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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
Economy
After hurricanes, U.S. beach homes are rebuilt bigger
Geologic Column: My China syndrome
The energy-water nexus: Managing water in an energy-constrained world
A Dirty Secret - China's greatest import: Carbon emissions
Crystal Ball EARTH: Agriculture: The future will have a different face than the past
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
Voices: Humans at high temperatures
Pelosi: Science first for economic recovery
Restarting U.S. rare earth production?
The Changing Face of Sudan
Erosion
After hurricanes, U.S. beach homes are rebuilt bigger
A rocky source of nitrogen
Benchmarks: May 3, 2003: New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain falls
Western wildfires affect water quality
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
Red Planet Roundup: October 2017
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Bottom dropping out of coral reefs
Martian channels carved by lava, not water?
White Cliffs of Dover on the retreat
Small floods can carve big canyons
Fungi stabilize steep slopes
Ice (Re)Cap: February 2016
Wormholes may limit landslides
Due diligence in river incision data
Sculpting the Alps
Wind whips canyons into shape
Pre-settlement erosion rates illuminated
Yosemite's cliffs in retreat
Gravity builds stone sculptures
Clues to limestone weathering written in Western Wall
Tiny ants are heroic weathering agents
Hurricane Ike sent Galveston's beaches out to sea
Hazards
After hurricanes, U.S. beach homes are rebuilt bigger
Folding drone flies into tight spaces
Inside the inferno: How large firenadoes form
Wind or water? Hurricane Harvey's most destructive force
Jump-starting earthquake insurance uptake in California
Comment: After a disaster, should you gamble on returning? Paradise edition
Comment: Faster flood forecasting to improve responses
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Night lights reveal that people move as rivers rise
Human-triggered landslides on the rise
New tool predicts probability of earthquake-triggered landslides
Down to Earth With: Coastal scientist Gary Griggs
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" recounts the 1755 Lisbon disaster
Geologic Column: A cautionary tale about "sleeping" natural hazards
Where will the San Andreas Fault rupture next?
Sunny Southern California burns, missing its coastal clouds
Readying the Caribbean for the next big wave
New measurement shakes up earthquake estimates
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale coal mine fire kills 110, igniting reform
Comment: Out of bounds: Rethinking U.S. flood risk delineation
Natural solutions could save $50 billion in Gulf Coast flood damages
Plumbing Masaya's lava lake
"Dam levels critical" in Cape Town
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
Hazards in paradise: Indonesia prepares for natural disasters
Toxic treatments: Lead lingers in folk remedies
Cape Town faces a waterless future
Geoscience on Film: The Burma Arc in Myanmar
Taking the surprise out of sneaker waves
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended
Benchmarks: June 15, 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" spotlights seismic risk
Geoscience on Film: Roadcuts and rockfalls in mountainous Mizoram
Acid rain triggered deadly Chinese landslide
Residual strain explains later quakes
Creeping danger: Landslide threatens Peruvian village, especially when the earth quakes
Arizona road hazard has surprising source
Climate change linked to specific weather events for the first time
Opportunist organisms rafted across the Pacific on plastic
Both urban flooding and rural drying to intensify
Seismic patterns help forecast eruptions from quiet stratovolcanoes
Volcanic activity contributed to first of the "Big Five" mass extinctions
Desktop seismology: How a maker-inspired device is changing seismic monitoring
Geomedia: Books: Vivid anecdotes abound in "Eruption: The untold story of Mount St. Helens"
T-A-P (Testing, Awareness, Prevention)
Troubled waters: Lead lurking in U.S. water supplies
New method offers improved monitoring of Kilauea
Less-developed countries with high climate risk need better access to weather and climate data
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The deadliest wildfire in American history incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
When schools shake: Keeping students and teachers safe during earthquakes
Dust influences pollution levels in eastern China
Complex Kaikoura earthquake forces rethink of multifault ruptures
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 earthquake rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Stock traders' algorithm finds slow earthquakes
Lidar sheds light on roadside rockfall hazard
More than a nuisance: Over time, small floods cost more than extreme events
Are North Atlantic storm tracks shifting south?
How often should we expect volcanic ash clouds over Europe?
Bare Earth Elements: Tour brings hurricane hunting aircraft and expertise to the masses
An economic argument for reframing the geoscientist's role in disaster mitigation
Investigating erionite, asbestos' more carcinogenic cousin
Tallying temperature drops inside tornadoes
Ash vs. airplanes
Warning: Ash Ahead!
Of airplanes and ash clouds: What we've learned since Eyjafjallajökull
Soil moisture may help predict power outages in hurricanes
Gravity changes may warn of large earthquakes
Kaikoura quake jumped from fault to fault in New Zealand
Chinese air pollution clears up mystery of London's 1952 hazardous haze
Benchmarks: March 11–13, 1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 Paralyzes New York City
Comment: Atmospheric rivers increase water supply in California — but only to a point
Assessing how well earthquake hazard maps work: Insights from weather and baseball
Burning grass releases more nitrogen pollution than burning wood
Initial earthquake behavior does not predict outcome
Scientists map U.S. geoelectric hazards
Temblor: An app that brings home your seismic hazard
Road salt may be a larger problem for lakes than thought
Tornadic storms fed by perfect spirals
Earthquake-resilient pipes aim to keep L.A.'s water flowing
Active Japanese volcano due for large eruption?
Scientists find earthquakes trigger instantaneous aftershocks on neighboring faults
New research suggests Syrian refugees must be accounted for in seismic risk models
Life-saving diplomacy: The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program at thirty
Smokier U.S. West as climate changes
A L'Aquila trigger, seismic gaps and poor construction: What we've learned from the August earthquake in Italy
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado del Ruiz eruption triggers deadly lahars
Scientists get rare opportunity to monitor caldera collapse in real time
NYC pigeons are canaries of lead poisoning
Kilauea increases asthma risk
Everything's bigger in Texas, including the Wink sinkholes
Lack of afterslip in Nepal hints at mounting tensions
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches sweep through Austrian towns, killing dozens
Benchmarks: September 8, 1900: Massive hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas
Peeling North American Plate causing East Coast earthquakes
Firefighting gets a leg up from earthquake sensor networks
Helium escape may help predict volcanic activity
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera erupts
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains earthquake
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 dust storm injures hundreds
Vibrations make large rocky landslides flow like water
Sea-level rise a risk for millions in the United States
Geoscience on Film: Innovation meets tradition for earthquake safety
Sand shouldn't stand in for volcanic ash in jet engine tests
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii tsunami ushers in a Pacific-wide warning system
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest day of fire ever recorded in Australia
Geoscience on Film: Soaking in beautiful Bhutan
Benchmarks: January 3–5, 1982: 18,000 landslides wreak havoc on the San Francisco Bay area
Benchmarks: November 7, 1940, and November 25, 1990: Washington suffers a pair of debilitating bridge failures
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga burns
Earthquakes can jump long distances
Geoscience on Film: The view from outside Kathmandu
Geoscience on Film: Revisiting an earthquake-ravaged region, one year on
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown flood kills thousands
Deadly tornadoes
Benchmarks: March 18, 1925: Tri-state twister kills 695 people
Bringing geoscience to bear on the problem of abandoned mines
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA' for the earth science enthusiast
Dating of landslides around Oso reveals recurring patterns
Geomedia: Books: 'Floodpath' recounts the deadly collapse of California's St. Francis Dam
Double trouble: Volcanic eruption leads to strong earthquake eight months later
Surprise quake at Mount Fuji triggered by rising gases
Comment: Assessing the threat from massive rock slope failures in the Norwegian fjordlands
Buried sands tell of tsunami hazard from creeping megathrust fault
Mesa Arch's 'hum' measured to track health of rock structure
The most dangerous fault in America
Medieval earthquakes in Nepal may help reveal the region's tectonic future
Crippling heat stress projected by midcentury in densely populated regions
Downgoing plate topography stopped 2005 Sumatra rupture
King Oraefajokull
Hekla the heckler
Eerily quiet Katla
Where fire freezes: All eyes, ears and instruments on Iceland's volatile volcanoes
Human-induced quakes included in new seismic hazard maps
Sailors right about sneaky rogue waves
Protracted drought threatens California levees
Benchmarks: March 17, 1944: The most recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius
How supervolcanoes are set off
Uranium contamination in aquifers could be linked to nitrate
Hidden double earthquake spells trouble for tsunami-warning systems
Slipping point: Snow scientists dig in to decipher avalanche triggers
What are the odds?: Automated system calculates the likelihood that asteroids will hit Earth
Subducting seamounts blocked a big quake in Chile
Widespread malaria risk from African dams
Revealing potential tsunami inundation on California coast
Treated water that's too pure lets arsenic sneak in
Modeling 'magma mush' could reveal volcanic histories
Nearly half of Americans in lower 48 at risk for potentially damaging quake shaking
Working near Gorkha's epicenter
Narratives from Nepal: Relief and rebuilding after the Gorkha Earthquake
Earthquake changed Po River's course in 16th-century Italy
Ice sheet has had lasting effect on European earthquakes
The quake's impact on western thinking
Benchmarks: November 1, 1755: Earthquake destroys Lisbon
Santa Ana winds get a fiery boost from the stratosphere
Benchmarks: December 4, 1992: The Seattle Fault Zone is described
Toxic Gardens: The long legacy of urban lead
Vital seconds: The journey toward earthquake early warning for all
Ancient floods degassed Lake Kivu
Benchmarks: September 21, 1938: The great New England Hurricane strikes
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake devastates western China
Volcanic lightning turns ash into glass
Hurricane wrath may be reduced by rainfall
Bare Earth Elements: "Volcano of Fire" eruption forces evacuations in Mexico
Comment: Who should be worried about space weather
Aquifers contaminated by Supertyphoon Haiyan storm surge
Banana-preserving bacterium shows promise against bat-killing fungus
Flames fan lasting fallout from Chernobyl
A decade of slow slip may have preceded Japan's 2011 earthquake
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
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The deadly eruption of Mount Pelée
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
On-site inspections
Beyond the bomb: The world's nuclear watchdog expands its science
Fire-driven clouds and swirling winds whipped up record-setting New Mexico blaze
Ground-shaking research: How humans trigger earthquakes
Geoscience on Film: Traversing the contours and culture of an ancient delta
Geoscience on Film: Setting the scene amid extreme tectonic and sedimentary processes
A front-row seat at a fire-and-ice show
Small tremor could have triggered big Chilean quake
Coastal cities will see regular flooding
Chaitén's vigorous volcanic history revealed
Comment: Our flawed perceptions of risk
Down to Earth With: The USGS Landslide Response Team
First tsunami refuge under construction on Washington coast
Magma pancakes underlie Toba supervolcano
El Niño disaster stunted children's growth
Asbestos found in Nevada and Arizona: Roadblock and potential health hazard?
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Tohoku tsunami may have gotten a boost from submarine slump
California drying out
Secondary aerosols a primary cause of Chinese smog
Comment: Supersites: Sharing geoscience data for science and society
California: A profusion of drought restrictions with varying results
Down to Earth With: Brian Tucker
Hazard lingers after South Napa earthquake
Benchmarks: October 9, 1963: The Vajont Landslide kills 2,500 in Italy
Modeling a big mess from Yellowstone
Utah gravity slide was one for the record books
1912 not an exceptional iceberg year
Lead-up to Icelandic earthquakes seen in groundwater chemistry
Twister season comes earlier to tornado alley
Comment: Preparing for the volcano in your backyard: New Zealand sets an example
The '100-year flood' fallacy: Return periods misleading in communication of flood risk
Better flood forecasts eyed from space
Inland earthquake triggers distant tsunami
Benchmarks: December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami strikes
Comment: How much hazard mitigation is enough?
Russian earthquake ruptures superfast and deep
Benchmarks: November 8, 2013: Super-typhoon Haiyan tests Philippines warning protocols
Solar storms cause spike in electrical insurance claims
Casting a seismic shadow
Triggered tremor along the San Andreas Fault
Remote triggering of ice quakes
We're all living in the global aftershock zone
Colorado River Basin sees severe groundwater depletion
Kilauea eruptions could shift from mild to wild
Santiaguito Volcano's clockwork behavior provides an exceptional laboratory
Infrasound reveals lava lake levels
Human-induced earthquakes shake less
In Turkey, the older the fault, the bigger the quake: Good news for Istanbul?
Africa's impact is one that even the dinosaurs would have seen coming
Benchmarks: August 15, 1984 & August 21, 1986: African killer lakes erupt
New model predicts pumice drift patterns
How to keep the flows out: Build a wall
Kilauea vs. Mauna Loa
Living in the shadow of Mauna Loa: A silent summit belies a volcano's forgotten fury
Oso landslide report yields some answers
Augustine Volcano's earthquakes and explosive eruption caused by a clogged conduit
Are slow-slip earthquakes under Tokyo stressing faults?
People's earthquake reports influenced more by locomotion than location
Solar wind gives lightning a boost
Unlocking the Cascadia Subduction Zone's secrets: Peering into recent research and findings
San Andreas Fault shook Bay Area three times in a century
Magma mobilizes quickly beneath Mount Hood
Longmenshan fault zone in the spotlight after two major quakes in five years
Lessons from the Russian meteor burst
Comment: The Oso landslide shows need for insurance and better planning
Faking quakes at full scale: Giant shake tables simulate earthquakes to make buildings safer
Resolving a misplaced source of volcanism in the Galapagos
Social sciences improve tornado warnings
Massive earthquake strikes Chile
Volcanic lightning generated in a bottle
Sudden gas eruption shakes the ground near Rome's airport
GPS measurements of ground inflation help forecast ash plumes
Seattle's landslide risk greater than thought
Hazards abroad: Sent home
Be prepared: Navigating the risks of hazards research
On the web: Shake, rattle and roll: What does an earthquake sound like?
2012: The end of the world or just another year of living in harm's way?
Better warnings for the consequences of earthquakes: Bringing seismic hazard and risk assessments to policy
Kilauea's Explosive Past - and Future
Voices: Making tough decisions in a changing climate
Foretelling next month's tornadoes
Danger in paradise: The hidden hazards of volcano geotourism
Japan's megaquake and killer tsunami: How did this happen?
Hurricane
After hurricanes, U.S. beach homes are rebuilt bigger
Saharan dust a storm killer
Natural solutions could save $50 billion in Gulf Coast flood damages
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
Which warm waters boosted Hurricane Harvey?
Ice age didn't freeze Florida's category 5 hurricanes
Bare Earth Elements: Tour brings hurricane hunting aircraft and expertise to the masses
Soil moisture may help predict power outages in hurricanes
Benchmarks: September 8, 1900: Massive hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas
Benchmarks: October 13, 1947: A disaster with Project Cirrus
Benchmarks: September 21, 1938: The great New England Hurricane strikes
Hurricane wrath may be reduced by rainfall
Sharks collect storm data
A personal plea
A hurricane by any other name: How Sandy changed the way we issue storm warnings
Hurricane hunters fly toward improved storm forecasts
Hurricanes suppressed by air pollutants
The past is key to the future: Historical observations strengthen modern science
Lofted by hurricanes, bacteria live the high life
Risky business: Modeling catastrophes
Biophysical economics: The Mississippi Delta as a lens for global issues
Court rules against Army Corps in New Orleans flooding case
Gustav and the rising waters
Houston avoids worst of Ike; gas prices jump
Hurricane Ike sent Galveston's beaches out to sea
Is it time to invest in entrepreneurial geoengineering?
Oil industries escape Ike's wrath
Report from Ground Zero
Watch out Houston, Ike is coming
Geology
Folding drone flies into tight spaces
Geoethics in the Field: Leading by Example
Grounding Asian jumping worms
Abiotic amino acid found in subseafloor rocks
Kerogen's nanostructure determines oil and gas reservoir capacity
Stronger monsoon drove ancient Indus civilization into the hills
Benchmarks: March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" shares copper country geoheritage
Geomedia: Books: A witty look at "The Ends of the World"
Geologic Column: Newspeak for kids
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's hidden freshwater gems
Getting there and getting around Florida
How to become a cave diver
Piecing together the big picture of coral reef health
Art joins science in coral communication
Hot but not bothered: Warm soils favor microbes with small genomes
Thirsty mantle: Subduction zones swallow more water than thought
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Beryllium: the rain bringeth and the rain taketh away
Seismometers eavesdrop on glacial outburst flood
Easter Island inhabitants drank brackish water to survive
Lab-grown magnesite a boon for carbon sequestration?
Humans accidentally created new rivers in Europe
Archaeologists hit pay dirt in medieval latrines
Mighty Mekong cut by monsoon, not tectonics
Mediterranean heritage sites threatened by rising seas
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Geologic Column: Is this land really your land?
Travels in Geology: Mid-ocean volcanic excursion: The calderas and caldeiras of the Azores
Getting there and getting around Azores
Sounding Out Earth's Hum
Redefining Dinosaurs: Paleontologists are Shaking the Dinosaur Family Tree to its Roots
Melting glaciers shift Earth's axis
Ocean circulation change suffocating Gulf of St. Lawrence
Rising carbon dioxide may raise risk of nutrient deficiencies in humans
Columbia River basalts erupted faster than thought
Arctic warming causes Siberian cooling
Ancient collision left a bit of Europe behind in Britain
The geology of kidney stones revealed
Oman ophiolite suggests subduction started with a shove
Down to Earth With: Clay mineralogist Warren Huff
Geologic Column: Muinntir a' ghlinne so
Comment: How to tell a good science story
Our top tips for adding storytelling to your repertoire
Eyes in the sea: Swarms of floating robots observe the oceans
Travels in Geology: Lhasa, Tibet: Journey to the roof of the world
Getting there and getting around Tibet
Sulfides in thawing permafrost responsible for carbon dioxide release
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.
Revealing the ghosts of glaciers past
"Critical Minerals" list snubs copper, sparks discussion of criticality
Survey says: U.S. lakes getting murkier
Bubbly discovery may impact volcanic hazard assessment
Did early agriculture knock the climate off track?
Science by floats
Southern Ocean is absorbing less carbon
Fats on Neolithic pottery pinpoint climate cooling event
Forecasting California's earthquake hazard
Antarctic rift was active more recently than thought
Geologic Column: Light amid the darkness: Celebrations during the winter solstice
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
Congress, states look to address impacts of ocean acidification
Mercury on the roof of the world
"Easy bake" fossils resemble real deal
Scientists discover granite crystallizes at lower temperatures
Gulf Stream eddies transport iron to North Atlantic subtropical gyre
Winter precipitation in southwestern U.S. tied to Kiwi Coast
Japanese diaries show sun's cycle sparks lightning on Earth
Getting There & Getting Getting Around Monti Sibillini National Park
Travels in Geology: Jewel of the Apennines: Italy's Monti Sibillini National Park
Going subterranean: Repurposed mines become innovative labs
Turning modern "eyes" on ancient sites
Algae ate themselves to death and caused a global extinction
Saharan dust a storm killer
Globe-trotting kelp set new world record
Underwater WiFi? Rising sea levels threaten physical internet
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is established
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Comment: Making social media work for scientists
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate
Ecuadorian volcano plays its pipe
Monsoon strength affects global ice volumes, not vice versa?
Surfactants slow oceanic carbon dioxide uptake
Methane emissions offset some blue carbon burial benefits
Sipping carbon-neutral fuel from the atmosphere
Dry rivers secretly star in carbon cycle
Geologic Column: Bone up on your spooky geo-vocabulary this Halloween
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
Ocean tide size linked to supercontinent cycle
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson
Getting There And Getting Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Travels in Geology: Roof of the Rockies: Trail Ridge Road
Dutch Masters: The Netherlands exports flood-control expertise
Comment: Why is it so hard to teach climate change?
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2018
European mammals will struggle under climate change
Ancient DNA reveals diversity of Southeast Asia
Mercury links Big Five extinction events
Sunstones useful as Viking-era GPS
New suspect emerges in theft of Earth's surface iron
Bolts of insight on earthly gamma ray showers
Gravity changes portended 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Great Barrier Reef has died and recovered before
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Geologic Column: "Collect Rocks Day" offers opportunity for inspiration
Travels in Geology: The pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an ancient world
Getting There and Getting Around Cairo
Science as a family affair
Rivers in the sky: Improving predictions of atmospheric rivers to reduce risk
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Searching for the volcanic origins of iron ore
Seismic waves are blind to water
A rocky source of nitrogen
Speartips point at south-to-north Clovis dispersal
Piecing together the puzzle of Pannotia
Charting 500 years of Mississippi floods
Cracking the temperature of columnar jointing
Mountaintops get less lonely for alpine plants
Geologic Column: The raw and the cooked
Place-based education: Teaching geoscience in the context of location and culture
Travels in Geology: From sea to sky in British Columbia
Getting There And Getting Around Vancouver
Sea-level rise could cut off wastewater service to millions in U.S.
Travels in Geology: Kilauea: Experiencing Pele's wrath through the eyes of a young geologist
Getting There and Getting Around Hawaii
The Sleeping Giants
Travels in Geology: To the top of Europe: Jungfrau, Switzerland
Walking with Dinosaur Bones
Making Jurassic Tracks in the Jura
Getting There And Getting Around Switzerland
Travels in Geology: Up to Michigan's U.P.
Getting There And Getting Around Michigan
Travels in Geology: Clear water and cataclysm at Oregon's Crater Lake
Getting There And Getting Around Oregon
Travels in Geology: Lower Engadine Valley, Switzerland
Getting There And Getting Around Zürich
Travels in Geology: Volcanoes, beaches and rainforests: Terrain hopping in Costa Rica
Getting There and Getting Around Costa Rica
Travels in Geology: Floods, Fires and Bears in Montana's Bitterroot Valley
Getting There and Getting Around Montana
Travels in Geology: Barbados: Ascending the sea-level staircase
Getting There and Getting Around Barbados
Revealing the ancient sea levels recorded in reefs
Travels in Geology: Unearthing the ghosts of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Get Dirty
Getting There and Getting Around Albuquerque
Travels in Geology: The Burren: Ireland's "Great Rock" Region
Getting There and Getting Around the Burren
Travels in Geology: Nova Scotia: A driving tour of Pangaea
Getting There and Getting Around Nova Scotia
Travels in Geology: Australia's Blue Mountains Delight the Senses
Getting There and Getting Around The Blue Mountains National Park
Travels in Geology: Florissant fossil beds: An Eocene time capsule
Getting There and Getting Around Colorado Springs
Travels in Geology: Soaking up the Dead Sea: A trip to Israel's salty sea is a geological and historical delight
Getting There and Getting Around Israel
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: Earthquakes or Volcanoes?
Travels in Geology: Ever-Changing Turkey
Getting There, Getting Around and Getting Informed
Travels in Geology: Mallorca set in stone
Getting There and Getting Around Mallorca
Travels in Geology: Exploring Vulcan's Playground: The Volcanoes of Southern Italy and the Aeolian Islands
Getting There and Getting Around Sicily
Travels in Geology: The desert geology of Namibia: A writer and her father explore otherworldly dunes, oases and meteorites
Getting There and Getting Around Namibia
The Skeleton Coast
Travels in Geology: Touring geologic time in Colorado Springs
Getting There and Getting Around Colorado
Travels in Geology: South Africa on safari for the geological Big Five
Getting There and Getting Around South Africa
Travels in Geology: Lake Tahoe Jewel of the Sierra Nevada
Getting There and Getting Around Nevada
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Diamonds reveal water in deep mantle
Trio of studies track stone tool technology in Kenya
Did a massive eruption spur Christianity in Iceland?
Weedy seeds gathered in once-green Sahara
Yellowstone's Mexican mantle plume
Rolling thunder portends remote eruptions
India's urban areas punch city-shaped holes in fog
Cretaceous volcanic ash seeded U.S. oilfields
Comment: The changing shape of local climates
Geologic Column: Tarnish on the Golden State
Getting there and getting around England
Travels in Geology: Trapped by geology in Iceland with flights grounded by volcanic ash, one writer seeks out the island's geologic wonders
Getting There and Getting Around Iceland
Off the beaten path in the north of Iceland
Travels in Geology: Northeastern Australia's Atherton Tablelands young volcanoes, waterfalls and rainforest near the Great Barrier Reef
Getting There and Getting Around Cairns
Travels in Geology: Santorini: Dangerous volcano, postcard-perfect jewel of the Aegean
Getting There and Getting Around Greece
Getting There and Getting Around Chile
Travels in Geology: Chile: Exploring the archaeology, volcanoes and hot springs of the northern Atacama Desert
Travels in Geology: Going to extremes in Death Valley
Getting There and Getting Around California
Travels in Geology: Hiking Mount Nyiragongo in Virunga National Park, Congo
Getting There and Getting Around Africa
Visiting Virunga's gorillas
Travels in Geology: Utah: Exploring the scenic byways and slot canyons of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Getting There and Getting Around southern Utah
Travels in Geology: Abode of the clouds: A journey to Meghalaya, India
Getting There and Getting Around India
Travels in Geology: Havasu Canyon: Land of blue-green water
The River Runners' Route
Getting There And Getting Around Arizona
Travels in Geology: Adventuring in upstate New York and remembering a life cut short
Getting There and Getting Around New York
Travels in Geology: Slickrock sojourn in Moab, Utah
Road biking in Moab
Getting There and Getting Around Utah
Travels in Geology: The ephemeral Florida Keys
Getting There and Getting Around Florida
Travels in Geology: The Canary Islands: Touring the "Hawaii of Europe"
Mass wasting
Getting There and Getting Around Spain
Travels in Geology: Exotic dunes and atomic bombs in New Mexico's White Sands
Missile testing
Getting There and Getting Around New Mexico
Writing on the Rocks
Travels in Geology: Western Nebraska's geoheritage gems
Getting There and Getting Around Nebraska
Travels in Geology: The wild east of Wyoming: Bone wars, outlaw hideouts and crack climbing
Boondocking 101: How to camp for free in Wyoming
Getting There and Getting Around Wyoming
Travels in Geology: The Bay of Kotor: Europe's southernmost "Fjord"
Getting There and Getting Around Croatia
Travels in Geology: A taste of Provence
Southern Rhone wines
Getting There and Getting Around France
Down to Earth With: John 'Jack' Reed Jr.
Down to Earth With: Maurice J. 'Ric' Terman
Down to Earth With: New congressional science fellows
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Down to Earth With: Ted Irving
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Down to Earth With: Sharon Mosher
Down to Earth With: Todd Hoefen
Down to Earth With: Katerina Dontsova
Down to Earth With: Nick Brooks
Down to Earth With: Jeffrey Post
Down to Earth With: Dr. Jonathan Patz
Down to Earth With: Matthew Parker
Down to Earth With: Hope Jahren
When more humidity means less water
El Nino "flavors" affect California rainfall
Geologic evidence confirms existence of 405,000-year Milankovitch cycle
Geoscience on Film: The Burma Arc in Myanmar
Skate eggs found on hydrothermal vents
Are diatoms triggering submarine landslides?
Which warm waters boosted Hurricane Harvey?
From silver to snow: Full cloud seeding cycle observed
Lava shaped Lake Tahoe
Swelling clay slows landslides
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
Geologic Column: Rebranding Alexander
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Salmon River through the Idaho Batholith
Getting there and getting around Idaho
Fieldwork among the pixels: Virtual and augmented reality diversify geoscience education
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals
Geoscience on Film: Roadcuts and rockfalls in mountainous Mizoram
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" is Superlative
Geologic Column: A world without measure
Rising waters sink seafloors
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
Radium levels suggest Arctic Ocean chemistry is changing
Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils
Unprecedented exploration of undersea volcano yields surprising results
World's longest underwater cave found in Mexico
Benchmarks: May 3, 2003: New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain falls
Travels in Geology: Northern Oman: Stunning canyons, towering dunes and the world's largest ophiolite
Getting there and getting around Oman
Oceanic crust in all its glory
Slumgullion: Colorado's natural 'lab' offers insights into landslides worldwide
From farm to filter: Restored wetlands remediate nitrogen pollution
Geomedia: Books: Solar eclipses past, present and future
Earth's "hum" heard at ocean bottom
Geologic Column: Over the hills and far away
Getting there and getting around the Causses
Pairing geoheritage and economic development: China's Guizhou Province offers a modern model
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 wreckage found using modern oceanography tools
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
Chemical tipping point triggers eruptive transitions
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Oldest "Third Pole" ice core recovered
Measuring earthquakes using fiber-optic cables
Surveying forests from afar
Globe-trotting bacteria found at both poles
LIP split by South Atlantic breakup was sourced from deep
Carbon emissions spike when continents rift
Down to Earth With: Award-winning sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Gyres spin up, currents get muddled
Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
Geomedia: On the Web: How will melting ice impact your city?
Geologic Column: Pie on Pi Day, and Einstein's lesser-known legacy
Getting There & Getting Around Corsica
Travels in Geology: Corsica: A fusion of cultures on the Mediterranean's most mountainous isle
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Geomedia: Books: "Aerial Geology": A stunning and informative addition to any coffee table
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Lakeshore shape influences lake-effect snow
Gettysburg rocks tell battlefield tales
Spawning salmon engineer landscapes
How do earthquakes impact landslides?
Isotopes reveal sources of centuries-old alabaster artifacts
Meteorite impacts may have kick-started ancient subduction
Coal formation nearly froze Earth
Greenland's growing deltas: Combining historical and modern imagery to decode change in a telltale Arctic landscape
Double-dip La Nina blamed for Colorado's dry winter
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Geologic Column: Travels with Claudia: Rediscovering America
Travels in Geology: Las Vegas: The scenery beyond the slots
Mediterranean drawdown may have caused burst of volcanism
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Canterbury, paving the way for the Chunnel
Looking under Lusi: Indonesian mud volcano linked to nearby volcanic complex
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to protect crop diversity
Fossil reefs show sea level rose in bursts
Ice age didn't freeze Florida's category 5 hurricanes
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Congress mulls options for abandoned mines legislation
Beavers preserve wetlands in water-stressed areas
Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mine was prolific
Unexpected nanoparticles trace coal pollution
Mediterranean tsunami record may be overreported
Small warm ponds: Ideal incubators for first life?
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
Dividing line: The past, present and future of the 100th Meridian
A flammable planet: Fire finds its place in Earth history
Down to Earth With Kateryna Klochko
Driftwood reveals ancient Arctic currents and sea-ice levels
Travels in Geology: Roaming the rocky coastline of Downeast Maine
Benchmarks: January 25, 1968: The last firefall: A Yosemite tradition flames out
Ice (Re)Cap: January 2018
Western wildfires affect water quality
Geologic Column: Celebrating Old Rock Day
Impact signature in rock produced by lightning strikes
In feats of tectonic strength, grain size matters
From space to village: NASA's SERVIR program brings a big picture to local communities
In the lab, machine learning improves quake forecasts
Turkey DNA reveals Mesa Verde denizens moved to New Mexico
Nautical charts reveal coral decline around Florida Keys
Earthquakes shaped ancient Greek culture
Volcanism spiked global temps during past hothouse
New Zealand quake triggers two large slow-slip events
Geologic Column: Dams in distress
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix
Comment: Making the first (and last) geoscience class count
Travels in Geology: The geological riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog smothers London
Comment: Arctic warming and midlatitude weather: Is there a connection?
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
What drives hot spots of sea-level rise?
Caldera clays may hold key to lithium independence
Antimony may have poisoned Pompeii's drinking water
Volcanic activity contributed to first of the "Big Five" mass extinctions
Imaging Iceland's volcanic roots
Alaskan subduction zone mirrors Tohoku zone that unleashed tsunami
Marine megafaunal extinction discovered
Desktop seismology: How a maker-inspired device is changing seismic monitoring
Bare Earth Elements: Bone up on your spooky geo-vocabulary this Halloween
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Geologic Column: Giving Konrad Zuse his due
Getting there and getting around Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Travels in Geology: The diverse geology, landscapes and whiskys of Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Comment: The Congressional ecosystem: A paleontologist's perspective
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Microbes influence ooid formation
Northern Finns didn't starve during Little Ice Age
Can distant earthquakes trigger submarine landslides?
How long will the lava flow? Predicting eruption durations with satellite monitoring
Mangroves sprouted in Arctic during Eocene
Microbes care about energy efficiency
Pharmaceuticals in urban sediments reveal wastewater treatment effectiveness
Limestone reservoirs boost volcanic carbon emissions
New method offers improved monitoring of Kilauea
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Geologic Column: A masochist hikes through the heather
Water weight and surface rebound trigger small quakes in California
First complete DNA sequences from Egyptian mummies
Mapping Louisiana's disappearing shoreline
Lollipop-shaped ice found in clouds
Solar-powered paint could produce hydrogen for fuel
Minerals deformed by meteorites reveal age of impact
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" aptly named
Travels in Geology: Cones and craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
New map of Arctic geology published
How the Arctic became salty
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or premature conclusion? Examining the ethical implications of naming a new epoch
Comment: Providing resources for future generations - Technical and human challenges
Glass shards reveal a fiery history in Ethiopia
Volcanism triggered end-Triassic extinction
Jerusalem tower facelift reveals it's 1,000 years younger
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Down To Earth With: John Underhill
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Venturing into Argentina
Travels in Geology: Patagonia: The ends of the earth
Ancient wildfires suggest rising atmospheric oxygen helped end past ocean anoxia
Getting there and getting around Bolivia's Antiplano
Travels in Geology: Sky-high adventure on Bolivia's Altiplano
Geologic Column: Musings on the autumn equinox
Comment: A pitch to study BREW: The beer-renewable energy-water nexus
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery returns from the West
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
Dehydrated sediment layer made Sumatra quake stronger
Reconstructing ancient oxidant levels and their climatic effects
Coatings may prevent pipeline clogs
A mammoth king: Was the legend of King Hygelac in "Beowulf" inspired by a fossil find?
Earthquakes make volcanoes more — and less — gassy
Transylvanian ice cave reveals European winter climate record
Young Costa Rican lavas might reflect pockets of primordial mantle
Geologic Column: Alternative history: Earth in a funhouse mirror
Down to Earth With: Cave microbiologist Hazel Barton
Evidence of devastating drought found beneath the Dead Sea
Eavesdropping on Old Faithful
Nineteenth-century cows muddied Southern California continental shelf
Getting there and getting around Austria's Salzkammergut
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World heritage preserved in salt
Delusions of grandeur in building a low-carbon future
Bottom dropping out of coral reefs
In a position to lead: How military technology and innovation can ease the world's water challenges
Getting there and getting around Grand Junction, Colorado
Travels in Geology: A tale of two rivers: Grand Junction, Colorado
Geologic Column: Volcanoes: Awesome and dangerous
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Geomedia: Mixed media: Geo-art collaboration shifts perspectives on earth materials
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2017
New global volcanic emissions map debuts
Magnetic method dates glacial floods in Iceland
Evolution of eyes, not limbs, led fish onto land
New cloud types recognized
Northeast and Midwest U.S. projected to warm faster than national average
Platinum may point to impact theory for Younger Dryas
Comment: A moving target: What you need to know about drone regulations
The only Earth: Exploring the link between plate tectonics and life on the blue planet
Whirling "gravel devils" show wind can carry more than just sand
Burying the sky: Turning carbon dioxide into rock
"The Himalaya Connection": Telling a story of geoscientific exploration on film
Getting there and getting around Kalahari
Travels in Geology: Tracking African animals and deranged drainages across the Kalahari
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Down to Earth With: Biogeochemist Stephen MacAvoy
The mackerel year: Tambora changed how New England fished
Monsoon shifts shaped early Chinese cultures
Ups and downs of potassium feldspar may play role in clouds and climate
Timing of famed "Millennium Eruption" pinpointed
Comment: Kitchen counter geology: Bringing rock identification to a new audience
1883 sea rescue informs new model of wind-wave interactions
When and how did plate tectonics begin on Earth?
Meteorites did not spark Ordovician biodiversification
"Blob"-related warming contributed to Pacific Northwest ozone spike
Tibetan Plateau populated long before advent of agriculture
Silk Road routes may have followed the herds
And then there was one: Ceres' disappearing ice volcanoes
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
Sea-surface temperatures during last interglacial similar to modern day
Fossil forest recorded ancient sunspots
Grapes reveal impacts of sulfur-rich Samalas eruption on 13th-century climate
Travels in Geology: Geo-diversity and geologic history in the North West Highlands of Scotland
Did Jurassic tectonics lead to supergiant oilfields?
Venezuela, Central Africa are Earth's lightning hot spots
Tropical rainfall shifts resulted in greener Sahara
Massive dust storm caused by climate, not conflict
Neonicotinoids: Prominent pesticides escape into the environment
Six new deep-sea species discovered
Breakup of Pangea led to thicker oceanic crust
Shale boom could fuel batteries
Geologic Column: Evolution of an ape-man
To find a mate, go big or go small, just don't go medium
Soil acidity changes quickly from place to place
Maui reef degradation linked to contamination in coastal groundwater
Seafloor volcanism linked to glacial cycles
Getting there and getting around Easter Island
Travels in Geology: Easter Island's enduring enigmas
El Niño gets animated
White Cliffs of Dover on the retreat
Tectonics trigger underwater volcanism
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" takes listeners to the edge of the universe and beyond
Early spring thaw triggers Arctic greenhouse gas release
Pyroclastic flows, not caldera collapse, caused Santorini tsunamis
Earth's magnetic field illuminates ocean temperatures
How soil management could help reduce greenhouse gas concentrations
Getting there and getting around Mount Katahdin
Travels in Geology: Exploring Maine's magnificent Mount Katahdin
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2017
Life on land 300 million years earlier than thought
Beneath one volcano, enough water to fill Lake Superior
Geologic Column: Rebirth on the vernal equinox
Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's aquifers with filmmaker Tom Fitz
Early Pacific seafarers set sail in El Niño years
Ants developed farming millions of years ago
Early humans dealt with Ethiopian supervolcanoes
To cool the planet, volcanoes of the future will need more firepower
Broadening ocean current could carry less heat poleward with climate change
A mysterious first
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
Geologic Column: The gift of intelligence
Benchmarks: February 5, 1931 and February 20, 1935: Antarctic firsts for women
Down to Earth With: Mountain biking geologist Kurt Refsnider
Geomedia: Books: Exploring "The Worst of Times"
Liverworts, not moss, dominated Earth's early terrestrial ecosystems
Comment: Crazy times in the Arctic
Small floods can carve big canyons
Robotic mussels track temperature change
Downgrading the Great Dying
Fungi stabilize steep slopes
Monkeys smash stone tool theories
Comment: High school earth and space science should be taught by geoscientists
A new — and more toxic — normal? Harmful algal blooms find new habitats in changing oceans
Geomedia: Music: The sounds of the sea
Comment: Will we eliminate Earth's Ice-Age cycle?
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Raymond S. Bradley
Geologic Column: New Year's as we know it is new
Busy as a bee: New species of bee quarries into sandstone
Supernova explosion detected in Early Pleistocene sediments
Earth's largest jet stream unexpectedly disrupted
Current marine extinction unprecedented
Ant bodies shaped by environment
Getting there and getting around Shetland
Travels in Geology: Scotland's stunning Shetland
Panama's isthmus stays 3 million years young: Further evidence needed to support an older age
Slow-moving slides may be triggered by cold temperatures
Green corridors led humans out of Africa
Mysterious Antarctic algae blown in by high winds
Rethinking Pangea? Ancient ocean crust challenges supercontinent theory
An undersea volcano yields its secrets
Seafloor topography drives Earth's great conveyor belt
Wintering in the high Arctic reveals surprising results
A story in the sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" may have been real
Geologic Column: Conscious landscapes: Thinking like a septic tank
Comment: To intervene or not to intervene: Improving the environment
Down to Earth With: Underwater cave explorer Jill Heinerth
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Travels in Geology: Exploring an icon of Patagonia: Chile's Torres del Paine National Park
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Nutrient deficiency delayed life after mass extinction
Small-scale factors influence mantle flow under the seafloor
Tilted Himalayan temples hold clues to past shaking
Cloud feedbacks drive climate sensitivity
Why tectonic plates lurch forward when they break
Ancient plankton communities stressed before mass extinction
The path to gypsum is four steps long
Persistent Pacific warmth overshadows El Niño
Frosted forams foil radiocarbon dating
Geologic Column: Digital divorce!
