bare
Benchmarks: December 16, 1811-February 7, 1812: the New Madrid Earthquakes Strike the Heartland
Blogging on EARTH: AGU: Japan Tsunami Actually Made Population More Vulnerable?
Cantabrians Keep Humor in the Hardship
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
Energy Notes: August 2010-2011
Getting There and Getting Around Barbados
Highlights of 2011: Energy and Economics 2011-2012
Highlights of 2011: Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, but Not Enough People to Fill Them
Highlights of 2011: New Zealand: After 8,000 Aftershocks, When Will It Stop?
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Revealing the Ancient Sea Levels Recorded in Reefs
Science as a Model for Governance
Travels in Geology: Barbados: Ascending the Sea-Level Staircase
Voices: Harassment of Scientists Reaches a Fever Pitch
December 2012
Bare Earth Elements: A Geo-Themed Pop Quiz in Honor of 12/12/12
Benchmarks: December 4, 1992: The Seattle Fault Zone Is Described
Down to Earth With: Antarctic Meteorite Hunters
Energy Notes: August 2011-2012
Getting There and Getting Around Sicily
Here Comes the Solar Maximum: What We Know - And Don't Know - About Solar Storms and Their Hazards
Highlights of 2012: Climate 2012 - A Window Into What to Expect for 2013 and Beyond?
Highlights of 2012: Outlook on Natural Gas
Increasing Resilience: A National Imperative
Mineral Resource of the Month: Soda Ash
Satellites Can Detect Underground Nuclear Explosions
Simple Organic Compounds Detected by Curiosity on Mars
Sun Provides Water to the Moon?
The Long Road to Understanding Our Star
Travels in Geology: Exploring Vulcan's Playground: The Volcanoes of Southern Italy and the Aeolian Islands
Two NASA Spacecraft Reveal Ancient Underground Cracks From Moon's Formation
December 2013
A Public Service Announcement: Improve Geologic Literacy Starting on the Home Front
Bailing Through the Boulder Flood: One Neighborhood's Experience
Bare Earth Elements: AGU 2013 Wrap-Up
Bare Earth Elements: EARTH's Top 10 Online Stories of 2013 ... (Yes, It's a List)
Be Prepared: Navigating the Risks of Hazards Research
Comet ISON Still Intrigues and Inspires, Even After Its Demise
Curiosity Finds an Ancient Habitable Environment in Mars' Gale Crater
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
Energy 360: Moving Energy - No Easy Feat, but a Vital Conversation
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Geologic Column: Beer's Secret Ingredient: Geology
Getting There and Getting Around Croatia
Giant Quake Sloshed Fjords Half a World Away
Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Hazards Abroad: Sent Home
In or Out? Has Voyager Left the Solar System?
Juno Salutes Its Home Planet and Heads to Jupiter
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Old Photos Help Scientists Relocate 1906 San Francisco Quake Rupture Point
Once a Digger, Always a Digger: Or, How I Learned to Stop Researching and Love Deadlines
Science Denialism: The Problem That Just Won't Go Away
Travels in Geology: The Bay of Kotor: Europe's Southernmost "Fjord"
Witnessing Geology in Action: A Rockfall in the Garden of the Gods
World War G: Zombies, Energy and the Geosciences
December 2014
2014 Commentaries
Ancient Storms Recorded in Yucatán Cave
Antibacterial Clays Could Fight Superbugs
Bag Your First Munro
Bare Earth Elements: Past and Present Directors Dissect the Future of USGS
Benchmarks: December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami Strikes
Better Flood Forecasts Eyed From Space
Beware the List That Skews Your View
Carbon Tet Still Offensive to Ozone Layer
Chess as a Scientist
Comment: How Much Hazard Mitigation Is Enough?
Comment: Preparing for the Volcano in Your Backyard: New Zealand Sets an Example
Crystal Ball Science: In the Energy Sector, Follow the Money in 2015
December 27, 1888: The Geological Society of America Is Founded
Down to Earth With: CEO and Geo-Data Miner Nicole Barlow
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Energy Notes: July 2013-2014
Energy Notes: June 2013-2014
Family Inspiration for My Career(s) in Transdisciplinary Science
Family Trips, Liberation From Lists and Other Musings From 2014
Geocorps America: Putting Geoscientists to Work on Federal Lands
Geologic Column: Get Busy Living!
Geologic Column: What Geoscientists Can Learn From TED Talks
Geomedia: Books: Are We Causing a Sixth Extinction?
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Guide
Getting There and Getting Around France's Massif Central
Getting There and Getting Around Scotland
Gravity Builds Stone Sculptures
Hazard Lingers After South Napa Earthquake
Hundreds of Methane Seeps Discovered Along the U.S. East Coast
I Wish I Could Remember All the Things I've Forgotten
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Inland Earthquake Triggers Distant Tsunami
Into the Parks: A Sampling of GeoCorps Projects
Last Scottish Glacier Melted During Big Chill?
Lead-Up to Icelandic Earthquakes Seen in Groundwater Chemistry
Limited Ranges Left Ammonites Vulnerable to Extinction
Link Between Volcanoes and Drought Cools Geoengineering Prospects
Living Mountains and Wild Places
Mineral in Chelyabinsk Meteorite Reveals Past Collision
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mica
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Minor Miners: A Brief Reflection on Child Labor Underground
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Nanoflares Power the Sun's Superheated Corona
New Satellite Maps Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks in High Definition
Oceans: Where Has All the Plastic Gone?
Oil-Encased Water Droplets Are Mini-Ecosystems for Microbes
Oldest-Known Skeletal Animals Found
Pliocene Tropical Oceans Were Warmer After All
Polar Dino Tracks Show Full Ecosystem
Rainwater Penetrates Into Ductile Crust
Satellites - Not Just Santa - See Holiday Lights
Snow Triggers Quakes on Mount Rainier
The Geology of Middle-Earth
Travels in Geology: Bali Beckons
Travels in Geology: Lentils, Lace and Lava: France's Massif Central
Travels in Geology: The Inspiring, Globe-Trotting Rocks of Scotland
Try and Try Again: GeoCorps Application Tips
Twister Season Comes Earlier to Tornado Alley
Unprecedented Low Water-Vapor Levels Detected on Exoplanets
Walking - And Mentoring - On the Wild Side
What a Wonderful World to Explore
When Science Meets Film at MIT
December 2015
Ancient African Villages Shed Light on Earth's Magnetic Field
Balanced Boulders in Earthquake Country Highlight Interconnected Faults
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill Disappears
Buckyballs Behind Milky Way Mystery
Butchery or Trampling? Controversy Marks Ancient Animal Bones
Chinese Cave Art Reveals Record of Climate Change
Comment: GSW: A Celebrated Society Celebrates Its 1,500th Meeting
Comment: Pipe Dreams: What Have We Learned From the Volkswagen Clean-Diesel Scandal?
Down to Earth With: GEO Secretariat Director Barbara Ryan
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Nigel Hughes
Due Diligence in River Incision Data
Earthquake Changed Po River's Course in 16th-Century Italy
Enceladus' Extremely Alkaline Underground Ocean
Energy Notes: May 2014-2015
Geologic Column: The Beginning of "Time" as We Know It
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Getting There and Getting Around Sedona
Human Hands Not Most Advanced
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Is Aviation 'Whitening' the Sky?
Isotopes Could Reveal Ancient American Turquoise Trade
Magnetic Field Around Since Hadean
Midwest's Hybrid Rift Formed in Three Stages
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Modeling 'Magma Mush' Could Reveal Volcanic Histories
Moroccan Fossil Formation Reshapes Timeline of Early Phanerozoic Evolution
Narratives From Nepal: Relief and Rebuilding After the Gorkha Earthquake
Nearly Half of Americans in Lower 48 at Risk for Potentially Damaging Quake Shaking
No Laughing Matter: Ocean Nitrous Oxide Emissions Greater Than Thought
Ocean Oxygen Levels Control Seafloor Carbon Burial
Oceanographers Solve Mysterious Beach Explosion
Oldest Marine Turtle Found in Colombia
Opalescent Pools Shimmer Beneath Santorini
Potentially Venomous Extinct Mammals Discovered in Zambia
Public Improvements, Private Funding
Rainbows Reclassified
Solar Flare Calibration Reveals Past Patterns of Volcanism and Cooling
South African Cave System Reveals New Early Human Ancestor
Subseafloor Biosphere Extended to Greatest Depth Yet
Sunlight Liberates Nitrogen From Urban Grime
The Question of Mantle Plumes
The Snowmastodon Project: Mammoths and Mastodons Lived the High Life in Colorado
Travels in Geology: Sedona: A Journey to the Edge of a Supercontinent
Unshelled Ancestor Fills Big Gap in Turtle Family Tree
Volunteering to Muck Around in the Mud
Warty Algae-Like Sheets Survived Snowball Earth Events
What Happened Here?
What Lies Below?
Where on Earth? - December 2015
Working Near Gorkha's Epicenter
December 2016
A L'Aquila Trigger, Seismic Gaps and Poor Construction: What We've Learned From the August Earthquake in Italy
A Story in the Sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" May Have Been Real
An Undersea Volcano Yields Its Secrets
Ancient Plankton Communities Stressed Before Mass Extinction
Ant Bodies Shaped by Environment
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur Fossils Lost at Sea in World War I
Cloud Feedbacks Drive Climate Sensitivity
Comment: To Intervene or Not to Intervene: Improving the Environment
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Cosmic Suntan
Down to Earth With: Underwater Cave Explorer Jill Heinerth
Extinct Tiger Had Unique Elbow, Hunting Style
Geologic Column: Conscious Landscapes: Thinking Like a Septic Tank
Geologic Column: New Year's as We Know It Is New
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Getting There and Getting Around Shetland
Green Corridors Led Humans Out of Africa
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Improved Genetic Simulations Identify Human Genes Passed Down From Neanderthals, Denisovans
Kilauea Increases Asthma Risk
Life-Saving Diplomacy: The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program at Thirty
Marine Megafaunal Extinction Discovered
Mysterious Antarctic Algae Blown in by High Winds
New Research Suggests Syrian Refugees Must Be Accounted for in Seismic Risk Models
New Species of Extinct Dolphin Found in Smithsonian Archives
Nutrient Deficiency Delayed Life After Mass Extinction
Panama's Isthmus Stays 3 Million Years Young: Further Evidence Needed to Support an Older Age
Philae: Achievement and Disappointment
Rethinking Pangea? Ancient Ocean Crust Challenges Supercontinent Theory
Rosetta Mission Ends With a Bang: But the Discoveries Will Continue
Rosetta's Journey
Scientists Find Earthquakes Trigger Instantaneous Aftershocks on Neighboring Faults
Seafloor Topography Drives Earth's Great Conveyor Belt
Slow-Moving Slides May Be Triggered by Cold Temperatures
Small-Scale Factors Influence Mantle Flow Under the Seafloor
Smokier U.S. West as Climate Changes
Tilted Himalayan Temples Hold Clues to Past Shaking
Tiniest Pterosaur Found in British Columbia
Tiny Bones Pull India Into the Story of Early Primate Evolution
Travels in Geology: Exploring an Icon of Patagonia: Chile's Torres Del Paine National Park
Travels in Geology: Scotland's Stunning Shetland
What's in a Name: Rosetta, Philae, and 67P?
Where on Earth? - December 2016
Why Tectonic Plates Lurch Forward When They Break
Wintering in the High Arctic Reveals Surprising Results
December 2017
19th-Century Discovery Now Reveals Modern Human Arrival in Sumatra
Alaskan Subduction Zone Mirrors Tohoku Zone That Unleashed Tsunami
Antimony May Have Poisoned Pompeii's Drinking Water
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog Smothers London
Both Urban Flooding and Rural Drying to Intensify
Caldera Clays May Hold Key to Lithium Independence
Can Fossil Footprints Reveal the Weight of a Dinosaur?
Cassini's Legacy After Two Decades
Climate Change Linked to Specific Weather Events for the First Time
Comment: Arctic Warming and Midlatitude Weather: Is There a Connection?
Comment: Making the First (And Last) Geoscience Class Count
Desktop Seismology: How a Maker-Inspired Device Is Changing Seismic Monitoring
Dino Deaths Cleared the Way for Frogs
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix
Driftwood Reveals Ancient Arctic Currents and Sea-Ice Levels
Earthquakes Shaped Ancient Greek Culture
Geologic Column: Dams in Distress
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Imaging Iceland's Volcanic Roots
In the Lab, Machine Learning Improves Quake Forecasts
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mysterious Miocene Bipedal Footprints Found in Crete
Nautical Charts Reveal Coral Decline Around Florida Keys
New Zealand Quake Triggers Two Large Slow-Slip Events
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
Seismic Patterns Help Forecast Eruptions From Quiet Stratovolcanoes
Transitional Chilesaurus Fills Gap Between Major Dinosaur Groups
Travels in Geology: The Geological Riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Turkey DNA Reveals Mesa Verde Denizens Moved to New Mexico
Volcanism Spiked Global Temps During Past Hothouse
What Drives Hot Spots of Sea-Level Rise?
Where on Earth? - December 2017
December 2018
"Critical Minerals" List Snubs Copper, Sparks Discussion of Criticality
Antarctic Rift Was Active More Recently Than Thought
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Bubbly Discovery May Impact Volcanic Hazard Assessment
Comment: Learning "Minecraft" as a Forty-Something Proves the Game Can Be an Educational Tool for All Ages
Comment: National Geological Surveys: The Past, Present and Future
Did Early Agriculture Knock the Climate Off Track?
Down to Earth With: Coastal Scientist Gary Griggs
Fats on Neolithic Pottery Pinpoint Climate Cooling Event
Forecasting California's Earthquake Hazard
Geologic Column: Light Amid the Darkness: Celebrations During the Winter Solstice
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Getting There and Getting Around Washington, D.C.
Human-Triggered Landslides on the Rise
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
New Tool Predicts Probability of Earthquake-Triggered Landslides
Night Lights Reveal That People Move as Rivers Rise
Revealing the Ghosts of Glaciers Past
Science by Floats
Southern Ocean Is Absorbing Less Carbon
Sulfides in Thawing Permafrost Responsible for Carbon Dioxide Release
Survey Says: U.S. Lakes Getting Murkier
Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.
Two New Species Fill Gap in Dinosaur Family Tree
Voyager 2 Pierces the Heliopause, Enters Interstellar Space
Where on Earth? - December 2018
Deep Earth
Diamonds Reveal Water in Deep Mantle
Imaging Iceland's Volcanic Roots
Introducing Earth's Inner Inner Core
Of Molten Iron and Magnetism
Seismic Waves Are Blind to Water
Deepwater Horizon
Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Subsurface Biodiversity
Water Wise: The Leak Is Capped; but What's the Oil's Long-Term Fate?
Deforestation
Deforestation Hangs Climate Out to Dry
No Pre-Columbian Deforestation of the Western Amazon
Degrees
Highlights of 2011: Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, but Not Enough People to Fill Them
Deicer
Clearing Roadways: A Little Salt Goes a Long Way
Delta
Greenland's Growing Deltas: Combining Historical and Modern Imagery to Decode Change in a Telltale Arctic Landscape
Measuring Rising Seas Is Tricky in Deltas
Raising California's Sinking Delta
Sinking Sediment in Deltas Is as Important as Swelling Seas
Travels in Geology: Tracking African Animals and Deranged Drainages Across the Kalahari
Denisovan
Improved Genetic Simulations Identify Human Genes Passed Down From Neanderthals, Denisovans
Department
Down to Earth With: Highway Paleontologist Shane Tucker
Down to Earth With: National Park Service Senior Paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Department of Defense
Breaking the Energy Barrier
Department of Education
Voices: What Does "The Nation's Report Card" Tell Us About Science Education?
Department of Energy
2012 Budget Requests a Mixed Bag for Science
Department of Interior
Down to Earth With: Sally Jewell
Departments
"Greening" Stormwater in Philadelphia
A Mysterious First
April 20, 1832: Arkansas' Hot Springs Named the First National "Park"
Art and Dinosaurs
Benchmarks: Henri Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity on February 26, 1896
Benchmarks: April 1, 1877: Prospector Begins Search for Tombstone's Silver
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii Tsunami Ushers in a Pacific-Wide Warning System
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record Winds Buffet Mount Washington
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE Is Launched
Benchmarks: April 24, 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope Is Launched
Benchmarks: April 26, 1986: Nuclear Explosion at Chernobyl
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Found Using Modern Oceanography Tools
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler Confirms Saturn's Rings Not Solid
Benchmarks: August 15, 1984 & August 21, 1986: African Killer Lakes Erupt
Benchmarks: August 1576: False Gold Found in Meta Incognita
Benchmarks: August 17, 1959: Hebgen Lake Earthquake and Landslide
Benchmarks: August 1975: Geotimes Magazine Inspires Name of Rock Formation: A Q&A With Tony Alabaster
Benchmarks: August 2, 1922: Marines Invade Teapot Dome, Deepen Scandal
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross Is Found, Photographed and Mapped
Benchmarks: August 25, 1916: The National Park Service Is Established
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus Creates First Anthropogenic Space Weather
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits Are Described
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus Crosses the North Pole
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 Earthquake Rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill Disappears
Benchmarks: December 16, 1811-February 7, 1812: the New Madrid Earthquakes Strike the Heartland
Benchmarks: December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami Strikes
Benchmarks: December 3, 1984: Bhopal Gas Leak Kills Thousands
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog Smothers London
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur Fossils Lost at Sea in World War I
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin Is Born - And So Began Modern Biology
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. Sign the Treaty of Canterbury, Paving the Way for the Chunnel
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal Vents Are Discovered
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Benchmarks: February 1962 and 1984: John Glenn and Bruce McCandless Make Space Flight History
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches Sweep Through Austrian Towns, Killing Dozens
Benchmarks: February 3, 1953: Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" Is Published, Opening a Window on the Underwater World for Millions
Benchmarks: February 5, 1931 and February 20, 1935: Antarctic Firsts for Women
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest Day of Fire Ever Recorded in Australia
Benchmarks: January 1, 1960: the Discovery of "Extinct Radioactivity" the Quest to Date the Elements That Formed the Solar System
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park Is Founded
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England Prohibits Alchemy
Benchmarks: January 23, 1960: Humans Reach the Deepest Point on Earth
Benchmarks: January 25, 1968: The Last Firefall: A Yosemite Tradition Flames Out
Benchmarks: January 3, 1961: Three Men Die in Nuclear Reactor Meltdown
Benchmarks: January 3, 1970: Lost City Meteorite Is Tracked and Recovered
Benchmarks: January 31, 1961: Ham the Chimpanzee, First Hominid in Space
Benchmarks: January 3–5, 1982: 18,000 Landslides Wreak Havoc on the San Francisco Bay Area
Benchmarks: July 1, 1912: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Officially Becomes the First of Its Kind in U.S.