Comment: Understanding Earth in the wider sense of science
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Kayla Iacovino
Toad behavior linked to climate change
New magma chamber discovered beneath New Zealand
Cave dripwater records wildfires
Electric fields lift dust into the air at massive scales
When Earth hit the reset button on life: New research on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Today's weather forecast: Good with a strong chance of improvement
Ancient landslide gave us Zion Canyon
Travel specs
Celebrity climb
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: From parasitic cones to equatorial glaciers
Travels in Geology: The Midwest's Little Egypt
Travels in Geology: Gubbio, Italy: A geologist's mecca
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
Water use soared as workers flocked to North Dakota's oilfields
Geologic Column: Proposing a new U.S. Holiday: Explorers' Day
Comment: Did life start on a snowball?
Benchmarks: October 2, 1574: Dutch unleash the ocean as a weapon of war
Geomedia: Books: "Alfred Wegener": The definitive biography of a geoscience star
Getting there and getting around Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya
Travels in Geology: Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya: A feast for the senses
Clouds can form without particles
Tectonic rejuvenation in North America's ancient mountains
California drought stops slow-moving landslides
Early Earth's atmosphere weighed half as much
Junk gem reveals new diamond-forming process
Bad weather hampered Mongol invasion of Europe
Thirsty business: How the tech industry is bracing for a water-scarce future
Exploring the newest gift to America: Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a cold war ice fortress is built
Benchmarks: September 23, 1933: The U.S. oil industry arrives in Saudi Arabia
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross is found, photographed and mapped
Travels in Geology: Limestone and legends in Northern Vietnam
Down to Earth With: Hydrogeologist Shemin Ge
Geologic Column: The notion of mantle plumes
Comment: Mudrock cement and the importance of basic research
The current extinction of life will leave a scant fossil record
Observers at the edge of the ice: Smaller, cheaper machines can safely go where humans can't
Zircons hold clues to early Earth
Tiny ocean bacteria could play big role in climate
Earthworms build big mounds to escape floodwaters
Bubble accumulation could explain massive volcanic sulfur releases
Mantle convection makes Earth's crust bob
Benchmarks: July 1, 1912: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officially becomes the first of its kind in U.S.
Geomedia: Film: A glimpse into the geology of 'Star Trek Beyond'
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Mauna Loa's mysterious Ninole Hills were once a rift
Benchmarks: August 25, 1916: The National Park Service is established
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
Down to Earth With: National Park Service Geologic Resources Division chief David Steensen
Teaching geology to biologists: An essay on an interdisciplinary field trip in Africa
Researchers profile magma chamber beneath North Korean volcano
Volcanoes and historical politics
Getting there and getting around Zermatt
Drilling for gold inside a submarine volcano
Snake River eruption history offers glimpse into Yellowstone hot spot dynamics
Ocean acidification worsens overnight along California coast
Asian bats resist white nose fungus
Jawless fish more like jawed fish than thought
Denisovan DNA found in modern Pacific Islanders, ancient Spaniards
Artists draw inspiration from fire and ash
Travels in Geology: Zermatt: Europe meets Africa in Switzerland's iconic Alps
Giant turbidite in Mediterranean Sea linked to ancient earthquake and tsunami
Why is a gallon of gas cheaper than a gallon of milk?
Geoscience on Film: Innovation meets tradition for earthquake safety
On the trail of Hannibal's army - and elephants - in the Alps
Illustrating Geology: Great images that transformed the field
Benchmarks: March 1961: Project Mohole undertakes the first deep-ocean drilling
Geoscience on Film: Soaking in beautiful Bhutan
Benchmarks: October 1904: Mineralogy solves a murder
Benchmarks: August 1576: False gold found in Meta Incognita
Late Antique Little Ice Age underpinned unrest and upheaval in Europe and Asia
Getting there and getting around Michigan
Legend of the Sleeping Bear
Geoscience on Film: The view from outside Kathmandu
Geoscience on Film: Revisiting an earthquake-ravaged region, one year on
Benchmarks: January 23, 1960: Humans reach the deepest point on Earth
The first dinner in a beast
Benchmarks: December 31, 1853: Dinner in a dinosaur
Benchmarks: November 27, 1873: Red River logjam removed for good
From science to science fiction
Benchmarks: October 13, 1947: A disaster with Project Cirrus
Travels in Geology: Sculptures of wind and ice: Sleeping Bear Dunes and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshores
Geology shaped outcomes of Civil War battles
Geologic Column: The dog days of July
Comment: What's a map worth? The big cost and bigger benefit of three-dimensional elevation data
Iron meteorites likely hidden below Antarctic ice
Slow-moving super-eruptions still travel great distances
Weak magnetic field may have triggered Earth's first mass extinction
Take a stand (or sit) for better water quality management
'P' is for phosphate: Could urine solve a fertilizer shortage?
Searching for the ancestors of meandering rivers
A new gravity map of Earth
A labyrinth of silver mines uncovered on the shores of the Aegean Sea
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA' for the earth science enthusiast
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener begins a fateful polar expedition
Getting there and getting around Turkey
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The era of aviation launches with the first balloon flight
Seeing the seafloor in high definition: Modern mapping offers increasing clarity on Earth's vast underwater landscape
Ice (Re)Cap: June 2016
Underwater Roman marble traced to Greece, Italy and Turkey
Social trends and shifting climates had complex effects in medieval Italy
Above oil seeps, photosynthetic life flourishes
Measuring rising seas is tricky in deltas
Lack of fungi did not lead to copious Carboniferous coal
Radar reveals unmarked graves
Mesa Arch's 'hum' measured to track health of rock structure
Giant icebergs spur carbon storage in Southern Ocean
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Did the Medieval Warm Period welcome Vikings to Greenland?
Growth rings in rocks reveal past climate
Looking for life in coldest, driest Antarctica
Fish evolved quickly after earthquake
Geologic Column: May: Nature's forces in collision
Mercury levels support volcanic role in end-Cretaceous extinction
First all-digital geologic map of Alaska released
Reading the ridges: Are climate and the seafloor connected?
Magnesium part of Earth's magnetic field engine
Model targets better understanding of recurring Indian-Pacific storm systems
Humans evolved early to be more efficient sleepers
The softer side of hydrothermal vents
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE is launched
Down to Earth With: Tectonicist Eldridge Moores
Geologic Column: At the end of the Earth
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
Comment: How long have humans been altering Earth's climate?
An absentee note for ancient blueschist: Lack of metamorphic rock does not date onset of plate tectonics
North Sea uplift caused Jurassic cooling event
Going with the flow: Mapping the mantle under the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Underground ants can't take the heat
Travels in Geology: Gotland getaway: Sweden's 'tropical' escape in the Baltic
The ups and downs of an island
Geologic Column: Blockbuster solutions
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Ted Scambos
Comment: How 'Frankenstein' prevents us from tackling climate change
Himalayas get a new birthdate
Geomedia: Books: The danger of anti-data ideologies is explored in 'Denying Science'
Travels in Geology: The King's Highway: The crossroads of ancient Jordan
Getting there and getting around Jordan
Volcanic aerosols not enough to cause mass extinctions?
Uranium contamination in aquifers could be linked to nitrate
Volcanic eruptions affect rivers around the world
Siwash Rock as an urban geoheritage icon
Urban type sections
Urban geology: An emerging discipline in an increasingly urbanized world
Fire-fountain carbon sheds light on lunar origins
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's first park geologist Greg Stock
Geomedia: Apps: Join the crowd: Introducing a new generation of geo-apps
Getting there and getting around Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Miguel, and trad versus sport climbing
Travels in Geology: Rocks and Climbing at Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Ice (Re)Cap: February 2016
UNESCO adopts Global Geoparks Program
D.C. wastewater no longer going to waste
Getting there and getting around peninsular Greece
Travels in Geology: Peninsular Greece: A gorgeous state of collapse
Benitoite: A rare gemstone
Atmosphere, more than ocean, might drive Atlantic climate variation
Irrigation drives rain away in East Africa
How deep do the Alps go?
Land plants came prepared for terrestrial life
Permian-Triassic extinctions timed differently on land and at sea
Impact or eruptions: Are both to blame in the great end-Cretaceous whodunit?
How to feed 11 billion people: Addressing the 21st century's biggest challenge
Geologic Column: Decades later, Mr. Keene's earth science class sticks with me
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park is founded
Energy Notes: June 2014 - 2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel Slag
Sierra Nevada snowpack lowest in 500 years
Oceanographers solve mysterious beach explosion
Sunlight liberates nitrogen from urban grime
Midwest's hybrid rift formed in three stages
Down to Earth With: GEO Secretariat Director Barbara Ryan
Is aviation 'whitening' the sky?
Subseafloor biosphere extended to greatest depth yet
Magnetic field around since Hadean
Ancient African villages shed light on Earth's magnetic field
Lake sediments suggest mild volcanic winter after massive Toba eruption
What lies below?
The question of mantle plumes
Comment: GSW: A celebrated society celebrates its 1,500th meeting
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
Getting there and getting around Sedona
Travels in Geology: Sedona: A journey to the edge of a supercontinent
Public improvements, private funding
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill disappears
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA: Making North America' Is Flashy, But Fails on Storytelling
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Balanced boulders in earthquake country highlight interconnected faults
Chinese cave art reveals record of climate change
Ocean oxygen levels control seafloor carbon burial
Human hands not most advanced
No laughing matter: Ocean nitrous oxide emissions greater than thought
Wormholes may limit landslides
Comment: Pipe Dreams: What have we learned from the Volkswagen Clean-Diesel scandal?
Geologic Column: The beginning of "time" as we know it
Solar flare calibration reveals past patterns of volcanism and cooling
Due diligence in river incision data
Warty algae-like sheets survived Snowball Earth events
Isotopes could reveal ancient American turquoise trade
Opalescent pools shimmer beneath Santorini
Gain some, lose some
Benchmarks: June 30, 1972: Timekeepers add first "leap second" to clocks
Benchmarks: May 18, 1952: Stonehenge's age solved with Carbon-14
The Washington Monument's Apex
March 23, 1821: Bauxite Discovered
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England prohibits Alchemy
Marine microorganisms drive summer clouds over Southern Ocean
Fossil fuels diluting atmospheric radiocarbon
Ancient lakes may have been refuges for early life
Geologic Column: Thanksgiving's unsung hero
Comment: Remarkable geology sets new Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument apart
Flaring our way out of a water crisis
Getting there and getting around Cyprus
Northern Cyprus' "Peace Water" Pipeline
Travels in Geology: Cyprus: Island of Oceanic Crust
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
Geomedia: Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival is geologic showcase
Peculiar shape of hair ice linked to fungus
Tree of life reshaped
Travertine buildup reflects ancient Rome's water usage
Finding and tracking conflict minerals in the heart of darkness
Campi Flegrei makes its own concrete caprock
Subducted seawater the source of fluid-rich diamonds
Benchmarks: December 4, 1992: The Seattle Fault Zone is described
Benchmarks: February 3, 1953: Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" is published, opening a window on the underwater world for millions
Benchmarks: March 1913: The first complete geologic timescale is published
Benchmarks: April 1916: "Jingo the Stegosaurus" campaigns to keep the U.S. out of World War I
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2015
Kennewick Man related to modern Native Americans
Ancient asteroids boiled Earth's oceans
Source of Red Sea's mysterious cannon earthquakes revealed
Aerosols help mitigate ill effects of Amazon fires
Energy Notes: March 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Step one: Soil testing
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Erin Pettit
Sculpting the Alps
Declining U.S. water use a challenge for models
Getting there and getting around Hells Canyon
Damming the salmon
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Pacific Northwest's heavenly Hells Canyon
Jelly volcano reveals eruption trigger
Injection experiment offers new view of fluid-filled faults
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Arctic climate change marked by warmer, wetter conditions
Hazardous Living: Maps, according to geologists
Getting there and getting around the Whitsundays
Travels in Geology: Australia's Whitsunday Islands: Sun, sand and silicic volcanism
Ultraviolet lights the way for rare earth recycling
Sea-level rise accelerating
Ocean 'sneezes' spread algae-infecting virus
Seismometers listen for falling rocks
Map shows where lightning zaps most
Energy Notes: February 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Geologic Column: September 26, 1774: The man, the myth, the legend of Johnny Appleseed is born
Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
Volcanic lightning turns ash into glass
Geomedia: Toys: LEGO® geoscientists break through the brick ceiling
Fate of atolls not necessarily tied to sea-level rise
Thorny plant marks West African diamond deposits
Trip-planning resources
Geology for everyone: Making the field accessible
Getting there and getting around Texas' Trans-Pecos
Beached iceberg alters Antarctic marine communities
Bechmarks: June 1, 1873: The Modoc-Lava Beds War Ends
Energy Notes: January 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gemstones
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Early Earth enriched by iron rain
Southbound icebergs off the hook for ice-age cooling
Stalled slabs sometimes stopped by mineral strengthening
Bark beetles not to blame for big fires?
Nonnative plants not a problem in Britain
As an aerosolizer, dust devils demoted
Widening the window of human dispersal into Arabia
Brachiopod die-off signaled mid-Permian mass extinction
Geologic Column: Field Sketches
Aquifers contaminated by Supertyphoon Haiyan storm surge
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus crosses the North Pole
Geomedia: Books: Iceland's eruption of biblical proportions explored in 'Island on Fire'
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
The Arctic is open for research
Endangered Icebreakers: The future of Arctic research, exploration and rescue at risk
Racing to the future of automotive efficiency and performance
Deforestation hangs climate out to dry
Wind whips canyons into shape
Did crustal chemistry buoy Western Plains?
Laser experiments illuminate landslide physics
Soil may supply surging streams after earthquakes
Great drying led to great dying down under
Introducing Earth's inner inner core
Sediment load shapes rivers
Hydrogen chloride on the rise in Northern Hemisphere skies
Comment: The arrival of the energy future
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Peter Molnar
Getting there and getting around the Catskill Mountain Front
Travels in Geology: Hiking the Catskill Mountain Front
Geoheritage: Preserving Earth's legacy
Tools of the trade
Studies re-examine how major copper deposits form
Science Illustrators: Making the invisible visible
Ice (Re) Cap: June 2015
Colonial mining left its mark in Andean ice cores
Monkeys in the New World earlier than thought
Getting to the bottom of a tectonic plate
Counting 'tree' rings in fish skulls provides climate clues
California's big trees dying of thirst
Geomedia: On the web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Megafloods mostly shaped Icelandic canyon landscape
Giant bolide hit South Africa 2.5 billion years ago
Did volcanism drive Earth into global glaciation?
Iraq's biggest dam on unsure footing
Earth's most abundant mineral finally gets a name
Pre-settlement erosion rates illuminated
Energy Notes: November 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron oxide pigments
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting out for the Copper Country
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Geologic Column: On the Summer Solstice
Travels in Geology: Glaciers and grapes in South Australia
And best picture goes to...'Dante's Peak'
Rock stars: Geologists on the silver screen
Shrinking snowpack projected in western U.S. as rain-snow boundary climbs higher
Ancient moss reveals tsunami timing
More warming may mean more lightning
Yosemite's cliffs in retreat
Could U.S. phosphate deposits help meet growing rare earth demand?
Geologic Column: The Rumpelstiltskin Factor
Comment: When scientists come under legal attack
Geoscience on Film: A parting ode to an awe-inspiring land
Some coral reefs bounce back after bleaching
Bird genomes untangle branches of avian family tree
Geoscience on Film: Of tides and tigers in the world's largest river delta
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Getting there and getting around Nepal
Of temperature and tone: Has climate shaped human languages?
Travels in Geology: A trek through Himalayan geology in Nepal
Geoscience on Film: Traversing the contours and culture of an ancient delta
Geoscience on Film: Setting the scene amid extreme tectonic and sedimentary processes
Peak's appeal - and hazard - endures today
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record winds buffet Mount Washington
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
Rome's hidden water trade led to glory, maybe ruin
One-two punch of past warming may hold lessons
Methane be dammed!
Getting there and getting around the Andean Volcanoes
Andean ski volcanoes
Did a geographic shift trigger the Cambrian Explosion?
Geologic Column: Nature for couch potatoes
Geomedia: Books: Rediscovering the science behind Thoreau's 'Walden'
Can dam releases restore river ecosystems?
Travels in Geology: Skiing into the heart of an Andean Volcano
Kamikaze typhoons spared Japan from Kublai Khan
Thank subduction for Earth's nitrogen-rich air
Lidar reveals Roman gold mines
Sharks collect storm data
Comment: Rebuilding geology faculty in Afghanistan
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silver
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
Down to Earth With: Mineralogist George W. Robinson
A tantalizing treasure
On the trail of treasure in the Rocky Mountains
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Energy Notes: September 2012-2013
Energy Notes: October 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Talc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Wollastonite
Energy Notes: December 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Selenium
Down to Earth With: Deanna D'Alessandro
Down to Earth With: The Swindling Geologist
Down to Earth With: Matt Kuchta
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
Down to Earth With: Lee Allison
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
Did three convicts survive their escape from Alcatraz? Modern modeling adds to a decades-old mystery
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Getting there and getting around Bermuda
Ice (Re) Cap: February 2015
Wealth of seafloor features emerges from new survey
New nationwide soil map available online
North American terranes not so exotic after all
Mantle plume alternative explains Australian volcanism
Scientists complete a global inventory of lakes
Icebergs were the original Florida snowbirds
Geologic Column: February 2: A day long celebrated for its seasonal ties
Energy Notes: August 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal vents are discovered
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
Travels in Geology: Navigating the rocks, reefs and waters of Bermuda
Pentagon report calls for military to prepare for climate change
New tracers can identify fracking fluids
The amazing minerals of the Larsemann Hills
Protecting the mineral treasures of Antarctica's Larsemann Hills
Bare Earth Elements: Past and present directors dissect the future of USGS
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Satellites - not just Santa - see holiday lights
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Hazard lingers after South Napa earthquake
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Down to Earth With: James White
Down to Earth With: Anna Henderson
Down to Earth With: Tanya Atwater
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, geologist who deciphered banded iron formations
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
Down to Earth With: Naomi Levin
Down to Earth With: Eric Riggs
Marine mammals blamed for first New World tuberculosis
Golden Gate ghost ships rediscovered
Skinned oceanic plates may be origin of ophiolites
Textbook mantle plume theory may need revision
Old piles of shells reveal ancient El Niño patterns
Oil-encased water droplets are mini-ecosystems for microbes
Geologic Column: What geoscientists can learn from TED Talks
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Geomedia: Books: Are we causing a sixth extinction?
Getting there and getting around France's Massif Central
Travels in Geology: Lentils, lace and lava: France's Massif Central
A dry and ravaged land: Investigating water resources in Afghanistan
Antibacterial clays could fight superbugs
Try and try again: GeoCorps application tips
Into the parks: A sampling of GeoCorps projects
Geocorps America: Putting geoscientists to work on federal lands
November 10, 1934: Arizona declares war against California at Parker Dam
December 27, 1888: The Geological Society of America is founded
January 26, 1905: The world's largest gem-quality diamond is unearthed
April 20, 1832: Arkansas' hot springs named the First National "Park"
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Rainwater penetrates into ductile crust
Snow triggers quakes on Mount Rainier
Carbon tet still offensive to ozone layer
Oceans: Where has all the plastic gone?
Ancient storms recorded in Yucatán cave
Last Scottish glacier melted during big chill?
When science meets film at MIT
Pliocene tropical oceans were warmer after all
Gravity builds stone sculptures
Energy Notes: June 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mica
Down to Earth With: CEO and Geo-Data miner Nicole Barlow
Getting there and getting around Scotland
Bag your first Munro
Travels in Geology: The inspiring, globe-trotting rocks of Scotland
Link between volcanoes and drought cools geoengineering prospects
Hundreds of methane seeps discovered along the U.S. East Coast
Crystal Ball Science: In the energy sector, follow the money in 2015
Chess as a scientist
Walking - and mentoring - on the wild side
Family inspiration for my career(s) in transdisciplinary science
What a wonderful world to explore
Minor miners: A brief reflection on child labor underground
Mountains beyond mountains
I wish I could remember all the things I've forgotten
Beware the list that skews your view
Family trips, liberation from lists and other musings from 2014
Rome's lead water pipes likely not a health risk
Massive icebergs scoured Arctic seafloor
Seismic friction causes fault iridescence
Ohio millers imported French stone
Seasonal ice-cover reduction throughout Arctic waters mapped
Past penguin populations not dependent on ice extent
Clues to limestone weathering written in Western Wall
Geologic Column: Geography as destiny: How glaciation led to the Civil War
Comment: IPCC faces challenges in communicating climate science
Energy notes: May 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zeolites
Getting there and getting around Bali
Travels in Geology: Bali beckons
Tiny ants are heroic weathering agents
Can renewable energy and desalination tackle two problems at once?
Colorado River Basin sees severe groundwater depletion
Bare Earth Elements: Search the seafloor firsthand (and live!)
On the Web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Ice (Re) Cap: October 2014
Acid rain recovery in the Northeast
For cloud formation, a little aerosol goes a long way
Alaskan megathrust fault more active under Kodiak
First building blocks in Oahu found
Shallow crust magma with a dash of salt and peperite
Methane lingered after Gulf blowout
Boron proxies detail past ocean acidification
Climate impacting a few of our favorite foodstuffs
Seeing beneath Greenland's ice
Of char and carbon: The story of a buried soil
Calculating America's energy landscape
Benchmarks: October 10, 1913: Atlantic and Pacific waters meet in the Panama Canal
Geologic Column: Combining art and geology in the sand
Comment: Building sanctuaries to increase civilization's resilience
Energy Notes: April 2013 - 2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vermiculite
Getting there and getting around in Tucson
Searching the stars
Down to Earth With: Kerry Sieh
Travels in Geology: Winter sun and tectonic tales in Tucson
How the Spanish invasion altered the Peruvian coast
Santiaguito Volcano's clockwork behavior provides an exceptional laboratory
Virtual water: Tracking the unseen water in goods and resources
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Minimizing the risk
Infrasound reveals lava lake levels
All the world's glaciers in one global inventory
New off-the-shelf aerial imaging technique trumps lidar
New climate record challenges ideas about recent glaciations
R.I.P. Nereus
Nutrient runoff feeding Baltic Sea dead zone
Mississippi sand still abundant
Natural arsenic levels in Ohio soils exceed regulatory standards
Africa's impact is one that even the dinosaurs would have seen coming
Floating nuclear plants may be safer from tsunamis
Sunken logs a delicacy for ocean bottom-feeders
Volcanic ash feed southern ocean plankton
The subcontinent's sturdy mammals
Extra rib may be sign of mammoth decline
South American fossils offer revised view of Gondwana assembly
Warm river water melted Arctic sea ice
Longer season for Rocky Mountain wildflowers
Acid oceans followed Chicxulub impact
The Bay Area's next 'big one' could strike as a series of quakes
Valley fever's deadly history
Valley Fever an occupational hazard for geoscientists
How to keep the flows out: Build a wall
Kilauea vs. Mauna Loa
Changing the landscape: Geoscientists embrace 3-D printing
Getting there & getting around the Aussie Outback
Travels in Geology: Aussie Outback Adventure
Down to Earth With: Chris Strong
Benchmarks: September 1, 1957: Fossil Cycad National Monument is dissolved
Energy Notes: March 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Arsenic
Geologic Column: How T. rex got its street cred back
Comment: Energy 360: Let science speak, not agendas
Comment: The search for clarity on climate change
Energy Notes: February 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Peat
A real rift in the midcontinent
Books: The once and future San Andreas Fault
Moving cars could help gauge rainfall
Ocean waves explain which La Niña events will linger
Ancient seawater found in Chesapeake Bay impact crater
On the Web: Ka-pow! Superhero short films get kids thinking about climate change
Striped pyrites link earthquakes to gold deposition
Desert dust influences monsoon rains
A watery surprise from Earth's depths: Mineral provides first direct evidence for water in mantle's transition zone
Getting there and getting around the Causeway Coast
The legend of Finn Maccool's Causeway
Between rocks and hard places
Travels in Geology: Basalt cliffs and columns along Nothern Ireland's Causeway Coast Way
Crowdfunding spotlight
Crowdfunding science: A new piece of the research grant puzzle
Energy Notes: January 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Niobium
Belugas, climate, mercury and cancer
Geologic Column: Beyond geology, field camps teach teamwork and inspire leadership
Searching for evidence of ancient subduction
Parasites spread across the Arctic under the 'new normal'
Travels in Geology: Peru's petrified forest: The struggle to study and preserve one of the world's most remarkable fossil sites
Creationism comes to the county fair
Pike's Peak
Benchmarks: July 15, 1806: Zebulon Pike launches Southwest expedition
Geomedia: Books: The earth system symphony
Getting there and getting around Tajikistan
Travels in Geology: Trekking the high terrain of Tajikistan
Geomedia: Books: A changing literary climate
Southeastern caves shuttered to slow the spread of bat-killing disease
Getting there and getting around Croatia
Travels in Geology: Croatia: Land of limestone
New burgess shale fossil site found in Canada's Kootenay National Park
Geomedia: Books: Science in fiction
Subarctic lakes belch more methane on brighter days
Recovery of 1960s sea-ice satellite images wins dark data contest
Staking a claim: Deep-sea mining nears fruition
Mix of acid mine drainage and fracking fluid a recipe for remediation?
Humans causing California's mountains to grow
Reading the walls
The history, science and poetry of New England's stone walls
Geologic Column: Riding the rails to Omaha with Rudolf Clausius
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine links the geomagnetic and sunspot cycles
Beyond rocks for jocks: Elevating geoscience education
Getting there and getting around in New Zealand
Travels in Geology: From beaches to bush: Tramping in New Zealand
Geomedia: California's climatic catastrophes detailed in "The West Without Water"
Naturally occurring methane found in groundwater in New York
Observing a plate boundary
A truly global system
A new tool for atmospheric studies
Mapping how malaria risk changes as new dams go up
Scientists look wider and deeper to predict the next El Nino
Precise to a fault: How GPS revolutionized seismic research
Fieldwork revises ice-free corridor hypothesis of human migration
Resolving a misplaced source of volcanism in the Galapagos
Social sciences improve tornado warnings
The Chesapeake Bay gets some good news
Volcanic lightning generated in a bottle
Geologic Column: Data security: freezers, floppies and flash drives
Scientists go to extremes to monitor Arctic permafrost loss
IPCC: A failure in communicating the impact of new findings
Sudden gas eruption shakes the ground near Rome's airport
From boom to bust in Neolithic Europe
From field scientist to filmmaker: Doug Prose
Brooks Ellwood and the unusual applications of magnetism
Geoscience inspires glass artist Adam Frus
Getting there and getting around on the John Muir Trail
Be aware and prepare
Travels in Geology: Walking toward Whitney: A journey through the Sierra High Country along the John Muir Trail
Harvesting fog could bring water to millions
Hazards abroad: Sent home
Geologic Column: Beer's secret ingredient: geology
Blogging on EARTH: A letter from field camp
Location, Location, Location
Bare Earth Elements: The field camp experience in photos
Blogging on EARTH: Spring has sprung, at least in some places
Blogging On Earth: Humans acidifying ocean at unprecedented rate
A tale of two rocks: Moon-like rocks right next door
Afghanistan's mineral wealth
AGU: Mount St. Helens has gone back to sleep
Alaska's Mt. Redoubt erupts at last
Ancient meteorites reveal early magnetic fields
Bacteria back from the brink
Blogging on EARTH: South Sudan secedes - what does that mean for its oil?
Chemical clues reveal ancient geography
Comet finished off North American big game animals, cooled the planet?
Creeping faults warn of impending earthquakes?
Criminals steal London dino's dung
D-Day's Legacy: Remnants of invasion linger in beach sands
Danger and wonder in Nat Geo's "Giant Crystal Cave"
Deciphering mass extinctions
Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial
DOE promises $2.4 billion for clean coal
Earthworms churn out calcite crystals
EIA: Worldwide oil demand will plummet in 2009
Extinction-era coal linked to Chinese cancer epidemic
FY 2010 budget cuts Yucca, oil and gas programs
Geology 101: Reading the story in the rocks
Giant dunes, not mega-tsunami deposits?
Granite countertops: NOT silent killers
How amphibious whales returned to the sea
Large earthquake rocks Iran oil port
Lay of the Land: Terrain's Toll on the U.S. Civil War
Mag.-8.9 quake strikes Japan, tsunami heads for Hawaii
Mapping safer drinking water
Minerals also evolve
On Hannibal's Trail: The clues are in the geology
Raising bees and capturing rainwater: U.S. prisons go green
Re-examining the Burgess Shale
Redefining Quaternary
Rewriting rivers: What it means for river restoration
Shell tectonics may explain Mars mysteries
Stonehenge's Mysterious Stones
Storing CO2 in fizzy water underground
Surviving field school: Better than reality TV
Swarm of earthquakes rattles Yellowstone
The Disappearing Lake
The long legacy of Peru's "Mine of Death"
Travels in Geology: Exploring mountains and eating llama in Northern Argentina
Travels in Geology: Precipitous peaks and dunes in Colorado
Travels in Geology: Taking in Hawaii's Big Island
Underwater basalt formation looks like a city wall
VA geologists axed due to budget crunch
Remote Sensing
Folding drone flies into tight spaces
Turning modern "eyes" on ancient sites
Surveying forests from afar
From space to village: NASA's SERVIR program brings a big picture to local communities
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Comment: What's a map worth? The big cost and bigger benefit of three-dimensional elevation data
How to feed 11 billion people: Addressing the 21st century's biggest challenge
Down to Earth With: GEO Secretariat Director Barbara Ryan
Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
Wealth of seafloor features emerges from new survey
New off-the-shelf aerial imaging technique trumps lidar
Droning on for science
Old landscapes see the light thanks to improved imaging
The rise of community remote sensing
When the dust settles: Investigating lingering health questions 10 years after 9/11
Technology
Folding drone flies into tight spaces
Eyes in the sea: Swarms of floating robots observe the oceans
Science by floats
Underwater WiFi? Rising sea levels threaten physical internet
Down to Earth With: Maria Zuber
Down to Earth With: Geologist and paleontologist David Wilcots
Fieldwork among the pixels: Virtual and augmented reality diversify geoscience education
Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 wreckage found using modern oceanography tools
Measuring earthquakes using fiber-optic cables
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to protect crop diversity
Stable isotopes offer novel methods of disease detection
From space to village: NASA's SERVIR program brings a big picture to local communities
In the lab, machine learning improves quake forecasts
Comment: Making the first (and last) geoscience class count
Caldera clays may hold key to lithium independence
Desktop seismology: How a maker-inspired device is changing seismic monitoring
Geologic Column: Giving Konrad Zuse his due
Solar-powered paint could produce hydrogen for fuel
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Coatings may prevent pipeline clogs
In a position to lead: How military technology and innovation can ease the world's water challenges
Ash vs. airplanes
Temblor: An app that brings home your seismic hazard
Comment: To intervene or not to intervene: Improving the environment
Geologic Column: Digital divorce!
Thirsty business: How the tech industry is bracing for a water-scarce future
Observers at the edge of the ice: Smaller, cheaper machines can safely go where humans can't
Benchmarks: February 1962 and 1984: John Glenn and Bruce McCandless make space flight history
Geomedia: Apps: Join the crowd: Introducing a new generation of geo-apps
Geologic Column: Field Sketches
Racing to the future of automotive efficiency and performance
New off-the-shelf aerial imaging technique trumps lidar
Changing the landscape: Geoscientists embrace 3-D printing
Crowdfunding spotlight
Crowdfunding science: A new piece of the research grant puzzle
A whale of a wind turbine
Blogging on EARTH: Yellow submarine robot debuts at AGU meeting
GSA meeting: Water, water everywhere ... creating some to drink
The quicker oil picker upper
Tracking Yellowstone's Activity
Fieldwork
Geoethics in the Field: Leading by Example
Place-based education: Teaching geoscience in the context of location and culture
Fieldwork among the pixels: Virtual and augmented reality diversify geoscience education
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Geologic Column: Field Sketches
Geocorps America: Putting geoscientists to work on federal lands
Valley fever's deadly history
Valley Fever an occupational hazard for geoscientists
Geologic Column: Lessons from the final frontier
Fossils
Geoethics in the Field: Leading by Example
"Cradle of Humankind" fossils can now be dated
Policy in the Field
Geoethics in the Field: Leading by Example
Policy in the Field: U.S. fire policy in the wake of catastrophic fire seasons
Policy in the field: What's next for tax policies and the American clean energy economy?
California
Inside the inferno: How large firenadoes form
Jump-starting earthquake insurance uptake in California
Comment: After a disaster, should you gamble on returning? Paradise edition
Forecasting California's earthquake hazard
Down to Earth With: Coastal scientist Gary Griggs
Where will the San Andreas Fault rupture next?
Sunny Southern California burns, missing its coastal clouds
Geologic Column: Tarnish on the Golden State
El Nino "flavors" affect California rainfall
Taking the surprise out of sneaker waves
Water weight and surface rebound trigger small quakes in California
Nineteenth-century cows muddied Southern California continental shelf
Comment: Atmospheric rivers increase water supply in California — but only to a point
Robotic mussels track temperature change
California drought stops slow-moving landslides
Ocean acidification worsens overnight along California coast
Benchmarks: July 26, 1905: The rising Salton Sea swamps the Southern Pacific Railroad
Geomedia: Books: 'Floodpath' recounts the deadly collapse of California's St. Francis Dam
The most dangerous fault in America
Protracted drought threatens California levees
Benitoite: A rare gemstone
Revealing potential tsunami inundation on California coast
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park is founded
Sierra Nevada snowpack lowest in 500 years
Comment: Remarkable geology sets new Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument apart
Santa Ana winds get a fiery boost from the stratosphere
Geologic Column: Jack and Jill: The sequel
California's big trees dying of thirst
California drying out
California: A profusion of drought restrictions with varying results
Down to Earth With: Tanya Atwater
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits are described
November 10, 1934: Arizona declares war against California at Parker Dam
Humans causing California's mountains to grow
Geomedia: California's climatic catastrophes detailed in "The West Without Water"
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
Voices: Wildfires and debris flows: Federal mud
Californians prepare for the Big One
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Raising California's Sinking Delta
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A volcanic wonderland
When wildfires attack: Should I stay or should I go?
Environment
Inside the inferno: How large firenadoes form
Hot but not bothered: Warm soils favor microbes with small genomes
When more humidity means less water
Down to Earth With: Geologist and paleontologist David Wilcots
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
Comment: To intervene or not to intervene: Improving the environment
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE is launched
Wedge approach proposed to lower water stress
New tracers can identify fracking fluids
The Chesapeake Bay gets some good news
Neutralizing the rain: After much success in the battle against acid rain, challenges remain
Voices: Making tough decisions in a changing climate
Crystal Ball EARTH: Agriculture: The future will have a different face than the past
The art of un-legislating
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
Voices: Log off and get outside again
Voices: Natural gas can lead the way
Voices: Redefining humanity through energy use
'The Big Necessity' Reclaiming feces
AGU: How scientists should talk climate change
Air pollutants from "megacities" a growing problem
As Green As It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Benchmarks: December 3, 1984: Bhopal gas leak kills thousands
Benchmarks: The first Earth Day
Biofuels and food: Mutually exclusive?
Biophysical economics: The Mississippi Delta as a lens for global issues
Blogging on EARTH: "Climategate" scientist tells his side
Blogging on Earth: Driveway sealants add PAHs to environment
Bolivia turns iron mountain into gold
Capturing carbon from coal plants: Is it feasible?
Clearing roadways: A little salt goes a long way
Coal-to-liquids: Can fuel made from coal replace gasoline?
DOE promises $2.4 billion for clean coal
Dry dock to wet tap: Old ships become floating desalination plants
Earth: The movie (not the magazine)
Energy mission: "Kilowatt Ours"
Energy's the hot topic this week on the Hill
Extinction-era coal linked to Chinese cancer epidemic
Finding water in the heart of darkness: Afghanistan's ongoing water challenges
Fish guts can alter ocean's chemistry
Greening the friendly skies
Hot enough for ya? Investigating climate change in "Heat"
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Lack of water threatens "Garden of Eden"
Mapping safer drinking water
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
Mississippi Delta drowning
Montreal Protocol affects more than just ozone
New York's Dirty Secret: The effort to clean up America's largest oil spill
Obama asks EPA to reconsider state-set emissions standards
Paving the way for electronic waste recycling
Pollutants threaten the Everglades' future
Raising bees and capturing rainwater: U.S. prisons go green
Rebuilding Afghanistan
Reclaiming Alberta's oil sands mines
Report from Ground Zero
Rewriting rivers: What it means for river restoration
Saving Energy and Water Through Superior Sanitation
Science and soccer: They're both child's play
Sunlight mobilizes mercury in wetlands
Termites and climate change: Here, there and everywhere?
Testing methane's potential on the North Slope
The rising global interest in coal fires
Thirsty Cities: Water management in a changing environment
Toxic tide
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, from impact craters to executive orders
USGS finds giant gas hydrate deposits on North Slope
Voyage to the plastic vortex
Wal-Mart to use wind energy
West Virginia Coal: Dirty water, dirtier politics - but will there be a cleaner future?
Wildfire
Inside the inferno: How large firenadoes form
Comment: After a disaster, should you gamble on returning? Paradise edition
Sunny Southern California burns, missing its coastal clouds
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
A flammable planet: Fire finds its place in Earth history
Western wildfires affect water quality
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The deadliest wildfire in American history incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Ancient wildfires suggest rising atmospheric oxygen helped end past ocean anoxia
Burning grass releases more nitrogen pollution than burning wood
Smokier U.S. West as climate changes
Cave dripwater records wildfires
Firefighting gets a leg up from earthquake sensor networks
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest day of fire ever recorded in Australia
Santa Ana winds get a fiery boost from the stratosphere
Bark beetles not to blame for big fires?
Flames fan lasting fallout from Chernobyl
Fire-driven clouds and swirling winds whipped up record-setting New Mexico blaze
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
Drought outlook indicates further problems in Plains and West
N.E.O.N.: Studying critical ecological issues on a continental scale
Policy in the Field: U.S. fire policy in the wake of catastrophic fire seasons
Voices: Wildfires and debris flows: Federal mud
Report from Ground Zero
Trial by Fire
When wildfires attack: Should I stay or should I go?
Flood
Wind or water? Hurricane Harvey's most destructive force
Seismometers eavesdrop on glacial outburst flood
Comment: Faster flood forecasting to improve responses
Night lights reveal that people move as rivers rise
Dutch Masters: The Netherlands exports flood-control expertise
Comment: Out of bounds: Rethinking U.S. flood risk delineation
Natural solutions could save $50 billion in Gulf Coast flood damages
Charting 500 years of Mississippi floods
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Both urban flooding and rural drying to intensify
Magnetic method dates glacial floods in Iceland
More than a nuisance: Over time, small floods cost more than extreme events
An economic argument for reframing the geoscientist's role in disaster mitigation
Comment: Atmospheric rivers increase water supply in California — but only to a point
Small floods can carve big canyons
A story in the sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" may have been real
Earthworms build big mounds to escape floodwaters
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown flood kills thousands
Geomedia: Books: 'Floodpath' recounts the deadly collapse of California's St. Francis Dam
Benchmarks: September 21, 1938: The great New England Hurricane strikes
Coastal cities will see regular flooding
Can dam releases restore river ecosystems?