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA Unraveled
Benchmarks: July 15, 1806: Zebulon Pike Launches Southwest Expedition
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz Mission Launches Space Collaboration
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral Discovery Ends Meteor Crater Debate
Benchmarks: July 26, 1905: The Rising Salton Sea Swamps the Southern Pacific Railroad
Benchmarks: July 29, 1958: The Birth of NASA
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami Drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting Out for the Copper Country
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera Erupts
Benchmarks: June 15, 1991: Mount Pinatubo Erupts
Benchmarks: June 16, 1963 & June 18, 1983: Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride Become First and Third Women in Space
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga Burns
Benchmarks: June 30, 1972: Timekeepers Add First "Leap Second" to Clocks
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The Era of Aviation Launches With the First Balloon Flight
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" Heat Up
Benchmarks: March 11–13, 1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 Paralyzes New York City
Benchmarks: March 17, 1944: The Most Recent Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Benchmarks: March 18, 1925: Tri-State Twister Kills 695 People
Benchmarks: March 1913: The First Complete Geologic Timescale Is Published
Benchmarks: March 1961: Project Mohole Undertakes the First Deep-Ocean Drilling
Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Benchmarks: March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps Is Established
Benchmarks: May 12, 1905: Andrew Carnegie Donates 'Dippy the Dino'
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake Devastates Western China
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains Earthquake
Benchmarks: May 18, 1952: Stonehenge's Age Solved With Carbon-14
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar Eclipse "Proves" Relativity
Benchmarks: May 3, 2003: New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain Falls
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown Flood Kills Thousands
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine Links the Geomagnetic and Sunspot Cycles
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The Deadly Eruption of Mount Pelée
Benchmarks: November 1, 1755: Earthquake Destroys Lisbon
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado Del Ruiz Eruption Triggers Deadly Lahars
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Is Established
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity Currents Snap Trans-Atlantic Cables
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" Published
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 Dust Storm Injures Hundreds
Benchmarks: November 7, 1940, and November 25, 1990: Washington Suffers a Pair of Debilitating Bridge Failures
Benchmarks: November 8, 2013: Super-Typhoon Haiyan Tests Philippines Warning Protocols
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a Cold War Ice Fortress Is Built
Benchmarks: October 10, 1913: Atlantic and Pacific Waters Meet in the Panama Canal
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War Begins, Fueled by Discovery of Gold
Benchmarks: October 1904: Mineralogy Solves a Murder
Benchmarks: October 2, 1574: Dutch Unleash the Ocean as a Weapon of War
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The Deadliest Wildfire in American History Incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Benchmarks: October 9, 1963: The Vajont Landslide Kills 2,500 in Italy
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, Geologist Who Deciphered Banded Iron Formations
Benchmarks: September 1, 1957: Fossil Cycad National Monument Is Dissolved
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener Begins a Fateful Polar Expedition
Benchmarks: September 21, 1938: The Great New England Hurricane Strikes
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery Returns From the West
Benchmarks: September 23, 1933: the U.S. Oil Industry Arrives in Saudi Arabia
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew Sealed Inside Biosphere 2
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx Is Discovered and Described
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale Coal Mine Fire Kills 110, Igniting Reform
Benchmarks: September 8, 1900: Massive Hurricane Strikes Galveston, Texas
Benchmarks: The First Earth Day
Benitoite: A Rare Gemstone
Books: The Once and Future San Andreas Fault
By the Numbers: Women in Space
Comment: Supersites: Sharing Geoscience Data for Science and Society
Danger and Wonder in Nat Geo's "Giant Crystal Cave"
Deadly Tornadoes
December 27, 1888: The Geological Society of America Is Founded
Designing Snowflakes
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
Down to Earth With Kateryna Klochko
Down to Earth With Marine Geoscientist Harold Tobin
Down to Earth With Richard Prum
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Down to Earth With: Andrew Feustel
Down to Earth With: Antarctic Meteorite Hunters
Down to Earth With: Award-Winning Sci-Fi Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Down to Earth With: Biogeochemist Stephen MacAvoy
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Down to Earth With: Cave Scientist and Paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Down to Earth With: CEO and Geo-Data Miner Nicole Barlow
Down to Earth With: Chris Strong
Down to Earth With: Clay Mineralogist Warren Huff
Down to Earth With: Coastal Scientist Gary Griggs
Down to Earth With: Conservation Engineer Emily Pidgeon
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
Down to Earth With: Deanna D'Alessandro
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea Biologist Stace Beaulieu
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin
Down to Earth With: Dr. Jonathan Patz
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
Down to Earth With: Eric Riggs
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Down to Earth With: Fossil Preparator Bob Masek
Down to Earth With: GEO Secretariat Director Barbara Ryan
Down to Earth With: Geologist and Paleontologist David Wilcots
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Peter Molnar
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Erin Pettit
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Ted Scambos
Down to Earth With: Hope Jahren
Down to Earth With: Hydrogeologist Shemin Ge
Down to Earth With: Industrial Archaeologist Fred Quivik
Down to Earth With: Jack Horner
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Earth: The Movie (Not the Magazine)
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From Science to Science Fiction
Gain Some, Lose Some
Games: In Spore, Cells Divide and Conquer
Geomedia: 'Dinosaur 13' Chisels Away at the Story Behind Discovery of Sue
Geomedia: Apps: Join the Crowd: Introducing a New Generation of Geo-Apps
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Geomedia: Books: Iceland's Eruption of Biblical Proportions Explored in 'Island on Fire'
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Geomedia: Books: The Earth System Symphony
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Geomedia: California's Climatic Catastrophes Detailed in "The West Without Water"
Geomedia: Documentaries: Bearded Ladies Doing Paleontology
Geomedia: Film: 'A Beautiful Planet' Inspires With Vivid Views of Life on and Off Earth
Geomedia: Film: 'First Man' Navigates Neil Armstrong's Journey Between Two Worlds
Geomedia: Film: 'The Martian' Puts the Magnificence and Messiness of Science at the Fore
Geomedia: Film: A Glimpse Into the Geology of 'Star Trek Beyond'
Geomedia: Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival Is Geologic Showcase
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Geomedia: Mixed Media: Geo-Art Collaboration Shifts Perspectives on Earth Materials
Geomedia: Music: The Sounds of the Sea
Geomedia: On the Web: Dinologue: A Dino Blog
Geomedia: On the Web: How Will Melting Ice Impact Your City?
Geomedia: On the Web: Personalizing Drought Data With Digital Tools
Geomedia: Performance: Bella Gaia Is a Show in Orbit and Earth Is the Star
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" Aptly Named
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" Takes Listeners to the Edge of the Universe and Beyond
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" Is Superlative
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA' for the Earth Science Enthusiast
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA: Making North America' Is Flashy, but Fails on Storytelling
Geomedia: Toys: LEGO® Geoscientists Break Through the Brick Ceiling
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Hot Enough for Ya? Investigating Climate Change in "Heat"
January 26, 1905: The World's Largest Gem-Quality Diamond Is Unearthed
July 28, 1996: Kennewick Man Is Discovered
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Keeler's Legacy
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
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Museums: Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt
Musical Magnetic Reversals
November 10, 1934: Arizona Declares War Against California at Parker Dam
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
On the Web: Personalizing Drought Data With Digital Tools
Online Stargazing With GigaGalaxy Zoom
Peak's Appeal - And Hazard - Endures Today
People of the Ice
Pike's Peak
Putting Earth's History to Sound
Saturn's Rings: The Remains of an Icy Moon
Sauropod Skull Mystery
Scientists Go to the Movies
The Cosmos on Key
The First Dinner in a Beast
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices From the Moon"
The Quake's Impact on Western Thinking
Desalination
Can Renewable Energy and Desalination Tackle Two Problems at Once?
Dry Dock to Wet Tap: Old Ships Become Floating Desalination Plants
GSA Meeting: Water, Water Everywhere ... Creating Some to Drink
Desert
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Electric Fields Lift Dust Into the Air at Massive Scales
Geologic Column: Lighting Out for the Territory
Getting There and Getting Around Las Vegas
Travels in Geology: Cones and Craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
Travels in Geology: Las Vegas: The Scenery Beyond the Slots
Travels in Geology: Northern Oman: Stunning Canyons, Towering Dunes and the World's Largest Ophiolite
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
Travels in Geology: Tracking African Animals and Deranged Drainages Across the Kalahari
Travels in Geology: Winter Sun and Tectonic Tales in Tucson
Tropical Rainfall Shifts Resulted in Greener Sahara
Developing World
Getting a Master's in Social Geology
Development
Age Changes You: Torosaurus Actually Just Old Triceratops
Blogging on EARTH: South Sudan Secedes - What Does That Mean for Its Oil?
Bolivia Turns Iron Mountain Into Gold
Building Resource Corridors in Afghanistan: A Solution to an Interminable War?
Geologic Column: The Double-Edged Sword of Commercialization
Highlights of 2011: Energy and Economics 2011-2012
Rescuing Geologic Maps During a Coup
Saving Afghanistan: Redevelopment One Resource at a Time
Diamond
A Watery Surprise From Earth's Depths: Mineral Provides First Direct Evidence for Water in Mantle's Transition Zone
Diamonds and the Eocene Climate of the Bell River Basin
Diamonds Reveal Water in Deep Mantle
January 26, 1905: The World's Largest Gem-Quality Diamond Is Unearthed
Junk Gem Reveals New Diamond-Forming Process
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Subducted Seawater the Source of Fluid-Rich Diamonds
Thorny Plant Marks West African Diamond Deposits
Travels in Geology: Arkansas: A Geologic Diamond in the Rough
Digital Tools
First All-Digital Geologic Map of Alaska Released
On the Web: Personalizing Drought Data With Digital Tools
Digitizing Earth
Digitizing Earth: Developing a Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
Rescuing Data From the Dark
Dinosaur
A Jaw All the Wider to Bite You With
Age Changes You: Torosaurus Actually Just Old Triceratops
All Dinosaurs May Have Had Feathers
Ancient Dinosaur Migrations Analyzed
Ancient Eggshells May Reveal Dinosaur Body Temperatures
Another Whiptail Dinosaur Added to Sauropod Family Tree
Are Birds Dinosaurs? New Evidence Muddies the Picture
Art and Dinosaurs
Asymmetrical Fossil Feathers Fill in Timeline of Flight
Baby Louie Dinosaur Fossil Gets a Formal Name
Benchmarks: December 31, 1853: Dinner in a Dinosaur
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur Fossils Lost at Sea in World War I
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Benchmarks: May 12, 1905: Andrew Carnegie Donates 'Dippy the Dino'
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx Is Discovered and Described
Bringing Dinosaur Biology Into the 21st Century
Can Fossil Footprints Reveal the Weight of a Dinosaur?
Can Preserved Proteins Reveal Paint-by-Numbers Plumage?
Cretaceous Collagen: Can Molecular Paleontology Glean Soft Tissue From Dinosaurs?
Crumbly Amber Holds Dinosaur Secrets
De-Evolving the Bird Beak
Deciphering Mass Extinctions
Denali's Asian Dinosaurs
Dino Deaths Cleared the Way for Frogs
Dinosaur Feathers Burst Into Color
Dinosaur Soft Tissues Preserved as Polymers
Dinosaurs of a Feather May Not Have Evolved Together
Dinosaurs Used the Same Nests Repeatedly
Dinosaurs' Active Lifestyles Suggest They Were Warm-Blooded
Dinosaurs' True Colors Revealed
Discovered: One of the Last-Surviving Asian Dinosaurs
Do Impacts Trigger Extinctions? Impact Theory Still Controversial
Down to Earth With: Adrian Hunt
Down to Earth With: Fossil Preparator Bob Masek
Down to Earth With: Geologist and Paleontologist David Wilcots
Down to Earth With: Jack Horner
Down to Earth With: John Copeland
Down to Earth With: Martin Lockley
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
Dueling Dinosaurs Hit the Auction Block
Five Outstanding Questions in Earth Science
Flightless Dino Had Bright, Rainbow-Colored Feathers
Fossil Dinosaur Illuminates Evolution of Tyrannosauroid Body Sizes
Fossilized Dinosaur Feces Reveal Flexitarian Diet
Gender Equity in Dino Bones
Geologic Column: How T. Rex Got Its Street Cred Back
Geomedia: 'Dinosaur 13' Chisels Away at the Story Behind Discovery of Sue
Geomedia: Books: Informative and Inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Getting There and Getting Around Connecticut's Ancient Rift Valley
Getting There and Getting Around Denver
Getting There and Getting Around Tumbler Ridge
Gouges in the Ground Are Best Evidence Yet of Dinosaur Courtship
Hell Creek Formation Reveals a 'Chicken From Hell'
Highlights of 2010: Definitive Statements: A New Trend?
Horned Dinosaur Find a First for Eastern North America
Horned Dinosaur Find a First for Eastern North America
How to Hide a Dinosaur
It's a Dirty Job, but Someone's Gotta Do It
Lidar Preserves Record of Destroyed Theropod Tracks
Makeovers for Two Popular Dinosaurs
Making Tracks Through the Dinosaur Diamond
Massive Trove of Dinosaur Tracks Cataloged in Australia
Mini-T. Rex Fossil Found in China
Museums and Exhibits in the Dinosaur Diamond
New Species of Titanosaurus Discovered in Tanzania
New Species of Uniquely Horned Dinosaur Identified
Odd Crests Helped Dinos Communicate
One-of-a-Kind Dinosaur Skull Goes Digital
Pesky Ticks Even Plagued Dinosaurs
Polar Dino Tracks Show Full Ecosystem
Pompeii-Like Eruption Fossilized Dinosaurs in Death Poses
Quoth the Feathered, Iridescent Microraptor, Nevermore
Rare Late Cretaceous Dino Skin Found Fossilized
Rearranging the Dinosaur Family Tree
Sauropod Skull Mystery
Saving Mongolia's Dinosaurs and Inspiring the Next Generation of Paleontologists
Scaling Up: Mega-Dino Babies Were Mini Adults
Scientists Crack the Secret of Dinosaurs' Incubation Time
Seeds May Have Saved Bird-Like Dinosaurs From Extinction
Soft Tissue Preserved in 80-Million-Year-Old Dino Fossil
Spiky New American Ankylosaurid Originated in Asia
Statistics Shine Light on T. Rex Family Tree
Stegosaur's Tail Packed a Lethal Punch
T. Rex's Bone-Crushing Bite
Tetrapod Tracks Reset Timing of Four-Legged Evolution
The Dinosaur Garden of the Gobi: Motivating Future Paleontologists
Tiny Dinosaur-Era Marsupial Packed a Big Bite
Transitional Chilesaurus Fills Gap Between Major Dinosaur Groups
Travels in Geology: A Tale of Two Rivers: Grand Junction, Colorado
Travels in Geology: Discovering Denver's Dinosaurs
Travels in Geology: Exploring Connecticut's Ancient Rift Valley
Travels in Geology: Tumbler Ridge: Finding Dinosaurs — And Their Predecessors and Descendants — In Northeastern British Columbia
Triassic Park: On the Origin of (Dinosaur) Species
Triceratops Relative 'Wendi' Sported a Fantastic Frill
Two New Species Fill Gap in Dinosaur Family Tree
Unique Teeth Helped Vegetarian Dinosaurs
Volcanic Aerosols Not Enough to Cause Mass Extinctions?
Whatever Happened to Thagomizers and Other Tail Weapons?
World's Longest Sauropod Trackway Exposed
Dinosaur 13
Geomedia: 'Dinosaur 13' Chisels Away at the Story Behind Discovery of Sue
Dinosaurs
Geomedia: On the Web: Dinologue: A Dino Blog
Saving Mongolian Wildlife, 80 Million Years After Extinction
Disaster
Comment: Building Sanctuaries to Increase Civilization's Resilience
Gauging Nuclear Disasters
Geomedia: Books: Earth Faces Challenges, but Are They Tipping Points?
Life-Saving Diplomacy: The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program at Thirty
The Trailblazers
Discovery
Data-Driven Discovery Reveals Earth's Missing Minerals
Hazardous Living: Discovery's Emotional Final Voyage
Six New Deep-Sea Species Discovered
Disease
Bats and White-Nose Syndrome = VA Cavers, Please Stay Out
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Mammoths May Have Suffered From Bone Disease
Marine Mammals Blamed for First New World Tuberculosis
New Federal Guidelines Aim to Combat Bat-Killing Fungus
Widespread Malaria Risk From African Dams
Diversity
Down to Earth With: Cave Scientist and Paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
Fieldwork Among the Pixels: Virtual and Augmented Reality Diversify Geoscience Education
Geology for Everyone: Making the Field Accessible
Place-Based Education: Teaching Geoscience in the Context of Location and Culture
Dna
A New Look at Cheddar Man
Ancient DNA Reveals Diversity of Southeast Asia
Archaeologists Hit Pay Dirt in Medieval Latrines
Cave Paintings Confirm Mystery European Bison Species
Cretaceous Collagen: Can Molecular Paleontology Glean Soft Tissue From Dinosaurs?