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
The '100-year flood' fallacy: Return periods misleading in communication of flood risk
Better flood forecasts eyed from space
Mississippi sand still abundant
When water, gravity and geology collide: Firsthand observations of the impacts of the 2013 Colorado floods
Disaster strikes along Colorado's Front Range
Bailing through the Boulder flood: One neighborhood's experience
Releasing a flood of controversy on the Colorado River
Earliest instrumental temperature record recovered in Italy
Fire and ice produced Eyjafjalla's explosion
Gustav and the rising waters
Hazardous Living: Iceland afire
Hazardous Living: Preparing for the storm of the century
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Texas
Wind or water? Hurricane Harvey's most destructive force
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
Everything's bigger in Texas, including the Wink sinkholes
Benchmarks: September 8, 1900: Massive hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas
Getting there and getting around Texas' Trans-Pecos
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
Highlights of 2010: Offshore wind in Texas and the curious case of Massachusetts
Houston avoids worst of Ike; gas prices jump
Natural gas production linked to earthquakes in Texas
Oil industries escape Ike's wrath
Strategies to meet our water and energy needs: Insight from a Texas "Treemap"
Watch out Houston, Ike is coming
March 2019
Where on Earth? - March 2019
Red Planet Roundup: March 2019
Grounding Asian jumping worms
Frogs fill in post-Gondwana picture
Abiotic amino acid found in subseafloor rocks
Neanderthals and humans suffered similar levels of head injuries
Hard-knock hominid skeletons tell harsh tales
Kerogen's nanostructure determines oil and gas reservoir capacity
Dinosaur soft tissues preserved as polymers
Jump-starting earthquake insurance uptake in California
Stronger monsoon drove ancient Indus civilization into the hills
Some of Earth's water originated in the solar system's birth
Benchmarks: March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and underground astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" shares copper country geoheritage
Geomedia: Books: A witty look at "The Ends of the World"
Geologic Column: Newspeak for kids
Comment: After a disaster, should you gamble on returning? Paradise edition
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's hidden freshwater gems
Getting there and getting around Florida
How to become a cave diver
Juno unveils Jupiter's secrets
Citizen science (and art)
Deep Space Network
Piecing together the big picture of coral reef health
Art joins science in coral communication
Voyager 2 pierces the heliopause, enters interstellar space
Mars
Red Planet Roundup: March 2019
Wrangling the data to choose Mars landing sites
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Red Planet Roundup: June 2018
Solar eclipse mimics conditions on Mars
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Red Planet Roundup: February 2018
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
Red Planet Roundup: October 2017
Making oxygen with MOXIE
A great time to land on Mars
Mars class of 2020: A diverse group of missions takes aim at the Red Planet
Comment: In space, timing is everything
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Martian channels carved by lava, not water?
Red Planet Roundup: April 2017
Red Planet Roundup: February 2017
Red Planet Roundup: September 2016
Down to Earth With: Planetary scientist Steven Squyres
Red Planet Roundup: July 2016
Red Planet Roundup: March 2016
Red Planet Roundup: January 2016
Red Planet Roundup: November 2015
Geomedia: Film: 'The Martian' puts the magnificence and messiness of science at the fore
Red Planet Roundup: September 2015
Red Planet Roundup: July 2015
Comment: The new frontier: Homesteading on Mars
Red Planet Roundup: May 2015
Red Planet Roundup: March 2015
Red Planet Roundup: January 2015
Red Planet Roundup: November 2014
Red Planet Roundup: September 2014
Curiosity finds an ancient habitable environment in Mars' Gale Crater
MAVEN takes off for Mars to study the planet's atmosphere
Bare Earth Elements: Mars-Observing Fleet Set to Face Silent Treatment
Simple organic compounds detected by Curiosity on Mars
Bare Earth Elements: Let the real Curiosity begin
Hazardous Living: Watching Curiosity land safely was exhilarating
Blogging on EARTH: Curious to watch Curiosity land on Mars?
A Martian icecap, now in 3-D
Bids in space: When should we outsource government science?
Mars' ice is pure, not dirty
Phoenix takes a bow
Shell tectonics may explain Mars mysteries
Meteorite
Red Planet Roundup: March 2019
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Meteorite impacts may have kick-started ancient subduction
Minerals deformed by meteorites reveal age of impact
Why meteors snap, crackle and pop
Platinum may point to impact theory for Younger Dryas
Meteorites did not spark Ordovician biodiversification
Mystery impact may have kicked off dramatic warming event
New type of meteorite found in Sweden
Iron meteorites likely hidden below Antarctic ice
Meteorites might have created Earth's earliest continents
Red Planet Roundup: November 2015
Meteorite reveals rare irregular crystals
Giant bolide hit South Africa 2.5 billion years ago
Benchmarks: January 3, 1970: Lost City meteorite is tracked and recovered
Mineral in Chelyabinsk meteorite reveals past collision
Lessons from the Russian meteor burst
Ancient Egyptian artifact is otherworldly
Iowa impact crater confirmed
Geologic Column: Sometimes, the sky really is falling
Down to Earth With: Antarctic meteorite hunters
Ancient meteorites reveal early magnetic fields
Santa Fe impact crater discovery: A series of fortunate events
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, from impact craters to executive orders
Music
Red Planet Roundup: March 2019
Geologic Column: Is this land really your land?
Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
Geomedia: Music: The sounds of the sea
Geomedia: Performance: Bella Gaia is a show in orbit and Earth is the star
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
Earth tides in A major
Musical magnetic reversals
Red Planet Roundup
Red Planet Roundup: March 2019
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Red Planet Roundup: June 2018
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Red Planet Roundup: February 2018
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
Red Planet Roundup: October 2017
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Red Planet Roundup: June 2017
Red Planet Roundup: April 2017
Red Planet Roundup: February 2017
Red Planet Roundup: September 2016
Red Planet Roundup: July 2016
Red Planet Roundup: May 2016
Red Planet Roundup: March 2016
Red Planet Roundup: January 2016
Red Planet Roundup: November 2015
Red Planet Roundup: September 2015
Red Planet Roundup: July 2015
Red Planet Roundup: May 2015
Red Planet Roundup: March 2015
Red Planet Roundup: January 2015
Red Planet Roundup: November 2014
Red Planet Roundup: September 2014
Sound
Red Planet Roundup: March 2019
Ecuadorian volcano plays its pipe
Why meteors snap, crackle and pop
Source of Red Sea's mysterious cannon earthquakes revealed
A terribly low voice for a new terror bird
Ice (Re) Cap: June 2015
Of temperature and tone: Has climate shaped human languages?
Earth tides in A major
Musical magnetic reversals
Of sounds and cetaceans: Quieting a noisy underwater world
Putting Earth's history to sound
Space
Red Planet Roundup: March 2019
Some of Earth's water originated in the solar system's birth
Juno unveils Jupiter's secrets
Citizen science (and art)
Deep Space Network
Wrangling the data to choose Mars landing sites
Deep drilling reveals how impact crater's hidden ring formed
Quirky lunar swirls expose the moon's secret past
Voyager 2 pierces the heliopause, enters interstellar space
Titan's dunes form the same way as Earth's
Geomedia: Film: 'First Man' navigates Neil Armstrong's journey between two worlds
Astronomers find missing half of the universe
Dangers of Van Allen Belts driven by "local acceleration"
Pluto's surprising dunes
Obliquity and eccentricity determine exoplanet habitability
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Lunar isotopes suggest early water on Earth
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
Comment: Leveraging physical oceanography in exoplanet exploration
Geomedia: Books: Revisiting the Galileo affair
An aurora named Steve
Benchmarks: July 29, 1958: The Birth of NASA
Down to Earth With: Maria Zuber
Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Down to Earth With: Andrew Feustel
Geologic evidence confirms existence of 405,000-year Milankovitch cycle
Red Planet Roundup: June 2018
TRAPPIST-1 system hosts seven "Earth-like" planets
Solar eclipse mimics conditions on Mars
Comment: Could NASA find evidence of extraterrestrial life by 2050?
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" is Superlative
New map of Titan shows moon's hidden surface
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Ceres: A bright spot in the asteroid belt
Heating up Enceladus' ice-covered ocean
Red Planet Roundup: February 2018
It's an asteroid, no wait, a comet, no wait…
Stable isotopes offer novel methods of disease detection
Extinct lunar magnetic field lasted longer than previously thought
Second stars can distort planet size estimates
Two-faced space worm could inform regenerative medicine
Red Planet Roundup: October 2017
Cassini's legacy after two decades
Making oxygen with MOXIE
A great time to land on Mars
Mars class of 2020: A diverse group of missions takes aim at the Red Planet
Geomedia: Books: Exploring space is risky business
Why meteors snap, crackle and pop
Comment: In space, timing is everything
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Titan's oddly oriented dunes may be electrostatically sculpted
Earth-like exoplanet shows signs of supporting life
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz mission launches space collaboration
Martian channels carved by lava, not water?
Red Planet Roundup: June 2017
Ceres' homemade organic materials
And then there was one: Ceres' disappearing ice volcanoes
Benchmarks: May 23, 1967: Space weather forecasters avert war
Mountains may cause huge waves in Venusian clouds
Red Planet Roundup: April 2017
Benchmarks: April 24, 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched
Down to Earth With: Planetary geologist James W. Head III
Red Planet Roundup: February 2017
Mystery impact may have kicked off dramatic warming event
Moon formed from pulverized Earth mantle
Benchmarks: January 31, 1961: Ham the chimpanzee, first hominid in space
Mercury's recent tectonics revealed
Cosmic suntan
Newly discovered Earth-like worlds are rocky, not gassy
Pluto may still have liquid ocean
Dust orbiting Jupiter is going the wrong way
Convection formed Pluto's polygons
New type of meteorite found in Sweden
Philae: Achievement and disappointment
Rosetta's journey
What's in a name: Rosetta, Philae, and 67P?
Rosetta mission ends with a bang: But the discoveries will continue
Milky Way invisible for a third of humanity
Small asteroid spotted circling Earth
Red Planet Roundup: September 2016
First global topographic map of Mercury released
Modeling Io's weird mountains
Long-gone supernova sprinkles rare isotope
Lunar ice reveals moon's poles shifted
Saturn's rings: The remains of an icy moon
Keeler's legacy
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler confirms Saturn's rings not solid
Down to Earth With: Planetary scientist Steven Squyres
Red Planet Roundup: July 2016
Buried lunar craters filled by lava long ago
Down to Earth With: Solar physicist Thomas Berger
Geomedia: Film: 'A Beautiful Planet' inspires with vivid views of life on and off Earth
Geomedia: Performance: Bella Gaia is a show in orbit and Earth is the star
Red Planet Roundup: May 2016
'Hot Jupiter' atmospheres come into focus
Comment: GAVRT: Learning science by doing science
Lunar atmosphere more active than we thought
Mass measured for smallest exoplanet yet
Red Planet Roundup: March 2016
Scarps and craters reveal moon's dynamic side
Comment: Weathering a perfect storm from space
Fire-fountain carbon sheds light on lunar origins
Benchmarks: February 1962 and 1984: John Glenn and Bruce McCandless make space flight history
What are the odds?: Automated system calculates the likelihood that asteroids will hit Earth
Jupiter's shrinking Great Red Spot
Red Planet Roundup: January 2016
Meteorites might have created Earth's earliest continents
Rainbows reclassified
Enceladus' extremely alkaline underground ocean
Buckyballs behind Milky Way mystery
Conjunction injunction: Recent and future planetary alignments
Benchmarks: February 4, 1962: Five planets align - but no end of the world
Red Planet Roundup: November 2015
Rosetta spies cometary sinkholes
Does the sun trigger autoimmune disease?
Geomedia: Film: 'The Martian' puts the magnificence and messiness of science at the fore
Benchmarks: January 1, 1960: The Discovery of "Extinct Radioactivity" The quest to date the elements that formed the solar system
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
Red Planet Roundup: September 2015
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew sealed inside Biosphere 2
MESSENGER mission ends with a bang, and more data
Sun shapes Titan's atmospheric makeup
Earth-like atmosphere enough to set some exoplanets spinning
Comment: Exoplanets: Life on the Terminator
Meteorite reveals rare irregular crystals
A pair of moons with underground oceans
Red Planet Roundup: July 2015
Amateur radio users help scientists study space weather
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral discovery ends Meteor Crater debate
Exoplanets could have long-lived oceans
Exploding source of lithium
Mapping solar winds
Comment: The new frontier: Homesteading on Mars
Red Planet Roundup: May 2015
Comet water unlike Earth's
Mysterious rapid radio burst captured live
Two new looks at Titan's dunes
A journey to Pluto and beyond with New Horizons
Red Planet Roundup: March 2015
Geomedia: Books: To Tiktaalik and beyond
Down to Earth With: The Geographers of the Solar System
Plate tectonics seen on Europa
Geomedia: Books: A brief history of our cosmic origins
New satellite maps carbon dioxide sources and sinks in high definition
Satellites - not just Santa - see holiday lights
Down to Earth With: Jacob Haqq-Misra
Red Planet Roundup: January 2015
Benchmarks: January 3, 1970: Lost City meteorite is tracked and recovered
Nanoflares power the sun's superheated corona
Mineral in Chelyabinsk meteorite reveals past collision
Red Planet Roundup: November 2014
New lunar research answers old questions, poses others
Harpooning space debris
Mercury formed by hit and run?
High-powered simulation tracks evolution of universe in detail
Cassini spots new moon in Saturn's rings
Saturn's polar hexagon stable over time
Students send experiments to the International Space Station
Red Planet Roundup: September 2014
Twinkle, twinkle new little star
Unprecedented low water-vapor levels detected on exoplanets
Mars Monthly
Rings not just for planets anymore
Mercury's shrinkage underestimated
Mars Monthly
Rosetta: Off to decipher a comet's secrets
By the numbers: Women in space
Benchmarks: June 16, 1963 & June 18, 1983: Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride become first and third women in space
Ionospheric charge could forewarn of earthquakes
Comment: Preparing for the death of Earth
Lessons from the Russian meteor burst
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine links the geomagnetic and sunspot cycles
Observing a plate boundary
A truly global system
A new tool for atmospheric studies
Precise to a fault: How GPS revolutionized seismic research
Bare Earth Elements: Mars rocks wear manganese coats
Comet ISON still intrigues and inspires, even after its demise
Juno salutes its home planet and heads to Jupiter
In or Out? Has Voyager left the solar system?
How strong was the Carrington Event?
Voices: Riding the dragon: Commercial space exploration
Blogging on EARTH: Curious to watch Curiosity land on Mars?
Blogging on EARTH: Rarity the only reason for Venus transit fever?
North star loses mass but still shines bright
Beads of water on the moon
Bids in space: When should we outsource government science?
Blogging on EARTH: Webb Space Telescope ensnared in political drama
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA keeps watch on a changing planet
Electrical failure shuts collider down for the winter
Energy's the hot topic this week on the Hill
Exoplanet forecast: Quartz with a chance of feldspar
Hazardous Living: Atlantis' final countdown
Hazardous Living: Discovery's emotional final voyage
Hubble's pics of Pluto: Dark orange and charcoal-black
Mars' ice is pure, not dirty
Moonquake mystery deepens
NASA's LCROSS crashes on the moon
Of molten iron and magnetism
On Her Majesty's space agency
Online stargazing with GigaGalaxy Zoom
Opening up space travel to everyone
Phoenix takes a bow
Protecting planets from us - and us from them
Shell tectonics may explain Mars mysteries
Spot-free sun: Is that normal?
Super-Earths: Mirrors of our world?
The Big Turn-On
Water
Red Planet Roundup: March 2019
Some of Earth's water originated in the solar system's birth
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's hidden freshwater gems
Seismic waves are blind to water
Lunar isotopes suggest early water on Earth
Diamonds reveal water in deep mantle
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
Beavers preserve wetlands in water-stressed areas
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
Red Planet Roundup: October 2017
Comment: A pitch to study BREW: The beer-renewable energy-water nexus
Evidence of devastating drought found beneath the Dead Sea
In a position to lead: How military technology and innovation can ease the world's water challenges
Martian channels carved by lava, not water?
Ceres' homemade organic materials
Red Planet Roundup: April 2017
Beneath one volcano, enough water to fill Lake Superior
Earthquake-resilient pipes aim to keep L.A.'s water flowing
Celebrity climb
Water use soared as workers flocked to North Dakota's oilfields
Thirsty business: How the tech industry is bracing for a water-scarce future
'P' is for phosphate: Could urine solve a fertilizer shortage?
Red Planet Roundup: May 2016
Red Planet Roundup: January 2016
Enceladus' extremely alkaline underground ocean
Red Planet Roundup: November 2015
Flaring our way out of a water crisis
Northern Cyprus' "Peace Water" Pipeline
Travertine buildup reflects ancient Rome's water usage
Declining U.S. water use a challenge for models
A pair of moons with underground oceans
Geologic Column: Jack and Jill: The sequel
Exoplanets could have long-lived oceans
Iraq's biggest dam on unsure footing
Comet water unlike Earth's
Wedge approach proposed to lower water stress
Rome's hidden water trade led to glory, maybe ruin
A dry and ravaged land: Investigating water resources in Afghanistan
November 10, 1934: Arizona declares war against California at Parker Dam
Can renewable energy and desalination tackle two problems at once?
Virtual water: Tracking the unseen water in goods and resources
Ancient seawater found in Chesapeake Bay impact crater
A watery surprise from Earth's depths: Mineral provides first direct evidence for water in mantle's transition zone
Mars Monthly
Geomedia: California's climatic catastrophes detailed in "The West Without Water"
Harvesting fog could bring water to millions
Geologic Column: Beer's secret ingredient: geology
Caspian Sea: Negotiation Support System
Gaming the system in the Caspian Sea: Can game theory solve a decades-old dispute?
The energy-water nexus: Managing water in an energy-constrained world
Sun provides water to the moon?
Neutralizing the rain: After much success in the battle against acid rain, challenges remain
'The Big Necessity' Reclaiming feces
Afghanistan's mineral wealth
All that glitters... Acid mine drainage: The toxic legacy of gold mining in South Africa
Beads of water on the moon
Biophysical economics: The Mississippi Delta as a lens for global issues
Blogging on Earth: Driveway sealants add PAHs to environment
Clearing roadways: A little salt goes a long way
Dry dock to wet tap: Old ships become floating desalination plants
Endangered snow: how climate change threatens West Coast water supplies
Finding water in the heart of darkness: Afghanistan's ongoing water challenges
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Getting a master's in social geology
GSA meeting: Water, water everywhere ... creating some to drink
Gustav and the rising waters
How oil and water helped the U.S. win World War II
Impossible Odds, Irrepressible Hope: Pakistan's water woes and the science that can solve them
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Lack of water threatens "Garden of Eden"
Mapping safer drinking water
Mars' ice is pure, not dirty
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
Mississippi Delta drowning
Moon much wetter than thought
NASA's LCROSS crashes on the moon
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Rebuilding Afghanistan
Rewriting rivers: What it means for river restoration
Saving Energy and Water Through Superior Sanitation
Science and soccer: They're both child's play
Sea sprawl: Into the blue frontier of ocean development
Strategies to meet our water and energy needs: Insight from a Texas "Treemap"
Thirsty Cities: Water management in a changing environment
Toxic tide
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, from impact craters to executive orders
Venus' gentler, Earth-like past
West Virginia Coal: Dirty water, dirtier politics - but will there be a cleaner future?
Invasive Species
Grounding Asian jumping worms
Opportunist organisms rafted across the Pacific on plastic
Nonnative plants not a problem in Britain
The rise of community remote sensing
Nutrient
Grounding Asian jumping worms
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Nutrient deficiency delayed life after mass extinction
Nutrient runoff feeding Baltic Sea dead zone
Tracking trace elements and isotopes in the oceans
Soil
Grounding Asian jumping worms
Red Planet Roundup: October 2017
Soil acidity changes quickly from place to place
Soil moisture may help predict power outages in hurricanes
How soil management could help reduce greenhouse gas concentrations
Liverworts, not moss, dominated Earth's early terrestrial ecosystems
Fungi stabilize steep slopes
Chaco Canyon: Garden of Eden or salty-soiled pilgrimage site?
Underground ants can't take the heat
Step one: Soil testing
Toxic Gardens: The long legacy of urban lead
Soil may supply surging streams after earthquakes
New nationwide soil map available online
Of char and carbon: The story of a buried soil
Natural arsenic levels in Ohio soils exceed regulatory standards
Climate, terroir, and wine: What matters most in producing a great wine?
No pre-Columbian deforestation of the western Amazon
Comment: Peak Soil: Does civilization have a future?
Arctic soils retain more carbon
Earthworms churn out calcite crystals
Mapping safer drinking water
Worm
Grounding Asian jumping worms
Two-faced space worm could inform regenerative medicine
Earthworms build big mounds to escape floodwaters
Wormholes may limit landslides
Gondwana
Frogs fill in post-Gondwana picture
South American fossils offer revised view of Gondwana assembly
Migration
Frogs fill in post-Gondwana picture
Marine animals have been migrating for millions of years
Speartips point at south-to-north Clovis dispersal
How Borneo got its elephants
Drought drove early humans from Africa
Did the first humans arrive in North America a lot earlier?
Green corridors led humans out of Africa
The first Americans: How and when were the Americas populated?
Ancient dinosaur migrations analyzed
Underwater archaeology reveals pre-Clovis people butchered mastodon in Florida
A long layover on the Bering land bridge
Kennewick Man related to modern Native Americans
Widening the window of human dispersal into Arabia
Monkeys in the New World earlier than thought
Geologic Column: Lighting out for the territory
July 28, 1996: Kennewick man is discovered
Out of Africa, time and again
Fieldwork revises ice-free corridor hypothesis of human migration
Modern humans arrived in South Asia 25,000 years later than previously thought?
Paleo
Frogs fill in post-Gondwana picture
Neanderthals and humans suffered similar levels of head injuries
Hard-knock hominid skeletons tell harsh tales
Dinosaur soft tissues preserved as polymers
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and underground astronaut Lindsay Hunter
"Cradle of Humankind" fossils can now be dated
Earliest bird-like lungs found in China
Free swimmers came back first after Great Dying
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Mesosaurs may have spent time on land
Earliest art found in South Africa
Early mammal reproduced like a reptile
Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals' extinction
Two new species fill gap in dinosaur family tree
Spiky new American ankylosaurid originated in Asia
Marine animals have been migrating for millions of years
Extinct gibbon found in Chinese tomb
First Antarctic tetrapods
Earth's first footprints
Grazing gave elephant ancestors an edge
An asteroid redirected bird evolution
Geomedia: Books: Informative and inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Island-dwelling mammal had small brain, keen senses
Mineral clue to finding perfectly preserved fossils?
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's vanished Amazon
Saglek Basin sediments suggest a Grand Canyon connection
Diamonds and the Eocene climate of the Bell River Basin
Pterosaurs flew into the Late Cretaceous
Down to Earth With: Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Down to Earth With: John Copeland
Down to Earth With: Michael Novacek
Down to Earth With: Jack Horner
Oldest human remains outside Africa found in Israel
A new look at Cheddar Man
Down to Earth With: Geologist and paleontologist David Wilcots
Flightless dino had bright, rainbow-colored feathers
How Borneo got its elephants
Lidar preserves record of destroyed theropod tracks
Origins of plant photosynthesis illuminated
Whatever happened to thagomizers and other tail weapons?
Hot tropics drove out ancient reptiles, but they came back
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Travels in Geology: Underground awe in France: The caves of the Causses
Pesky ticks even plagued dinosaurs
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and astronomer Tom Kaye
World's longest sauropod trackway exposed
Oldest blood cells found in Early Jurassic ichthyosaur
Drought drove early humans from Africa
Growing up saber-toothed: Strong from the start
Did mud volcanoes set the stage for Burgess Shale fossils?
Fossil sea turtle hatchling reveals its Eocene proteins
Denali's Asian dinosaurs
Nothing is clear about who left marks on ancient bones
Predators may have spurred evolution of ancient brittle stars
Fossilized dinosaur feces reveal flexitarian diet
Science meets art: Tiny trilobite gets huge makeover
19th-century discovery now reveals modern human arrival in Sumatra
Mysterious Miocene bipedal footprints found in Crete
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Transitional Chilesaurus fills gap between major dinosaur groups
Dino deaths cleared the way for frogs
Can fossil footprints reveal the weight of a dinosaur?
Down to Earth With Richard Prum
Marine megafaunal extinction discovered
Humans arrived Down Under earlier than thought
When agriculture went to our heads
Another whiptail dinosaur added to sauropod family tree
Chemical clues illuminate fossil plant relationships
Can preserved proteins reveal paint-by-numbers plumage?
Cretaceous collagen: Can molecular paleontology glean soft tissue from dinosaurs?
Neolithic farmers impacted sedimentation
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
End of ice age may have been too wet for megafauna
Asymmetrical fossil feathers fill in timeline of flight
T. rex's bone-crushing bite
Baby Louie dinosaur fossil gets a formal name
Horned dinosaur find a first for eastern North America
Massive trove of dinosaur tracks cataloged in Australia
Hangover echinoderms survived the Great Dying
Precambrian rumblings of the Cambrian Explosion
Bipedalism left its mark on human skull: Kangaroos and upright rodents show same signs
Two ichthyosaurs become one
Rearranging the dinosaur family tree
Horned dinosaur find a first for eastern North America
Horses evolved to get along: Competition between species not main evolutionary driver
Mastodon bones point to significantly earlier human presence in North America
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
First trilobite eggs found in fool's gold
Did the first humans arrive in North America a lot earlier?
Tiny dinosaur-era marsupial packed a big bite
Scientists crack the secret of dinosaurs' incubation time
Lucy liked hanging out in trees
Dental plaque reveals later start date for hominin cooking
Tiny fish illuminates tooth fairy mystery
Early fossils demonstrate dinosaurs' slow rise
Discovered: One of the last-surviving Asian dinosaurs
The Dinosaur Garden of the Gobi: Motivating future paleontologists
Saving Mongolia's dinosaurs and inspiring the next generation of paleontologists
Rare Late Cretaceous dino skin found fossilized
Early birds quacked
Cave paintings confirm mystery European bison species
How to hide a dinosaur
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas
Underwater archaeology
The first Americans: How and when were the Americas populated?
Tiniest pterosaur found in British Columbia
Extinct tiger had unique elbow, hunting style
Improved genetic simulations identify human genes passed down from Neanderthals, Denisovans
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I
Tiny bones pull India into the story of early primate evolution
New species of extinct dolphin found in Smithsonian archives
Getting there and getting around Tumbler Ridge
Travels in Geology: Tumbler Ridge: Finding dinosaurs — and their predecessors and descendants — in northeastern British Columbia
Turtle shells evolved for burrowing, not protection
Unique teeth helped vegetarian dinosaurs
Antarctic no place to hide during end-Cretaceous extinction
Mammals hit harder than thought by end-Cretaceous extinction
Down to Earth With: Fossil preparator Bob Masek
New species of uniquely horned dinosaur identified
Hammerhead herbivore pioneered vegetarianism in Triassic seas
Humans, megafauna coexisted in Patagonia before extinction
The new kid on the block
Hominid vs. hominin
Redefining Homo: Does our family tree need more branches?
Scaling up: Mega-dino babies were mini adults
Ancient dinosaur migrations analyzed
New dating of 'hobbit' sheds light on when it lived
Seeds may have saved bird-like dinosaurs from extinction
Teeth hold clues to human success, Neanderthal decline
Tully monster mystery solved
Saving Mongolian wildlife, 80 million years after extinction
Cretaceous amber suggests societal behavior in insects is at least 100 million years old
Could early Homo pass the sniff test?
Giant armadillo look-alikes really were giant armadillos
Fossil dinosaur illuminates evolution of tyrannosauroid body sizes
Statistics shine light on T. rex family tree
New fossils illuminate 'hobbit' evolutionary history
Ancient Indonesian tools made by mysterious inhabitants
Underwater archaeology reveals pre-Clovis people butchered mastodon in Florida
Burgess Shale fossil find offers glimpse of early parenting
Benchmarks: May 12, 1905: Andrew Carnegie donates 'Dippy the Dino'
Travels in Geology: Discovering Denver's dinosaurs
Getting there and getting around Denver
Turtle finds lower Altiplano elevation estimate
Fossil leaves provide clues to ancient Australian habitat
China's Red Deer Cave people may have survived until the last ice age
Museums and exhibits in the Dinosaur Diamond
Making tracks through the Dinosaur Diamond
Bat signals
Inside an icthyosaur's brain
A long layover on the Bering land bridge
Parasites of the Paleozoic
Earliest Americans were wide-ranging wanderers
A jaw all the wider to bite you with
Mammoths may have suffered from bone disease
Geologic Column: A Jurassic romance
Gouges in the ground are best evidence yet of dinosaur courtship
Fossilized melanin reveals bats' true colors
Rising Star cave hominid walked its own way
Ancient eggshells may reveal dinosaur body temperatures
Three new species of extinct baleen whales found
South African cave system reveals new early human ancestor
Oldest marine turtle found in Colombia
Unshelled ancestor fills big gap in turtle family tree
Volunteering to muck around in the mud
What happened here?
The Snowmastodon Project: Mammoths and mastodons lived the high life in Colorado
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Nigel Hughes
Potentially venomous extinct mammals discovered in Zambia
Moroccan fossil formation reshapes timeline of Early Phanerozoic evolution
Bite marks offer best evidence yet of T. rex cannibalism
Butchery or trampling? Controversy marks ancient animal bones
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA unraveled
Triceratops relative 'Wendi' sported a fantastic frill
Owl pellets bridge ancient and modern ecosystems
A Cambrian-like explosion of mammals in the Mid-Jurassic
Sauropod skull mystery
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
First fossilized bird of another feather found in Brazil
Dinosaurs used the same nests repeatedly
Gender equity in dino bones
Earliest stone tools pre-date Homo
Snake forebear had two back legs but no front legs
Oldest birds unearthed in China
Ancient marine reptiles born alive and ready to hunt
De-evolving the bird beak
Closing a gap in the tetrapod fossil record
A terribly low voice for a new terror bird
From fearsome predator to filter feeder
Makeovers for two popular dinosaurs
One whale's incredible journey details East Africa's uplift
Geomedia: On the Web: Dinologue: A dino blog
Bigger is better in the sea
Tiny plant fossils offer big view of ancient ecosystems
Oldest climbing and burrowing mammals discovered in China
Comparing apples to oranges, hyenas to humans
The new anthropology: From bones and stones to biology and behavior
Amber-encased plant could be oldest known grass: Specimen may also preserve a Cretaceous-aged hallucinogen
Earliest primates were tree dwellers
Soft-bodied fossils cast in fool's gold
One-of-a-kind dinosaur skull goes digital
Tricky take-off limited pterosaur size
Early horse history written in Indian coal mine
Fossil leaves reveal effect of "impact winter"
Getting there and getting around Connecticut's ancient Rift Valley
Travels in Geology: Exploring Connecticut's Ancient Rift Valley
Crumbly amber holds dinosaur secrets
Scientists sequence oldest modern human genome to date
Stegosaur's tail packed a lethal punch
Ancient cave art discovered in Indonesia
Down to Earth With: Adrian Hunt
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits are described
New species of titanosaurus discovered in Tanzania
Neanderthals dined on pigeons
Dating the demise of the Neanderthals
Hallucigenia finally finds a home
All dinosaurs may have had feathers
Oldest-known skeletal animals found
Limited ranges left ammonites vulnerable to extinction
Polar dino tracks show full ecosystem
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick
July 28, 1996: Kennewick man is discovered
Out of Africa, time and again
Ancient shark jaws resemble those of modern fish
Geomedia: 'Dinosaur 13' chisels away at the story behind discovery of Sue
For toothed whales, ecolocation is an ancient art
Pompeii-like eruption fossilized dinosaurs in death poses
Hell Creek Formation reveals a 'chicken from hell'
Ancient food web shows modern structure
La Brea climate adaptation as different as cats and dogs
Message in a bottle gourd
Dinosaur feathers burst into color
Cryptic creatures made for a spectacular hanging garden
Early Triassic fossil showed live birth in action
Did tidal zone trilobites lead the way onto land?
Spanish cave reveals possible new Neanderthal ancestor
Ancient skeleton found in underwater cave reveals DNA of earliest Americans
New burgess shale fossil site found in Canada's Kootenay National Park
Down to Earth With: Steven Stanley
Dueling dinosaurs hit the auction block
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
Fieldwork revises ice-free corridor hypothesis of human migration
The trouble with turtles: Paleontology at a crossroads
From boom to bust in Neolithic Europe
Brooks Ellwood and the unusual applications of magnetism
Blogging on EARTH: New lessons from antiquity, this time on construction
Blogging on EARTH: Ancient whale with a big bite named for Moby Dick author
Criminals steal London dino's dung
Third hominin coexisted with modern humans and Neanderthals
Paleobiology
Frogs fill in post-Gondwana picture
Dinosaur soft tissues preserved as polymers
Marine animals have been migrating for millions of years
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Fossil sea turtle hatchling reveals its Eocene proteins
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Nigel Hughes
Early Triassic fossil showed live birth in action
Did tidal zone trilobites lead the way onto land?
The trouble with turtles: Paleontology at a crossroads
CSI La Brea: Tiny traces reveal big secrets of the tar pits
Bringing dinosaur biology into the 21st century
Supercontinent
Frogs fill in post-Gondwana picture
Ocean tide size linked to supercontinent cycle
Piecing together the puzzle of Pannotia
Breakup of Pangea led to thicker oceanic crust
Rethinking Pangea? Ancient ocean crust challenges supercontinent theory
Chemical clues reveal ancient geography
Biogeochemistry
Abiotic amino acid found in subseafloor rocks
Down to Earth With: Biogeochemist Stephen MacAvoy
Subseafloor biosphere extended to greatest depth yet
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
Cruising the Atlantic to trace elemental movements
Hydrothermal Vent
Abiotic amino acid found in subseafloor rocks
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Skate eggs found on hydrothermal vents
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
Six new deep-sea species discovered
The softer side of hydrothermal vents
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal vents are discovered
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Abiotic amino acid found in subseafloor rocks
Breakup of Pangea led to thicker oceanic crust
Seafloor volcanism linked to glacial cycles
Tectonics trigger underwater volcanism
Reading the ridges: Are climate and the seafloor connected?
Where fire freezes: All eyes, ears and instruments on Iceland's volatile volcanoes
Fire and ice produced Eyjafjalla's explosion
Fossil
Neanderthals and humans suffered similar levels of head injuries
Hard-knock hominid skeletons tell harsh tales
Dinosaur soft tissues preserved as polymers
Earliest bird-like lungs found in China
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Mesosaurs may have spent time on land
Early mammal reproduced like a reptile
Two new species fill gap in dinosaur family tree
Spiky new American ankylosaurid originated in Asia
"Easy bake" fossils resemble real deal
Algae ate themselves to death and caused a global extinction
Extinct gibbon found in Chinese tomb
Earth's first footprints
Grazing gave elephant ancestors an edge
Great Barrier Reef has died and recovered before
Travels in Geology: The pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an ancient world
Island-dwelling mammal had small brain, keen senses
Mineral clue to finding perfectly preserved fossils?
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's vanished Amazon
Pterosaurs flew into the Late Cretaceous
Down to Earth With: Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Oldest human remains outside Africa found in Israel
Flightless dino had bright, rainbow-colored feathers
How Borneo got its elephants
Lidar preserves record of destroyed theropod tracks
Origins of plant photosynthesis illuminated
Whatever happened to thagomizers and other tail weapons?
Hot tropics drove out ancient reptiles, but they came back
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Travels in Geology: Underground awe in France: The caves of the Causses
Pairing geoheritage and economic development: China's Guizhou Province offers a modern model
Pesky ticks even plagued dinosaurs
World's longest sauropod trackway exposed
Oldest blood cells found in Early Jurassic ichthyosaur
Growing up saber-toothed: Strong from the start
Did mud volcanoes set the stage for Burgess Shale fossils?
Fossil sea turtle hatchling reveals its Eocene proteins
Fossil reefs show sea level rose in bursts
Denali's Asian dinosaurs
Predators may have spurred evolution of ancient brittle stars
Geologic Column: Celebrating Old Rock Day
Fossilized dinosaur feces reveal flexitarian diet
19th-century discovery now reveals modern human arrival in Sumatra
Mysterious Miocene bipedal footprints found in Crete
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Transitional Chilesaurus fills gap between major dinosaur groups
Can fossil footprints reveal the weight of a dinosaur?
Marine megafaunal extinction discovered
When agriculture went to our heads
Mangroves sprouted in Arctic during Eocene
Chemical clues illuminate fossil plant relationships
Can preserved proteins reveal paint-by-numbers plumage?
Cretaceous collagen: Can molecular paleontology glean soft tissue from dinosaurs?
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
End of ice age may have been too wet for megafauna
Asymmetrical fossil feathers fill in timeline of flight
A mammoth king: Was the legend of King Hygelac in "Beowulf" inspired by a fossil find?
Baby Louie dinosaur fossil gets a formal name
Horned dinosaur find a first for eastern North America
Massive trove of dinosaur tracks cataloged in Australia
Hangover echinoderms survived the Great Dying
Precambrian rumblings of the Cambrian Explosion
Bipedalism left its mark on human skull: Kangaroos and upright rodents show same signs
Two ichthyosaurs become one
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Fossil forest recorded ancient sunspots
First trilobite eggs found in fool's gold
Tiny dinosaur-era marsupial packed a big bite
Scientists crack the secret of dinosaurs' incubation time
Lucy liked hanging out in trees
Dental plaque reveals later start date for hominin cooking
Tiny fish illuminates tooth fairy mystery
Discovered: One of the last-surviving Asian dinosaurs
Saving Mongolia's dinosaurs and inspiring the next generation of paleontologists
Rare Late Cretaceous dino skin found fossilized
Downgrading the Great Dying
Early birds quacked
Cave paintings confirm mystery European bison species
How to hide a dinosaur
Tiniest pterosaur found in British Columbia
Extinct tiger had unique elbow, hunting style
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I
Tiny bones pull India into the story of early primate evolution
New species of extinct dolphin found in Smithsonian archives
Travels in Geology: Tumbler Ridge: Finding dinosaurs — and their predecessors and descendants — in northeastern British Columbia
Turtle shells evolved for burrowing, not protection
Unique teeth helped vegetarian dinosaurs
Travels in Geology: Gubbio, Italy: A geologist's mecca
Antarctic no place to hide during end-Cretaceous extinction
Mammals hit harder than thought by end-Cretaceous extinction
Down to Earth With: Fossil preparator Bob Masek
New species of uniquely horned dinosaur identified
Hammerhead herbivore pioneered vegetarianism in Triassic seas
The new kid on the block
Redefining Homo: Does our family tree need more branches?