First Complete DNA Sequences From Egyptian Mummies
How Borneo Got Its Elephants
The Trouble With Turtles: Paleontology at a Crossroads
Toxic Tide
Turkey DNA Reveals Mesa Verde Denizens Moved to New Mexico
Down to Earth With
"Greening" Stormwater in Philadelphia
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
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Down to Earth With Marine Geoscientist Harold Tobin
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Down to Earth With: Antarctic Meteorite Hunters
Down to Earth With: Award-Winning Sci-Fi Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
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Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Down to Earth With: Cave Microbiologist Hazel Barton
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Down to Earth With: CEO and Geo-Data Miner Nicole Barlow
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Down to Earth With: Clay Mineralogist Warren Huff
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Down to Earth With: Conservation Engineer Emily Pidgeon
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Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea Biologist Stace Beaulieu
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin
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Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
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Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Down to Earth With: Fossil Preparator Bob Masek
Down to Earth With: GEO Secretariat Director Barbara Ryan
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
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Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Erin Pettit
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
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Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Ted Scambos
Down to Earth With: Hope Jahren
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Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Down to Earth With: Martin Lockley
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
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Down to Earth With: Maurice J. 'Ric' Terman
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Down to Earth With: Mineralogist George W. Robinson
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Down to Earth With: National Park Service Geologic Resources Division Chief David Steensen
Down to Earth With: National Park Service Senior Paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First Astrogeologist on the Moon
Down to Earth With: New Congressional Science Fellows
Down to Earth With: Nick Brooks
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize Winner Adam Riess
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and Underground Astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Nigel Hughes
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Raymond S. Bradley
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and Astronomer Tom Kaye
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
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Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Down to Earth With: Planetary Geologist James W. Head III
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Down to Earth With: Sally Jewell
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Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
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Down to Earth With: Ted Irving
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Down to Earth With: The Geographers of the Solar System
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
Down to Earth With: The Swindling Geologist
Down to Earth With: The USGS Landslide Response Team
Down to Earth With: Todd Hoefen
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Down to Earth With: Underwater Cave Explorer Jill Heinerth
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Kayla Iacovino
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson
Down to Earth With: Wildfire Meteorologist Craig Clements
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's First Park Geologist Greg Stock
Draconid
Eyes on the Sky Watch the Unpredictable Draconid Meteor Shower
Drill
Blogging on EARTH: Yellow Submarine Robot Debuts at AGU Meeting
Early Results
How the School of Rock Came to Be
School of Rock: Educating Educators at Sea
The Bakken Boom and the New Wild West: A Young Geologist's Perspective
The Thrill to Drill in the Chill
Drilling
Benchmarks: March 1961: Project Mohole Undertakes the First Deep-Ocean Drilling
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Down to Earth With Marine Geoscientist Harold Tobin
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Drilling for Gold Inside a Submarine Volcano
Drones
Comment: A Moving Target: What You Need to Know About Drone Regulations
Droning on for Science
Eyes in the Sea: Swarms of Floating Robots Observe the Oceans
Observers at the Edge of the Ice: Smaller, Cheaper Machines Can Safely Go Where Humans Can't
Drought
"Dam Levels Critical" in Cape Town
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 Dust Storm Injures Hundreds
Both Urban Flooding and Rural Drying to Intensify
California Drought Stops Slow-Moving Landslides
California Drying Out
California: A Profusion of Drought Restrictions With Varying Results
Cape Town Faces a Waterless Future
Chinese Cave Art Reveals Record of Climate Change
Colorado River Basin Sees Severe Groundwater Depletion
Drought Drove Early Humans From Africa
Drought Outlook Indicates Further Problems in Plains and West
Dry Dock to Wet Tap: Old Ships Become Floating Desalination Plants
Evidence of Devastating Drought Found Beneath the Dead Sea
Geologic Column: Jack and Jill: The Sequel
Geomedia: California's Climatic Catastrophes Detailed in "The West Without Water"
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
Geomedia: On the Web: Personalizing Drought Data With Digital Tools
Humans Are Influencing Some Extreme Weather Events, but Not All
Impossible Odds, Irrepressible Hope: Pakistan's Water Woes and the Science That Can Solve Them
Lack of Water Threatens "Garden of Eden"
On the Web: Personalizing Drought Data With Digital Tools
Protracted Drought Threatens California Levees
Return of the Dust Bowl
Widely Used Index May Have Overestimated Drought
Dry Valleys
People of the Ice
Dune
Geotextiles: From Sludge to Shoreline Protection to Surfing - What's Next?
Pluto's Surprising Dunes
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Titan's Dunes Form the Same Way as Earth's
Titan's Oddly Oriented Dunes May Be Electrostatically Sculpted
Travels in Geology: Northern Oman: Stunning Canyons, Towering Dunes and the World's Largest Ophiolite
Two New Looks at Titan's Dunes
Dung
It's a Dirty Job, but Someone's Gotta Do It
Dust
Arizona Road Hazard Has Surprising Source
As an Aerosolizer, Dust Devils Demoted
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 Dust Storm Injures Hundreds
Desert Dust Influences Monsoon Rains
Dust Influences Pollution Levels in Eastern China
Dust Orbiting Jupiter Is Going the Wrong Way
Electric Fields Lift Dust Into the Air at Massive Scales
Massive Dust Storm Caused by Climate, Not Conflict
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Red Planet Roundup: September 2016
Return of the Dust Bowl
Sahara Dust Brings Rain and Snow to California
Saharan Dust a Storm Killer
Ups and Downs of Potassium Feldspar May Play Role in Clouds and Climate
When the Dust Settles: Investigating Lingering Health Questions 10 Years After 9/11
Dust Bowl
Return of the Dust Bowl
Dwarf Planet
Hubble's Pics of Pluto: Dark Orange and Charcoal-Black
Early Earth
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, Geologist Who Deciphered Banded Iron Formations
Comment: Did Life Start on a Snowball?
Early Earth Enriched by Iron Rain
Early Earth's Atmosphere Weighed Half as Much
Life on Land 300 Million Years Earlier Than Thought
Liverworts, Not Moss, Dominated Earth's Early Terrestrial Ecosystems
Lunar Isotopes Suggest Early Water on Earth
Magnetic Field Around Since Hadean
Meteorite Impacts May Have Kick-Started Ancient Subduction
Minerals Also Evolve
Searching for the Ancestors of Meandering Rivers
Small Warm Ponds: Ideal Incubators for First Life?
When and How Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Earth?
Young Costa Rican Lavas Might Reflect Pockets of Primordial Mantle
Zircons Hold Clues to Early Earth
Earth
October 31, 1992: Vacation Reverses Position on Galileo
Of Molten Iron and Magnetism
Venus' Gentler, Earth-Like Past
Earth Day
Benchmarks: The First Earth Day
Earth Observation System
A Day Without Glory
Earth Tides
Earth Tides in a Major
Earthquake
"The Himalaya Connection": Telling a Story of Geoscientific Exploration on Film
A Decade of Slow Slip May Have Preceded Japan's 2011 Earthquake
A L'Aquila Trigger, Seismic Gaps and Poor Construction: What We've Learned From the August Earthquake in Italy
Alaskan Subduction Zone Mirrors Tohoku Zone That Unleashed Tsunami
Assessing How Well Earthquake Hazard Maps Work: Insights From Weather and Baseball
Balanced Boulders in Earthquake Country Highlight Interconnected Faults
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 Earthquake Rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake Devastates Western China
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains Earthquake
Benchmarks: November 1, 1755: Earthquake Destroys Lisbon
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity Currents Snap Trans-Atlantic Cables
Can Distant Earthquakes Trigger Submarine Landslides?