Scaling up: Mega-dino babies were mini adults
New dating of 'hobbit' sheds light on when it lived
Seeds may have saved bird-like dinosaurs from extinction
Teeth hold clues to human success, Neanderthal decline
Tully monster mystery solved
Cretaceous amber suggests societal behavior in insects is at least 100 million years old
Fossil dinosaur illuminates evolution of tyrannosauroid body sizes
Underwater archaeology reveals pre-Clovis people butchered mastodon in Florida
Benchmarks: May 12, 1905: Andrew Carnegie donates 'Dippy the Dino'
Travels in Geology: Discovering Denver's dinosaurs
Turtle finds lower Altiplano elevation estimate
Fossil leaves provide clues to ancient Australian habitat
China's Red Deer Cave people may have survived until the last ice age
Making tracks through the Dinosaur Diamond
Bat signals
Inside an icthyosaur's brain
Parasites of the Paleozoic
Mammoths may have suffered from bone disease
Geologic Column: A Jurassic romance
Fossilized melanin reveals bats' true colors
Ancient eggshells may reveal dinosaur body temperatures
Three new species of extinct baleen whales found
Permian-Triassic extinctions timed differently on land and at sea
Oldest marine turtle found in Colombia
Unshelled ancestor fills big gap in turtle family tree
Volunteering to muck around in the mud
What happened here?
The Snowmastodon Project: Mammoths and mastodons lived the high life in Colorado
Moroccan fossil formation reshapes timeline of Early Phanerozoic evolution
Warty algae-like sheets survived Snowball Earth events
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA unraveled
Triceratops relative 'Wendi' sported a fantastic frill
Owl pellets bridge ancient and modern ecosystems
A Cambrian-like explosion of mammals in the Mid-Jurassic
Sauropod skull mystery
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
First fossilized bird of another feather found in Brazil
Dinosaurs used the same nests repeatedly
Gender equity in dino bones
Earliest stone tools pre-date Homo
Oldest birds unearthed in China
Ancient marine reptiles born alive and ready to hunt
Closing a gap in the tetrapod fossil record
A terribly low voice for a new terror bird
From fearsome predator to filter feeder
Makeovers for two popular dinosaurs
One whale's incredible journey details East Africa's uplift
Bigger is better in the sea
Tiny plant fossils offer big view of ancient ecosystems
Oldest climbing and burrowing mammals discovered in China
The new anthropology: From bones and stones to biology and behavior
Amber-encased plant could be oldest known grass: Specimen may also preserve a Cretaceous-aged hallucinogen
Earliest primates were tree dwellers
Soft-bodied fossils cast in fool's gold
One-of-a-kind dinosaur skull goes digital
Tricky take-off limited pterosaur size
Early horse history written in Indian coal mine
Fossil leaves reveal effect of "impact winter"
Travels in Geology: Exploring Connecticut's Ancient Rift Valley
Down to Earth With: Matt Kuchta
Crumbly amber holds dinosaur secrets
Scientists sequence oldest modern human genome to date
Stegosaur's tail packed a lethal punch
Down to Earth With: Adrian Hunt
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits are described
New species of titanosaurus discovered in Tanzania
Hallucigenia finally finds a home
All dinosaurs may have had feathers
Oldest-known skeletal animals found
Limited ranges left ammonites vulnerable to extinction
Ohio millers imported French stone
Ancient shark jaws resemble those of modern fish
The subcontinent's sturdy mammals
Extra rib may be sign of mammoth decline
South American fossils offer revised view of Gondwana assembly
Changing the landscape: Geoscientists embrace 3-D printing
Benchmarks: September 1, 1957: Fossil Cycad National Monument is dissolved
For toothed whales, ecolocation is an ancient art
Pompeii-like eruption fossilized dinosaurs in death poses
Hell Creek Formation reveals a 'chicken from hell'
Ancient food web shows modern structure
La Brea climate adaptation as different as cats and dogs
Arctic megafauna thrived on pollen-poor plants
Cryptic creatures made for a spectacular hanging garden
Did tidal zone trilobites lead the way onto land?
Down to Earth With: Martin Lockley
New burgess shale fossil site found in Canada's Kootenay National Park
Down to Earth With: Steven Stanley
Dueling dinosaurs hit the auction block
The trouble with turtles: Paleontology at a crossroads
The Lizard King rises
Getting there and getting around the Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale bestseller
Travels in Geology: Famous fossils and spectacular scenery at British Columbia's Burgess Shale
Bringing dinosaur biology into the 21st century
Blogging on EARTH: Finding prehistoric souvenirs in Michigan
"Missing link" or major hype?
Age changes you: Torosaurus actually just old Triceratops
Are birds dinosaurs? New evidence muddies the picture
Art and dinosaurs
Before Lucy: Older hominid Ardi challenges thinking about human evolution
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" heat up
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx is discovered and described
Blogging on EARTH: Ancient whale with a big bite named for Moby Dick author
Deciphering mass extinctions
Dinosaurs' active lifestyles suggest they were warm-blooded
Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial
Earliest fossil evidence of humans in Southeast Asia?
It's a Dirty Job, But Someone's Gotta Do It
Mini-T. rex fossil found in China
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
New cousin joins primate family tree - but it's also no missing link
Odd crests helped dinos communicate
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and into Arabia?
Re-examining the Burgess Shale
Seal missing link found in the Arctic
Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil
Tetrapod tracks reset timing of four-legged evolution
There and back again: Alien From Earth tells the tale of the Hobbit
Third hominin coexisted with modern humans and Neanderthals
Homo Neanderthalensis
Neanderthals and humans suffered similar levels of head injuries
Neanderthals dined on pigeons
Third hominin coexisted with modern humans and Neanderthals
Homo Sapiens
Neanderthals and humans suffered similar levels of head injuries
Earliest art found in South Africa
Travels in Geology: Underground awe in France: The caves of the Causses
Drought drove early humans from Africa
Teeth hold clues to human success, Neanderthal decline
Highlights of 2010: What does it mean to be human?
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and into Arabia?
Paleo Patrol: Was mankind's first leap in a forest or savanna?
Third hominin coexisted with modern humans and Neanderthals
Hominin
Hard-knock hominid skeletons tell harsh tales
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and underground astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Lucy liked hanging out in trees
Dental plaque reveals later start date for hominin cooking
Benchmarks: January 31, 1961: Ham the chimpanzee, first hominid in space
Hominid vs. hominin
Redefining Homo: Does our family tree need more branches?
New fossils illuminate 'hobbit' evolutionary history
Ancient Indonesian tools made by mysterious inhabitants
China's Red Deer Cave people may have survived until the last ice age
Rising Star cave hominid walked its own way
Spanish cave reveals possible new Neanderthal ancestor
Hominin skull discovery fuels debate about early human evolution
Tree-climbing hominin with opposable toes co-existed with Lucy
Voices: Redefining humanity through energy use
Before Lucy: Older hominid Ardi challenges thinking about human evolution
Earliest fossil evidence of humans in Southeast Asia?
Highlights of 2010: What does it mean to be human?
Homo erectus footprints show modern way of walking
It's all in the wrist: Humans lack a knuckle-walking ancestor
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
Paleo Patrol: A hominin family reunion at the Smithsonian
Paleo Patrol: Neanderthal genome offers clues on what makes us human
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and into Arabia?
Paleo Patrol: Was mankind's first leap in a forest or savanna?
Questions arise over earliest evidence of human tool use
The vital statistics
Third hominin coexisted with modern humans and Neanderthals
Human Evolution
Hard-knock hominid skeletons tell harsh tales
"Cradle of Humankind" fossils can now be dated
Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals' extinction
Speartips point at south-to-north Clovis dispersal
Trio of studies track stone tool technology in Kenya
Weedy seeds gathered in once-green Sahara
Oldest human remains outside Africa found in Israel
A new look at Cheddar Man
Drought drove early humans from Africa
Nothing is clear about who left marks on ancient bones
19th-century discovery now reveals modern human arrival in Sumatra
Mysterious Miocene bipedal footprints found in Crete
Bipedalism left its mark on human skull: Kangaroos and upright rodents show same signs
Lucy liked hanging out in trees
Geologic Column: Evolution of an ape-man
Dental plaque reveals later start date for hominin cooking
Early humans dealt with Ethiopian supervolcanoes
Green corridors led humans out of Africa
The new kid on the block
Hominid vs. hominin
Redefining Homo: Does our family tree need more branches?
New dating of 'hobbit' sheds light on when it lived
Teeth hold clues to human success, Neanderthal decline
Denisovan DNA found in modern Pacific Islanders, ancient Spaniards
Could early Homo pass the sniff test?
Ancient Indonesian tools made by mysterious inhabitants
Underwater archaeology reveals pre-Clovis people butchered mastodon in Florida
Humans evolved early to be more efficient sleepers
China's Red Deer Cave people may have survived until the last ice age
Rising Star cave hominid walked its own way
South African cave system reveals new early human ancestor
Human hands not most advanced
Butchery or trampling? Controversy marks ancient animal bones
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA unraveled
Earliest stone tools pre-date Homo
The new anthropology: From bones and stones to biology and behavior
Scientists sequence oldest modern human genome to date
Ancient cave art discovered in Indonesia
Down to Earth With: Naomi Levin
Dating the demise of the Neanderthals
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick
Out of Africa, time and again
Spanish cave reveals possible new Neanderthal ancestor
Fieldwork revises ice-free corridor hypothesis of human migration
From boom to bust in Neolithic Europe
Science denialism: The problem that just won't go away
Hydrological models locate ancient human migration routes
Hominin skull discovery fuels debate about early human evolution
Modern humans arrived in South Asia 25,000 years later than previously thought?
Oceanic records paint a more complex picture of human evolution
New dates place Spanish cave art as oldest in Europe
Voices: Defending science: The link between creationism and climate change
Running into the brick wall of Creationism again
Voices: An old Earth for all Muslims but how does evolution fit in?
Voices: Redefining humanity through energy use
"Missing link" or major hype?
Before Lucy: Older hominid Ardi challenges thinking about human evolution
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin is born - and so began modern biology
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" published
Creationism creeps into mainstream geology
Earliest fossil evidence of humans in Southeast Asia?
Games: In Spore, cells divide and conquer
Highlights of 2010: What does it mean to be human?
Homo erectus footprints show modern way of walking
It's all in the wrist: Humans lack a knuckle-walking ancestor
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
New cousin joins primate family tree - but it's also no missing link
Not the oldest hominid
Paleo Patrol: A hominin family reunion at the Smithsonian
Paleo Patrol: Neanderthal genome offers clues on what makes us human
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
Paleo Patrol: Was mankind's first leap in a forest or savanna?
Questions arise over earliest evidence of human tool use
Texas Board of Education votes to strike amendment questioning evolution
The Coconino's starring role in the creationist-geologist battle
The vital statistics
Third hominin coexisted with modern humans and Neanderthals
Skeleton
Hard-knock hominid skeletons tell harsh tales
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA unraveled
Sauropod skull mystery
Kennewick Man related to modern Native Americans
New species of titanosaurus discovered in Tanzania
Oldest-known skeletal animals found
Extra rib may be sign of mammoth decline
Ancient skeleton found in underwater cave reveals DNA of earliest Americans
Oil and Gas Development
Kerogen's nanostructure determines oil and gas reservoir capacity
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended
Coatings may prevent pipeline clogs
Did Jurassic tectonics lead to supergiant oilfields?
Water use soared as workers flocked to North Dakota's oilfields
Benchmarks: September 23, 1933: The U.S. oil industry arrives in Saudi Arabia
Benchmarks: August 2, 1922: Marines invade Teapot Dome, deepen scandal
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Geologic Column: By train or pipeline: That is the question
Gaming the system in the Caspian Sea: Can game theory solve a decades-old dispute?
Building resource corridors in Afghanistan: A solution to an interminable war?
The Bakken boom and the new wild west: A young geologist's perspective
Listening for gas bubbles
Tomography
Kerogen's nanostructure determines oil and gas reservoir capacity
Yellowstone's Mexican mantle plume
Looking under Lusi: Indonesian mud volcano linked to nearby volcanic complex
The question of mantle plumes
Getting to the bottom of a tectonic plate
Mantle plume alternative explains Australian volcanism
Dinosaur
Dinosaur soft tissues preserved as polymers
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Two new species fill gap in dinosaur family tree
Spiky new American ankylosaurid originated in Asia
Geomedia: Books: Informative and inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Down to Earth With: John Copeland
Down to Earth With: Jack Horner
Down to Earth With: Geologist and paleontologist David Wilcots
Flightless dino had bright, rainbow-colored feathers
Lidar preserves record of destroyed theropod tracks
Whatever happened to thagomizers and other tail weapons?
Pesky ticks even plagued dinosaurs
World's longest sauropod trackway exposed
Denali's Asian dinosaurs
Fossilized dinosaur feces reveal flexitarian diet
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Transitional Chilesaurus fills gap between major dinosaur groups
Dino deaths cleared the way for frogs
Can fossil footprints reveal the weight of a dinosaur?
Another whiptail dinosaur added to sauropod family tree
Can preserved proteins reveal paint-by-numbers plumage?
Cretaceous collagen: Can molecular paleontology glean soft tissue from dinosaurs?
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
Asymmetrical fossil feathers fill in timeline of flight
T. rex's bone-crushing bite
Baby Louie dinosaur fossil gets a formal name
Horned dinosaur find a first for eastern North America
Massive trove of dinosaur tracks cataloged in Australia
Travels in Geology: A tale of two rivers: Grand Junction, Colorado
Rearranging the dinosaur family tree
Horned dinosaur find a first for eastern North America
Tiny dinosaur-era marsupial packed a big bite
Scientists crack the secret of dinosaurs' incubation time
Discovered: One of the last-surviving Asian dinosaurs
The Dinosaur Garden of the Gobi: Motivating future paleontologists
Saving Mongolia's dinosaurs and inspiring the next generation of paleontologists
Rare Late Cretaceous dino skin found fossilized
How to hide a dinosaur
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I
Getting there and getting around Tumbler Ridge
Travels in Geology: Tumbler Ridge: Finding dinosaurs — and their predecessors and descendants — in northeastern British Columbia
Unique teeth helped vegetarian dinosaurs
Down to Earth With: Fossil preparator Bob Masek
New species of uniquely horned dinosaur identified
Scaling up: Mega-dino babies were mini adults
Ancient dinosaur migrations analyzed
Seeds may have saved bird-like dinosaurs from extinction
Benchmarks: December 31, 1853: Dinner in a dinosaur
Fossil dinosaur illuminates evolution of tyrannosauroid body sizes
Statistics shine light on T. rex family tree
Benchmarks: May 12, 1905: Andrew Carnegie donates 'Dippy the Dino'
Travels in Geology: Discovering Denver's dinosaurs
Getting there and getting around Denver
Museums and exhibits in the Dinosaur Diamond
Making tracks through the Dinosaur Diamond
Volcanic aerosols not enough to cause mass extinctions?
A jaw all the wider to bite you with
Gouges in the ground are best evidence yet of dinosaur courtship
Ancient eggshells may reveal dinosaur body temperatures
Triceratops relative 'Wendi' sported a fantastic frill
Sauropod skull mystery
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
Dinosaurs used the same nests repeatedly
Gender equity in dino bones
De-evolving the bird beak
Makeovers for two popular dinosaurs
One-of-a-kind dinosaur skull goes digital
Getting there and getting around Connecticut's ancient Rift Valley
Travels in Geology: Exploring Connecticut's Ancient Rift Valley
Crumbly amber holds dinosaur secrets
Stegosaur's tail packed a lethal punch
Down to Earth With: Adrian Hunt
New species of titanosaurus discovered in Tanzania
All dinosaurs may have had feathers
Polar dino tracks show full ecosystem
Geomedia: 'Dinosaur 13' chisels away at the story behind discovery of Sue
Geologic Column: How T. rex got its street cred back
Pompeii-like eruption fossilized dinosaurs in death poses
Hell Creek Formation reveals a 'chicken from hell'
Dinosaur feathers burst into color
Down to Earth With: Martin Lockley
Dueling dinosaurs hit the auction block
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
Bringing dinosaur biology into the 21st century
Five outstanding questions in earth science
Quoth the feathered, iridescent Microraptor, Nevermore
Highlights of 2010: Definitive statements: a new trend?
Age changes you: Torosaurus actually just old Triceratops
Are birds dinosaurs? New evidence muddies the picture
Art and dinosaurs
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx is discovered and described
Deciphering mass extinctions
Dinosaurs of a feather may not have evolved together
Dinosaurs' active lifestyles suggest they were warm-blooded
Dinosaurs' true colors revealed
Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial
It's a Dirty Job, But Someone's Gotta Do It
Mini-T. rex fossil found in China
Odd crests helped dinos communicate
Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil
Tetrapod tracks reset timing of four-legged evolution
Triassic Park: On the origin of (dinosaur) species
Earthquake
Jump-starting earthquake insurance uptake in California
New tool predicts probability of earthquake-triggered landslides
Forecasting California's earthquake hazard
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Travels in Geology: Jewel of the Apennines: Italy's Monti Sibillini National Park
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" recounts the 1755 Lisbon disaster
Where will the San Andreas Fault rupture next?
Gravity changes portended 2011 Tohoku earthquake
New measurement shakes up earthquake estimates
Hazards in paradise: Indonesia prepares for natural disasters
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" spotlights seismic risk
Residual strain explains later quakes
Measuring earthquakes using fiber-optic cables
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
Creeping danger: Landslide threatens Peruvian village, especially when the earth quakes
In the lab, machine learning improves quake forecasts
New Zealand quake triggers two large slow-slip events
Alaskan subduction zone mirrors Tohoku zone that unleashed tsunami
Desktop seismology: How a maker-inspired device is changing seismic monitoring
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Can distant earthquakes trigger submarine landslides?
Water weight and surface rebound trigger small quakes in California
Dehydrated sediment layer made Sumatra quake stronger
When schools shake: Keeping students and teachers safe during earthquakes
Complex Kaikoura earthquake forces rethink of multifault ruptures
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 earthquake rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Stock traders' algorithm finds slow earthquakes
"The Himalaya Connection": Telling a story of geoscientific exploration on film
Gravity changes may warn of large earthquakes
Kaikoura quake jumped from fault to fault in New Zealand
Assessing how well earthquake hazard maps work: Insights from weather and baseball
Initial earthquake behavior does not predict outcome
Temblor: An app that brings home your seismic hazard
Earthquake-resilient pipes aim to keep L.A.'s water flowing
Scientists find earthquakes trigger instantaneous aftershocks on neighboring faults
New research suggests Syrian refugees must be accounted for in seismic risk models
A L'Aquila trigger, seismic gaps and poor construction: What we've learned from the August earthquake in Italy
Tilted Himalayan temples hold clues to past shaking
Lack of afterslip in Nepal hints at mounting tensions
Down to Earth With: Hydrogeologist Shemin Ge
Peeling North American Plate causing East Coast earthquakes
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains earthquake
Giant turbidite in Mediterranean Sea linked to ancient earthquake and tsunami
Earthquakes can jump long distances
Double trouble: Volcanic eruption leads to strong earthquake eight months later
Surprise quake at Mount Fuji triggered by rising gases
The most dangerous fault in America
Fish evolved quickly after earthquake
Medieval earthquakes in Nepal may help reveal the region's tectonic future
Downgoing plate topography stopped 2005 Sumatra rupture
King Oraefajokull
Human-induced quakes included in new seismic hazard maps
Going with the flow: Mapping the mantle under the Cascadia Subduction Zone
The ups and downs of an island
Hidden double earthquake spells trouble for tsunami-warning systems
Subducting seamounts blocked a big quake in Chile
Revealing potential tsunami inundation on California coast
Nearly half of Americans in lower 48 at risk for potentially damaging quake shaking
Narratives from Nepal: Relief and rebuilding after the Gorkha Earthquake
Balanced boulders in earthquake country highlight interconnected faults
Ice sheet has had lasting effect on European earthquakes
The quake's impact on western thinking
Benchmarks: November 1, 1755: Earthquake destroys Lisbon
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
Source of Red Sea's mysterious cannon earthquakes revealed
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake devastates western China
Soil may supply surging streams after earthquakes
A decade of slow slip may have preceded Japan's 2011 earthquake
Ground-shaking research: How humans trigger earthquakes
Earthquake Insurance
Jump-starting earthquake insurance uptake in California
Temblor: An app that brings home your seismic hazard
Comment: The Oso landslide shows need for insurance and better planning
A public service announcement: Improve geologic literacy starting on the home front
Geomorphology
Stronger monsoon drove ancient Indus civilization into the hills
Humans accidentally created new rivers in Europe
Mighty Mekong cut by monsoon, not tectonics
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Spawning salmon engineer landscapes
Searching for the ancestors of meandering rivers
Wormholes may limit landslides
Due diligence in river incision data
Sculpting the Alps
Sediment load shapes rivers
Pre-settlement erosion rates illuminated
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
Himalaya
Stronger monsoon drove ancient Indus civilization into the hills
Travels in Geology: Lhasa, Tibet: Journey to the roof of the world
Geoscience on Film: The Burma Arc in Myanmar
Geoscience on Film: Roadcuts and rockfalls in mountainous Mizoram
Oldest "Third Pole" ice core recovered
Dehydrated sediment layer made Sumatra quake stronger
"The Himalaya Connection": Telling a story of geoscientific exploration on film
Tilted Himalayan temples hold clues to past shaking
Medieval earthquakes in Nepal may help reveal the region's tectonic future
Himalayas get a new birthdate
Travels in Geology: A trek through Himalayan geology in Nepal
Arsenic in wells in Vietnam suggests dig-deeper approach has issues
Arsenic levels in China may be predicted by modeling
Karakoram glaciers buck global, regional trends
China quake kills at least 400
Indus
Stronger monsoon drove ancient Indus civilization into the hills
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
River
Stronger monsoon drove ancient Indus civilization into the hills
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's hidden freshwater gems
Humans accidentally created new rivers in Europe
Mighty Mekong cut by monsoon, not tectonics
Night lights reveal that people move as rivers rise
Dry rivers secretly star in carbon cycle
Charting 500 years of Mississippi floods
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's vanished Amazon
Saglek Basin sediments suggest a Grand Canyon connection
Diamonds and the Eocene climate of the Bell River Basin
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Salmon River through the Idaho Batholith
From farm to filter: Restored wetlands remediate nitrogen pollution
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Unexpected nanoparticles trace coal pollution
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga burns
Benchmarks: November 27, 1873: Red River logjam removed for good
Searching for the ancestors of meandering rivers
Volcanic eruptions affect rivers around the world
Earthquake changed Po River's course in 16th-century Italy
Due diligence in river incision data
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Pacific Northwest's heavenly Hells Canyon
Soil may supply surging streams after earthquakes
Sediment load shapes rivers
Can dam releases restore river ecosystems?
Mississippi sand still abundant
Warm river water melted Arctic sea ice
Biophysical economics: The Mississippi Delta as a lens for global issues
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Mississippi Delta drowning
Rewriting rivers: What it means for river restoration
Weather
Stronger monsoon drove ancient Indus civilization into the hills
Mighty Mekong cut by monsoon, not tectonics
Arctic warming causes Siberian cooling
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Winter precipitation in southwestern U.S. tied to Kiwi Coast
Saharan dust a storm killer
Rivers in the sky: Improving predictions of atmospheric rivers to reduce risk
"Dam levels critical" in Cape Town
Comment: The changing shape of local climates
Cape Town faces a waterless future
El Nino "flavors" affect California rainfall
Lakeshore shape influences lake-effect snow
Double-dip La Nina blamed for Colorado's dry winter
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
Climate change linked to specific weather events for the first time
Comment: Arctic warming and midlatitude weather: Is there a connection?
Less-developed countries with high climate risk need better access to weather and climate data
"Blob"-related warming contributed to Pacific Northwest ozone spike
Bare Earth Elements: Tour brings hurricane hunting aircraft and expertise to the masses
Today's weather forecast: Good with a strong chance of improvement
Model targets better understanding of recurring Indian-Pacific storm systems
Moving cars could help gauge rainfall
Scientists look wider and deeper to predict the next El Nino
Humans are influencing some extreme weather events, but not all
Trans-Niño years could foster tornado outbreaks
Hurricane hunters fly toward improved storm forecasts
Drought outlook indicates further problems in Plains and West
Blogging on EARTH: Spring has sprung, at least in some places
National Weather Service introduces impact-based warnings for tornadoes
Blogging on EARTH: Congress considers severe weather policy options
Foretelling next month's tornadoes
Blogging on EARTH: Controversy over the weekend effect
Cityscape, 'wet regions' fueled Atlanta tornado
Is it time to invest in entrepreneurial geoengineering?
Larger raindrops may make tornadoes more likely
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Voices: If global warming is real, why is it snowing in DC?
What makes a disaster? Does this blizzard count?
Solar System
Some of Earth's water originated in the solar system's birth
The only Earth: Exploring the link between plate tectonics and life on the blue planet
Ceres' homemade organic materials
Down to Earth With: Planetary geologist James W. Head III
Pluto may still have liquid ocean
Dust orbiting Jupiter is going the wrong way
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler confirms Saturn's rings not solid
Jupiter's shrinking Great Red Spot
Conjunction injunction: Recent and future planetary alignments
Benchmarks: February 4, 1962: Five planets align - but no end of the world
A pair of moons with underground oceans
Two new looks at Titan's dunes
A journey to Pluto and beyond with New Horizons
Down to Earth With: The Geographers of the Solar System
Red Planet Roundup: January 2015
Nanoflares power the sun's superheated corona
Red Planet Roundup: November 2014
New lunar research answers old questions, poses others
Mercury formed by hit and run?
Cassini spots new moon in Saturn's rings
Saturn's polar hexagon stable over time
Rings not just for planets anymore
Super-Earths: Mirrors of our world?
Departments
Benchmarks: March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and underground astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" shares copper country geoheritage
Geomedia: Books: A witty look at "The Ends of the World"
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Down to Earth With: Clay mineralogist Warren Huff
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Down to Earth With: Coastal scientist Gary Griggs
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" recounts the 1755 Lisbon disaster
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is established
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Geomedia: Film: 'First Man' navigates Neil Armstrong's journey between two worlds
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale coal mine fire kills 110, igniting reform
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Geomedia: Books: Informative and inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Geomedia: Books: Revisiting the Galileo affair
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Oxide Pigments
Energy Notes: August 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cultured Quartz Crystal
Energy Notes: July 2007-2008
Energy Notes: June 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Energy Notes: May 2007-2008
Energy Notes: August 2008-2009
Energy Notes: July 2008-2009
Energy Notes: June 2008-2009
Energy Notes: May 2008-2009
Energy Notes: April 2008-2009
Energy Notes: February 2008-2009
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Energy Notes: December 2007-2008
Energy Notes: November 2007-2008
Energy Notes: October 2007-2008
Energy Notes: September 2007-2008
Energy Notes: August 2009-2010
Energy Notes: July 2009-2010
Energy Notes: June 2009-2010
Energy Notes: May 2009-2010
Energy Notes: April 2009-2010
Energy Notes: March 2009-2010
Energy Notes: February 2009-2010
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Energy Notes: December 2008-2009
Energy Notes: November 2008-2009
Energy Notes: October 2008-2009
Energy Notes: September 2008-2009
Energy Notes: August 2010-2011
Energy Notes: July 2010-2011
Energy Notes: June 2010-2011
Energy Notes: May 2010-2011
Energy Notes: April 2010-2011
Energy Notes: March 2010-2011
Energy Notes: February 2010-2011
Energy Notes: January 2010-2011
Energy Notes: December 2009-2010
Energy Notes: November 2009-2010
Energy Notes: October 2009-2010
Energy Notes: September 2009-2010
Energy Notes: August 2011-2012
Energy Notes: July 2011-2012
Energy Notes: June 2011-2012
Energy Notes: May 2011-2012
Energy Notes: April 2011-2012
Energy Notes: March 2011-2012
Energy Notes: February 2011-2012
Energy Notes: January 2011-2012
Energy Notes: December 2010-2011
Energy Notes: November 2010-2011
Energy Notes: October 2010-2011
Energy Notes: September 2010-2011
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Energy Notes: June 2012-2013
Energy Notes: May 2012-2013
Energy Notes: April 2012-2013
Energy Notes: March 2012-2013
Energy Notes: February 2012-2013
Energy Notes: January 2012-2013
Energy Notes: December 2011-2012
Energy Notes: November 2011-2012
Energy Notes: October 2011-2012
Energy Notes: September 2011-2012
Energy Notes: October 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diamond
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cobalt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Ferrous Slag
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thorium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Clay Minerals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lead
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Perlite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Platinum Group Metals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Germanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Salt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Asbestos
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Ore
Mineral Resource of the Month: Molybdenum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Copper
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Feldspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tantalum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Indium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gypsum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rare Earth Elements
Mineral Resource of the Month: Potash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Mineral Resource of the Month: Soda Ash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mercury
Mineral Resource of the Month: Dimension Stone
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tungsten
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hydraulic Cement
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aluminum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Magnesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Manganese
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aggregates
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cadmium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rhenium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Beryllium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tellurium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diatomite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Barite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Nickel
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bismuth
Mineral Resource of the Month: Kyanite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lithium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hafnium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vanadium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Benchmarks: July 29, 1958: The Birth of NASA
Down to Earth With: John 'Jack' Reed Jr.
Down to Earth With: Maurice J. 'Ric' Terman
Down to Earth With: John Copeland
Down to Earth With: New congressional science fellows
Down to Earth With: Maria Zuber
Down to Earth With: Michael Novacek
Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Down to Earth With: Jack Horner
Down to Earth With: Ted Irving
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Down to Earth With: Sharon Mosher
Down to Earth With: Andrew Feustel
Down to Earth With: Todd Hoefen
Down to Earth With: Katerina Dontsova
Down to Earth With: Nick Brooks
Down to Earth With: Jeffrey Post
Down to Earth With: Dr. Jonathan Patz
Down to Earth With: Matthew Parker
Down to Earth With: Hope Jahren
Benchmarks: June 15, 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Down to Earth With: Geologist and paleontologist David Wilcots
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" spotlights seismic risk
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" is Superlative
Benchmarks: May 3, 2003: New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain falls
Geomedia: Books: Solar eclipses past, present and future
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 wreckage found using modern oceanography tools
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and astronomer Tom Kaye
Down to Earth With: Award-winning sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Geomedia: On the Web: How will melting ice impact your city?
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Geomedia: Books: "Aerial Geology": A stunning and informative addition to any coffee table
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Canterbury, paving the way for the Chunnel
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to protect crop diversity
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
Down to Earth With Kateryna Klochko
Benchmarks: January 25, 1968: The last firefall: A Yosemite tradition flames out
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog smothers London
Down to Earth With Richard Prum
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
Geomedia: Books: Vivid anecdotes abound in "Eruption: The untold story of Mount St. Helens"
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The deadliest wildfire in American history incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" aptly named
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Down To Earth With: John Underhill
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery returns from the West
Geomedia: Books: Exploring space is risky business
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 earthquake rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Geomedia: Books: Earth faces challenges, but are they tipping points?
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz mission launches space collaboration
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Geomedia: Mixed media: Geo-art collaboration shifts perspectives on earth materials
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Down to Earth With: Biogeochemist Stephen MacAvoy
Geomedia: Books: Looking at the World Anew in "The Planet Remade"
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
Benchmarks: April 24, 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched
Down to Earth With: Planetary geologist James W. Head III
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" takes listeners to the edge of the universe and beyond
Benchmarks: March 11–13, 1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 Paralyzes New York City
Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's aquifers with filmmaker Tom Fitz
A mysterious first
Benchmarks: February 5, 1931 and February 20, 1935: Antarctic firsts for women
Down to Earth With: Mountain biking geologist Kurt Refsnider
Benchmarks: January 31, 1961: Ham the chimpanzee, first hominid in space
Geomedia: Music: The sounds of the sea
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Raymond S. Bradley
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I
Down to Earth With: Underwater cave explorer Jill Heinerth
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado del Ruiz eruption triggers deadly lahars
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Kayla Iacovino
Benchmarks: October 2, 1574: Dutch unleash the ocean as a weapon of war
Down to Earth With: Fossil preparator Bob Masek
Geomedia: Books: "Alfred Wegener": The definitive biography of a geoscience star
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches sweep through Austrian towns, killing dozens
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a cold war ice fortress is built
Benchmarks: September 23, 1933: The U.S. oil industry arrives in Saudi Arabia
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross is found, photographed and mapped
Benchmarks: September 8, 1900: Massive hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas
Down to Earth With: Hydrogeologist Shemin Ge
Benchmarks: July 1, 1912: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officially becomes the first of its kind in U.S.
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera erupts
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains earthquake
Geomedia: Film: A glimpse into the geology of 'Star Trek Beyond'
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 dust storm injures hundreds
Benchmarks: August 25, 1916: The National Park Service is established
Geomedia: Books: 'FORE' helps you project the future, with a laugh
Down to Earth With: National Park Service Geologic Resources Division chief David Steensen
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii tsunami ushers in a Pacific-wide warning system
Benchmarks: March 1961: Project Mohole undertakes the first deep-ocean drilling
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest day of fire ever recorded in Australia
Benchmarks: January 3–5, 1982: 18,000 landslides wreak havoc on the San Francisco Bay area
Benchmarks: November 7, 1940, and November 25, 1990: Washington suffers a pair of debilitating bridge failures
Benchmarks: October 1904: Mineralogy solves a murder
Benchmarks: August 1576: False gold found in Meta Incognita
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga burns
Benchmarks: July 26, 1905: The rising Salton Sea swamps the Southern Pacific Railroad
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown flood kills thousands
Saturn's rings: The remains of an icy moon
Keeler's legacy
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler confirms Saturn's rings not solid
Deadly tornadoes
Benchmarks: March 18, 1925: Tri-state twister kills 695 people
Benchmarks: January 23, 1960: Humans reach the deepest point on Earth
The first dinner in a beast
From science to science fiction
Down to Earth With: Planetary scientist Steven Squyres
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA' for the earth science enthusiast
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener begins a fateful polar expedition
Geomedia: Books: 'Floodpath' recounts the deadly collapse of California's St. Francis Dam
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The era of aviation launches with the first balloon flight
Down to Earth With: Solar physicist Thomas Berger
Geomedia: Film: 'A Beautiful Planet' inspires with vivid views of life on and off Earth
Geomedia: Performance: Bella Gaia is a show in orbit and Earth is the star
Benchmarks: May 12, 1905: Andrew Carnegie donates 'Dippy the Dino'
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE is launched
Down to Earth With: Tectonicist Eldridge Moores
Benchmarks: March 17, 1944: The most recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Ted Scambos
Geomedia: Books: The danger of anti-data ideologies is explored in 'Denying Science'
Benchmarks: February 1962 and 1984: John Glenn and Bruce McCandless make space flight history
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's first park geologist Greg Stock
Geomedia: Apps: Join the crowd: Introducing a new generation of geo-apps
Benitoite: A rare gemstone
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park is founded
Down to Earth With: GEO Secretariat Director Barbara Ryan
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
Energy Notes: May 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill disappears
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA: Making North America' Is Flashy, But Fails on Storytelling
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Nigel Hughes
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA unraveled
Gain some, lose some
Benchmarks: June 30, 1972: Timekeepers add first "leap second" to clocks
Benchmarks: May 18, 1952: Stonehenge's age solved with Carbon-14
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England prohibits Alchemy
The quake's impact on western thinking
Benchmarks: November 1, 1755: Earthquake destroys Lisbon
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
Geomedia: Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival is geologic showcase
Geomedia: Film: 'The Martian' puts the magnificence and messiness of science at the fore
Benchmarks: January 1, 1960: The Discovery of "Extinct Radioactivity" The quest to date the elements that formed the solar system
Benchmarks: February 3, 1953: Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" is published, opening a window on the underwater world for millions
Benchmarks: March 1913: The first complete geologic timescale is published
Geomedia: Documentaries: Bearded ladies doing paleontology
Sauropod skull mystery
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
Energy Notes: March 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Erin Pettit
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
Benchmarks: September 21, 1938: The great New England Hurricane strikes
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake devastates western China
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew sealed inside Biosphere 2
Energy Notes: February 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
Geomedia: Toys: LEGO® geoscientists break through the brick ceiling
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gemstones
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus crosses the North Pole
Down to Earth With: Industrial Archaeologist Fred Quivik
Geomedia: Books: Iceland's eruption of biblical proportions explored in 'Island on Fire'
Energy Notes: December 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral discovery ends Meteor Crater debate
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Peter Molnar
Geomedia: On the Web: Dinologue: A dino blog
Geomedia: On the web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Energy Notes: November 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron oxide pigments
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting out for the Copper Country
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The deadly eruption of Mount Pelée
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
Peak's appeal - and hazard - endures today
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record winds buffet Mount Washington
Down to Earth With: The USGS Landslide Response Team
Geomedia: Books: Rediscovering the science behind Thoreau's 'Walden'
Energy Notes: September 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silver
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
Down to Earth With: Mineralogist George W. Robinson
Geomedia: Books: To Tiktaalik and beyond
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Energy Notes: September 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel
Energy Notes: October 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Talc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Wollastonite
Energy Notes: December 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Selenium
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea submersible Alvin
Down to Earth With: Deanna D'Alessandro
Down to Earth With: The Swindling Geologist
Down to Earth With: Matt Kuchta
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
Down to Earth With: Lee Allison
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
Down to Earth With: The Geographers of the Solar System
Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Comment: Supersites: Sharing geoscience data for science and society
Energy Notes: August 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal vents are discovered
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
Geomedia: Books: A brief history of our cosmic origins
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Down to Earth With: Terry Plank
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Down to Earth With: James White
Down to Earth With: Tanya Atwater
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits are described
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, geologist who deciphered banded iron formations
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
Benchmarks: October 9, 1963: The Vajont Landslide kills 2,500 in Italy
Down to Earth With: Eric Riggs
Energy Notes: July 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Benchmarks: January 3, 1970: Lost City meteorite is tracked and recovered
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Geomedia: Books: Are we causing a sixth extinction?
November 10, 1934: Arizona declares war against California at Parker Dam
December 27, 1888: The Geological Society of America is founded
January 26, 1905: The world's largest gem-quality diamond is unearthed
April 20, 1832: Arkansas' hot springs named the First National "Park"
Energy Notes: June 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mica
Benchmarks: December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami strikes
Down to Earth With: CEO and Geo-Data miner Nicole Barlow
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Guide
Benchmarks: November 8, 2013: Super-typhoon Haiyan tests Philippines warning protocols
Energy notes: May 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zeolites
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick
July 28, 1996: Kennewick man is discovered
On the Web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Benchmarks: October 10, 1913: Atlantic and Pacific waters meet in the Panama Canal
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vermiculite
Down to Earth With: Kerry Sieh
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Geomedia: 'Dinosaur 13' chisels away at the story behind discovery of Sue
Benchmarks: August 15, 1984 & August 21, 1986: African killer lakes erupt
Down to Earth With: Chris Strong
Benchmarks: September 1, 1957: Fossil Cycad National Monument is dissolved
Energy Notes: March 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Arsenic
Energy Notes: February 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Peat
Books: The once and future San Andreas Fault
Energy Notes: January 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Niobium
Pike's Peak
Benchmarks: July 15, 1806: Zebulon Pike launches Southwest expedition
Down to Earth With: Martin Lockley
Geomedia: Books: The earth system symphony
Geomedia: Books: A changing literary climate
Down to Earth With: Steven Stanley
Geomedia: Books: Science in fiction
By the numbers: Women in space
Benchmarks: June 16, 1963 & June 18, 1983: Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride become first and third women in space
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine links the geomagnetic and sunspot cycles
Geomedia: California's climatic catastrophes detailed in "The West Without Water"
Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
Down to Earth With: Sally Jewell
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First astrogeologist on the moon
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
Down to Earth With: Antarctic meteorite hunters
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 26, 1986: Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl
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 3, 1984: Bhopal gas leak kills thousands
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin is born - and so began modern biology
Benchmarks: January 3, 1961: Three men die in nuclear reactor meltdown
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" heat up
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar eclipse "proves" relativity
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" published
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx is discovered and described
Benchmarks: The first Earth Day
Danger and wonder in Nat Geo's "Giant Crystal Cave"
Designing Snowflakes
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess
Earth tides in A major
Earth: The movie (not the magazine)
Energy mission: "Kilowatt Ours"
Games: In Spore, cells divide and conquer
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Hot enough for ya? Investigating climate change in "Heat"
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Museums: Cleopatra: The search for the last queen of Egypt
Musical magnetic reversals
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Online stargazing with GigaGalaxy Zoom
People of the Ice
Putting Earth's history to sound
Scientists Go to the Movies
The cosmos on key
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices from the Moon"
Government
Benchmarks: March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established
Geologic Column: Is this land really your land?
Crystal Ball EARTH: Policy: A tale of two years
GM, Ford, Chrysler CEOs may carpool to Capitol
Is it time to invest in entrepreneurial geoengineering?
History
Benchmarks: March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Comment: National Geological Surveys: The past, present and future
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
Place-based education: Teaching geoscience in the context of location and culture
Geologic Column: Rebranding Alexander
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Gettysburg rocks tell battlefield tales
Isotopes reveal sources of centuries-old alabaster artifacts
Dividing line: The past, present and future of the 100th Meridian
Nautical charts reveal coral decline around Florida Keys
Geologic Column: Giving Konrad Zuse his due
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery returns from the West
Geologic Column: Alternative history: Earth in a funhouse mirror
Travels in Geology: Gubbio, Italy: A geologist's mecca
Geologic Column: Proposing a new U.S. Holiday: Explorers' Day
Benchmarks: October 2, 1574: Dutch unleash the ocean as a weapon of war
Bad weather hampered Mongol invasion of Europe
Volcanoes and historical politics
Artists draw inspiration from fire and ash
On the trail of Hannibal's army - and elephants - in the Alps
Illustrating Geology: Great images that transformed the field
Keeler's legacy
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler confirms Saturn's rings not solid
Geology shaped outcomes of Civil War battles
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The era of aviation launches with the first balloon flight
Radar reveals unmarked graves
Geologic Column: A Jurassic romance
Benchmarks: August 2, 1922: Marines invade Teapot Dome, deepen scandal
The Washington Monument's Apex
March 23, 1821: Bauxite Discovered
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England prohibits Alchemy
Geologic Column: September 26, 1774: The man, the myth, the legend of Johnny Appleseed is born
Down to Earth With: Industrial Archaeologist Fred Quivik
Rome's hidden water trade led to glory, maybe ruin
Geologic Column: Lighting out for the territory
Down to Earth With: The Swindling Geologist
April 20, 1832: Arkansas' hot springs named the First National "Park"
Ohio millers imported French stone
Geologic Column: Geography as destiny: How glaciation led to the Civil War
Books: The once and future San Andreas Fault
The past is key to the future: Historical observations strengthen modern science
Benchmarks: April 26, 1986: Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl
Benchmarks: August 17, 1959: Hebgen Lake earthquake and landslide
Benchmarks: December 3, 1984: Bhopal gas leak kills thousands
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin is born - and so began modern biology
Benchmarks: January 3, 1961: Three men die in nuclear reactor meltdown
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" heat up
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" published
Lay of the Land: Terrain's Toll on the U.S. Civil War
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
On Hannibal's Trail: The clues are in the geology
Military
Benchmarks: March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established
Down to Earth With: Maurice J. 'Ric' Terman
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
In a position to lead: How military technology and innovation can ease the world's water challenges
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a cold war ice fortress is built
Pentagon report calls for military to prepare for climate change
U.S. Navy navigates a sea change in the Arctic
How oil and water helped the U.S. win World War II
Workforce
Benchmarks: March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established
Geologic Column: Assessing energy and mining workforce needs
Core skills in the geosciences: The geoblogosphere chimes in on what students need to know
Geologic Column: You gotta have a plan
Highlights of 2011: Jobs, jobs everywhere, but not enough people to fill them
Cave
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and underground astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's hidden freshwater gems
How to become a cave diver
World's longest underwater cave found in Mexico
Travels in Geology: Underground awe in France: The caves of the Causses
Pairing geoheritage and economic development: China's Guizhou Province offers a modern model
Transylvanian ice cave reveals European winter climate record
Down to Earth With: Cave microbiologist Hazel Barton
Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's aquifers with filmmaker Tom Fitz
Cave paintings confirm mystery European bison species
Down to Earth With: Underwater cave explorer Jill Heinerth
Cave dripwater records wildfires
Chinese cave art reveals record of climate change
Ancient cave art discovered in Indonesia
Travels in Geology: Navigating the rocks, reefs and waters of Bermuda
Ancient storms recorded in Yucatán cave
Southeastern caves shuttered to slow the spread of bat-killing disease
Ancient skeleton found in underwater cave reveals DNA of earliest Americans
Getting there and getting around in Cuba
New dates place Spanish cave art as oldest in Europe
Geologic Column: Snow globes, light shows and t-shirts
Bats and white-nose syndrome = VA cavers, please stay out
Mysterious disease sounds the death knell for bats
Down to Earth With
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and underground astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Down to Earth With: Clay mineralogist Warren Huff
Down to Earth With: Coastal scientist Gary Griggs
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Down to Earth With: John 'Jack' Reed Jr.
Down to Earth With: Maurice J. 'Ric' Terman
Down to Earth With: John Copeland
Down to Earth With: New congressional science fellows
Down to Earth With: Jack Horner
Down to Earth With: Ted Irving
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Down to Earth With: Sharon Mosher
Down to Earth With: Andrew Feustel
Down to Earth With: Todd Hoefen
Down to Earth With: Katerina Dontsova
Down to Earth With: Nick Brooks
Down to Earth With: Jeffrey Post
Down to Earth With: Dr. Jonathan Patz
Down to Earth With: Matthew Parker
Down to Earth With: Hope Jahren
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and astronomer Tom Kaye
Down to Earth With: Award-winning sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
Down to Earth With Kateryna Klochko
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Down to Earth With Richard Prum
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Down To Earth With: John Underhill
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
Down to Earth With: Cave microbiologist Hazel Barton
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Down to Earth With: Biogeochemist Stephen MacAvoy
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
Down to Earth With: Planetary geologist James W. Head III
Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Down to Earth With: Mountain biking geologist Kurt Refsnider
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Raymond S. Bradley
Down to Earth With: Underwater cave explorer Jill Heinerth
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Kayla Iacovino
Down to Earth With: Fossil preparator Bob Masek
Down to Earth With: National Park Service Geologic Resources Division chief David Steensen
Down to Earth With: Planetary scientist Steven Squyres
Down to Earth With: Solar physicist Thomas Berger
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Down to Earth With: Tectonicist Eldridge Moores
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Ted Scambos
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's first park geologist Greg Stock
Down to Earth With: GEO Secretariat Director Barbara Ryan
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Nigel Hughes
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Erin Pettit
Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
Down to Earth With: Industrial Archaeologist Fred Quivik
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Peter Molnar
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
Down to Earth With: The USGS Landslide Response Team
Down to Earth With: Mineralogist George W. Robinson
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea submersible Alvin
Down to Earth With: Deanna D'Alessandro
Down to Earth With: The Swindling Geologist
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
Down to Earth With: Lee Allison
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
Down to Earth With: The Geographers of the Solar System
Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Down to Earth With: Jacob Haqq-Misra
Down to Earth With: Brian Tucker
Down to Earth With: Terry Plank
Down to Earth With: Adrian Hunt
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Down to Earth With: James White
Down to Earth With: Anna Henderson
Down to Earth With: Tanya Atwater
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
Down to Earth With: Naomi Levin
Down to Earth With: Eric Riggs
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Down to Earth With: CEO and Geo-Data miner Nicole Barlow
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick
Down to Earth With: Kerry Sieh
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Down to Earth With: Chris Strong
Down to Earth With: Martin Lockley
Down to Earth With: Steven Stanley
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
Down to Earth With: Sally Jewell
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First astrogeologist on the moon
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
Down to Earth With: Antarctic meteorite hunters
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess
Paleoanthropology
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and underground astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Earliest Americans were wide-ranging wanderers
Earliest stone tools pre-date Homo
Spanish cave reveals possible new Neanderthal ancestor
Hydrological models locate ancient human migration routes
It's all in the wrist: Humans lack a knuckle-walking ancestor
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
Not the oldest hominid
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and into Arabia?
Questions arise over earliest evidence of human tool use
The vital statistics
There and back again: Alien From Earth tells the tale of the Hobbit
South Africa
Down to Earth With: Paleoanthropologist and underground astronaut Lindsay Hunter
Earliest art found in South Africa
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
"Dam levels critical" in Cape Town
Cape Town faces a waterless future
Turtle shells evolved for burrowing, not protection
South African cave system reveals new early human ancestor
All that glitters... Acid mine drainage: The toxic legacy of gold mining in South Africa
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
Books
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" shares copper country geoheritage
Geomedia: Books: A witty look at "The Ends of the World"
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" spotlights seismic risk
Geomedia: Books: Solar eclipses past, present and future
Down to Earth With: Award-winning sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Geomedia: Books: "Aerial Geology": A stunning and informative addition to any coffee table
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to protect crop diversity
Geomedia: Books: Vivid anecdotes abound in "Eruption: The untold story of Mount St. Helens"
Geomedia: Books: Exploring space is risky business
Geologic Column: Alternative history: Earth in a funhouse mirror
Geomedia: Books: Earth faces challenges, but are they tipping points?
Geomedia: Books: Looking at the World Anew in "The Planet Remade"
Geomedia: Books: Exploring "The Worst of Times"
Geomedia: Books: The danger of anti-data ideologies is explored in 'Denying Science'
Geomedia: Books: Iceland's eruption of biblical proportions explored in 'Island on Fire'
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Geomedia: Books: Rediscovering the science behind Thoreau's 'Walden'
Geomedia: Books: To Tiktaalik and beyond
Copper
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" shares copper country geoheritage
"Critical Minerals" list snubs copper, sparks discussion of criticality
Studies re-examine how major copper deposits form
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting out for the Copper Country
Tracking trace elements and isotopes in the oceans
Geomedia
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" shares copper country geoheritage
Geomedia: Books: A witty look at "The Ends of the World"
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" recounts the 1755 Lisbon disaster
Geomedia: Film: 'First Man' navigates Neil Armstrong's journey between two worlds
Geomedia: Books: Informative and inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Geomedia: Books: Revisiting the Galileo affair
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" spotlights seismic risk
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" is Superlative
Geomedia: Books: Solar eclipses past, present and future
Geomedia: On the Web: How will melting ice impact your city?
Geomedia: Books: "Aerial Geology": A stunning and informative addition to any coffee table
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to protect crop diversity
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Books: Vivid anecdotes abound in "Eruption: The untold story of Mount St. Helens"
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" aptly named
Geomedia: Books: Exploring space is risky business
Geomedia: Books: Earth faces challenges, but are they tipping points?
Geomedia: Mixed media: Geo-art collaboration shifts perspectives on earth materials
Geomedia: Books: Looking at the World Anew in "The Planet Remade"
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" takes listeners to the edge of the universe and beyond
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's aquifers with filmmaker Tom Fitz
Geomedia: Books: Exploring "The Worst of Times"
Geomedia: Music: The sounds of the sea
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Books: "Alfred Wegener": The definitive biography of a geoscience star
Geomedia: Film: A glimpse into the geology of 'Star Trek Beyond'
Geomedia: Books: 'FORE' helps you project the future, with a laugh
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA' for the earth science enthusiast
Geomedia: Books: 'Floodpath' recounts the deadly collapse of California's St. Francis Dam
Geomedia: Film: 'A Beautiful Planet' inspires with vivid views of life on and off Earth
Geomedia: Performance: Bella Gaia is a show in orbit and Earth is the star
Geomedia: Books: The danger of anti-data ideologies is explored in 'Denying Science'
Geomedia: Apps: Join the crowd: Introducing a new generation of geo-apps
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA: Making North America' Is Flashy, But Fails on Storytelling
Geomedia: Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival is geologic showcase
Geomedia: Film: 'The Martian' puts the magnificence and messiness of science at the fore
Geomedia: Documentaries: Bearded ladies doing paleontology
Geomedia: Toys: LEGO® geoscientists break through the brick ceiling
Geomedia: Books: Iceland's eruption of biblical proportions explored in 'Island on Fire'
Geomedia: On the Web: Dinologue: A dino blog
Geomedia: On the web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Geomedia: Books: Rediscovering the science behind Thoreau's 'Walden'
Geomedia: Books: To Tiktaalik and beyond
Geomedia: Books: A brief history of our cosmic origins
Geomedia: Books: Are we causing a sixth extinction?
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Guide
On the Web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Geomedia: 'Dinosaur 13' chisels away at the story behind discovery of Sue
On the Web: Ka-pow! Superhero short films get kids thinking about climate change
Geomedia: Books: The earth system symphony
Geomedia: Books: A changing literary climate
Geomedia: Books: Science in fiction
Geomedia: California's climatic catastrophes detailed in "The West Without Water"
From field scientist to filmmaker: Doug Prose
Commissioned artwork
Gifts: Holiday gift guide
On the web: Mount St. Helens goes online to reach the masses
Apps: Improving home energy efficiency in 2013
On the web: Shake, rattle and roll: What does an earthquake sound like?
Charting a course correction: A review of Earth: The Operators' Manual
TV: Discovery Channel grows more curious
Michigan
Geomedia: Books: "How the Rock Connects Us" shares copper country geoheritage
Travels in Geology: Sculptures of wind and ice: Sleeping Bear Dunes and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshores
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting out for the Copper Country
Blogging on EARTH: Finding prehistoric souvenirs in Michigan
Mass Extinction
Geomedia: Books: A witty look at "The Ends of the World"
Free swimmers came back first after Great Dying
Mercury links Big Five extinction events
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Hot tropics drove out ancient reptiles, but they came back
Volcanic activity contributed to first of the "Big Five" mass extinctions
Volcanism triggered end-Triassic extinction
Hangover echinoderms survived the Great Dying
Geomedia: Books: Exploring "The Worst of Times"
Downgrading the Great Dying
Nutrient deficiency delayed life after mass extinction
Ancient plankton communities stressed before mass extinction
When Earth hit the reset button on life: New research on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Antarctic no place to hide during end-Cretaceous extinction
Mammals hit harder than thought by end-Cretaceous extinction
Weak magnetic field may have triggered Earth's first mass extinction
Volcanic aerosols not enough to cause mass extinctions?
Permian-Triassic extinctions timed differently on land and at sea
Great drying led to great dying down under
Geomedia: Books: Are we causing a sixth extinction?
Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial
Book
Geologic Column: Newspeak for kids
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" recounts the 1755 Lisbon disaster
Geomedia: Books: Informative and inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Geomedia: Books: Revisiting the Galileo affair
New map of Arctic geology published
Comment: Understanding Earth in the wider sense of science
Geomedia: Books: 'FORE' helps you project the future, with a laugh
Geologic Column: Geology for the people: Finding new paths to public outreach
Geomedia: Books: A brief history of our cosmic origins
Geomedia: Books: A changing literary climate
Geomedia: Books: Science in fiction
Charting a course correction: A review of Earth: The Operators' Manual
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices from the Moon"
Education
Geologic Column: Newspeak for kids
Comment: Why is it so hard to teach climate change?
Place-based education: Teaching geoscience in the context of location and culture
Down to Earth With: Michael Novacek
Down to Earth With: Sharon Mosher
Fieldwork among the pixels: Virtual and augmented reality diversify geoscience education
Comment: Making the first (and last) geoscience class count
Down to Earth With: Mountain biking geologist Kurt Refsnider
Comment: High school earth and space science should be taught by geoscientists
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE is launched
Urban geology: An emerging discipline in an increasingly urbanized world
Geologic Column: Decades later, Mr. Keene's earth science class sticks with me
Down to Earth With: Matt Kuchta
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
Down to Earth With: Eric Riggs
When science meets film at MIT
On the Web: Ka-pow! Superhero short films get kids thinking about climate change
Geologic Column: Beyond geology, field camps teach teamwork and inspire leadership
Beyond rocks for jocks: Elevating geoscience education
Geologic Column: Assessing energy and mining workforce needs
Core skills in the geosciences: The geoblogosphere chimes in on what students need to know
Blogging on EARTH: A letter from field camp
Location, Location, Location
Home sweet home for field campers
Spotlight on UCORE projects
The Syracuse University lava experiments
Do–it–yourself lava flows: Science, art and education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
School of rock: Educating educators at sea
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?
Creationism creeps into mainstream geology
Earth science rocks at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
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
Science and soccer: They're both child's play
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
Geologic Column
Geologic Column: Newspeak for kids
Geologic Column: Is this land really your land?
Geologic Column: Muinntir a' ghlinne so
Geologic Column: Light amid the darkness: Celebrations during the winter solstice
Geologic Column: A cautionary tale about "sleeping" natural hazards
Geologic Column: Bone up on your spooky geo-vocabulary this Halloween
Geologic Column: "Collect Rocks Day" offers opportunity for inspiration
Geologic Column: The raw and the cooked
Geologic Column: Tarnish on the Golden State
Geologic Column: Rebranding Alexander
Geologic Column: A world without measure
Geologic Column: Over the hills and far away
Geologic Column: Pie on Pi Day, and Einstein's lesser-known legacy
Geologic Column: Travels with Claudia: Rediscovering America
Geologic Column: Celebrating Old Rock Day
Geologic Column: Dams in distress
Geologic Column: Giving Konrad Zuse his due
Geologic Column: A masochist hikes through the heather
Geologic Column: Musings on the autumn equinox
Geologic Column: Alternative history: Earth in a funhouse mirror
Geologic Column: Volcanoes: Awesome and dangerous
Geologic Column: Is it aged or mature?
Geologic Column: My China syndrome
Geologic Column: Evolution of an ape-man
Geologic Column: Rebirth on the vernal equinox
Geologic Column: The gift of intelligence
Geologic Column: New Year's as we know it is new
Geologic Column: Conscious landscapes: Thinking like a septic tank
Geologic Column: Digital divorce!
Geologic Column: Proposing a new U.S. Holiday: Explorers' Day
Geologic Column: The notion of mantle plumes
Geologic Column: Editia elegantis: A story of science, discovery and the elegance of a wife's contribution
Geologic Column: The dog days of July
Geologic Column: Geology for the people: Finding new paths to public outreach
Geologic Column: May: Nature's forces in collision
Geologic Column: At the end of the Earth
Geologic Column: Blockbuster solutions
Geologic Column: A Jurassic romance
Geologic Column: Decades later, Mr. Keene's earth science class sticks with me
Geologic Column: The beginning of "time" as we know it
Geologic Column: Thanksgiving's unsung hero
Geologic Column: The 'impact factor' of potholes
Geologic Column: September 26, 1774: The man, the myth, the legend of Johnny Appleseed is born
Geologic Column: Field Sketches
Geologic Column: Jack and Jill: The sequel
Geologic Column: On the Summer Solstice
Geologic Column: The Rumpelstiltskin Factor
Geologic Column: Nature for couch potatoes
Geologic Column: Lighting out for the territory
Geologic Column: February 2: A day long celebrated for its seasonal ties
Geologic Column: What geoscientists can learn from TED Talks
Geologic Column: Get busy living!
Geologic Column: Geography as destiny: How glaciation led to the Civil War
Geologic Column: Combining art and geology in the sand
Geologic Column: How T. rex got its street cred back
Geologic Column: By train or pipeline: That is the question
Geologic Column: Beyond geology, field camps teach teamwork and inspire leadership
Geologic Column: Riding the rails to Omaha with Rudolf Clausius
Geologic Column: Data security: freezers, floppies and flash drives
Geologic Column: Beer's secret ingredient: geology
Geologic Column: Assessing energy and mining workforce needs
Geologic Column: Sometimes, the sky really is falling
Geologic Column: You gotta have a plan
Geologic Column: Lessons from the final frontier
Geologic Column: Saving the World? Or Just Saving Money?
Geologic Column: Snow globes, light shows and t-shirts
Geologic Column: The double-edged sword of commercialization
Voices: Log off and get outside again
Comment
Comment: After a disaster, should you gamble on returning? Paradise edition
Comment: Faster flood forecasting to improve responses
Comment: How to tell a good science story
Our top tips for adding storytelling to your repertoire
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
Comment: Making social media work for scientists
Comment: Why is it so hard to teach climate change?
Comment: Out of bounds: Rethinking U.S. flood risk delineation
Comment: Leveraging physical oceanography in exoplanet exploration
Comment: The changing shape of local climates
Comment: Could NASA find evidence of extraterrestrial life by 2050?
Comment: Making the first (and last) geoscience class count
Comment: Arctic warming and midlatitude weather: Is there a connection?
Comment: The Congressional ecosystem: A paleontologist's perspective
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or premature conclusion? Examining the ethical implications of naming a new epoch
Comment: Providing resources for future generations - Technical and human challenges
Comment: A pitch to study BREW: The beer-renewable energy-water nexus
Comment: In space, timing is everything
Comment: A moving target: What you need to know about drone regulations
Comment: Kitchen counter geology: Bringing rock identification to a new audience
Comment: Atmospheric rivers increase water supply in California — but only to a point
Comment: Crazy times in the Arctic
Comment: High school earth and space science should be taught by geoscientists
Comment: Will we eliminate Earth's Ice-Age cycle?
Comment: To intervene or not to intervene: Improving the environment
Comment: Did life start on a snowball?
Comment: Mudrock cement and the importance of basic research
Why is a gallon of gas cheaper than a gallon of milk?
Geoscience on Film: Innovation meets tradition for earthquake safety
Geoscience on Film: Soaking in beautiful Bhutan
Geoscience on Film: The view from outside Kathmandu
Geoscience on Film: Revisiting an earthquake-ravaged region, one year on
Saving Mongolian wildlife, 80 million years after extinction
Comment: What's a map worth? The big cost and bigger benefit of three-dimensional elevation data
Comment: Assessing the threat from massive rock slope failures in the Norwegian fjordlands
Comment: GAVRT: Learning science by doing science
Comment: How long have humans been altering Earth's climate?
Comment: How 'Frankenstein' prevents us from tackling climate change
Comment: Weathering a perfect storm from space
Comment: GSW: A celebrated society celebrates its 1,500th meeting
Comment: Pipe Dreams: What have we learned from the Volkswagen Clean-Diesel scandal?
Comment: Remarkable geology sets new Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument apart
Comment: Exoplanets: Life on the Terminator
Comment: Who should be worried about space weather
Comment: The arrival of the energy future
Comment: The new frontier: Homesteading on Mars
Comment: When scientists come under legal attack
Comment: Our flawed perceptions of risk
Comment: Rebuilding geology faculty in Afghanistan
Comment: Supersites: Sharing geoscience data for science and society
Comment: Preparing for the volcano in your backyard: New Zealand sets an example
Comment: IPCC faces challenges in communicating climate science
Comment: Building sanctuaries to increase civilization's resilience
Energy 360: Moving energy - No easy feat, but a vital conversation
Tackling "Boundary Faults" across the Alaska-Yukon border: A report from the field
Energy 360: Leaving our corners for the radical middle: New Zealand sets an example
Core skills in the geosciences: The geoblogosphere chimes in on what students need to know
Voices: Italian quakes and deaths point to industrial facilities as death traps
Voices: Making tough decisions in a changing climate
Voices: Defending science: The link between creationism and climate change
A Dirty Secret - China's greatest import: Carbon emissions
Comment: Peak Soil: Does civilization have a future?
Comment: Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide: The missing science
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A fool's look into the future
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and gas around the world
Gauging nuclear disasters
Geologic Column: Saving the World? Or Just Saving Money?
Highlights of 2010: Definitive statements: a new trend?
Oil barrel politics
Running into the brick wall of Creationism again
Saving Afghanistan: Redevelopment one resource at a time
Science and the social media
The art of un-legislating
Three Cheers for Peak Oil!
Voices: An old Earth for all Muslims but how does evolution fit in?
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: 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
Mitigation
Comment: After a disaster, should you gamble on returning? Paradise edition
Natural solutions could save $50 billion in Gulf Coast flood damages
Hazards in paradise: Indonesia prepares for natural disasters
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
When schools shake: Keeping students and teachers safe during earthquakes
Comment: Assessing the threat from massive rock slope failures in the Norwegian fjordlands
First tsunami refuge under construction on Washington coast
Comment: Supersites: Sharing geoscience data for science and society
Comment: How much hazard mitigation is enough?
Voices: Humans at high temperatures
Florida
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's hidden freshwater gems
Getting there and getting around Florida
How to become a cave diver
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is established
Ice age didn't freeze Florida's category 5 hurricanes
Nautical charts reveal coral decline around Florida Keys
What drives hot spots of sea-level rise?
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's aquifers with filmmaker Tom Fitz
Sinkholes: Florida grapples with the wonders of the not-so-deep
Park
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's hidden freshwater gems
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Travels in Geology: Rocks and Climbing at Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Travels in Geology
Travels in Geology: Finding Florida's hidden freshwater gems
Getting there and getting around Florida
How to become a cave diver
Travels in Geology: Mid-ocean volcanic excursion: The calderas and caldeiras of the Azores
Getting there and getting around Azores
Travels in Geology: Lhasa, Tibet: Journey to the roof of the world
Getting there and getting around Tibet
Getting There and Getting Around Washington, D.C.
Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.
Getting There & Getting Getting Around Monti Sibillini National Park
Travels in Geology: Jewel of the Apennines: Italy's Monti Sibillini National Park
Getting There And Getting Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Travels in Geology: Roof of the Rockies: Trail Ridge Road
Travels in Geology: The pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an ancient world
Getting There and Getting Around Cairo
Travels in Geology: From sea to sky in British Columbia
Getting There And Getting Around Vancouver
Travels in Geology: Kilauea: Experiencing Pele's wrath through the eyes of a young geologist
Getting There and Getting Around Hawaii
The Sleeping Giants
Travels in Geology: To the top of Europe: Jungfrau, Switzerland
Walking with Dinosaur Bones
Making Jurassic Tracks in the Jura
Getting There And Getting Around Switzerland
Travels in Geology: Up to Michigan's U.P.
Travels in Geology: Clear water and cataclysm at Oregon's Crater Lake
Getting There And Getting Around Oregon
Travels in Geology: Lower Engadine Valley, Switzerland
Getting There And Getting Around Zürich
Travels in Geology: Volcanoes, beaches and rainforests: Terrain hopping in Costa Rica
Getting There and Getting Around Costa Rica
Travels in Geology: Floods, Fires and Bears in Montana's Bitterroot Valley
Getting There and Getting Around Montana
Travels in Geology: Barbados: Ascending the sea-level staircase
Revealing the ancient sea levels recorded in reefs
Travels in Geology: Unearthing the ghosts of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Getting There and Getting Around Albuquerque
Travels in Geology: The Burren: Ireland's "Great Rock" Region
Getting There and Getting Around the Burren
Travels in Geology: Nova Scotia: A driving tour of Pangaea
Getting There and Getting Around Nova Scotia
Travels in Geology: Australia's Blue Mountains Delight the Senses
Getting There and Getting Around The Blue Mountains National Park
Travels in Geology: Florissant fossil beds: An Eocene time capsule
Getting There and Getting Around Colorado Springs
Travels in Geology: Soaking up the Dead Sea: A trip to Israel's salty sea is a geological and historical delight
Getting There and Getting Around Israel
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: Earthquakes or Volcanoes?
Travels in Geology: Ever-Changing Turkey
Getting There, Getting Around and Getting Informed
Travels in Geology: Mallorca set in stone
Getting There and Getting Around Mallorca
Travels in Geology: Exploring Vulcan's Playground: The Volcanoes of Southern Italy and the Aeolian Islands
Getting There and Getting Around Sicily
Travels in Geology: The desert geology of Namibia: A writer and her father explore otherworldly dunes, oases and meteorites
The Skeleton Coast
Travels in Geology: Touring geologic time in Colorado Springs
Getting There and Getting Around Colorado
Travels in Geology: South Africa on safari for the geological Big Five
Getting There and Getting Around South Africa
Travels in Geology: Lake Tahoe Jewel of the Sierra Nevada
Getting There and Getting Around Nevada
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Getting there and getting around England
Travels in Geology: Trapped by geology in Iceland with flights grounded by volcanic ash, one writer seeks out the island's geologic wonders
Off the beaten path in the north of Iceland
Travels in Geology: Northeastern Australia's Atherton Tablelands young volcanoes, waterfalls and rainforest near the Great Barrier Reef
Getting There and Getting Around Cairns
Travels in Geology: Santorini: Dangerous volcano, postcard-perfect jewel of the Aegean
Getting There and Getting Around Greece
Getting There and Getting Around Chile
Travels in Geology: Chile: Exploring the archaeology, volcanoes and hot springs of the northern Atacama Desert
Travels in Geology: Going to extremes in Death Valley
Getting There and Getting Around California
Travels in Geology: Hiking Mount Nyiragongo in Virunga National Park, Congo
Getting There and Getting Around Africa
Travels in Geology: Utah: Exploring the scenic byways and slot canyons of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Getting There and Getting Around southern Utah
Travels in Geology: Abode of the clouds: A journey to Meghalaya, India
Getting There and Getting Around India
Travels in Geology: Havasu Canyon: Land of blue-green water
The River Runners' Route
Getting There And Getting Around Arizona
Travels in Geology: Adventuring in upstate New York and remembering a life cut short
Getting There and Getting Around New York
Travels in Geology: Slickrock sojourn in Moab, Utah
Road biking in Moab
Getting There and Getting Around Utah
Travels in Geology: The ephemeral Florida Keys
Getting There and Getting Around Florida
Travels in Geology: The Canary Islands: Touring the "Hawaii of Europe"
Mass wasting
Getting There and Getting Around Spain
Travels in Geology: Exotic dunes and atomic bombs in New Mexico's White Sands
Missile testing
Getting There and Getting Around New Mexico
Writing on the Rocks
Travels in Geology: Western Nebraska's geoheritage gems
Getting There and Getting Around Nebraska
Boondocking 101: How to camp for free in Wyoming
Travels in Geology: The Bay of Kotor: Europe's southernmost "Fjord"
Getting There and Getting Around Croatia
Travels in Geology: A taste of Provence
Southern Rhone wines
Getting There and Getting Around France
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Salmon River through the Idaho Batholith
Getting there and getting around Idaho
Travels in Geology: Northern Oman: Stunning canyons, towering dunes and the world's largest ophiolite
Oceanic crust in all its glory
Travels in Geology: Underground awe in France: The caves of the Causses
Getting there and getting around the Causses
Travels in Geology: Corsica: A fusion of cultures on the Mediterranean's most mountainous isle
Getting there and getting around Las Vegas
Travels in Geology: Las Vegas: The scenery beyond the slots
Travels in Geology: Roaming the rocky coastline of Downeast Maine
Travels in Geology: The geological riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Getting there and getting around Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Travels in Geology: The diverse geology, landscapes and whiskys of Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Getting there and getting around Flagstaff, Arizona
Travels in Geology: Cones and craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Venturing into Argentina
Travels in Geology: Patagonia: The ends of the earth
Getting there and getting around Bolivia's Antiplano
Travels in Geology: Sky-high adventure on Bolivia's Altiplano
Getting there and getting around Austria's Salzkammergut
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World heritage preserved in salt
Travels in Geology: A tale of two rivers: Grand Junction, Colorado
Getting there and getting around Kalahari
Travels in Geology: Tracking African animals and deranged drainages across the Kalahari
Travels in Geology: Geo-diversity and geologic history in the North West Highlands of Scotland
Getting there and getting around Easter Island
Travels in Geology: Easter Island's enduring enigmas
Getting there and getting around Mount Katahdin
Travels in Geology: Exploring Maine's magnificent Mount Katahdin
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
Getting there and getting around Shetland
Travels in Geology: Scotland's stunning Shetland
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Travels in Geology: Exploring an icon of Patagonia: Chile's Torres del Paine National Park
Getting there and getting around Tumbler Ridge
Travel specs
Celebrity climb
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: From parasitic cones to equatorial glaciers
Travels in Geology: The Midwest's Little Egypt
Getting there and getting around Gubbio
Travels in Geology: Gubbio, Italy: A geologist's mecca
Getting there and getting around Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya
Travels in Geology: Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya: A feast for the senses
Getting there and getting around Northern Vietnam
Travels in Geology: Limestone and legends in Northern Vietnam
Getting there and getting around Zermatt
Travels in Geology: Zermatt: Europe meets Africa in Switzerland's iconic Alps
Getting there and getting around Michigan
Legend of the Sleeping Bear
Travels in Geology: Sculptures of wind and ice: Sleeping Bear Dunes and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshores
Getting there and getting around Turkey
Travels in Geology: Turkey's storied Turquoise Coast
Travels in Geology: Discovering Denver's dinosaurs
Getting there and getting around Denver
Getting there and getting around Gotland
Travels in Geology: Gotland getaway: Sweden's 'tropical' escape in the Baltic
Travels in Geology: The King's Highway: The crossroads of ancient Jordan
Getting there and getting around Jordan
Getting there and getting around Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Miguel, and trad versus sport climbing
Travels in Geology: Rocks and Climbing at Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Getting there and getting around peninsular Greece
Travels in Geology: Peninsular Greece: A gorgeous state of collapse
Getting there and getting around Sedona
Travels in Geology: Sedona: A journey to the edge of a supercontinent
Getting there and getting around Cyprus
Northern Cyprus' "Peace Water" Pipeline
Travels in Geology: Cyprus: Island of Oceanic Crust
Getting there and getting around Hells Canyon
Damming the salmon
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Pacific Northwest's heavenly Hells Canyon
Getting there and getting around the Whitsundays
Travels in Geology: Australia's Whitsunday Islands: Sun, sand and silicic volcanism
Getting there and getting around Texas' Trans-Pecos
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
Getting there and getting around the Catskill Mountain Front
Travels in Geology: Hiking the Catskill Mountain Front
Getting there and getting around in South Australia
Travels in Geology: Glaciers and grapes in South Australia
Getting there and getting around Nepal
Travels in Geology: A trek through Himalayan geology in Nepal
Getting there and getting around the Andean Volcanoes
Andean ski volcanoes
Travels in Geology: Exploring Connecticut's Ancient Rift Valley
Getting there and getting around Bermuda
Travels in Geology: Navigating the rocks, reefs and waters of Bermuda
Getting there and getting around France's Massif Central
Travels in Geology: Lentils, lace and lava: France's Massif Central
Travels in Geology: The inspiring, globe-trotting rocks of Scotland
Travels in Geology: Bali beckons
Getting there and getting around in Tucson
Searching the stars
Travels in Geology: Winter sun and tectonic tales in Tucson
Travels in Geology: Aussie Outback Adventure
Travels in Geology: Basalt cliffs and columns along Nothern Ireland's Causeway Coast Way
Travels in Geology: Trekking the high terrain of Tajikistan
Getting there and getting around Croatia
Travels in Geology: Croatia: Land of limestone
Travels in Geology: From beaches to bush: Tramping in New Zealand
Getting there and getting around on the John Muir Trail
Be aware and prepare
Travels in Geology: Walking toward Whitney: A journey through the Sierra High Country along the John Muir Trail
Getting there and getting around in Antarctica
Ship life
Travels in Geology: Antarctica: Following in the footsteps of giants
Witnessing geology in action: A rockfall in the garden of the gods
Getting there and getting around in Cuba
Travels in Geology: Journeying through Cuba's geology and culture
Getting there and getting around the Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale bestseller
Travels in Geology: Famous fossils and spectacular scenery at British Columbia's Burgess Shale
Canyonlands National Park: The Southwest's best-kept secret
Travels in Geology: Arkansas: A geologic diamond in the rough
Travels in Geology: Atop the German Alps
Travels in Geology: Australia's wonders, from ocean to desert
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, from impact craters to executive orders
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Shasta
Travels in Geology: Exploring Lake Baikal, the Sacred Sea
Travels in Geology: Exploring mountains and eating llama in Northern Argentina
Travels in Geology: Glacial pools to sea caves: A tour of New Zealand's South Island
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A volcanic wonderland
Travels in Geology: Precipitous peaks and dunes in Colorado
Travels in Geology: Stonehammer Geopark: A billion years of stories
Travels in Geology: Taking in Hawaii's Big Island
Travels in Geology: Tanzania's natural wonders
Travels in Geology: The Osa Peninsula - a different side of Costa Rica
Travels in Geology: Thrills and spills at West Virginia's New River Gorge
Travels in Geology: Trekking the Inca Trail
Travels in Geology: Twin coral reefs separated in time in Western Australia
Getting There and Getting Around
Getting there and getting around Florida
Getting there and getting around Azores
Getting there and getting around Tibet
Getting There and Getting Around Washington, D.C.
Getting There & Getting Getting Around Monti Sibillini National Park
Getting There and Getting Around Cairo
Getting There And Getting Around Vancouver
Getting There And Getting Around Switzerland
Getting There And Getting Around Michigan
Getting There And Getting Around Oregon
Getting There And Getting Around Zürich
Getting There and Getting Around Albuquerque
Getting There and Getting Around the Burren
Getting There and Getting Around Nova Scotia
Getting There and Getting Around The Blue Mountains National Park
Getting There and Getting Around Colorado Springs
Getting There, Getting Around and Getting Informed
Getting There and Getting Around Mallorca
Travels in Geology: Exploring Vulcan's Playground: The Volcanoes of Southern Italy and the Aeolian Islands
Getting There and Getting Around Sicily
Getting There and Getting Around Namibia
Getting There and Getting Around Colorado
Getting There and Getting Around South Africa
Getting There and Getting Around Nevada
Getting There and Getting Around Iceland
Getting There and Getting Around Cairns
Getting There and Getting Around Greece
Getting There and Getting Around Chile
Getting There and Getting Around California
Getting There and Getting Around Africa
Getting There and Getting Around southern Utah
Getting There and Getting Around India
Getting There and Getting Around Utah
Getting There and Getting Around Florida
Getting There and Getting Around Spain
Getting There and Getting Around New Mexico
Getting There and Getting Around Wyoming
Getting There and Getting Around Croatia
Getting There and Getting Around France
Getting there and getting around Idaho
Getting there and getting around Oman
Getting there and getting around the Causses
Getting there and getting around Flagstaff, Arizona
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Getting there and getting around Bolivia's Antiplano
Getting there and getting around Austria's Salzkammergut
Getting there and getting around Grand Junction, Colorado
Getting there and getting around Easter Island
Getting there and getting around the Dead Sea rift
Getting there and getting around Shetland
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Getting there and getting around Tumbler Ridge
Getting there and getting around Gubbio
Getting there and getting around Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya
Getting there and getting around Northern Vietnam
Getting there and getting around Zermatt
Getting there and getting around Michigan
Getting there and getting around peninsular Greece
Getting there and getting around Sedona
Getting there and getting around Cyprus
Getting there and getting around Hells Canyon
Getting there and getting around Texas' Trans-Pecos
Getting there and getting around the Andean Volcanoes
Getting there and getting around France's Massif Central
Getting there and getting around Scotland
Getting there and getting around on the John Muir Trail
Getting there and getting around in Antarctica
Exploration
How to become a cave diver
Juno unveils Jupiter's secrets
Comment: Leveraging physical oceanography in exoplanet exploration
Unprecedented exploration of undersea volcano yields surprising results
World's longest underwater cave found in Mexico
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz mission launches space collaboration
Early Pacific seafarers set sail in El Niño years
A mysterious first
Benchmarks: February 5, 1931 and February 20, 1935: Antarctic firsts for women
Down to Earth With: Underwater cave explorer Jill Heinerth
Geologic Column: Proposing a new U.S. Holiday: Explorers' Day
Benchmarks: August 1576: False gold found in Meta Incognita
Benchmarks: January 23, 1960: Humans reach the deepest point on Earth
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener begins a fateful polar expedition
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The era of aviation launches with the first balloon flight
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus crosses the North Pole
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea submersible Alvin
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal vents are discovered
Bare Earth Elements: Search the seafloor firsthand (and live!)