Complex Kaikoura Earthquake Forces Rethink of Multifault Ruptures
Creeping Danger: Landslide Threatens Peruvian Village, Especially When the Earth Quakes
Dehydrated Sediment Layer Made Sumatra Quake Stronger
Desktop Seismology: How a Maker-Inspired Device Is Changing Seismic Monitoring
Double Trouble: Volcanic Eruption Leads to Strong Earthquake Eight Months Later
Down to Earth With Marine Geoscientist Harold Tobin
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
Down to Earth With: Hydrogeologist Shemin Ge
Downgoing Plate Topography Stopped 2005 Sumatra Rupture
Earthquake-Resilient Pipes Aim to Keep L.A.'s Water Flowing
Earthquakes Can Jump Long Distances
Fish Evolved Quickly After Earthquake
Forecasting California's Earthquake Hazard
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" Spotlights Seismic Risk
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" Recounts the 1755 Lisbon Disaster
Giant Turbidite in Mediterranean Sea Linked to Ancient Earthquake and Tsunami
Going With the Flow: Mapping the Mantle Under the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Gravity Changes May Warn of Large Earthquakes
Gravity Changes Portended 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
Ground-Shaking Research: How Humans Trigger Earthquakes
Hazards in Paradise: Indonesia Prepares for Natural Disasters
Hidden Double Earthquake Spells Trouble for Tsunami-Warning Systems
Human-Induced Quakes Included in New Seismic Hazard Maps
Ice Sheet Has Had Lasting Effect on European Earthquakes
In the Lab, Machine Learning Improves Quake Forecasts
Initial Earthquake Behavior Does Not Predict Outcome
Jump-Starting Earthquake Insurance Uptake in California
Kaikoura Quake Jumped From Fault to Fault in New Zealand
King Oraefajokull
Lack of Afterslip in Nepal Hints at Mounting Tensions
Measuring Earthquakes Using Fiber-Optic Cables
Medieval Earthquakes in Nepal May Help Reveal the Region's Tectonic Future
Narratives From Nepal: Relief and Rebuilding After the Gorkha Earthquake
Nearly Half of Americans in Lower 48 at Risk for Potentially Damaging Quake Shaking
New Measurement Shakes Up Earthquake Estimates
New Research Suggests Syrian Refugees Must Be Accounted for in Seismic Risk Models
New Tool Predicts Probability of Earthquake-Triggered Landslides
New Zealand Quake Triggers Two Large Slow-Slip Events
Peeling North American Plate Causing East Coast Earthquakes
Residual Strain Explains Later Quakes
Revealing Potential Tsunami Inundation on California Coast
Scientists Find Earthquakes Trigger Instantaneous Aftershocks on Neighboring Faults
Soil May Supply Surging Streams After Earthquakes
Source of Red Sea's Mysterious Cannon Earthquakes Revealed
Stock Traders' Algorithm Finds Slow Earthquakes
Subducting Seamounts Blocked a Big Quake in Chile
Surprise Quake at Mount Fuji Triggered by Rising Gases
Temblor: An App That Brings Home Your Seismic Hazard
The Most Dangerous Fault in America
The Quake's Impact on Western Thinking
The Ups and Downs of an Island
Tilted Himalayan Temples Hold Clues to Past Shaking
Travels in Geology: Jewel of the Apennines: Italy's Monti Sibillini National Park
Water Weight and Surface Rebound Trigger Small Quakes in California
When Schools Shake: Keeping Students and Teachers Safe During Earthquakes
Where Will the San Andreas Fault Rupture Next?
Earthquake Early Warning Network
Hazardous Living: Collision Forces Behind Devastating Turkey Quake
Initial Earthquake Behavior Does Not Predict Outcome
Vital Seconds: The Journey Toward Earthquake Early Warning for All
Earthquake Insurance
A Public Service Announcement: Improve Geologic Literacy Starting on the Home Front
Comment: The Oso Landslide Shows Need for Insurance and Better Planning
Jump-Starting Earthquake Insurance Uptake in California
Temblor: An App That Brings Home Your Seismic Hazard
Earthquake Prediction
Creeping Faults Warn of Impending Earthquakes?
Earthquake Prediction: Gone and Back Again
Earthquakes
2012: The End of the World or Just Another Year of Living in Harm's Way?
A History of "Big Ones"
A Public Service Announcement: Improve Geologic Literacy Starting on the Home Front
Alaskan Megathrust Fault More Active Under Kodiak
Alaskan Volcano Doesn't Just Huff and Puff, It Screams
Are Slow-Slip Earthquakes Under Tokyo Stressing Faults?
Asia's Hazardous Month
Baja Quake Sheds Light on Liquefaction
Benchmarks: August 17, 1959: Hebgen Lake Earthquake and Landslide
Benchmarks: December 16, 1811-February 7, 1812: the New Madrid Earthquakes Strike the Heartland
Benchmarks: December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami Strikes
Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
Better Warnings for the Consequences of Earthquakes: Bringing Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments to Policy
Big Quakes Topple Traditional Views of Fault Behavior
Blame It on the Rain: The Proposed Links Between Severe Storms and Earthquakes
Blogging on EARTH: AGU: Japan Tsunami Actually Made Population More Vulnerable?
Blogging on EARTH: FEMA's Plans for New Madrid
Blogging on EARTH: Panelists Weigh in on Tsunami Preparedness Policy
Blogging on EARTH: Previously Unknown Fault Responsible for Haiti Quake
Blogging on EARTH: Wisconsin's Microquake Mystery
Books: The Once and Future San Andreas Fault
Californians Prepare for the Big One
Cantabrians Keep Humor in the Hardship
Casting a Seismic Shadow
Chile Quake/Tsunami News Coverage: The Bad and the Good
Chile's Quake Larger but Less Destructive Than Haiti's
China Quake Kills at Least 400
Closing Istanbul's Seismic Gap
Creeping Faults Warn of Impending Earthquakes?
Crystal Ball EARTH: Natural Hazards: Reducing Society's Risks
Don't Forget About the Christchurch Earthquake: Lessons Learned From Disaster
Down to Earth With: Brian Tucker
Earthquake Prediction: Gone and Back Again
Earthquake Rattles Eastern Indonesia
Earthquake Rocks Central Italy
Earthquake Rocks Sumatra
Earthquake Shakes Southern New Zealand
Earthquakes Overwhelm Tajikistan, Solomon Islands
Faking Quakes at Full Scale: Giant Shake Tables Simulate Earthquakes to Make Buildings Safer
Geomedia: Twitter Gives Heads-Up to Users and Officials About Earthquakes
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
Giant Quake Sloshed Fjords Half a World Away
Guatemalan Landslide Kills 33
Haiti Devastated by Major Earthquake
Haitian Quake No Shock to Geologists
Hazard Lingers After South Napa Earthquake
Hazardous Living: Collision Forces Behind Devastating Turkey Quake
Hazardous Living: Geologists to Be Charged for Not Predicting Earthquake?
Hazardous Living: Good Reading - Is the Apocalypse Upon Us?
Hazardous Living: Guatemala and Ecuador Under Volcanic Siege ... and Other Hazards
Hazardous Living: Italian Seismologists on Trial for Manslaughter
Hazardous Living: Italian Seismologists Tragically Convicted of Manslaughter
Hazards Abroad: Sent Home
Highlights of 2011: New Zealand: After 8,000 Aftershocks, When Will It Stop?
Human-Induced Earthquakes Shake Less
Humans Causing California's Mountains to Grow
In Turkey, the Older the Fault, the Bigger the Quake: Good News for Istanbul?
Inland Earthquake Triggers Distant Tsunami
Japan's Megaquake and Killer Tsunami: How Did This Happen?
Killer Quake Strikes New Zealand
Large Earthquake Rattles Baja California
Large Earthquake Rocks Iran Oil Port
Lead-Up to Icelandic Earthquakes Seen in Groundwater Chemistry
Longmenshan Fault Zone in the Spotlight After Two Major Quakes in Five Years
Mag.-8.9 Quake Strikes Japan, Tsunami Heads for Hawaii
Managing the Seismic Risk Posed by Wastewater Disposal
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
Massive Earthquake Strikes Chile
Moonquake Mystery Deepens
Natural Gas Production Linked to Earthquakes in Texas
Old Photos Help Scientists Relocate 1906 San Francisco Quake Rupture Point
On the Web: Shake, Rattle and Roll: What Does an Earthquake Sound Like?
Pacific Northwest Earthquake Threat Heightened?
Pakistan Quake Kills at Least 170
People's Earthquake Reports Influenced More by Locomotion Than Location
Powerful Earthquake Strikes Samoa
Remote Triggering of Ice Quakes
Report From Ground Zero
Risky Business: Modeling Catastrophes
Russian Earthquake Ruptures Superfast and Deep
San Andreas Fault Shook Bay Area Three Times in a Century
Scientists Demonstrate Strengths and Shortcomings of Method for Determining Ancient Earthquake Size
Scores Dead, Injured Following Indonesian Earthquake
Seattle's Landslide Risk Greater Than Thought
Seismic Friction Causes Fault Iridescence
Setting Sail on Unknown Seas: The Past, Present and Future of Species Rafting
Slab Tear Explains Perplexing Colombian Earthquake Activity
Small Tremor Could Have Triggered Big Chilean Quake
Snow Triggers Quakes on Mount Rainier
Striped Pyrites Link Earthquakes to Gold Deposition
Sumatran Strike-Slip Earthquakes Challenge Seismologists
Superquakes, Supercycles, and Global Earthquake Clustering: Recent Research and Recent Quakes Reveal Surprises in Major Fault Systems
Swarm of Earthquakes Rattles Yellowstone
Temblor Flattens Turkish Towns
The Bay Area's Next 'Big One' Could Strike as a Series of Quakes
Thinking Outside the Rocks in the Search for Ancient Earthquakes
Tohoku Tsunami May Have Gotten a Boost From Submarine Slump
Travels in Geology: Glacial Pools to Sea Caves: a Tour of New Zealand's South Island
Triggered Tremor Along the San Andreas Fault
Tsunami Kills Hundreds in Indonesia
US Earthquakes Actually a Powerful Siberian Quake
VA Quake Felt Far and Wide, Here's Why
Vital Seconds: The Journey Toward Earthquake Early Warning for All
Voices: From Haiti to Japan: A Tale of Two Disaster Recoveries
Voices: Geologists on the Wrong Side of the Law
Voices: Italian Quakes and Deaths Point to Industrial Facilities as Death Traps
Voices: Italian Seismologists: What Should They Have Said?
Voices: Judged Unfairly in L'Aquila - Roles and Responsibilities Should Have Been Considered
Voices: Should Science Dictate Whether to Rebuild After a Natural Disaster?
Voices: The Confounding Economics of Natural Disasters
Voices: What Happened at Fukushima?
We're All Living in the Global Aftershock Zone
When and Why L'Aquila Came Tumbling Down
Where Fire Freezes: All Eyes, Ears and Instruments on Iceland's Volatile Volcanoes
World's Largest Deep Earthquake Recorded
Earthscope
USArray: Geoscientists' "Earth Telescope"
East Anatolian Fault
Temblor Flattens Turkish Towns
East Antarctica Ice Sheet
Unearthing Antarctica's Mysterious Mountains
Eastern United States
Ocean Dynamics Speed Sea-Level Rise Along U.S. East Coast
Eclipse
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar Eclipse "Proves" Relativity
Geomedia: Books: Solar Eclipses Past, Present and Future
Solar Eclipse Mimics Conditions on Mars
Ecology
2013 Front Range Flooding: An Ecological Perspective
Banana-Preserving Bacterium Shows Promise Against Bat-Killing Fungus
Bark Beetles Not to Blame for Big Fires?
Beached Iceberg Alters Antarctic Marine Communities
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew Sealed Inside Biosphere 2
California's Big Trees Dying of Thirst
Can Dam Releases Restore River Ecosystems?
Comment: Remarkable Geology Sets New Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Apart
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Earthworms Build Big Mounds to Escape Floodwaters
European Mammals Will Struggle Under Climate Change
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" Is Only Half-Compelling
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Longer Season for Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
N.E.O.N.: Studying Critical Ecological Issues on a Continental Scale
Nineteenth-Century Cows Muddied Southern California Continental Shelf
No Pre-Columbian Deforestation of the Western Amazon
Surveying Forests From Afar
The Current Extinction of Life Will Leave a Scant Fossil Record
Economics
An Economic Argument for Reframing the Geoscientist's Role in Disaster Mitigation
Comment: Pipe Dreams: What Have We Learned From the Volkswagen Clean-Diesel Scandal?
Delusions of Grandeur in Building a Low-Carbon Future
Highlights of 2011: Energy and Economics 2011-2012
SEC Mandates Businesses Disclose Use of Conflict Minerals
Temblor: An App That Brings Home Your Seismic Hazard
Voices: From Haiti to Japan: A Tale of Two Disaster Recoveries
Economy
A Dirty Secret - China's Greatest Import: Carbon Emissions
After Hurricanes, U.S. Beach Homes Are Rebuilt Bigger
Crystal Ball EARTH: Agriculture: The Future Will Have a Different Face Than the Past
Geologic Column: My China Syndrome
Pelosi: Science First for Economic Recovery
Restarting U.S. Rare Earth Production?
The Changing Face of Sudan
The Energy-Water Nexus: Managing Water in an Energy-Constrained World
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
Voices: Humans at High Temperatures
Ecosystem
Beavers Preserve Wetlands in Water-Stressed Areas
Can Dam Releases Restore River Ecosystems?
Comment: The Congressional Ecosystem: A Paleontologist's Perspective
Crumbly Amber Holds Dinosaur Secrets
Liverworts, Not Moss, Dominated Earth's Early Terrestrial Ecosystems
Mississippi Delta Drowning
Polar Dino Tracks Show Full Ecosystem
Releasing a Flood of Controversy on the Colorado River
Removing Predators Increases Carbon Emissions
Spawning Salmon Engineer Landscapes
Ecosystem Services
Biophysical Economics: The Mississippi Delta as a Lens for Global Issues
N.E.O.N.: Studying Critical Ecological Issues on a Continental Scale
Ectotherm
Dinosaurs' Active Lifestyles Suggest They Were Warm-Blooded
Ecuador
Ecuadorian Volcano Plays Its Pipe
Voices: Volcanoes Everywhere ... Is There a Link?
Ediacaran
Earth's First Footprints
Precambrian Rumblings of the Cambrian Explosion
Soft-Bodied Fossils Cast in Fool's Gold
Weak Magnetic Field May Have Triggered Earth's First Mass Extinction
Education
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE Is Launched
Beyond Rocks for Jocks: Elevating Geoscience Education
Blogging on EARTH: A Letter From Field Camp
Comment: High School Earth and Space Science Should Be Taught by Geoscientists
Comment: Making the First (And Last) Geoscience Class Count
Comment: Why Is It So Hard to Teach Climate Change?
Core Skills in the Geosciences: The Geoblogosphere Chimes in on What Students Need to Know
Creationism Creeps Into Mainstream Geology
Down to Earth With: Eric Riggs
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
Down to Earth With: Matt Kuchta
Down to Earth With: Michael Novacek
Down to Earth With: Mountain Biking Geologist Kurt Refsnider
Down to Earth With: Sharon Mosher
Do–it–yourself Lava Flows: Science, Art and Education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
Earth Science Rocks at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Fieldwork Among the Pixels: Virtual and Augmented Reality Diversify Geoscience Education
Geologic Column: Assessing Energy and Mining Workforce Needs
Geologic Column: Beyond Geology, Field Camps Teach Teamwork and Inspire Leadership
Geologic Column: Decades Later, Mr. Keene's Earth Science Class Sticks With Me
Geologic Column: Newspeak for Kids
Geology 101: Reading the Story in the Rocks
Google Searching for the World's Next Top Scientists
Highlights of 2011: Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, but Not Enough People to Fill Them
Home Sweet Home for Field Campers
Location, Location, Location
On the Web: Ka-Pow! Superhero Short Films Get Kids Thinking About Climate Change
Place-Based Education: Teaching Geoscience in the Context of Location and Culture
School of Rock: Educating Educators at Sea
Science and Soccer: They're Both Child's Play
Spotlight on UCORE Projects
Student Scientists Cast a Long Shadow
Surviving Field School: Better Than Reality TV
Texas Board of Education Votes to Strike Amendment Questioning Evolution
The Coconino's Starring Role in the Creationist-Geologist Battle
The Syracuse University Lava Experiments
Urban Geology: An Emerging Discipline in an Increasingly Urbanized World
Voices: Defending Science: The Link Between Creationism and Climate Change
Voices: Log Off and Get Outside Again
Voices: What Does "The Nation's Report Card" Tell Us About Science Education?
When Science Meets Film at MIT
Education and Outreach
A Public Service Announcement: Improve Geologic Literacy Starting on the Home Front
Bigfoot Education and Outreach
Comment: GAVRT: Learning Science by Doing Science
Comment: How to Tell a Good Science Story
Comment: Kitchen Counter Geology: Bringing Rock Identification to a New Audience
Comment: Understanding Earth in the Wider Sense of Science
Community College at Sea: Research Experiences for Community College Students Build the STEM Pipeline
Down to Earth With Marine Geoscientist Harold Tobin
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Down to Earth With: Cave Scientist and Paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Erin Pettit
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
Geocorps America: Putting Geoscientists to Work on Federal Lands
Geologic Column: Geology for the People: Finding New Paths to Public Outreach
Geomedia: On the Web: Dinologue: A Dino Blog
How the School of Rock Came to Be
On the Web: Mount St. Helens Goes Online to Reach the Masses
Saving Mongolia's Dinosaurs and Inspiring the Next Generation of Paleontologists
School of Rock: Educating Educators at Sea
Science as a Family Affair
Science Denialism: The Problem That Just Won't Go Away
Students Send Experiments to the International Space Station
Teaching Geology to Biologists: An Essay on an Interdisciplinary Field Trip in Africa
Undergraduates Build and Launch a Satellite to Measure Atmospheric Drag
USArray: Geoscientists' "Earth Telescope"
Egypt
Getting There and Getting Around Cairo
Museums: Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt
Voices: A Growing Need for Geoscience Diplomacy
Einstein
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar Eclipse "Proves" Relativity
Geologic Column: Pie on Pi Day, and Einstein's Lesser-Known Legacy
El Nino
A New — And More Toxic — Normal? Harmful Algal Blooms Find New Habitats in Changing Oceans
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Early Pacific Seafarers Set Sail in El Niño Years
El Nino "Flavors" Affect California Rainfall
El Niño Disaster Stunted Children's Growth
El Niño Gets Animated
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
Ocean Waves Explain Which La Niña Events Will Linger
Old Piles of Shells Reveal Ancient El Niño Patterns
Persistent Pacific Warmth Overshadows El Niño
Scientists Look Wider and Deeper to Predict the Next El Nino
Trans-Niño Years Could Foster Tornado Outbreaks
Voices: Climate Change and Civil Conflict: New Clues From El Nino
Election
Energy's the Hot Topic This Week on the Hill
Electricity
D.C. Wastewater No Longer Going to Waste
Electric Fields Lift Dust Into the Air at Massive Scales
Energy Storage Brings a Renewable Energy Future One Step Closer
Making Electric Grids Smarter
Solar Storms Cause Spike in Electrical Insurance Claims
The Dangers of Solar Storms: That Which Gives Power Can Also Take It Away
Voices: Must We Capture and Store Carbon From Coal to Meet Emission-Reduction Targets?