R.I.P. Nereus
Geologic Column: Lessons from the final frontier
Protecting planets from us - and us from them
Film
How to become a cave diver
Down to Earth With: John Copeland
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Down to Earth With: Jack Horner
"The Himalaya Connection": Telling a story of geoscientific exploration on film
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
Geologic Column: Evolution of an ape-man
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's aquifers with filmmaker Tom Fitz
Down to Earth With: Underwater cave explorer Jill Heinerth
Geomedia: Film: 'A Beautiful Planet' inspires with vivid views of life on and off Earth
Geologic Column: Blockbuster solutions
Geomedia: Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival is geologic showcase
Geomedia: Film: 'The Martian' puts the magnificence and messiness of science at the fore
Geomedia: Documentaries: Bearded ladies doing paleontology
And best picture goes to...'Dante's Peak'
Rock stars: Geologists on the silver screen
Sidebar
How to become a cave diver
Citizen science (and art)
Deep Space Network
Art joins science in coral communication
Our top tips for adding storytelling to your repertoire
Getting there and getting around Tibet
Getting There and Getting Around Washington, D.C.
Science by floats
Getting There & Getting Getting Around Monti Sibillini National Park
Getting There And Getting Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Saglek Basin sediments suggest a Grand Canyon connection
Diamonds and the Eocene climate of the Bell River Basin
Getting There And Getting Around Vancouver
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
Oceanic crust in all its glory
Gyres spin up, currents get muddled
Getting There & Getting Around Corsica
How do earthquakes impact landslides?
Getting there and getting around Las Vegas
Getting there and getting around Scotland's Southwestern Islands
T-A-P (Testing, Awareness, Prevention)
Can preserved proteins reveal paint-by-numbers plumage?
Getting there and getting around Flagstaff, Arizona
Making oxygen with MOXIE
A great time to land on Mars
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Venturing into Argentina
Getting there and getting around Bolivia's Antiplano
Getting there and getting around Austria's Salzkammergut
Getting there and getting around Grand Junction, Colorado
Getting there and getting around Kalahari
Ash vs. airplanes
Warning: Ash Ahead!
Getting there and getting around Mount Katahdin
The Dinosaur Garden of the Gobi: Motivating future paleontologists
A mysterious first
Getting there and getting around the Dead Sea rift
Getting there and getting around Shetland
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas
Underwater archaeology
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Getting there and getting around Tumbler Ridge
Philae: Achievement and disappointment
Rosetta's journey
What's in a name: Rosetta, Philae, and 67P?
Travel specs
Celebrity climb
Getting there and getting around Gubbio
Getting there and getting around Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya
Getting there and getting around Northern Vietnam
The new kid on the block
Hominid vs. hominin
Volcanoes and historical politics
Getting there and getting around Michigan
Legend of the Sleeping Bear
Deadly tornadoes
The first dinner in a beast
Take a stand (or sit) for better water quality management
Getting there and getting around Turkey
Getting there and getting around Denver
Museums and exhibits in the Dinosaur Diamond
Getting there and getting around Jordan
Siwash Rock as an urban geoheritage icon
Urban type sections
Getting there and getting around Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Miguel, and trad versus sport climbing
Getting there and getting around peninsular Greece
What lies below?
Volunteering to muck around in the mud
What happened here?
Getting there and getting around Sedona
Public improvements, private funding
Working near Gorkha's epicenter
Gain some, lose some
Nuclear Fallout
The Washington Monument's Apex
Conjunction injunction: Recent and future planetary alignments
The quake's impact on western thinking
Getting there and getting around Cyprus
Northern Cyprus' "Peace Water" Pipeline
Step one: Soil testing
Getting there and getting around Hells Canyon
Damming the salmon
Getting there and getting around the Whitsundays
Trip-planning resources
Getting there and getting around Texas' Trans-Pecos
Tools of the trade
Getting there and getting around in South Australia
Comparing apples to oranges, hyenas to humans
And best picture goes to...'Dante's Peak'
On-site inspections
Getting there and getting around Nepal
Peak's appeal - and hazard - endures today
Getting there and getting around the Andean Volcanoes
Andean ski volcanoes
Getting there and getting around Connecticut's ancient Rift Valley
A tantalizing treasure
Getting there and getting around France's Massif Central
Try and try again: GeoCorps application tips
Into the parks: A sampling of GeoCorps projects
2014 Commentaries
Getting there and getting around Scotland
Living mountains and wild places
Bag your first Munro
Getting there and getting around Bali
Casting a seismic shadow
Triggered tremor along the San Andreas Fault
Remote triggering of ice quakes
Getting there and getting around in Tucson
Searching the stars
Getting there and getting around Tajikistan
Getting there and getting around Croatia
Reading the walls
Observing a plate boundary
A truly global system
A new tool for atmospheric studies
Commissioned artwork
Getting there and getting around on the John Muir Trail
Be aware and prepare
Hazards abroad: Sent home
A personal plea
Rescuing data from the dark
Spotlight on UCORE projects
Disaster debris hotlines and fast grants
Juno
Juno unveils Jupiter's secrets
Juno salutes its home planet and heads to Jupiter
Jupiter
Juno unveils Jupiter's secrets
Citizen science (and art)
Deep Space Network
Dust orbiting Jupiter is going the wrong way
Modeling Io's weird mountains
Jupiter's shrinking Great Red Spot
Plate tectonics seen on Europa
Juno salutes its home planet and heads to Jupiter
Jupiter breaks out in spots
Nasa
Juno unveils Jupiter's secrets
Deep Space Network
Wrangling the data to choose Mars landing sites
Benchmarks: July 29, 1958: The Birth of NASA
Down to Earth With: Maria Zuber
Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
Comment: Could NASA find evidence of extraterrestrial life by 2050?
Ceres: A bright spot in the asteroid belt
From space to village: NASA's SERVIR program brings a big picture to local communities
Mars class of 2020: A diverse group of missions takes aim at the Red Planet
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz mission launches space collaboration
Philae: Achievement and disappointment
Rosetta's journey
What's in a name: Rosetta, Philae, and 67P?
Rosetta mission ends with a bang: But the discoveries will continue
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Down to Earth With: Planetary scientist Steven Squyres
Buried lunar craters filled by lava long ago
Down to Earth With: Solar physicist Thomas Berger
Geomedia: Performance: Bella Gaia is a show in orbit and Earth is the star
Comment: GAVRT: Learning science by doing science
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE is launched
Lunar atmosphere more active than we thought
Benchmarks: February 1962 and 1984: John Glenn and Bruce McCandless make space flight history
Map shows where lightning zaps most
New satellite maps carbon dioxide sources and sinks in high definition
Nanoflares power the sun's superheated corona
Red Planet Roundup: November 2014
Warm river water melted Arctic sea ice
Rosetta: Off to decipher a comet's secrets
Benchmarks: June 16, 1963 & June 18, 1983: Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride become first and third women in space
MAVEN takes off for Mars to study the planet's atmosphere
Geologic Column: Sometimes, the sky really is falling
Bare Earth Elements: Mars-Observing Fleet Set to Face Silent Treatment
Two NASA spacecraft reveal ancient underground cracks from moon's formation
Simple organic compounds detected by Curiosity on Mars
Bare Earth Elements: Let the real Curiosity begin
Hazardous Living: Watching Curiosity land safely was exhilarating
2012 budget requests a mixed bag for science
A day without Glory
A memoir: A decade-plus of tracking lunar larceny
Bids in space: When should we outsource government science?
Blogging on EARTH: Webb Space Telescope ensnared in political drama
Charting a course correction: A review of Earth: The Operators' Manual
CryoScoop: Massive rift portends Antarctic berg
CryoScoop: Sea ice synopsis and a whale tale
Crystal Ball EARTH: Policy: A tale of two years
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA keeps watch on a changing planet
Hazardous Living: Atlantis' final countdown
Hazardous Living: Discovery's emotional final voyage
Hubble's pics of Pluto: Dark orange and charcoal-black
Map reveals height of the world's forests
Moon much wetter than thought
NASA's LCROSS crashes on the moon
Opening up space travel to everyone
Protecting planets from us - and us from them
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices from the Moon"
Art
Citizen science (and art)
Piecing together the big picture of coral reef health
Art joins science in coral communication
Earliest art found in South Africa
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Isotopes reveal sources of centuries-old alabaster artifacts
Science meets art: Tiny trilobite gets huge makeover
Geomedia: Mixed media: Geo-art collaboration shifts perspectives on earth materials
Down to Earth With: Planetary geologist James W. Head III
Cave paintings confirm mystery European bison species
Artists draw inspiration from fire and ash
Illustrating Geology: Great images that transformed the field
Tools of the trade
Science Illustrators: Making the invisible visible
Ancient cave art discovered in Indonesia
Geologic Column: Combining art and geology in the sand
Commissioned artwork
Geoscience inspires glass artist Adam Frus
Art and dinosaurs
Citizen Science
Citizen science (and art)
An aurora named Steve
Desktop seismology: How a maker-inspired device is changing seismic monitoring
Geomedia: Apps: Join the crowd: Introducing a new generation of geo-apps
Changing the landscape: Geoscientists embrace 3-D printing
People's earthquake reports influenced more by locomotion than location
The rise of community remote sensing
Using Citizens in Science Research
Communication
Deep Space Network
Comment: How to tell a good science story
Our top tips for adding storytelling to your repertoire
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Comment: Making social media work for scientists
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" aptly named
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" takes listeners to the edge of the universe and beyond
Geologic Column: Digital divorce!
Comment: Understanding Earth in the wider sense of science
Illustrating Geology: Great images that transformed the field
Geologic Column: Geology for the people: Finding new paths to public outreach
Tools of the trade
Science Illustrators: Making the invisible visible
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Geologic Column: What geoscientists can learn from TED Talks
The '100-year flood' fallacy: Return periods misleading in communication of flood risk
When science meets film at MIT
Radio
Deep Space Network
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" aptly named
Why meteors snap, crackle and pop
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" takes listeners to the edge of the universe and beyond
Climate Change
Piecing together the big picture of coral reef health
Arctic warming causes Siberian cooling
Southern Ocean is absorbing less carbon
Down to Earth With: Coastal scientist Gary Griggs
Marine animals have been migrating for millions of years
Underwater WiFi? Rising sea levels threaten physical internet
Dry rivers secretly star in carbon cycle
Comment: Why is it so hard to teach climate change?
European mammals will struggle under climate change
Mountaintops get less lonely for alpine plants
Comment: The changing shape of local climates
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
Down to Earth With: Award-winning sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Comment: Arctic warming and midlatitude weather: Is there a connection?
What drives hot spots of sea-level rise?
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or premature conclusion? Examining the ethical implications of naming a new epoch
Geomedia: Books: Earth faces challenges, but are they tipping points?
Delusions of grandeur in building a low-carbon future
More than a nuisance: Over time, small floods cost more than extreme events
Burying the sky: Turning carbon dioxide into rock
Broadening ocean current could carry less heat poleward with climate change
Comment: Crazy times in the Arctic
Robotic mussels track temperature change
Comment: Will we eliminate Earth's Ice-Age cycle?
Smokier U.S. West as climate changes
Ancient plankton communities stressed before mass extinction
Toad behavior linked to climate change
Ocean acidification worsens overnight along California coast
Sea-level rise a risk for millions in the United States
Social trends and shifting climates had complex effects in medieval Italy
Reading the ridges: Are climate and the seafloor connected?
Comment: How 'Frankenstein' prevents us from tackling climate change
How to feed 11 billion people: Addressing the 21st century's biggest challenge
Chinese cave art reveals record of climate change
Counting 'tree' rings in fish skulls provides climate clues
More warming may mean more lightning
One-two punch of past warming may hold lessons
Coastal cities will see regular flooding
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Pentagon report calls for military to prepare for climate change
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Down to Earth With: James White
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Pliocene tropical oceans were warmer after all
Link between volcanoes and drought cools geoengineering prospects
Seasonal ice-cover reduction throughout Arctic waters mapped
Past penguin populations not dependent on ice extent
Comment: IPCC faces challenges in communicating climate science
For cloud formation, a little aerosol goes a long way
Comment: Energy 360: Let science speak, not agendas
Comment: The search for clarity on climate change
On the Web: Ka-pow! Superhero short films get kids thinking about climate change
Parasites spread across the Arctic under the 'new normal'
Geomedia: Books: A changing literary climate
Subarctic lakes belch more methane on brighter days
Geomedia: California's climatic catastrophes detailed in "The West Without Water"
Scientists go to extremes to monitor Arctic permafrost loss
Humans are influencing some extreme weather events, but not all
Climate, terroir, and wine: What matters most in producing a great wine?
Travels in Geology: Antarctica: Following in the footsteps of giants
World War G: Zombies, energy and the geosciences
Science denialism: The problem that just won't go away
Corals find a way to adapt?
Environmental changes contributed to Mediterranean cultural crisis
A hurricane by any other name: How Sandy changed the way we issue storm warnings
Map provides clues to natural protection of U.S. coastal communities
Hurricanes suppressed by air pollutants
Drought outlook indicates further problems in Plains and West
Scripps launches Twitter carbon dioxide-meter
Blogging on EARTH: Spring has sprung, at least in some places
Denying sea-level rise: How 100 centimeters divided the state of North Carolina
Bare Earth Elements: GSA highlights, day 1
Five outstanding questions in earth science
Volcanoes sparked - and prolonged - the Little Ice Age
Voices: Making tough decisions in a changing climate
IceGoat: The next generation
Voices: Defending science: The link between creationism and climate change
U.S. Navy navigates a sea change in the Arctic
Comment: Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide: The missing science
Highlights of 2010: Definitive statements: a new trend?
Voices: Humans at high temperatures
A day without Glory
AGU: Climate science report questions likelihood of abrupt climate change
AGU: How scientists should talk climate change
Arctic soils retain more carbon
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
Charting a course correction: A review of Earth: The Operators' Manual
Endangered snow: how climate change threatens West Coast water supplies
Glaciers present a complicated tale
Hazardous Living: Climategate climatologists cleared of wrongdoing
Is it time to invest in entrepreneurial geoengineering?
Local coastal impacts underestimated from sea-level rise
Maldives' residents looking for a new patch of land
Montreal Protocol affects more than just ozone
Nanoscale carbon capture
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Still in a haze: What we don't know about black carbon
Storing CO2 in fizzy water underground
Swapping one greenhouse gas for another
Termites and climate change: Here, there and everywhere?
The thrill to drill in the chill
Voices: Climate change and civil conflict: New clues from El Nino
Voices: If global warming is real, why is it snowing in DC?
What makes a disaster? Does this blizzard count?
White House climate report: U.S. changes already apparent
Coral Reef
Piecing together the big picture of coral reef health
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
Mapping
Piecing together the big picture of coral reef health
Wrangling the data to choose Mars landing sites
Comment: National Geological Surveys: The past, present and future
Down to Earth With: John 'Jack' Reed Jr.
New map of Titan shows moon's hidden surface
Unprecedented exploration of undersea volcano yields surprising results
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 wreckage found using modern oceanography tools
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Fossil reefs show sea level rose in bursts
Nautical charts reveal coral decline around Florida Keys
Mapping Louisiana's disappearing shoreline
New map of Arctic geology published
New global volcanic emissions map debuts
Breakup of Pangea led to thicker oceanic crust
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross is found, photographed and mapped
First global topographic map of Mercury released
Illustrating Geology: Great images that transformed the field
Comment: What's a map worth? The big cost and bigger benefit of three-dimensional elevation data
Red Planet Roundup: July 2016
A new gravity map of Earth
Seeing the seafloor in high definition: Modern mapping offers increasing clarity on Earth's vast underwater landscape
Comment: Assessing the threat from massive rock slope failures in the Norwegian fjordlands
First all-digital geologic map of Alaska released
Down to Earth With: Tectonicist Eldridge Moores
Golden Gate ghost ships rediscovered
On the Web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Tackling "Boundary Faults" across the Alaska-Yukon border: A report from the field
Map provides clues to natural protection of U.S. coastal communities
Mobile mapping with lidar hits the road
Cold case files: Forging forensic isoscapes
Oceanography
Piecing together the big picture of coral reef health
Ocean circulation change suffocating Gulf of St. Lawrence
Eyes in the sea: Swarms of floating robots observe the oceans
Science by floats
Gulf Stream eddies transport iron to North Atlantic subtropical gyre
Monsoon strength affects global ice volumes, not vice versa?
Comment: Leveraging physical oceanography in exoplanet exploration
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Skate eggs found on hydrothermal vents
Are diatoms triggering submarine landslides?
Which warm waters boosted Hurricane Harvey?
Radium levels suggest Arctic Ocean chemistry is changing
Unprecedented exploration of undersea volcano yields surprising results
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 wreckage found using modern oceanography tools
Gyres spin up, currents get muddled
Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
How the Arctic became salty
Bottom dropping out of coral reefs
The mackerel year: Tambora changed how New England fished
1883 sea rescue informs new model of wind-wave interactions
Are North Atlantic storm tracks shifting south?
Sea-surface temperatures during last interglacial similar to modern day
Six new deep-sea species discovered
El Niño gets animated
Earth's magnetic field illuminates ocean temperatures
Broadening ocean current could carry less heat poleward with climate change
Seafloor topography drives Earth's great conveyor belt
Small-scale factors influence mantle flow under the seafloor
Persistent Pacific warmth overshadows El Niño
Frosted forams foil radiocarbon dating
Tiny ocean bacteria could play big role in climate
Seeing the seafloor in high definition: Modern mapping offers increasing clarity on Earth's vast underwater landscape
Sailors right about sneaky rogue waves
Oceanographers solve mysterious beach explosion
Ocean oxygen levels control seafloor carbon burial
No laughing matter: Ocean nitrous oxide emissions greater than thought
Opalescent pools shimmer beneath Santorini
Ocean 'sneezes' spread algae-infecting virus
Counting 'tree' rings in fish skulls provides climate clues
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Sharks collect storm data
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea submersible Alvin
Wealth of seafloor features emerges from new survey
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal vents are discovered
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Down to Earth With: James White
Down to Earth With: Tanya Atwater
Golden Gate ghost ships rediscovered
Oceans: Where has all the plastic gone?
Hundreds of methane seeps discovered along the U.S. East Coast
Massive icebergs scoured Arctic seafloor
Boron proxies detail past ocean acidification
R.I.P. Nereus
Nutrient runoff feeding Baltic Sea dead zone
Sunken logs a delicacy for ocean bottom-feeders
Ocean waves explain which La Niña events will linger
Geomedia: Books: The earth system symphony
Staking a claim: Deep-sea mining nears fruition
Scientists look wider and deeper to predict the next El Nino
Ocean dynamics speed sea-level rise along U.S. East Coast
Denying sea-level rise: How 100 centimeters divided the state of North Carolina
Blogging On Earth: Humans acidifying ocean at unprecedented rate
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
Blogging on EARTH: First dispatches from EGU
Cruising the Atlantic to trace elemental movements
Danger in the Deep: Chemical weapons lie off our coasts
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Tracking trace elements and isotopes in the oceans
Underwater basalt formation looks like a city wall
Voyage to the plastic vortex
Water Wise: An oil plume at depth, and NOAA vs. the White House
Water Wise: The leak is capped; but what's the oil's long-term fate?
Water Wise: Where will the oil spilled in the Gulf go?
Energy
Hot but not bothered: Warm soils favor microbes with small genomes
Microbes care about energy efficiency
Shale boom could fuel batteries
Flaring our way out of a water crisis
Ultraviolet lights the way for rare earth recycling
Calculating America's energy landscape
Energy Notes: February 2013-2014
Energy Notes: January 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Niobium
Staking a claim: Deep-sea mining nears fruition
Mix of acid mine drainage and fracking fluid a recipe for remediation?
World War G: Zombies, energy and the geosciences
Think differently: renewable hydrogen generation
Energy 360: Leaving our corners for the radical middle: New Zealand sets an example
Geologic Column: Assessing energy and mining workforce needs
The energy-water nexus: Managing water in an energy-constrained world
Why is the U.S. so insecure about its energy security? Measures of energy independence show it is increasing, not decreasing
Apps: Improving home energy efficiency in 2013
Here comes the solar maximum: What we know - and don't know - about solar storms and their hazards
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
Geologic Column: Saving the World? Or Just Saving Money?
Oil barrel politics
The art of un-legislating
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
Voices: Natural gas can lead the way
Voices: Redefining humanity through energy use
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?
Brazil says 'no thanks' to OPEC
Breaking the Energy Barrier
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: 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 mission: "Kilowatt Ours"
Energy's the hot topic this week on the Hill
GSA meeting: Biofuels vs. food - developing countries suffer most
GSA meeting: Hydrocarbons not going into the sunset just yet
Highlights of 2010: Offshore wind in Texas and the curious case of Massachusetts
Highlights of 2011: Energy and economics 2011-2012
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
Montreal Protocol affects more than just ozone
Obama asks EPA to reconsider state-set emissions standards
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
Strategies to meet our water and energy needs: Insight from a Texas "Treemap"
Testing methane's potential on the North Slope
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
USGS finds giant gas hydrate deposits on North Slope
Wal-Mart to use wind energy
Where the rubber meets the road
With falling oil prices, short-sellers may win big
Extern
Hot but not bothered: Warm soils favor microbes with small genomes
"Cradle of Humankind" fossils can now be dated
Thirsty mantle: Subduction zones swallow more water than thought
Sulfides in thawing permafrost responsible for carbon dioxide release
Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals' extinction
Ocean tide size linked to supercontinent cycle
Sea-level rise could cut off wastewater service to millions in U.S.
When more humidity means less water
El Nino "flavors" affect California rainfall
Earth's "hum" heard at ocean bottom
LIP split by South Atlantic breakup was sourced from deep
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Mediterranean drawdown may have caused burst of volcanism
Driftwood reveals ancient Arctic currents and sea-ice levels
Opportunist organisms rafted across the Pacific on plastic
Extinct lunar magnetic field lasted longer than previously thought
Volcanic activity contributed to first of the "Big Five" mass extinctions
New method offers improved monitoring of Kilauea
Less-developed countries with high climate risk need better access to weather and climate data
Ancient wildfires suggest rising atmospheric oxygen helped end past ocean anoxia
Complex Kaikoura earthquake forces rethink of multifault ruptures
Northeast and Midwest U.S. projected to warm faster than national average
Silk Road routes may have followed the herds
And then there was one: Ceres' disappearing ice volcanoes
Soil moisture may help predict power outages in hurricanes
How soil management could help reduce greenhouse gas concentrations
Chaco Canyon: Garden of Eden or salty-soiled pilgrimage site?
Improved genetic simulations identify human genes passed down from Neanderthals, Denisovans
The path to gypsum is four steps long
Ancient landslide gave us Zion Canyon
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA' for the earth science enthusiast
Mesa Arch's 'hum' measured to track health of rock structure
Burgess Shale fossil find offers glimpse of early parenting
Model targets better understanding of recurring Indian-Pacific storm systems
Medieval earthquakes in Nepal may help reveal the region's tectonic future
Uranium contamination in aquifers could be linked to nitrate
Fire-fountain carbon sheds light on lunar origins
What are the odds?: Automated system calculates the likelihood that asteroids will hit Earth
Modeling 'magma mush' could reveal volcanic histories
Peculiar shape of hair ice linked to fungus
Subducted seawater the source of fluid-rich diamonds
Arctic climate change marked by warmer, wetter conditions
Volcanic lightning turns ash into glass
Beached iceberg alters Antarctic marine communities
Brachiopod die-off signaled mid-Permian mass extinction
Aquifers contaminated by Supertyphoon Haiyan storm surge
California's big trees dying of thirst
Megafloods mostly shaped Icelandic canyon landscape
Shrinking snowpack projected in western U.S. as rain-snow boundary climbs higher
Wedge approach proposed to lower water stress
Some coral reefs bounce back after bleaching
Twentieth-century warming linked to Pacific trade winds
Old piles of shells reveal ancient El Niño patterns
High-powered simulation tracks evolution of universe in detail
Colorado River Basin sees severe groundwater depletion
Infrasound reveals lava lake levels
Human-induced earthquakes shake less
Africa's impact is one that even the dinosaurs would have seen coming
Unprecedented low water-vapor levels detected on exoplanets
Moving cars could help gauge rainfall
Magma mobilizes quickly beneath Mount Hood
Mapping how malaria risk changes as new dams go up
Scientists look wider and deeper to predict the next El Nino
Fieldwork revises ice-free corridor hypothesis of human migration
Resolving a misplaced source of volcanism in the Galapagos
Sudden gas eruption shakes the ground near Rome's airport
GPS measurements of ground inflation help forecast ash plumes
Corals find a way to adapt?
Hydrological models locate ancient human migration routes
XPRIZE offers new ocean health awards
World's largest deep earthquake recorded
Undergraduates build and launch a satellite to measure atmospheric drag
Sinking sediment in deltas is as important as swelling seas
Environmental changes contributed to Mediterranean cultural crisis
Scientists demonstrate strengths and shortcomings of method for determining ancient earthquake size
Ancient volcanic island arc blocked Antarctic current formation
Arsenic in wells in Vietnam suggests dig-deeper approach has issues
Arsenic levels in China may be predicted by modeling
Mediterranean mammals migrated prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Map provides clues to natural protection of U.S. coastal communities
Ancient Egyptian artifact is otherworldly
Hurricanes suppressed by air pollutants
Modern humans arrived in South Asia 25,000 years later than previously thought?
Drought outlook indicates further problems in Plains and West
February 2019
Hot but not bothered: Warm soils favor microbes with small genomes
"Cradle of Humankind" fossils can now be dated
Where on Earth? - February 2019
Wrangling the data to choose Mars landing sites
Earliest bird-like lungs found in China
Beryllium: the rain bringeth and the rain taketh away
Seismometers eavesdrop on glacial outburst flood
Easter Island inhabitants drank brackish water to survive
Lab-grown magnesite a boon for carbon sequestration?
Humans accidentally created new rivers in Europe
Free swimmers came back first after Great Dying
Archaeologists hit pay dirt in medieval latrines
Mighty Mekong cut by monsoon, not tectonics
Mediterranean heritage sites threatened by rising seas
Deep drilling reveals how impact crater's hidden ring formed
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Geologic Column: Is this land really your land?
Comment: Faster flood forecasting to improve responses
Travels in Geology: Mid-ocean volcanic excursion: The calderas and caldeiras of the Azores
Getting there and getting around Azores
Sounding Out Earth's Hum
Redefining Dinosaurs: Paleontologists are Shaking the Dinosaur Family Tree to its Roots
Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals' extinction
Genome
Hot but not bothered: Warm soils favor microbes with small genomes
Scientists sequence oldest modern human genome to date
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick
Highlights of 2010: What does it mean to be human?
Microbes
Hot but not bothered: Warm soils favor microbes with small genomes
Going subterranean: Repurposed mines become innovative labs
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Microbes influence ooid formation
Microbes care about energy efficiency
Red Planet Roundup: October 2017
Down to Earth With: Cave microbiologist Hazel Barton
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2017
Looking for life in coldest, driest Antarctica
Subseafloor biosphere extended to greatest depth yet
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Great Lakes geologic sunken treasure
Isotope
"Cradle of Humankind" fossils can now be dated
Beryllium: the rain bringeth and the rain taketh away
Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals' extinction
Lunar isotopes suggest early water on Earth
LIP split by South Atlantic breakup was sourced from deep
Isotopes reveal sources of centuries-old alabaster artifacts
Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mine was prolific
Stable isotopes offer novel methods of disease detection
Nutrient deficiency delayed life after mass extinction
Helium escape may help predict volcanic activity
Long-gone supernova sprinkles rare isotope
Underwater Roman marble traced to Greece, Italy and Turkey
Growth rings in rocks reveal past climate
North Sea uplift caused Jurassic cooling event
Ancient eggshells may reveal dinosaur body temperatures
Isotopes could reveal ancient American turquoise trade
One-two punch of past warming may hold lessons
Down to Earth With: Naomi Levin
New lunar research answers old questions, poses others
New climate record challenges ideas about recent glaciations
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
Blogging on EARTH: EGU: Geologists help law enforcement
Cold case files: Forging forensic isoscapes
Cruising the Atlantic to trace elemental movements
Geophysics
Thirsty mantle: Subduction zones swallow more water than thought
Sounding Out Earth's Hum
Earth's "hum" heard at ocean bottom
Small-scale factors influence mantle flow under the seafloor
Mauna Loa's mysterious Ninole Hills were once a rift
Radar reveals unmarked graves
Subducting seamounts blocked a big quake in Chile
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Down to Earth With: Brian Tucker
Are slow-slip earthquakes under Tokyo stressing faults?
Humans causing California's mountains to grow
Observing a plate boundary
A truly global system
A new tool for atmospheric studies
Precise to a fault: How GPS revolutionized seismic research
Faking quakes at full scale: Giant shake tables simulate earthquakes to make buildings safer
Slab tear explains perplexing Colombian earthquake activity
Hidden graves give up their secrets to geologists
Iowa impact crater confirmed
Danger in the Deep: Chemical weapons lie off our coasts
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Natural gas production linked to earthquakes in Texas
January 2019
Thirsty mantle: Subduction zones swallow more water than thought
Deep drilling reveals how impact crater's hidden ring formed
Redefining Dinosaurs: Paleontologists are Shaking the Dinosaur Family Tree to its Roots
Where on Earth? - January 2019
Melting glaciers shift Earth's axis
Quirky lunar swirls expose the moon's secret past
Mesosaurs may have spent time on land
Ocean circulation change suffocating Gulf of St. Lawrence
Earliest art found in South Africa
Rising carbon dioxide may raise risk of nutrient deficiencies in humans
Early mammal reproduced like a reptile
Columbia River basalts erupted faster than thought
Arctic warming causes Siberian cooling
Ancient collision left a bit of Europe behind in Britain
The geology of kidney stones revealed
Oman ophiolite suggests subduction started with a shove
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Down to Earth With: Clay mineralogist Warren Huff
Geologic Column: Muinntir a' ghlinne so
Comment: How to tell a good science story
Our top tips for adding storytelling to your repertoire
Eyes in the sea: Swarms of floating robots observe the oceans
Travels in Geology: Lhasa, Tibet: Journey to the roof of the world
Getting there and getting around Tibet
Geomedia: Film: 'First Man' navigates Neil Armstrong's journey between two worlds
Mantle
Thirsty mantle: Subduction zones swallow more water than thought
Diamonds reveal water in deep mantle
Young Costa Rican lavas might reflect pockets of primordial mantle
When and how did plate tectonics begin on Earth?
Moon formed from pulverized Earth mantle
Small-scale factors influence mantle flow under the seafloor
Junk gem reveals new diamond-forming process
Mantle convection makes Earth's crust bob
Stalled slabs sometimes stopped by mineral strengthening
A watery surprise from Earth's depths: Mineral provides first direct evidence for water in mantle's transition zone
Corn syrup model splits Yellowstone's plume in two
Beads of water on the moon
Seismology
Thirsty mantle: Subduction zones swallow more water than thought
Seismometers eavesdrop on glacial outburst flood
Sounding Out Earth's Hum
New measurement shakes up earthquake estimates
Seismic waves are blind to water
Yellowstone's Mexican mantle plume
Earth's "hum" heard at ocean bottom
Measuring earthquakes using fiber-optic cables
New Zealand quake triggers two large slow-slip events
Seismic patterns help forecast eruptions from quiet stratovolcanoes
Imaging Iceland's volcanic roots
Desktop seismology: How a maker-inspired device is changing seismic monitoring
Small-scale factors influence mantle flow under the seafloor
Firefighting gets a leg up from earthquake sensor networks
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains earthquake
Going with the flow: Mapping the mantle under the Cascadia Subduction Zone
How deep do the Alps go?
Vital seconds: The journey toward earthquake early warning for all
Seismometers listen for falling rocks
Stalled slabs sometimes stopped by mineral strengthening
Introducing Earth's inner inner core
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
Hazard lingers after South Napa earthquake
Santiaguito Volcano's clockwork behavior provides an exceptional laboratory
Infrasound reveals lava lake levels
Human-induced earthquakes shake less
In Turkey, the older the fault, the bigger the quake: Good news for Istanbul?
Books: The once and future San Andreas Fault
Are slow-slip earthquakes under Tokyo stressing faults?
Unlocking the Cascadia Subduction Zone's secrets: Peering into recent research and findings
Longmenshan fault zone in the spotlight after two major quakes in five years
Observing a plate boundary
A truly global system
Precise to a fault: How GPS revolutionized seismic research
Faking quakes at full scale: Giant shake tables simulate earthquakes to make buildings safer
Giant quake sloshed fjords half a world away
Old photos help scientists relocate 1906 San Francisco quake rupture point
World's largest deep earthquake recorded
Big quakes topple traditional views of fault behavior
Well-healed faults produce high-frequency earthquake waves
Voices: Judged unfairly in L'Aquila - roles and responsibilities should have been considered
Hazardous Living: Italian seismologists tragically convicted of manslaughter
Better warnings for the consequences of earthquakes: Bringing seismic hazard and risk assessments to policy
Managing the seismic risk posed by wastewater disposal
Voices: Italian seismologists: What should they have said?
Blogging on EARTH: FEMA's plans for New Madrid
Creeping faults warn of impending earthquakes?
Don't forget about the Christchurch earthquake: Lessons learned from disaster
Hazardous Living: Geologists to be charged for not predicting earthquake?
Hazardous Living: Italian seismologists on trial for manslaughter
Japan's megaquake and killer tsunami: How did this happen?
Mag.-8.9 quake strikes Japan, tsunami heads for Hawaii
Moonquake mystery deepens
Natural gas production linked to earthquakes in Texas
Thinking outside the rocks in the search for ancient earthquakes
Tsunami kills hundreds in Indonesia
US earthquakes actually a powerful Siberian quake
Subduction Zone
Thirsty mantle: Subduction zones swallow more water than thought
Alaskan subduction zone mirrors Tohoku zone that unleashed tsunami
Dehydrated sediment layer made Sumatra quake stronger
Downgoing plate topography stopped 2005 Sumatra rupture
Going with the flow: Mapping the mantle under the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Hidden double earthquake spells trouble for tsunami-warning systems
Subducting seamounts blocked a big quake in Chile
Stalled slabs sometimes stopped by mineral strengthening
Small tremor could have triggered big Chilean quake
Thank subduction for Earth's nitrogen-rich air
Down to Earth With: Terry Plank
Skinned oceanic plates may be origin of ophiolites
Unlocking the Cascadia Subduction Zone's secrets: Peering into recent research and findings
Searching for evidence of ancient subduction
Slab tear explains perplexing Colombian earthquake activity
World's largest deep earthquake recorded
Scientists demonstrate strengths and shortcomings of method for determining ancient earthquake size
New subduction zone may close Atlantic ocean
Agi
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Oxide Pigments
Energy Notes: August 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cultured Quartz Crystal
Energy Notes: July 2007-2008
Energy Notes: June 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Energy Notes: May 2007-2008
Energy Notes: August 2008-2009
Energy Notes: July 2008-2009
Energy Notes: June 2008-2009
Energy Notes: May 2008-2009
Energy Notes: April 2008-2009
Energy Notes: February 2008-2009
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Energy Notes: December 2007-2008
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Energy Notes: August 2009-2010
Energy Notes: July 2009-2010
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Energy Notes: March 2009-2010
Energy Notes: February 2009-2010
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Energy Notes: November 2008-2009
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Energy Notes: September 2008-2009
Energy Notes: August 2010-2011
Energy Notes: July 2010-2011
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Energy Notes: August 2011-2012
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Energy Notes: December 2010-2011
Energy Notes: November 2010-2011
Energy Notes: October 2010-2011
Energy Notes: September 2010-2011
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Energy Notes: June 2012-2013
Energy Notes: May 2012-2013
Energy Notes: April 2012-2013
Energy Notes: March 2012-2013
Energy Notes: February 2012-2013
Energy Notes: January 2012-2013
Energy Notes: December 2011-2012
Energy Notes: November 2011-2012
Energy Notes: October 2011-2012
Energy Notes: September 2011-2012
Energy Notes: October 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diamond
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cobalt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Ferrous Slag
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thorium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Clay Minerals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lead
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Perlite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Platinum Group Metals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Germanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Salt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Asbestos
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Ore
Mineral Resource of the Month: Molybdenum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Copper
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Feldspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tantalum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Indium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gypsum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rare Earth Elements
Mineral Resource of the Month: Potash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Mineral Resource of the Month: Soda Ash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mercury
Mineral Resource of the Month: Dimension Stone
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tungsten
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hydraulic Cement
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aluminum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Magnesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Manganese
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aggregates
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cadmium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rhenium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Beryllium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tellurium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diatomite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Barite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Nickel
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bismuth
Mineral Resource of the Month: Kyanite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lithium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hafnium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vanadium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Energy Notes: June 2014 - 2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel Slag
Energy Notes: May 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Energy Notes: April 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Energy Notes: March 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Energy Notes: January 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gemstones
Energy Notes: December 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Energy Notes: November 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron oxide pigments
Energy Notes: September 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silver
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel
Energy Notes: October 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Talc
Energy Notes: November 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Wollastonite
Energy Notes: December 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Selenium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Down to Earth With: Anna Henderson
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
Energy Notes: July 2013-2014
Energy Notes: June 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mica
Energy notes: May 2013-2014
Energy Notes: April 2013 - 2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vermiculite
Energy Notes: March 2013-2014
Energy Notes: February 2013-2014
Energy Notes: January 2013-2014
Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
December 2018
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Voyager 2 pierces the heliopause, enters interstellar space
Sulfides in thawing permafrost responsible for carbon dioxide release
Where on Earth? - December 2018
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Getting There and Getting Around Washington, D.C.
Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.
Revealing the ghosts of glaciers past
Night lights reveal that people move as rivers rise
"Critical Minerals" list snubs copper, sparks discussion of criticality
Survey says: U.S. lakes getting murkier
Bubbly discovery may impact volcanic hazard assessment
Human-triggered landslides on the rise
Two new species fill gap in dinosaur family tree
Did early agriculture knock the climate off track?
Science by floats
Southern Ocean is absorbing less carbon
New tool predicts probability of earthquake-triggered landslides
Fats on Neolithic pottery pinpoint climate cooling event
Forecasting California's earthquake hazard
Antarctic rift was active more recently than thought
Geologic Column: Light amid the darkness: Celebrations during the winter solstice
Down to Earth With: Coastal scientist Gary Griggs
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
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
Mineral Resource of the Month
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Oxide Pigments
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cultured Quartz Crystal
Energy Notes: July 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Energy Notes: May 2007-2008
Energy Notes: August 2008-2009
Energy Notes: July 2008-2009
Energy Notes: June 2008-2009
Energy Notes: May 2008-2009
Energy Notes: April 2008-2009
Energy Notes: February 2008-2009
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Energy Notes: November 2007-2008
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Energy Notes: July 2009-2010
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Energy Notes: April 2009-2010
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Energy Notes: February 2009-2010
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Energy Notes: December 2008-2009
Energy Notes: November 2008-2009
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Energy Notes: September 2008-2009
Energy Notes: August 2010-2011
Energy Notes: July 2010-2011
Energy Notes: June 2010-2011
Energy Notes: May 2010-2011
Energy Notes: April 2010-2011
Energy Notes: March 2010-2011
Energy Notes: February 2010-2011
Energy Notes: January 2010-2011
Energy Notes: December 2009-2010
Energy Notes: November 2009-2010
Energy Notes: October 2009-2010
Energy Notes: September 2009-2010
Energy Notes: August 2011-2012
Energy Notes: July 2011-2012
Energy Notes: June 2011-2012
Energy Notes: May 2011-2012
Energy Notes: April 2011-2012
Energy Notes: March 2011-2012
Energy Notes: February 2011-2012
Energy Notes: January 2011-2012
Energy Notes: December 2010-2011
Energy Notes: November 2010-2011
Energy Notes: October 2010-2011
Energy Notes: September 2010-2011
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Energy Notes: June 2012-2013
Energy Notes: May 2012-2013
Energy Notes: April 2012-2013
Energy Notes: February 2012-2013
Energy Notes: January 2012-2013
Energy Notes: December 2011-2012
Energy Notes: November 2011-2012
Energy Notes: October 2011-2012
Energy Notes: September 2011-2012
Energy Notes: October 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diamond
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cobalt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thorium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Clay Minerals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lead
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Perlite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Germanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Salt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Asbestos
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Ore
Mineral Resource of the Month: Molybdenum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Copper
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Feldspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tantalum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Indium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gypsum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rare Earth Elements
Mineral Resource of the Month: Potash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Mineral Resource of the Month: Soda Ash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Dimension Stone
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tungsten
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hydraulic Cement
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aluminum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Magnesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Manganese
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aggregates
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cadmium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rhenium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Beryllium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tellurium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diatomite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Barite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Nickel
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bismuth
Mineral Resource of the Month: Kyanite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lithium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hafnium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vanadium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Energy Notes: June 2014 - 2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel Slag
Energy Notes: May 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Energy Notes: April 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Energy Notes: March 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Energy Notes: February 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Energy Notes: January 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gemstones
Energy Notes: December 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron oxide pigments
Energy Notes: September 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silver
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Energy Notes: September 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel
Energy Notes: October 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Talc
Energy Notes: November 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Wollastonite
Energy Notes: December 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Selenium
Energy Notes: August 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Energy Notes: July 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Energy Notes: June 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mica
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zeolites
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vermiculite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Arsenic
Energy Notes: February 2013-2014
Energy Notes: January 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Niobium
Usgs
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
"Critical Minerals" list snubs copper, sparks discussion of criticality
Comment: National Geological Surveys: The past, present and future
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Oxide Pigments
Energy Notes: August 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cultured Quartz Crystal
Energy Notes: July 2007-2008
Energy Notes: June 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Energy Notes: May 2007-2008
Energy Notes: August 2008-2009
Energy Notes: July 2008-2009
Energy Notes: June 2008-2009
Energy Notes: May 2008-2009
Energy Notes: April 2008-2009
Energy Notes: February 2008-2009
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Energy Notes: December 2007-2008
Energy Notes: November 2007-2008
Energy Notes: October 2007-2008
Energy Notes: September 2007-2008
Energy Notes: August 2009-2010
Energy Notes: July 2009-2010
Energy Notes: June 2009-2010
Energy Notes: May 2009-2010
Energy Notes: April 2009-2010
Energy Notes: March 2009-2010
Energy Notes: February 2009-2010
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Energy Notes: December 2008-2009
Energy Notes: November 2008-2009
Energy Notes: October 2008-2009
Energy Notes: September 2008-2009
Energy Notes: August 2010-2011
Energy Notes: July 2010-2011
Energy Notes: June 2010-2011
Energy Notes: May 2010-2011
Energy Notes: April 2010-2011
Energy Notes: March 2010-2011
Energy Notes: February 2010-2011
Energy Notes: January 2010-2011
Energy Notes: December 2009-2010
Energy Notes: November 2009-2010
Energy Notes: October 2009-2010
Energy Notes: September 2009-2010
Energy Notes: August 2011-2012
Energy Notes: July 2011-2012
Energy Notes: June 2011-2012
Energy Notes: May 2011-2012
Energy Notes: April 2011-2012
Energy Notes: March 2011-2012
Energy Notes: February 2011-2012
Energy Notes: January 2011-2012
Energy Notes: December 2010-2011
Energy Notes: November 2010-2011
Energy Notes: October 2010-2011
Energy Notes: September 2010-2011
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Energy Notes: June 2012-2013
Energy Notes: May 2012-2013
Energy Notes: April 2012-2013
Energy Notes: March 2012-2013
Energy Notes: February 2012-2013
Energy Notes: January 2012-2013
Energy Notes: December 2011-2012
Energy Notes: November 2011-2012
Energy Notes: October 2011-2012
Energy Notes: September 2011-2012
Energy Notes: October 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diamond
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cobalt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Ferrous Slag
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thorium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Clay Minerals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lead
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Perlite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Platinum Group Metals
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Mineral Resource of the Month: Germanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Salt
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Asbestos
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Ore
Mineral Resource of the Month: Molybdenum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Copper
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Feldspar
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tantalum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Indium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gypsum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rare Earth Elements
Mineral Resource of the Month: Potash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Mineral Resource of the Month: Soda Ash
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mercury
Mineral Resource of the Month: Dimension Stone
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tungsten
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hydraulic Cement
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aluminum
Mineral Resource of the Month: Magnesium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Manganese
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aggregates
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cadmium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rhenium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Beryllium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tellurium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diatomite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Barite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Nickel
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bismuth
Mineral Resource of the Month: Kyanite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lithium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hafnium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vanadium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Down to Earth With: Maurice J. 'Ric' Terman
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Troubled waters: Lead lurking in U.S. water supplies
Energy Notes: June 2014 - 2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel Slag
Energy Notes: May 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Energy Notes: April 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Energy Notes: March 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Energy Notes: January 2014-2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gemstones
Energy Notes: December 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron oxide pigments
Down to Earth With: The USGS Landslide Response Team
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silver
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel
Mineral Resource of the Month: Talc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Wollastonite
Mineral Resource of the Month: Selenium
Down to Earth With: The Geographers of the Solar System
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Bare Earth Elements: Past and present directors dissect the future of USGS
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mica
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vermiculite
Down to Earth With: Sally Jewell
When water, gravity and geology collide: Firsthand observations of the impacts of the 2013 Colorado floods
Tackling "Boundary Faults" across the Alaska-Yukon border: A report from the field
Iowa impact crater confirmed
2012 budget requests a mixed bag for science
Californians prepare for the Big One
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
Gustav and the rising waters
Large earthquake rattles Baja California
New USGS chief appointed
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Tracking Yellowstone's Activity
USGS fights false Yellowstone warning
USGS finds giant gas hydrate deposits on North Slope
VA quake felt far and wide, here's why
When the dust settles: Investigating lingering health questions 10 years after 9/11
Rover
Wrangling the data to choose Mars landing sites
Down to Earth With: Planetary scientist Steven Squyres
Blogging on EARTH: Curious to watch Curiosity land on Mars?
Blogging on EARTH: Yellow submarine robot debuts at AGU meeting
Bird
Earliest bird-like lungs found in China
An asteroid redirected bird evolution
Early birds quacked
Seeds may have saved bird-like dinosaurs from extinction
Owl pellets bridge ancient and modern ecosystems
First fossilized bird of another feather found in Brazil
Oldest birds unearthed in China
De-evolving the bird beak
A terribly low voice for a new terror bird
Bird genomes untangle branches of avian family tree
Hell Creek Formation reveals a 'chicken from hell'
Ecosystem collapse in Pleistocene Australia
La Niña could set the stage for flu pandemics
Quoth the feathered, iridescent Microraptor, Nevermore
Are birds dinosaurs? New evidence muddies the picture
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx is discovered and described
China
Earliest bird-like lungs found in China
Two new species fill gap in dinosaur family tree
Extinct gibbon found in Chinese tomb
Earth's first footprints
Pairing geoheritage and economic development: China's Guizhou Province offers a modern model
Acid rain triggered deadly Chinese landslide
Asymmetrical fossil feathers fill in timeline of flight
Baby Louie dinosaur fossil gets a formal name
Dust influences pollution levels in eastern China
Monsoon shifts shaped early Chinese cultures
Geologic Column: My China syndrome
Chinese air pollution clears up mystery of London's 1952 hazardous haze
Discovered: One of the last-surviving Asian dinosaurs
How to hide a dinosaur
A story in the sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" may have been real
Hammerhead herbivore pioneered vegetarianism in Triassic seas
Down to Earth With: Hydrogeologist Shemin Ge
Researchers profile magma chamber beneath North Korean volcano
China's Red Deer Cave people may have survived until the last ice age
Chinese cave art reveals record of climate change
Dinosaurs used the same nests repeatedly
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake devastates western China
Oldest birds unearthed in China
Soft-bodied fossils cast in fool's gold
Secondary aerosols a primary cause of Chinese smog
Pompeii-like eruption fossilized dinosaurs in death poses
Longmenshan fault zone in the spotlight after two major quakes in five years
Arsenic levels in China may be predicted by modeling
Asia's hazardous month
China quake kills at least 400
Is there really a minerals crisis?
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Mini-T. rex fossil found in China
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
Evolution
Earliest bird-like lungs found in China
An asteroid redirected bird evolution
Mountaintops get less lonely for alpine plants
Down to Earth With: Michael Novacek
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Small warm ponds: Ideal incubators for first life?
Evolution of eyes, not limbs, led fish onto land
The only Earth: Exploring the link between plate tectonics and life on the blue planet
Horses evolved to get along: Competition between species not main evolutionary driver
Meteorites did not spark Ordovician biodiversification
Improved genetic simulations identify human genes passed down from Neanderthals, Denisovans
Comment: Did life start on a snowball?
Seeds may have saved bird-like dinosaurs from extinction
Jawless fish more like jawed fish than thought
Giant armadillo look-alikes really were giant armadillos
Bat signals
Parasites of the Paleozoic
Ancient eggshells may reveal dinosaur body temperatures
Land plants came prepared for terrestrial life
Three new species of extinct baleen whales found
Moroccan fossil formation reshapes timeline of Early Phanerozoic evolution
Oldest birds unearthed in China
De-evolving the bird beak
Geomedia: Books: To Tiktaalik and beyond
Geomedia: Books: Are we causing a sixth extinction?
Ancient shark jaws resemble those of modern fish
For toothed whales, ecolocation is an ancient art
La Brea climate adaptation as different as cats and dogs
Creationism comes to the county fair
The trouble with turtles: Paleontology at a crossroads
Quoth the feathered, iridescent Microraptor, Nevermore
Age changes you: Torosaurus actually just old Triceratops
Are birds dinosaurs? New evidence muddies the picture
Blogging on EARTH: Ancient whale with a big bite named for Moby Dick author
Dinosaurs of a feather may not have evolved together
How amphibious whales returned to the sea
Minerals also evolve
Odd crests helped dinos communicate
Seal missing link found in the Arctic
Tetrapod tracks reset timing of four-legged evolution
Weird whale tusks act as matchmakers
Why red leaves remain elusive in Europe
Atmospheric Chemistry
Beryllium: the rain bringeth and the rain taketh away
Reconstructing ancient oxidant levels and their climatic effects
"Blob"-related warming contributed to Pacific Northwest ozone spike
Fossil fuels diluting atmospheric radiocarbon
Hydrogen chloride on the rise in Northern Hemisphere skies
Thank subduction for Earth's nitrogen-rich air
Carbon tet still offensive to ozone layer
Link between volcanoes and drought cools geoengineering prospects
Sudden gas eruption shakes the ground near Rome's airport
Lofted by hurricanes, bacteria live the high life
AGU: Colorado ski industry owes Great Salt Lake thank you note
Hawaii
Beryllium: the rain bringeth and the rain taketh away
Geologic Column: A cautionary tale about "sleeping" natural hazards
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Maui reef degradation linked to contamination in coastal groundwater
Kilauea increases asthma risk
Geologic Column: The notion of mantle plumes
Benchmarks: July 1, 1912: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officially becomes the first of its kind in U.S.
Mauna Loa's mysterious Ninole Hills were once a rift
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii tsunami ushers in a Pacific-wide warning system
Kilauea eruptions could shift from mild to wild
Living in the shadow of Mauna Loa: A silent summit belies a volcano's forgotten fury
Kilauea's Explosive Past - and Future
Danger in paradise: The hidden hazards of volcano geotourism
AGU: Aloha, magma! Geothermal engineers drill into surprising lava
Mag.-8.9 quake strikes Japan, tsunami heads for Hawaii
Travels in Geology: Taking in Hawaii's Big Island
Precipitation
Beryllium: the rain bringeth and the rain taketh away
Winter precipitation in southwestern U.S. tied to Kiwi Coast
From silver to snow: Full cloud seeding cycle observed
Ice (Re)Cap: January 2018
Irrigation drives rain away in East Africa
Deforestation hangs climate out to dry
Sahara dust brings rain and snow to California
AGU: Colorado ski industry owes Great Salt Lake thank you note
Glaciers
Seismometers eavesdrop on glacial outburst flood
Melting glaciers shift Earth's axis
Revealing the ghosts of glaciers past
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: January 2018
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2017
Magnetic method dates glacial floods in Iceland
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2017
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: From parasitic cones to equatorial glaciers
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Did the Medieval Warm Period welcome Vikings to Greenland?
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's first park geologist Greg Stock
Ice (Re)Cap: February 2016
Sculpting the Alps
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Red Planet Roundup: July 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: February 2015
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Snow triggers quakes on Mount Rainier
Last Scottish glacier melted during big chill?
Ice (Re) Cap: October 2014
All the world's glaciers in one global inventory
The history, science and poetry of New England's stone walls
Karakoram glaciers buck global, regional trends
Blogging on EARTH linkfest: More on the Iceland eruption
Glacier moves in fits and starts
Glaciers present a complicated tale
Glaciers, not eruption: False alarm volcano mystery solved
Hazardous Living: Iceland afire
Impossible Odds, Irrepressible Hope: Pakistan's water woes and the science that can solve them
Offbeat Betting: Volcano betting gathering steam
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, from impact craters to executive orders
Travels in Geology: Precipitous peaks and dunes in Colorado
Travels in Geology: Stonehammer Geopark: A billion years of stories
Landslide
Seismometers eavesdrop on glacial outburst flood
Human-triggered landslides on the rise
New tool predicts probability of earthquake-triggered landslides
Are diatoms triggering submarine landslides?
Swelling clay slows landslides
Slumgullion: Colorado's natural 'lab' offers insights into landslides worldwide
Archaeology
Easter Island inhabitants drank brackish water to survive
Archaeologists hit pay dirt in medieval latrines
Fats on Neolithic pottery pinpoint climate cooling event
Turning modern "eyes" on ancient sites
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Turkey DNA reveals Mesa Verde denizens moved to New Mexico
Earthquakes shaped ancient Greek culture
Humans arrived Down Under earlier than thought
Northern Finns didn't starve during Little Ice Age
First complete DNA sequences from Egyptian mummies
Jerusalem tower facelift reveals it's 1,000 years younger
Platinum may point to impact theory for Younger Dryas
Tibetan Plateau populated long before advent of agriculture
Silk Road routes may have followed the herds
Mastodon bones point to significantly earlier human presence in North America
Chaco Canyon: Garden of Eden or salty-soiled pilgrimage site?
Underwater archaeology
The first Americans: How and when were the Americas populated?
A story in the sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" may have been real
A labyrinth of silver mines uncovered on the shores of the Aegean Sea
Underwater Roman marble traced to Greece, Italy and Turkey
Did the Medieval Warm Period welcome Vikings to Greenland?
Travels in Geology: The King's Highway: The crossroads of ancient Jordan
Getting there and getting around Jordan
Widening the window of human dispersal into Arabia
Down to Earth With: Industrial Archaeologist Fred Quivik
Golden Gate ghost ships rediscovered
Rome's lead water pipes likely not a health risk
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick
How the Spanish invasion altered the Peruvian coast
Message in a bottle gourd
Environmental changes contributed to Mediterranean cultural crisis
Old landscapes see the light thanks to improved imaging
Comet finished off North American big game animals, cooled the planet?
Earliest fossil evidence of humans in Southeast Asia?
It's a Dirty Job, But Someone's Gotta Do It
Museums: Cleopatra: The search for the last queen of Egypt
On Hannibal's Trail: The clues are in the geology
Stonehenge's Mysterious Stones
Chile
Easter Island inhabitants drank brackish water to survive
Residual strain explains later quakes
Transitional Chilesaurus fills gap between major dinosaur groups
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Travels in Geology: Patagonia: The ends of the earth
Whirling "gravel devils" show wind can carry more than just sand
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Travels in Geology: Exploring an icon of Patagonia: Chile's Torres del Paine National Park
Earliest Americans were wide-ranging wanderers
Hidden double earthquake spells trouble for tsunami-warning systems
Subducting seamounts blocked a big quake in Chile
Small tremor could have triggered big Chilean quake
Chaitén's vigorous volcanic history revealed
A history of "Big Ones"
Chile quake/tsunami news coverage: The bad and the good
Chile's quake larger but less destructive than Haiti's
Groundwater
Easter Island inhabitants drank brackish water to survive
Neonicotinoids: Prominent pesticides escape into the environment
Maui reef degradation linked to contamination in coastal groundwater
Down to Earth With: Hydrogeologist Shemin Ge
Treated water that's too pure lets arsenic sneak in
Lead-up to Icelandic earthquakes seen in groundwater chemistry
A dry and ravaged land: Investigating water resources in Afghanistan
Rainwater penetrates into ductile crust
Colorado River Basin sees severe groundwater depletion
Arsenic in wells in Vietnam suggests dig-deeper approach has issues
Arsenic levels in China may be predicted by modeling
The energy-water nexus: Managing water in an energy-constrained world
Benchmarks: December 3, 1984: Bhopal gas leak kills thousands
Extinction-era coal linked to Chinese cancer epidemic
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Impossible Odds, Irrepressible Hope: Pakistan's water woes and the science that can solve them
Mapping safer drinking water
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
Island
Easter Island inhabitants drank brackish water to survive
Travels in Geology: Mid-ocean volcanic excursion: The calderas and caldeiras of the Azores
Island-dwelling mammal had small brain, keen senses
Travels in Geology: Corsica: A fusion of cultures on the Mediterranean's most mountainous isle
Getting there and getting around Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Travels in Geology: The diverse geology, landscapes and whiskys of Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Travels in Geology: Easter Island's enduring enigmas
Early Pacific seafarers set sail in El Niño years
Travels in Geology: Gotland getaway: Sweden's 'tropical' escape in the Baltic
Fate of atolls not necessarily tied to sea-level rise
Maldives' residents looking for a new patch of land
Carbon Sequestration
Lab-grown magnesite a boon for carbon sequestration?
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
Burying the sky: Turning carbon dioxide into rock
Giant icebergs spur carbon storage in Southern Ocean
Nanoscale carbon capture
Raising California's Sinking Delta
Storing CO2 in fizzy water underground
Carbonate
Lab-grown magnesite a boon for carbon sequestration?
Microbes influence ooid formation
Frosted forams foil radiocarbon dating
Fish guts can alter ocean's chemistry
Mineral
Lab-grown magnesite a boon for carbon sequestration?
"Critical Minerals" list snubs copper, sparks discussion of criticality
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals
Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mine was prolific
In feats of tectonic strength, grain size matters
Minerals deformed by meteorites reveal age of impact
Ups and downs of potassium feldspar may play role in clouds and climate
Investigating erionite, asbestos' more carcinogenic cousin
Isotopes could reveal ancient American turquoise trade
Stalled slabs sometimes stopped by mineral strengthening
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral discovery ends Meteor Crater debate
Earth's most abundant mineral finally gets a name
Down to Earth With: Mineralogist George W. Robinson
Asbestos found in Nevada and Arizona: Roadblock and potential health hazard?
Protecting the mineral treasures of Antarctica's Larsemann Hills
Mineral Resource of the Month: Arsenic
Rescuing geologic maps during a coup
Building resource corridors in Afghanistan: A solution to an interminable war?
Dangerous dust: Erionite - an asbestos-like mineral causing a cancer epidemic in Turkey - is found in at least 13 states
Afghanistan's mineral resources laid bare
Afghanistan's mineral wealth
Crystal Ball EARTH: Minerals management: The changing commodities scene
Is there really a minerals crisis?
Restarting U.S. rare earth production?
Agriculture
Humans accidentally created new rivers in Europe
Did early agriculture knock the climate off track?
Weedy seeds gathered in once-green Sahara
From farm to filter: Restored wetlands remediate nitrogen pollution
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to protect crop diversity
Dividing line: The past, present and future of the 100th Meridian
When agriculture went to our heads
Nineteenth-century cows muddied Southern California continental shelf
Tibetan Plateau populated long before advent of agriculture
Grapes reveal impacts of sulfur-rich Samalas eruption on 13th-century climate
Neonicotinoids: Prominent pesticides escape into the environment
Ants developed farming millions of years ago
Burning grass releases more nitrogen pollution than burning wood
Take a stand (or sit) for better water quality management
'P' is for phosphate: Could urine solve a fertilizer shortage?
Uranium contamination in aquifers could be linked to nitrate
Irrigation drives rain away in East Africa
How to feed 11 billion people: Addressing the 21st century's biggest challenge
Toxic Gardens: The long legacy of urban lead
Geologic Column: September 26, 1774: The man, the myth, the legend of Johnny Appleseed is born
Pre-settlement erosion rates illuminated
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Rome's hidden water trade led to glory, maybe ruin
Geologic Column: Lighting out for the territory
Climate impacting a few of our favorite foodstuffs
Virtual water: Tracking the unseen water in goods and resources
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
Human History
Humans accidentally created new rivers in Europe
Archaeologists hit pay dirt in medieval latrines
Mediterranean heritage sites threatened by rising seas
Earliest art found in South Africa
Did early agriculture knock the climate off track?
Geologic Column: Light amid the darkness: Celebrations during the winter solstice
Japanese diaries show sun's cycle sparks lightning on Earth
Turning modern "eyes" on ancient sites
Ancient DNA reveals diversity of Southeast Asia
Sunstones useful as Viking-era GPS
Travels in Geology: The pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an ancient world
Geologic Column: The raw and the cooked
Did a massive eruption spur Christianity in Iceland?
Weedy seeds gathered in once-green Sahara
Travels in Geology: Underground awe in France: The caves of the Causses
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mine was prolific
Turkey DNA reveals Mesa Verde denizens moved to New Mexico
Antimony may have poisoned Pompeii's drinking water
Humans arrived Down Under earlier than thought
When agriculture went to our heads
Northern Finns didn't starve during Little Ice Age
First complete DNA sequences from Egyptian mummies
Neolithic farmers impacted sedimentation
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or premature conclusion? Examining the ethical implications of naming a new epoch
Jerusalem tower facelift reveals it's 1,000 years younger
Down To Earth With: John Underhill
A mammoth king: Was the legend of King Hygelac in "Beowulf" inspired by a fossil find?
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz mission launches space collaboration
Monsoon shifts shaped early Chinese cultures
Tibetan Plateau populated long before advent of agriculture
Did the first humans arrive in North America a lot earlier?
Travels in Geology: Easter Island's enduring enigmas
Early Pacific seafarers set sail in El Niño years
Travels in Geology: The Dead Sea Rift: Salty soaks and ancient earthquakes in a storied land
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas
The first Americans: How and when were the Americas populated?
Tilted Himalayan temples hold clues to past shaking
Humans, megafauna coexisted in Patagonia before extinction
A labyrinth of silver mines uncovered on the shores of the Aegean Sea
Travels in Geology: Turkey's storied Turquoise Coast
Social trends and shifting climates had complex effects in medieval Italy
Did the Medieval Warm Period welcome Vikings to Greenland?
Geologic Column: May: Nature's forces in collision
Comment: How long have humans been altering Earth's climate?
A long layover on the Bering land bridge
Earliest Americans were wide-ranging wanderers
Isotopes could reveal ancient American turquoise trade
Benchmarks: May 18, 1952: Stonehenge's age solved with Carbon-14
Geologic Column: Thanksgiving's unsung hero
Travertine buildup reflects ancient Rome's water usage
Kennewick Man related to modern Native Americans
Widening the window of human dispersal into Arabia
Pre-settlement erosion rates illuminated
Ancient moss reveals tsunami timing
Marine
Free swimmers came back first after Great Dying
Marine animals have been migrating for millions of years
Globe-trotting kelp set new world record
Oldest blood cells found in Early Jurassic ichthyosaur
Predators may have spurred evolution of ancient brittle stars
Marine megafaunal extinction discovered
Nineteenth-century cows muddied Southern California continental shelf
Robotic mussels track temperature change
Current marine extinction unprecedented
Nutrient deficiency delayed life after mass extinction
Hammerhead herbivore pioneered vegetarianism in Triassic seas
Subseafloor biosphere extended to greatest depth yet
Ancient marine reptiles born alive and ready to hunt
How the school of rock came to be
Sea sprawl: Into the blue frontier of ocean development
Paleoecology
Free swimmers came back first after Great Dying
Hammerhead herbivore pioneered vegetarianism in Triassic seas
Owl pellets bridge ancient and modern ecosystems
Bigger is better in the sea
Tiny plant fossils offer big view of ancient ecosystems
Down to Earth With: Matt Kuchta
Ancient food web shows modern structure
Arctic megafauna thrived on pollen-poor plants
Hydrological models locate ancient human migration routes
CSI La Brea: Tiny traces reveal big secrets of the tar pits
No pre-Columbian deforestation of the western Amazon
Biology
Archaeologists hit pay dirt in medieval latrines
Skate eggs found on hydrothermal vents
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Stable isotopes offer novel methods of disease detection
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
Microbes care about energy efficiency
Two-faced space worm could inform regenerative medicine
Neonicotinoids: Prominent pesticides escape into the environment
Six new deep-sea species discovered
Life on land 300 million years earlier than thought
Toad behavior linked to climate change
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew sealed inside Biosphere 2
Counting 'tree' rings in fish skulls provides climate clues
Dna
Archaeologists hit pay dirt in medieval latrines
Ancient DNA reveals diversity of Southeast Asia
A new look at Cheddar Man
How Borneo got its elephants
Turkey DNA reveals Mesa Verde denizens moved to New Mexico
Cretaceous collagen: Can molecular paleontology glean soft tissue from dinosaurs?
First complete DNA sequences from Egyptian mummies
Cave paintings confirm mystery European bison species
The trouble with turtles: Paleontology at a crossroads
Toxic tide
Southeast Asia
Mighty Mekong cut by monsoon, not tectonics
Ancient DNA reveals diversity of Southeast Asia
Mapping safer drinking water
Tectonics
Mighty Mekong cut by monsoon, not tectonics
In feats of tectonic strength, grain size matters
Tectonic rejuvenation in North America's ancient mountains
Going with the flow: Mapping the mantle under the Cascadia Subduction Zone
The ups and downs of an island
Himalayas get a new birthdate
Stalled slabs sometimes stopped by mineral strengthening
Rainwater penetrates into ductile crust
Mediterranean
Mediterranean heritage sites threatened by rising seas
Getting There & Getting Around Corsica
Travels in Geology: Corsica: A fusion of cultures on the Mediterranean's most mountainous isle
Mediterranean drawdown may have caused burst of volcanism
Mediterranean tsunami record may be overreported
Mysterious Miocene bipedal footprints found in Crete
Giant turbidite in Mediterranean Sea linked to ancient earthquake and tsunami
New climate record challenges ideas about recent glaciations
Environmental changes contributed to Mediterranean cultural crisis
Mediterranean mammals migrated prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Sea Level Rise
Mediterranean heritage sites threatened by rising seas
Underwater WiFi? Rising sea levels threaten physical internet
Dutch Masters: The Netherlands exports flood-control expertise
Sea-level rise could cut off wastewater service to millions in U.S.
Rising waters sink seafloors
Geomedia: On the Web: How will melting ice impact your city?
What drives hot spots of sea-level rise?
Bottom dropping out of coral reefs
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Sea-level rise a risk for millions in the United States
Sea-level rise accelerating
Fate of atolls not necessarily tied to sea-level rise
Coastal cities will see regular flooding
Seeing beneath Greenland's ice
Ocean dynamics speed sea-level rise along U.S. East Coast
Sinking sediment in deltas is as important as swelling seas
Map provides clues to natural protection of U.S. coastal communities
Denying sea-level rise: How 100 centimeters divided the state of North Carolina
Maldives' residents looking for a new patch of land
Arkansas
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Travels in Geology: Arkansas: A geologic diamond in the rough
Benchmarks
Benchmarks: February 17, 2017: Arkansas Gets a State Dinosaur
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is established
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale coal mine fire kills 110, igniting reform
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
Benchmarks: June 15, 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts
Benchmarks: May 3, 2003: New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain falls
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 wreckage found using modern oceanography tools
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Canterbury, paving the way for the Chunnel
Benchmarks: January 25, 1968: The last firefall: A Yosemite tradition flames out
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog smothers London
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The deadliest wildfire in American history incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery returns from the West
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 earthquake rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz mission launches space collaboration
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Benchmarks: May 23, 1967: Space weather forecasters avert war
Benchmarks: April 24, 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched
Benchmarks: March 11–13, 1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 Paralyzes New York City
A mysterious first
Benchmarks: February 5, 1931 and February 20, 1935: Antarctic firsts for women
Benchmarks: January 31, 1961: Ham the chimpanzee, first hominid in space
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado del Ruiz eruption triggers deadly lahars
Benchmarks: October 2, 1574: Dutch unleash the ocean as a weapon of war
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches sweep through Austrian towns, killing dozens
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a cold war ice fortress is built
Benchmarks: September 23, 1933: The U.S. oil industry arrives in Saudi Arabia
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross is found, photographed and mapped
Benchmarks: September 8, 1900: Massive hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas
Benchmarks: July 1, 1912: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officially becomes the first of its kind in U.S.
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera erupts
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains earthquake
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 dust storm injures hundreds
Benchmarks: August 25, 1916: The National Park Service is established
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii tsunami ushers in a Pacific-wide warning system
Benchmarks: March 1961: Project Mohole undertakes the first deep-ocean drilling
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest day of fire ever recorded in Australia
Benchmarks: January 3–5, 1982: 18,000 landslides wreak havoc on the San Francisco Bay area
Benchmarks: October 1904: Mineralogy solves a murder
Benchmarks: August 1576: False gold found in Meta Incognita
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga burns
Benchmarks: July 26, 1905: The rising Salton Sea swamps the Southern Pacific Railroad
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown flood kills thousands
Saturn's rings: The remains of an icy moon
Keeler's legacy
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler confirms Saturn's rings not solid
Deadly tornadoes
Benchmarks: March 18, 1925: Tri-state twister kills 695 people
Benchmarks: January 23, 1960: Humans reach the deepest point on Earth
The first dinner in a beast
Benchmarks: December 31, 1853: Dinner in a dinosaur
Benchmarks: November 27, 1873: Red River logjam removed for good
From science to science fiction
Benchmarks: October 13, 1947: A disaster with Project Cirrus
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener begins a fateful polar expedition
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The era of aviation launches with the first balloon flight
Benchmarks: May 12, 1905: Andrew Carnegie donates 'Dippy the Dino'
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE is launched
Benchmarks: March 17, 1944: The most recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Benchmarks: February 1962 and 1984: John Glenn and Bruce McCandless make space flight history
Benitoite: A rare gemstone
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park is founded
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
Public improvements, private funding
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill disappears
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA unraveled
Gain some, lose some
Benchmarks: June 30, 1972: Timekeepers add first "leap second" to clocks
Nuclear Fallout
Benchmarks: May 18, 1952: Stonehenge's age solved with Carbon-14
The Washington Monument's Apex
March 23, 1821: Bauxite Discovered
Conjunction injunction: Recent and future planetary alignments
Benchmarks: February 4, 1962: Five planets align - but no end of the world
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England prohibits Alchemy
The quake's impact on western thinking
Benchmarks: November 1, 1755: Earthquake destroys Lisbon
Benchmarks: December 4, 1992: The Seattle Fault Zone is described
Benchmarks: January 1, 1960: The Discovery of "Extinct Radioactivity" The quest to date the elements that formed the solar system
Benchmarks: February 3, 1953: Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" is published, opening a window on the underwater world for millions
Benchmarks: March 1913: The first complete geologic timescale is published
Benchmarks: April 1916: "Jingo the Stegosaurus" campaigns to keep the U.S. out of World War I
Sauropod skull mystery
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
October 31, 1992: Vacation reverses position on Galileo
Benchmarks: September 21, 1938: The great New England Hurricane strikes
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake devastates western China
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew sealed inside Biosphere 2
Bechmarks: June 1, 1873: The Modoc-Lava Beds War Ends
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus crosses the North Pole
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral discovery ends Meteor Crater debate
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting out for the Copper Country
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The deadly eruption of Mount Pelée
Peak's appeal - and hazard - endures today
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record winds buffet Mount Washington
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal vents are discovered
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits are described
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, geologist who deciphered banded iron formations
Benchmarks: October 9, 1963: The Vajont Landslide kills 2,500 in Italy
Benchmarks: January 3, 1970: Lost City meteorite is tracked and recovered
November 10, 1934: Arizona declares war against California at Parker Dam
December 27, 1888: The Geological Society of America is founded
January 26, 1905: The world's largest gem-quality diamond is unearthed
April 20, 1832: Arkansas' hot springs named the First National "Park"
Benchmarks: December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami strikes
Benchmarks: November 8, 2013: Super-typhoon Haiyan tests Philippines warning protocols
Benchmarks: October 10, 1913: Atlantic and Pacific waters meet in the Panama Canal
Benchmarks: September 1, 1957: Fossil Cycad National Monument is dissolved
Benchmarks: June 16, 1963 & June 18, 1983: Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride become first and third women in space
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine links the geomagnetic and sunspot cycles
Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
Benchmarks: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity on February 26, 1896
Benchmarks: April 1, 1877: Prospector begins search for Tombstone's silver
Benchmarks: April 26, 1986: Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl
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 3, 1984: Bhopal gas leak kills thousands
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin is born - and so began modern biology
Benchmarks: January 3, 1961: Three men die in nuclear reactor meltdown
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" heat up
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar eclipse "proves" relativity
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" published
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx is discovered and described
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Policy
Geologic Column: Is this land really your land?
"Critical Minerals" list snubs copper, sparks discussion of criticality
Congress, states look to address impacts of ocean acidification
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale coal mine fire kills 110, igniting reform
Down to Earth With: New congressional science fellows
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Congress mulls options for abandoned mines legislation
Dividing line: The past, present and future of the 100th Meridian
Comment: The Congressional ecosystem: A paleontologist's perspective
Comment: A moving target: What you need to know about drone regulations
Finding and tracking conflict minerals in the heart of darkness
Bark beetles not to blame for big fires?
Endangered Icebreakers: The future of Arctic research, exploration and rescue at risk
Down to Earth With: Lee Allison
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Down to Earth With: Anna Henderson
Comment: How much hazard mitigation is enough?
Virtual water: Tracking the unseen water in goods and resources
Natural arsenic levels in Ohio soils exceed regulatory standards
U.S. Navy navigates a sea change in the Arctic
Blogging on EARTH: Congress considers severe weather policy options
Blogging on EARTH: Panelists weigh in on tsunami preparedness policy
Crystal Ball EARTH: Policy: A tale of two years
White House climate report: U.S. changes already apparent
Forecasting
Comment: Faster flood forecasting to improve responses
Forecasting California's earthquake hazard
In the lab, machine learning improves quake forecasts
Seismic patterns help forecast eruptions from quiet stratovolcanoes
Hurricane hunters fly toward improved storm forecasts
Drought outlook indicates further problems in Plains and West
Foretelling next month's tornadoes
Meteorology
Comment: Faster flood forecasting to improve responses
Rivers in the sky: Improving predictions of atmospheric rivers to reduce risk
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
New cloud types recognized
Tornadic storms fed by perfect spirals
Today's weather forecast: Good with a strong chance of improvement
From science to science fiction
Benchmarks: October 13, 1947: A disaster with Project Cirrus
Hurricane wrath may be reduced by rainfall
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record winds buffet Mount Washington
Down to Earth With: Jacob Haqq-Misra
Twister season comes earlier to tornado alley
Down to Earth With: Chris Strong
A tsunami by many other names
A history of tsunami-like waves on the Great Lakes
Tsunamis from the sky: Can meteotsunamis be forecast?
Foretelling next month's tornadoes
Cityscape, 'wet regions' fueled Atlanta tornado
Larger raindrops may make tornadoes more likely
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Storms brewing over volcanoes
Watch out Houston, Ike is coming
Hiking
Travels in Geology: Mid-ocean volcanic excursion: The calderas and caldeiras of the Azores
Travels in Geology: From sea to sky in British Columbia
Down to Earth With: John 'Jack' Reed Jr.
Travels in Geology: Roaming the rocky coastline of Downeast Maine
Travels in Geology: The geological riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Getting there and getting around Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Travels in Geology: The diverse geology, landscapes and whiskys of Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Geologic Column: A masochist hikes through the heather
Travels in Geology: Patagonia: The ends of the earth
Travels in Geology: Sky-high adventure on Bolivia's Altiplano
Travels in Geology: A tale of two rivers: Grand Junction, Colorado
Travels in Geology: Geo-diversity and geologic history in the North West Highlands of Scotland
Travels in Geology: Exploring Maine's magnificent Mount Katahdin
Travels in Geology: Exploring an icon of Patagonia: Chile's Torres del Paine National Park
Travels in Geology: The Midwest's Little Egypt
Travels in Geology: Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya: A feast for the senses
Travels in Geology: Rocks and Climbing at Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Geomedia: Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival is geologic showcase
Getting there and getting around the Catskill Mountain Front
Travels in Geology: Hiking the Catskill Mountain Front
Travels in Geology: Walking toward Whitney: A journey through the Sierra High Country along the John Muir Trail
Volcano
Travels in Geology: Mid-ocean volcanic excursion: The calderas and caldeiras of the Azores
Quirky lunar swirls expose the moon's secret past
Ecuadorian volcano plays its pipe
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Searching for the volcanic origins of iron ore
Plumbing Masaya's lava lake
Hazards in paradise: Indonesia prepares for natural disasters
Unprecedented exploration of undersea volcano yields surprising results
Looking under Lusi: Indonesian mud volcano linked to nearby volcanic complex
Caldera clays may hold key to lithium independence
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Geomedia: Books: Vivid anecdotes abound in "Eruption: The untold story of Mount St. Helens"
New method offers improved monitoring of Kilauea
Travels in Geology: Cones and craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
Geologic Column: Volcanoes: Awesome and dangerous
Red Planet Roundup: June 2017
Timing of famed "Millennium Eruption" pinpointed
And then there was one: Ceres' disappearing ice volcanoes
Seafloor volcanism linked to glacial cycles
Travels in Geology: Easter Island's enduring enigmas
Tectonics trigger underwater volcanism
Beneath one volcano, enough water to fill Lake Superior
Red Planet Roundup: February 2017
Active Japanese volcano due for large eruption?
An undersea volcano yields its secrets
Life-saving diplomacy: The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program at thirty
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado del Ruiz eruption triggers deadly lahars
New magma chamber discovered beneath New Zealand
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: From parasitic cones to equatorial glaciers
Getting there and getting around Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya
Travels in Geology: Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya: A feast for the senses
Bubble accumulation could explain massive volcanic sulfur releases
Helium escape may help predict volcanic activity
Benchmarks: July 1, 1912: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officially becomes the first of its kind in U.S.