Why Is the U.S. So Insecure About Its Energy Security? Measures of Energy Independence Show It Is Increasing, Not Decreasing
Why Meteors Snap, Crackle and Pop
Electronics
Paving the Way for Electronic Waste Recycling
Emails
Voices: Harassment of Scientists Reaches a Fever Pitch
Emissions
Carbon and the City: Tracking Emissions From Megacities
Carbon Tet Still Offensive to Ozone Layer
Comment: Pipe Dreams: What Have We Learned From the Volkswagen Clean-Diesel Scandal?
Earthquakes Make Volcanoes More — And Less — Gassy
Limestone Reservoirs Boost Volcanic Carbon Emissions
No Laughing Matter: Ocean Nitrous Oxide Emissions Greater Than Thought
One-Two Punch of Past Warming May Hold Lessons
Removing Predators Increases Carbon Emissions
Smokier U.S. West as Climate Changes
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Enceladus
Cassini's Legacy After Two Decades
Heating Up Enceladus' Ice-Covered Ocean
End Cretaceous
An Asteroid Redirected Bird Evolution
Antarctic No Place to Hide During End-Cretaceous Extinction
Dino Deaths Cleared the Way for Frogs
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
Impact or Eruptions: Are Both to Blame in the Great End-Cretaceous Whodunit?
Limited Ranges Left Ammonites Vulnerable to Extinction
Mammals Hit Harder Than Thought by End-Cretaceous Extinction
Mercury Levels Support Volcanic Role in End-Cretaceous Extinction
Travels in Geology: Gubbio, Italy: A Geologist's Mecca
Endotherm
Dinosaurs' Active Lifestyles Suggest They Were Warm-Blooded
Energy
A Whale of a Wind Turbine
Apps: Improving Home Energy Efficiency in 2013
Around the World in the Solar Taxi
As Green as It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Bailout Bill Passes, Extends Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Biofuels and Food: Mutually Exclusive?
Brazil Says 'No Thanks' to OPEC
Breaking the Energy Barrier
Calculating America's Energy Landscape
Capturing Carbon From Coal Plants: Is It Feasible?
Coal-to-Liquids: Can Fuel Made From Coal Replace Gasoline?
Congress Lets Bans on Outer Continental Shelf Drilling Expire
Crystal Ball EARTH: Agriculture: The Future Will Have a Different Face Than the Past
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A Fool's Look Into the Future
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and Gas Around the World
Crystal Ball EARTH: Policy: A Tale of Two Years
DOE Promises $2.4 Billion for Clean Coal
Dry Dock to Wet Tap: Old Ships Become Floating Desalination Plants
Dye-Ing for Efficient Solar Power
EIA: Worldwide Oil Demand Will Plummet in 2009
Energy 360: Leaving Our Corners for the Radical Middle: New Zealand Sets an Example
Energy Mission: "Kilowatt Ours"
Energy Notes: February 2013-2014
Energy Notes: January 2013-2014
Energy's the Hot Topic This Week on the Hill
Flaring Our Way Out of a Water Crisis
Geologic Column: Assessing Energy and Mining Workforce Needs
Geologic Column: Saving the World? or Just Saving Money?
GSA Meeting: Biofuels vs. Food - Developing Countries Suffer Most
GSA Meeting: Hydrocarbons Not Going Into the Sunset Just Yet
Here Comes the Solar Maximum: What We Know - And Don't Know - About Solar Storms and Their Hazards
Highlights of 2010: Offshore Wind in Texas and the Curious Case of Massachusetts
Highlights of 2011: Energy and Economics 2011-2012
Hot but Not Bothered: Warm Soils Favor Microbes With Small Genomes
Hot Enough for Ya? Investigating Climate Change in "Heat"
Houston Avoids Worst of Ike; Gas Prices Jump
Is There Really a Minerals Crisis?
Making Electric Grids Smarter
Microbes Care About Energy Efficiency
Mineral Resource of the Month: Niobium
Mix of Acid Mine Drainage and Fracking Fluid a Recipe for Remediation?
Montreal Protocol Affects More Than Just Ozone
Obama Asks EPA to Reconsider State-Set Emissions Standards
Oil Barrel Politics
Oil Industries Escape Ike's Wrath
Reclaiming Alberta's Oil Sands Mines
Saving Energy and Water Through Superior Sanitation
Sea Sprawl: Into the Blue Frontier of Ocean Development
Shale Boom Could Fuel Batteries
Staking a Claim: Deep-Sea Mining Nears Fruition
Strategies to Meet Our Water and Energy Needs: Insight From a Texas "Treemap"
Testing Methane's Potential on the North Slope
The Art of Un-Legislating
The Energy-Water Nexus: Managing Water in an Energy-Constrained World
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
Think Differently: Renewable Hydrogen Generation
Ultraviolet Lights the Way for Rare Earth Recycling
USGS Finds Giant Gas Hydrate Deposits on North Slope
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
Voices: Natural Gas Can Lead the Way
Voices: Redefining Humanity Through Energy Use
Wal-Mart to Use Wind Energy
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Why Is the U.S. So Insecure About Its Energy Security? Measures of Energy Independence Show It Is Increasing, Not Decreasing
With Falling Oil Prices, Short-Sellers May Win Big
World War G: Zombies, Energy and the Geosciences
Energy Consumption
Apps: Improving Home Energy Efficiency in 2013
Delusions of Grandeur in Building a Low-Carbon Future
Satellites - Not Just Santa - See Holiday Lights
The Energy-Water Nexus: Managing Water in an Energy-Constrained World
Energy Notes
Energy Notes: April 2013 - 2014
Energy Notes: April 2014-2015
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Energy Notes: August 2013-2014
Energy Notes: December 2012-2013
Energy Notes: December 2013-2014
Energy Notes: February 2014-2015
Energy Notes: January 2014-2015
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Energy Notes: July 2013-2014
Energy Notes: June 2013-2014
Energy Notes: June 2014 - 2015
Energy Notes: March 2013-2014
Energy Notes: May 2013-2014
Energy Notes: May 2014-2015
Energy Notes: November 2012-2013
Energy Notes: November 2013-2014
Energy Notes: October 2012-2013
Energy Notes: September 2012-2013
Energy Notes: September 2013-2014
Energy Policy
Comment: Energy 360: Let Science Speak, Not Agendas
Comment: The Arrival of the Energy Future
Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
Energy 360: Leaving Our Corners for the Radical Middle: New Zealand Sets an Example
Energy 360: Moving Energy - No Easy Feat, but a Vital Conversation
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Why Is the U.S. So Insecure About Its Energy Security? Measures of Energy Independence Show It Is Increasing, Not Decreasing
World War G: Zombies, Energy and the Geosciences
Energy Sprawl
Calculating America's Energy Landscape
Energy Storage
Battery Recycling Underlies Elevated Lead in African Soils
Energy Storage Brings a Renewable Energy Future One Step Closer
Racing to the Future of Automotive Efficiency and Performance
Shale Boom Could Fuel Batteries
Engebretson
Earth Tides in a Major
Musical Magnetic Reversals
Engineering
A L'Aquila Trigger, Seismic Gaps and Poor Construction: What We've Learned From the August Earthquake in Italy
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill Disappears
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. Sign the Treaty of Canterbury, Paving the Way for the Chunnel
Benchmarks: November 7, 1940, and November 25, 1990: Washington Suffers a Pair of Debilitating Bridge Failures
Bringing Geoscience to Bear on the Problem of Abandoned Mines
Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
Dutch Masters: The Netherlands Exports Flood-Control Expertise
Geologic Column: Dams in Distress
Geologic Column: Giving Konrad Zuse His Due
When Schools Shake: Keeping Students and Teachers Safe During Earthquakes
England
Getting There and Getting Around England
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic Masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Enriquillo Fault
Blogging on EARTH: Previously Unknown Fault Responsible for Haiti Quake
Enso
La Niña Could Set the Stage for Flu Pandemics
Trans-Niño Years Could Foster Tornado Outbreaks
Voices: Climate Change and Civil Conflict: New Clues From El Nino
What Drives Hot Spots of Sea-Level Rise?
Environment
"Greening" Stormwater in Philadelphia
'The Big Necessity' Reclaiming Feces
AGU: How Scientists Should Talk Climate Change
Air Pollutants From "Megacities" a Growing Problem