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera erupts
Researchers profile magma chamber beneath North Korean volcano
Drilling for gold inside a submarine volcano
Oceans
Sounding Out Earth's Hum
Ocean tide size linked to supercontinent cycle
Sea-level rise could cut off wastewater service to millions in U.S.
Earth's "hum" heard at ocean bottom
Orbit
Melting glaciers shift Earth's axis
October 31, 1992: Vacation reverses position on Galileo
Planetary Geology
Melting glaciers shift Earth's axis
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Ceres' homemade organic materials
Red Planet Roundup: September 2015
MESSENGER mission ends with a bang, and more data
Sun shapes Titan's atmospheric makeup
Red Planet Roundup: July 2015
Red Planet Roundup: May 2015
Red Planet Roundup: March 2015
Red Planet Roundup: January 2015
Red Planet Roundup: November 2014
Red Planet Roundup: September 2014
Comet ISON still intrigues and inspires, even after its demise
Juno salutes its home planet and heads to Jupiter
Curiosity finds an ancient habitable environment in Mars' Gale Crater
In or Out? Has Voyager left the solar system?
MAVEN takes off for Mars to study the planet's atmosphere
Hot Earth orbits closest star system
Sun provides water to the moon?
Five outstanding questions in earth science
Ancient meteorites reveal early magnetic fields
Beads of water on the moon
Electrical failure shuts collider down for the winter
Exoplanet forecast: Quartz with a chance of feldspar
Hubble's pics of Pluto: Dark orange and charcoal-black
Jupiter breaks out in spots
Mars' ice is pure, not dirty
Moon much wetter than thought
Moonquake mystery deepens
Of molten iron and magnetism
Phoenix takes a bow
Protecting planets from us - and us from them
Scientists find watery super-Earth
Shell tectonics may explain Mars mysteries
Super-Earths: Mirrors of our world?
The Big Turn-On
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices from the Moon"
Venus' gentler, Earth-like past
Magnetic Field
Quirky lunar swirls expose the moon's secret past
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
An aurora named Steve
Red Planet Roundup: February 2018
Earth's magnetic field illuminates ocean temperatures
Scientists map U.S. geoelectric hazards
Weak magnetic field may have triggered Earth's first mass extinction
Magnesium part of Earth's magnetic field engine
Magnetic field around since Hadean
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine links the geomagnetic and sunspot cycles
Ancient meteorites reveal early magnetic fields
Of molten iron and magnetism
Moon
Quirky lunar swirls expose the moon's secret past
Lunar isotopes suggest early water on Earth
Down to Earth With: Maria Zuber
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Extinct lunar magnetic field lasted longer than previously thought
Moon formed from pulverized Earth mantle
Modeling Io's weird mountains
Lunar ice reveals moon's poles shifted
Buried lunar craters filled by lava long ago
Lunar atmosphere more active than we thought
Scarps and craters reveal moon's dynamic side
Fire-fountain carbon sheds light on lunar origins
Enceladus' extremely alkaline underground ocean
A pair of moons with underground oceans
Two new looks at Titan's dunes
New lunar research answers old questions, poses others
Cassini spots new moon in Saturn's rings
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First astrogeologist on the moon
Apollo science, 40 years later: Scientists reopen a lunar cold case
Moon could have formed from Earth after all: Reviving and revising the giant impact theory
Two NASA spacecraft reveal ancient underground cracks from moon's formation
Sun provides water to the moon?
A memoir: A decade-plus of tracking lunar larceny
A tale of two rocks: Moon-like rocks right next door
Beads of water on the moon
Bids in space: When should we outsource government science?
Moon much wetter than thought
Moonquake mystery deepens
NASA's LCROSS crashes on the moon
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices from the Moon"
Reptile
Mesosaurs may have spent time on land
Early mammal reproduced like a reptile
Oldest blood cells found in Early Jurassic ichthyosaur
Fossil sea turtle hatchling reveals its Eocene proteins
Two ichthyosaurs become one
Hammerhead herbivore pioneered vegetarianism in Triassic seas
Turtle finds lower Altiplano elevation estimate
Inside an icthyosaur's brain
Oldest marine turtle found in Colombia
Unshelled ancestor fills big gap in turtle family tree
Snake forebear had two back legs but no front legs
Ancient marine reptiles born alive and ready to hunt
Early Triassic fossil showed live birth in action
Triassic Park: On the origin of (dinosaur) species
Circulation
Ocean circulation change suffocating Gulf of St. Lawrence
Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
How the Arctic became salty
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2017
A new — and more toxic — normal? Harmful algal blooms find new habitats in changing oceans
Atmosphere, more than ocean, might drive Atlantic climate variation
Southbound icebergs off the hook for ice-age cooling
Hydrogen chloride on the rise in Northern Hemisphere skies
Ocean waves explain which La Niña events will linger
Voyage to the plastic vortex
Fish
Ocean circulation change suffocating Gulf of St. Lawrence
Spawning salmon engineer landscapes
Evolution of eyes, not limbs, led fish onto land
The mackerel year: Tambora changed how New England fished
Tiny fish illuminates tooth fairy mystery
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Tully monster mystery solved
Jawless fish more like jawed fish than thought
Fish evolved quickly after earthquake
Counting 'tree' rings in fish skulls provides climate clues
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
Ancient shark jaws resemble those of modern fish
Carbon Dioxide
Rising carbon dioxide may raise risk of nutrient deficiencies in humans
Sulfides in thawing permafrost responsible for carbon dioxide release
Southern Ocean is absorbing less carbon
Surfactants slow oceanic carbon dioxide uptake
Sipping carbon-neutral fuel from the atmosphere
Dry rivers secretly star in carbon cycle
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Coal formation nearly froze Earth
Burying the sky: Turning carbon dioxide into rock
Red Planet Roundup: June 2017
Red Planet Roundup: May 2016
Comment: How long have humans been altering Earth's climate?
Opalescent pools shimmer beneath Santorini
New satellite maps carbon dioxide sources and sinks in high definition
Removing predators increases carbon emissions
Scripps launches Twitter carbon dioxide-meter
Carbon and the city: Tracking emissions from megacities
Comment: Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide: The missing science
Voices: Must we capture and store carbon from coal to meet emission-reduction targets?
Arctic soils retain more carbon
Blogging on EARTH: A proposed twist on carbon trades at AGU
Capturing carbon from coal plants: Is it feasible?
DOE promises $2.4 billion for clean coal
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
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Still in a haze: What we don't know about black carbon
Storing CO2 in fizzy water underground
Swapping one greenhouse gas for another
The rising global interest in coal fires
Human Health
Rising carbon dioxide may raise risk of nutrient deficiencies in humans
The geology of kidney stones revealed
Mercury on the roof of the world
Toxic treatments: Lead lingers in folk remedies
Stable isotopes offer novel methods of disease detection
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog smothers London
Smokier U.S. West as climate changes
Kilauea increases asthma risk
Crippling heat stress projected by midcentury in densely populated regions
Widespread malaria risk from African dams
How to feed 11 billion people: Addressing the 21st century's biggest challenge
Does the sun trigger autoimmune disease?
Step one: Soil testing
Toxic Gardens: The long legacy of urban lead
Marine mammals blamed for first New World tuberculosis
Antibacterial clays could fight superbugs
Mapping how malaria risk changes as new dams go up
Plant Biology
Rising carbon dioxide may raise risk of nutrient deficiencies in humans
Algae ate themselves to death and caused a global extinction
Globe-trotting kelp set new world record
A rocky source of nitrogen
Mountaintops get less lonely for alpine plants
Beavers preserve wetlands in water-stressed areas
A flammable planet: Fire finds its place in Earth history
Mangroves sprouted in Arctic during Eocene
Chemical clues illuminate fossil plant relationships
Soil acidity changes quickly from place to place
Liverworts, not moss, dominated Earth's early terrestrial ecosystems
Lack of fungi did not lead to copious Carboniferous coal
Fossil leaves provide clues to ancient Australian habitat
Land plants came prepared for terrestrial life
Thorny plant marks West African diamond deposits
Nonnative plants not a problem in Britain
Tiny plant fossils offer big view of ancient ecosystems
Amber-encased plant could be oldest known grass: Specimen may also preserve a Cretaceous-aged hallucinogen
Ancient moss reveals tsunami timing
Fossil leaves reveal effect of "impact winter"
Why red leaves remain elusive in Europe
Mammal
Early mammal reproduced like a reptile
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2018
European mammals will struggle under climate change
Grazing gave elephant ancestors an edge
Island-dwelling mammal had small brain, keen senses
Growing up saber-toothed: Strong from the start
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
End of ice age may have been too wet for megafauna
Bipedalism left its mark on human skull: Kangaroos and upright rodents show same signs
Horses evolved to get along: Competition between species not main evolutionary driver
Tiny dinosaur-era marsupial packed a big bite
Extinct tiger had unique elbow, hunting style
Tiny bones pull India into the story of early primate evolution
Mammals hit harder than thought by end-Cretaceous extinction
Humans, megafauna coexisted in Patagonia before extinction
Giant armadillo look-alikes really were giant armadillos
Bat signals
Fossilized melanin reveals bats' true colors
Three new species of extinct baleen whales found
The Snowmastodon Project: Mammoths and mastodons lived the high life in Colorado
Potentially venomous extinct mammals discovered in Zambia
Owl pellets bridge ancient and modern ecosystems
A Cambrian-like explosion of mammals in the Mid-Jurassic
Early horse history written in Indian coal mine
Marine mammals blamed for first New World tuberculosis
The subcontinent's sturdy mammals
La Brea climate adaptation as different as cats and dogs
Blogging on EARTH: Ancient whale with a big bite named for Moby Dick author
Deciphering mass extinctions
Basalt
Columbia River basalts erupted faster than thought
Benchmarks: August 1975: Geotimes magazine inspires name of rock formation: A Q&A with Tony Alabaster
Did volcanism drive Earth into global glaciation?
The Syracuse University lava experiments
Volcanic Eruption
Columbia River basalts erupted faster than thought
Mercury links Big Five extinction events
Did a massive eruption spur Christianity in Iceland?
Rolling thunder portends remote eruptions
Cretaceous volcanic ash seeded U.S. oilfields
Lava shaped Lake Tahoe
Chemical tipping point triggers eruptive transitions
Seismic patterns help forecast eruptions from quiet stratovolcanoes
How long will the lava flow? Predicting eruption durations with satellite monitoring
Limestone reservoirs boost volcanic carbon emissions
Glass shards reveal a fiery history in Ethiopia
Volcanism triggered end-Triassic extinction
Earthquakes make volcanoes more — and less — gassy
Geologic Column: Volcanoes: Awesome and dangerous
Geomedia: Mixed media: Geo-art collaboration shifts perspectives on earth materials
New global volcanic emissions map debuts
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
The mackerel year: Tambora changed how New England fished
Timing of famed "Millennium Eruption" pinpointed
How often should we expect volcanic ash clouds over Europe?
Grapes reveal impacts of sulfur-rich Samalas eruption on 13th-century climate
Ash vs. airplanes
Warning: Ash Ahead!
Of airplanes and ash clouds: What we've learned since Eyjafjallajökull
Pyroclastic flows, not caldera collapse, caused Santorini tsunamis
To cool the planet, volcanoes of the future will need more firepower
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado del Ruiz eruption triggers deadly lahars
Scientists get rare opportunity to monitor caldera collapse in real time
When Earth hit the reset button on life: New research on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Kilauea increases asthma risk
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera erupts
Volcanoes and historical politics
Artists draw inspiration from fire and ash
Sand shouldn't stand in for volcanic ash in jet engine tests
Buried lunar craters filled by lava long ago
Double trouble: Volcanic eruption leads to strong earthquake eight months later
Mercury levels support volcanic role in end-Cretaceous extinction
Hekla the heckler
Benchmarks: March 17, 1944: The most recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Comment: How 'Frankenstein' prevents us from tackling climate change
How supervolcanoes are set off
Volcanic aerosols not enough to cause mass extinctions?
Volcanic eruptions affect rivers around the world
Permian-Triassic extinctions timed differently on land and at sea
Lake sediments suggest mild volcanic winter after massive Toba eruption
Solar flare calibration reveals past patterns of volcanism and cooling
Jelly volcano reveals eruption trigger
Geomedia: Books: Iceland's eruption of biblical proportions explored in 'Island on Fire'
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The deadly eruption of Mount Pelée
A front-row seat at a fire-and-ice show
Chaitén's vigorous volcanic history revealed
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Modeling a big mess from Yellowstone
Shallow crust magma with a dash of salt and peperite
Kilauea eruptions could shift from mild to wild
Santiaguito Volcano's clockwork behavior provides an exceptional laboratory
New model predicts pumice drift patterns
Pompeii-like eruption fossilized dinosaurs in death poses
Shifting winds blow away Taupo's 'Ultraplinian' title
Magma mobilizes quickly beneath Mount Hood
Warring trolls explanation for mysterious basalt pillars revised
Volcanoes sparked - and prolonged - the Little Ice Age
Hazardous Living: Bringing down the house at Pompeii
Arctic
Arctic warming causes Siberian cooling
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Radium levels suggest Arctic Ocean chemistry is changing
Globe-trotting bacteria found at both poles
Driftwood reveals ancient Arctic currents and sea-ice levels
Comment: Arctic warming and midlatitude weather: Is there a connection?
New map of Arctic geology published
How the Arctic became salty
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2017
Early spring thaw triggers Arctic greenhouse gas release
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2017
Comment: Crazy times in the Arctic
Wintering in the high Arctic reveals surprising results
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Arctic climate change marked by warmer, wetter conditions
Benchmarks: August 3, 1958: USS Nautilus crosses the North Pole
The Arctic is open for research
Endangered Icebreakers: The future of Arctic research, exploration and rescue at risk
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Polar dino tracks show full ecosystem
Massive icebergs scoured Arctic seafloor
Seasonal ice-cover reduction throughout Arctic waters mapped
Warm river water melted Arctic sea ice
Belugas, climate, mercury and cancer
Parasites spread across the Arctic under the 'new normal'
Subarctic lakes belch more methane on brighter days
Recovery of 1960s sea-ice satellite images wins dark data contest
Scientists go to extremes to monitor Arctic permafrost loss
Travels in Geology: Antarctica: Following in the footsteps of giants
Arctic humidity on the rise
IceGoat: The next generation
U.S. Navy navigates a sea change in the Arctic
Arctic soils retain more carbon
CryoScoop: A must-read special issue
CryoScoop: Sea ice synopsis and a whale tale
Early results
Earth: The movie (not the magazine)
Seal missing link found in the Arctic
The thrill to drill in the chill
Siberia
Arctic warming causes Siberian cooling
Early results
The thrill to drill in the chill
Travels in Geology: Exploring Lake Baikal, the Sacred Sea
Plate Tectonics
Ancient collision left a bit of Europe behind in Britain
Oman ophiolite suggests subduction started with a shove
Piecing together the puzzle of Pannotia
Down to Earth With: Ted Irving
Carbon emissions spike when continents rift
Meteorite impacts may have kick-started ancient subduction
Stock traders' algorithm finds slow earthquakes
The only Earth: Exploring the link between plate tectonics and life on the blue planet
When and how did plate tectonics begin on Earth?
Breakup of Pangea led to thicker oceanic crust
Tectonics trigger underwater volcanism
Small-scale factors influence mantle flow under the seafloor
Why tectonic plates lurch forward when they break
Geomedia: Books: "Alfred Wegener": The definitive biography of a geoscience star
Peeling North American Plate causing East Coast earthquakes
Mantle convection makes Earth's crust bob
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener begins a fateful polar expedition
Lack of fungi did not lead to copious Carboniferous coal
Reading the ridges: Are climate and the seafloor connected?
Down to Earth With: Tectonicist Eldridge Moores
An absentee note for ancient blueschist: Lack of metamorphic rock does not date onset of plate tectonics
The question of mantle plumes
Did crustal chemistry buoy Western Plains?
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Peter Molnar
Getting to the bottom of a tectonic plate
Did a geographic shift trigger the Cambrian Explosion?
Thank subduction for Earth's nitrogen-rich air
Plate tectonics seen on Europa
North American terranes not so exotic after all
Mantle plume alternative explains Australian volcanism
Down to Earth With: Terry Plank
Skinned oceanic plates may be origin of ophiolites
Textbook mantle plume theory may need revision
South American fossils offer revised view of Gondwana assembly
Unlocking the Cascadia Subduction Zone's secrets: Peering into recent research and findings
Searching for evidence of ancient subduction
Slab tear explains perplexing Colombian earthquake activity
World's largest deep earthquake recorded
Chemical clues reveal ancient geography
China quake kills at least 400
Large earthquake rattles Baja California
Large earthquake rocks Iran oil port
Shell tectonics may explain Mars mysteries
Venus' gentler, Earth-like past
United Kingdom
Ancient collision left a bit of Europe behind in Britain
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Getting there and getting around England
A new look at Cheddar Man
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Canterbury, paving the way for the Chunnel
White Cliffs of Dover on the retreat
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England prohibits Alchemy
On Her Majesty's space agency
Geobiology
The geology of kidney stones revealed
Going subterranean: Repurposed mines become innovative labs
Tiny ants are heroic weathering agents
Ophiolites
Oman ophiolite suggests subduction started with a shove
Travels in Geology: Northern Oman: Stunning canyons, towering dunes and the world's largest ophiolite
Down to Earth With: Tectonicist Eldridge Moores
Benchmarks: August 1975: Geotimes magazine inspires name of rock formation: A Q&A with Tony Alabaster
Travels in Geology: Cyprus: Island of Oceanic Crust
Skinned oceanic plates may be origin of ophiolites
Subduction
Oman ophiolite suggests subduction started with a shove
Meteorite impacts may have kick-started ancient subduction
Limestone reservoirs boost volcanic carbon emissions
An absentee note for ancient blueschist: Lack of metamorphic rock does not date onset of plate tectonics
How deep do the Alps go?
Storm
Benchmarks: January 12, 1888: "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" Strikes the Great Plains
Saharan dust a storm killer
Monsoon strength affects global ice volumes, not vice versa?
Bolts of insight on earthly gamma ray showers
Arizona road hazard has surprising source
Mediterranean tsunami record may be overreported
Are North Atlantic storm tracks shifting south?
Massive dust storm caused by climate, not conflict
Tornadic storms fed by perfect spirals
Red Planet Roundup: September 2016
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 dust storm injures hundreds
Jupiter's shrinking Great Red Spot
More warming may mean more lightning
Twister season comes earlier to tornado alley
Social sciences improve tornado warnings
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 3)
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 2)
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 1)
National Weather Service introduces impact-based warnings for tornadoes
Highlights of 2012: Climate 2012 - A window into what to expect for 2013 and beyond?
Bare Earth Elements: GSA highlights, day 1
Hazardous Living: Preparing for the storm of the century
Clay
Down to Earth With: Clay mineralogist Warren Huff
Swelling clay slows landslides
Slow-moving slides may be triggered by cold temperatures
Antibacterial clays could fight superbugs
Mineraology
Down to Earth With: Clay mineralogist Warren Huff
Mineral clue to finding perfectly preserved fossils?
Education and Outreach
Comment: How to tell a good science story
Science as a family affair
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
Comment: Kitchen counter geology: Bringing rock identification to a new audience
Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Saving Mongolia's dinosaurs and inspiring the next generation of paleontologists
Comment: Understanding Earth in the wider sense of science
Teaching geology to biologists: An essay on an interdisciplinary field trip in Africa
Geologic Column: Geology for the people: Finding new paths to public outreach
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Comment: GAVRT: Learning science by doing science
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Erin Pettit
Geomedia: On the Web: Dinologue: A dino blog
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Geocorps America: Putting geoscientists to work on federal lands
Students send experiments to the International Space Station
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
Science denialism: The problem that just won't go away
A public service announcement: Improve geologic literacy starting on the home front
Undergraduates build and launch a satellite to measure atmospheric drag
On the web: Mount St. Helens goes online to reach the masses
Community college at sea: Research experiences for community college students build the STEM pipeline
Bigfoot education and outreach
USArray: Geoscientists' "Earth Telescope"
How the school of rock came to be
School of rock: Educating educators at sea
Drones
Eyes in the sea: Swarms of floating robots observe the oceans
Comment: A moving target: What you need to know about drone regulations
Observers at the edge of the ice: Smaller, cheaper machines can safely go where humans can't
Droning on for science
Plankton
Eyes in the sea: Swarms of floating robots observe the oceans
Ancient plankton communities stressed before mass extinction
Mountain
Travels in Geology: Lhasa, Tibet: Journey to the roof of the world
Travels in Geology: Jewel of the Apennines: Italy's Monti Sibillini National Park
Mountaintops get less lonely for alpine plants
Benchmarks: May 3, 2003: New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain falls
Geologic Column: A masochist hikes through the heather
Water weight and surface rebound trigger small quakes in California
Mountains may cause huge waves in Venusian clouds
Getting there and getting around Mount Katahdin
Travels in Geology: Exploring Maine's magnificent Mount Katahdin
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Travels in Geology: Exploring an icon of Patagonia: Chile's Torres del Paine National Park
Travel specs
Celebrity climb
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: From parasitic cones to equatorial glaciers
Tectonic rejuvenation in North America's ancient mountains
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross is found, photographed and mapped
Modeling Io's weird mountains
Slipping point: Snow scientists dig in to decipher avalanche triggers
How deep do the Alps go?
Wormholes may limit landslides
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record winds buffet Mount Washington
Travels in Geology: Trekking the high terrain of Tajikistan
Travels in Geology: Precipitous peaks and dunes in Colorado
Tibet
Travels in Geology: Lhasa, Tibet: Journey to the roof of the world
Getting there and getting around Tibet
Oldest "Third Pole" ice core recovered
Tibetan Plateau populated long before advent of agriculture
China quake kills at least 400
Voyager
Voyager 2 pierces the heliopause, enters interstellar space
In or Out? Has Voyager left the solar system?
Climate
Sulfides in thawing permafrost responsible for carbon dioxide release
Did early agriculture knock the climate off track?
Fats on Neolithic pottery pinpoint climate cooling event
Sunny Southern California burns, missing its coastal clouds
Charting 500 years of Mississippi floods
Did a massive eruption spur Christianity in Iceland?
Comment: The changing shape of local climates
When more humidity means less water
Double-dip La Nina blamed for Colorado's dry winter
Dividing line: The past, present and future of the 100th Meridian
Less-developed countries with high climate risk need better access to weather and climate data
End of ice age may have been too wet for megafauna
Transylvanian ice cave reveals European winter climate record
Evidence of devastating drought found beneath the Dead Sea
New global volcanic emissions map debuts
Northeast and Midwest U.S. projected to warm faster than national average
Platinum may point to impact theory for Younger Dryas
Monsoon shifts shaped early Chinese cultures
Are North Atlantic storm tracks shifting south?
Grapes reveal impacts of sulfur-rich Samalas eruption on 13th-century climate
Massive dust storm caused by climate, not conflict
El Niño gets animated
To cool the planet, volcanoes of the future will need more firepower
Mystery impact may have kicked off dramatic warming event
Cloud feedbacks drive climate sensitivity
Persistent Pacific warmth overshadows El Niño
Cave dripwater records wildfires
Humans, megafauna coexisted in Patagonia before extinction
Tiny ocean bacteria could play big role in climate
Late Antique Little Ice Age underpinned unrest and upheaval in Europe and Asia
Comment: How long have humans been altering Earth's climate?
Crippling heat stress projected by midcentury in densely populated regions
North Sea uplift caused Jurassic cooling event
Atmosphere, more than ocean, might drive Atlantic climate variation
Lake sediments suggest mild volcanic winter after massive Toba eruption
No laughing matter: Ocean nitrous oxide emissions greater than thought
Solar flare calibration reveals past patterns of volcanism and cooling
Deforestation hangs climate out to dry
Shrinking snowpack projected in western U.S. as rain-snow boundary climbs higher
Wedge approach proposed to lower water stress
Of temperature and tone: Has climate shaped human languages?
Twentieth-century warming linked to Pacific trade winds
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
Colorado River Basin sees severe groundwater depletion
Climate impacting a few of our favorite foodstuffs
New climate record challenges ideas about recent glaciations
Volcanic ash feed southern ocean plankton
Warm river water melted Arctic sea ice
Moving cars could help gauge rainfall
Geomedia: Books: The earth system symphony
Scientists look wider and deeper to predict the next El Nino
Hurricanes suppressed by air pollutants
The past is key to the future: Historical observations strengthen modern science
Highlights of 2012: Climate 2012 - A window into what to expect for 2013 and beyond?
Voices: Geologists on the wrong side of the law
A day without Glory
A Martian icecap, now in 3-D
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?
Crystal Ball EARTH: Policy: A tale of two years
Earth: The movie (not the magazine)
Hazardous Living: Climategate climatologists cleared of wrongdoing
Hot enough for ya? Investigating climate change in "Heat"
Iron fertilization foiled by "shrimp"
Is it time to invest in entrepreneurial geoengineering?
Local coastal impacts underestimated from sea-level rise
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Swapping one greenhouse gas for another
Termites and climate change: Here, there and everywhere?
Watch out Houston, Ike is coming
Why red leaves remain elusive in Europe
Landforms
Sulfides in thawing permafrost responsible for carbon dioxide release
Revealing the ghosts of glaciers past
Ocean tide size linked to supercontinent cycle
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Megafloods mostly shaped Icelandic canyon landscape
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
Geoscience on Film: Traversing the contours and culture of an ancient delta
Geomedia: Books: Rediscovering the science behind Thoreau's 'Walden'
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Gravity builds stone sculptures
Humans causing California's mountains to grow
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A volcanic wonderland
Permafrost
Sulfides in thawing permafrost responsible for carbon dioxide release
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: October 2014
Belugas, climate, mercury and cancer
Scientists go to extremes to monitor Arctic permafrost loss
Neanderthal
Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals' extinction
Improved genetic simulations identify human genes passed down from Neanderthals, Denisovans
Teeth hold clues to human success, Neanderthal decline
Neanderthals dined on pigeons
Dating the demise of the Neanderthals
Spanish cave reveals possible new Neanderthal ancestor
New dates place Spanish cave art as oldest in Europe
Highlights of 2010: What does it mean to be human?
Paleo Patrol: Neanderthal genome offers clues on what makes us human
November 2018
Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals' extinction
Where on Earth? - November 2018
Titan's dunes form the same way as Earth's
Congress, states look to address impacts of ocean acidification
Mercury on the roof of the world
Spiky new American ankylosaurid originated in Asia
"Easy bake" fossils resemble real deal
Scientists discover granite crystallizes at lower temperatures
Gulf Stream eddies transport iron to North Atlantic subtropical gyre
Winter precipitation in southwestern U.S. tied to Kiwi Coast
Marine animals have been migrating for millions of years
Japanese diaries show sun's cycle sparks lightning on Earth
Getting There & Getting Getting Around Monti Sibillini National Park
Travels in Geology: Jewel of the Apennines: Italy's Monti Sibillini National Park
Going subterranean: Repurposed mines become innovative labs
Turning modern "eyes" on ancient sites
Algae ate themselves to death and caused a global extinction
Saharan dust a storm killer
Globe-trotting kelp set new world record
Underwater WiFi? Rising sea levels threaten physical internet
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" recounts the 1755 Lisbon disaster
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is established
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Geologic Column: A cautionary tale about "sleeping" natural hazards
Comment: Making social media work for scientists
Speleology
Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals' extinction
Bats and white-nose syndrome = VA cavers, please stay out
Gift Guide
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Guide
Agu
Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.
Science as a family affair
Is aviation 'whitening' the sky?
Did three convicts survive their escape from Alcatraz? Modern modeling adds to a decades-old mystery
Bare Earth Elements: Past and present directors dissect the future of USGS
Comet ISON still intrigues and inspires, even after its demise
Juno salutes its home planet and heads to Jupiter
Be prepared: Navigating the risks of hazards research
Curiosity finds an ancient habitable environment in Mars' Gale Crater
Two NASA spacecraft reveal ancient underground cracks from moon's formation
Satellites can detect underground nuclear explosions
Simple organic compounds detected by Curiosity on Mars
Undressing Vesta
AGU: Aloha, magma! Geothermal engineers drill into surprising lava
AGU: Climate science report questions likelihood of abrupt climate change
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
Science and soccer: They're both child's play
Washington Dc
Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.
D.C. wastewater no longer going to waste
Earth science rocks at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Ice
Revealing the ghosts of glaciers past
Monsoon strength affects global ice volumes, not vice versa?
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Geomedia: On the Web: How will melting ice impact your city?
Lollipop-shaped ice found in clouds
Transylvanian ice cave reveals European winter climate record
Red Planet Roundup: June 2017
Red Planet Roundup: April 2017
Pluto may still have liquid ocean
Convection formed Pluto's polygons
Observers at the edge of the ice: Smaller, cheaper machines can safely go where humans can't
Red Planet Roundup: September 2016
Lunar ice reveals moon's poles shifted
Slipping point: Snow scientists dig in to decipher avalanche triggers
Red Planet Roundup: January 2016
Peculiar shape of hair ice linked to fungus
Rosetta spies cometary sinkholes
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Erin Pettit
A pair of moons with underground oceans
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
A front-row seat at a fire-and-ice show
Ice (Re) Cap: February 2015
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Massive icebergs scoured Arctic seafloor
Ice (Re) Cap: October 2014
All the world's glaciers in one global inventory
Recovery of 1960s sea-ice satellite images wins dark data contest
Astronomy under the ice: Scientists use Antarctic ice to study some of the tiniest particles in the cosmos
Antarctic trees surprise scientists
IceGoat: The next generation
CryoScoop: Two-decade Antarctic drilling effort complete
Unearthing Antarctica's mysterious mountains
A Martian icecap, now in 3-D
CryoScoop: Massive rift portends Antarctic berg
Designing Snowflakes
Glacier moves in fits and starts
Glaciers, not eruption: False alarm volcano mystery solved
Moon much wetter than thought
NASA's LCROSS crashes on the moon
Rocky Mountains
Revealing the ghosts of glaciers past
Travels in Geology: Roof of the Rockies: Trail Ridge Road
Longer season for Rocky Mountain wildflowers
Pike's Peak
Benchmarks: July 15, 1806: Zebulon Pike launches Southwest expedition
Travels in Geology: Precipitous peaks and dunes in Colorado
Satellite
Night lights reveal that people move as rivers rise
Dangers of Van Allen Belts driven by "local acceleration"
Gravity changes portended 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Surveying forests from afar
Ice (Re)Cap: January 2018
From space to village: NASA's SERVIR program brings a big picture to local communities
How long will the lava flow? Predicting eruption durations with satellite monitoring
Earthquakes make volcanoes more — and less — gassy
Earth's magnetic field illuminates ocean temperatures
Cloud feedbacks drive climate sensitivity
New magma chamber discovered beneath New Zealand
Today's weather forecast: Good with a strong chance of improvement
Lunar atmosphere more active than we thought
Down to Earth With: GEO Secretariat Director Barbara Ryan
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Map shows where lightning zaps most
Satellites - not just Santa - see holiday lights
Better flood forecasts eyed from space
Seasonal ice-cover reduction throughout Arctic waters mapped
Harpooning space debris
Recovery of 1960s sea-ice satellite images wins dark data contest
Undergraduates build and launch a satellite to measure atmospheric drag
A day without Glory
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA keeps watch on a changing planet
Of molten iron and magnetism
Algae
Survey says: U.S. lakes getting murkier
Algae ate themselves to death and caused a global extinction
Origins of plant photosynthesis illuminated
Ice (Re)Cap: January 2018
Mysterious Antarctic algae blown in by high winds
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
Warty algae-like sheets survived Snowball Earth events
Removing predators increases carbon emissions
As Green As It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Bacteria back from the brink
Iron fertilization foiled by "shrimp"
Toxic tide
Lake
Survey says: U.S. lakes getting murkier
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Lava shaped Lake Tahoe
Lakeshore shape influences lake-effect snow
Caldera clays may hold key to lithium independence
Glass shards reveal a fiery history in Ethiopia
Monsoon shifts shaped early Chinese cultures
Venezuela, Central Africa are Earth's lightning hot spots
Road salt may be a larger problem for lakes than thought
Lake sediments suggest mild volcanic winter after massive Toba eruption
Ancient lakes may have been refuges for early life
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2015
Ancient floods degassed Lake Kivu
Scientists complete a global inventory of lakes
Ice (Re) Cap: October 2014
Acid rain recovery in the Northeast
Benchmarks: August 15, 1984 & August 21, 1986: African killer lakes erupt
Pollution
Survey says: U.S. lakes getting murkier
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils
From farm to filter: Restored wetlands remediate nitrogen pollution
Acid rain triggered deadly Chinese landslide
Unexpected nanoparticles trace coal pollution
Pharmaceuticals in urban sediments reveal wastewater treatment effectiveness
Geologic Column: My China syndrome
Maui reef degradation linked to contamination in coastal groundwater
Road salt may be a larger problem for lakes than thought
NYC pigeons are canaries of lead poisoning
Milky Way invisible for a third of humanity
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga burns
Carbon tet still offensive to ozone layer
Oceans: Where has all the plastic gone?
Acid rain recovery in the Northeast
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Air pollutants from "megacities" a growing problem
Clearing roadways: A little salt goes a long way
Greening the friendly skies
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
New York's Dirty Secret: The effort to clean up America's largest oil spill
Still in a haze: What we don't know about black carbon
Southern Ocean
Science by floats
Southern Ocean is absorbing less carbon
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2017
Marine microorganisms drive summer clouds over Southern Ocean
Volcanic ash feed southern ocean plankton
Geochemistry
Fats on Neolithic pottery pinpoint climate cooling event
Scientists discover granite crystallizes at lower temperatures
New suspect emerges in theft of Earth's surface iron
Stable isotopes offer novel methods of disease detection
The path to gypsum is four steps long
Cave dripwater records wildfires
Zircons hold clues to early Earth
Did crustal chemistry buoy Western Plains?
New nationwide soil map available online
Down to Earth With: Terry Plank
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, geologist who deciphered banded iron formations
Down to Earth With: Naomi Levin
Searching for evidence of ancient subduction
Cruising the Atlantic to trace elemental movements
Storing CO2 in fizzy water underground
When the dust settles: Investigating lingering health questions 10 years after 9/11
Turkey
Fats on Neolithic pottery pinpoint climate cooling event
New research suggests Syrian refugees must be accounted for in seismic risk models
Getting there and getting around Turkey
Travels in Geology: Turkey's storied Turquoise Coast
Closing Istanbul's seismic gap
Hazardous Living: Collision forces behind devastating Turkey quake
Temblor flattens Turkish towns
Antarctica
Antarctic rift was active more recently than thought
Globe-trotting kelp set new world record
First Antarctic tetrapods
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
Globe-trotting bacteria found at both poles
Gyres spin up, currents get muddled
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2017
A mysterious first
Benchmarks: February 5, 1931 and February 20, 1935: Antarctic firsts for women
Mysterious Antarctic algae blown in by high winds
Seafloor topography drives Earth's great conveyor belt
Down to Earth With: Underwater cave explorer Jill Heinerth
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Kayla Iacovino
Antarctic no place to hide during end-Cretaceous extinction
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Iron meteorites likely hidden below Antarctic ice
Ice (Re)Cap: June 2016
Giant icebergs spur carbon storage in Southern Ocean
Looking for life in coldest, driest Antarctica
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Ted Scambos
Ice (Re)Cap: February 2016
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Beached iceberg alters Antarctic marine communities
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
The amazing minerals of the Larsemann Hills
Protecting the mineral treasures of Antarctica's Larsemann Hills
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Past penguin populations not dependent on ice extent
Recovery of 1960s sea-ice satellite images wins dark data contest
Getting there and getting around in Antarctica
Ship life
Travels in Geology: Antarctica: Following in the footsteps of giants
Astronomy under the ice: Scientists use Antarctic ice to study some of the tiniest particles in the cosmos
Bare Earth Elements: IceCube observatory spurs "dawn of new age" in astronomy
Ancient volcanic island arc blocked Antarctic current formation
Bare Earth Elements: Cool time-lapse shows movement of ice and animals in Antarctica's Ross Sea
Antarctic trees surprise scientists
Five outstanding questions in earth science
CryoScoop: Two-decade Antarctic drilling effort complete
Unearthing Antarctica's mysterious mountains
Blogging on EARTH: Yellow submarine robot debuts at AGU meeting
CryoScoop: Green Light to McMurdo
CryoScoop: Massive rift portends Antarctic berg
Glacier moves in fits and starts
Montreal Protocol affects more than just ozone
People of the Ice
Student scientists cast a long shadow
Fault
Antarctic rift was active more recently than thought
Benchmarks: December 7, 1988: A Massive Earthquake Devastates Armenia
Travels in Geology: Jewel of the Apennines: Italy's Monti Sibillini National Park
Creeping danger: Landslide threatens Peruvian village, especially when the earth quakes
Looking under Lusi: Indonesian mud volcano linked to nearby volcanic complex
Water weight and surface rebound trigger small quakes in California
Dehydrated sediment layer made Sumatra quake stronger
Stock traders' algorithm finds slow earthquakes
Travels in Geology: Geo-diversity and geologic history in the North West Highlands of Scotland
Kaikoura quake jumped from fault to fault in New Zealand
Mercury's recent tectonics revealed
Scientists find earthquakes trigger instantaneous aftershocks on neighboring faults
Lack of afterslip in Nepal hints at mounting tensions
Modeling Io's weird mountains
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains earthquake
Earthquakes can jump long distances
Buried sands tell of tsunami hazard from creeping megathrust fault
The most dangerous fault in America
Downgoing plate topography stopped 2005 Sumatra rupture
Scarps and craters reveal moon's dynamic side
Hidden double earthquake spells trouble for tsunami-warning systems
Subducting seamounts blocked a big quake in Chile
Revealing potential tsunami inundation on California coast
Balanced boulders in earthquake country highlight interconnected faults
Down to Earth With: Geophysicist Julian Lozos
Source of Red Sea's mysterious cannon earthquakes revealed
Injection experiment offers new view of fluid-filled faults
A decade of slow slip may have preceded Japan's 2011 earthquake
Small tremor could have triggered big Chilean quake
Seismic friction causes fault iridescence
In Turkey, the older the fault, the bigger the quake: Good news for Istanbul?
Are slow-slip earthquakes under Tokyo stressing faults?
Sudden gas eruption shakes the ground near Rome's airport
Big quakes topple traditional views of fault behavior
Well-healed faults produce high-frequency earthquake waves
Creeping faults warn of impending earthquakes?
Hazardous Living: Collision forces behind devastating Turkey quake
Large earthquake rocks Iran oil port
Rift System
Antarctic rift was active more recently than thought
Carbon emissions spike when continents rift
Early humans dealt with Ethiopian supervolcanoes
One whale's incredible journey details East Africa's uplift
Travels in Geology: Exploring Connecticut's Ancient Rift Valley
Benchmarks: February 17, 1977: Hydrothermal vents are discovered
A real rift in the midcontinent
Unearthing Antarctica's mysterious mountains
Calendar
Geologic Column: Light amid the darkness: Celebrations during the winter solstice
Geologic Column: "Collect Rocks Day" offers opportunity for inspiration
Geologic Column: Pie on Pi Day, and Einstein's lesser-known legacy
Geologic Column: Celebrating Old Rock Day
Geologic Column: Musings on the autumn equinox
Geologic Column: Rebirth on the vernal equinox
Geologic Column: New Year's as we know it is new
Geologic Column: The dog days of July
Geologic Column: The beginning of "time" as we know it
National Marine Sanctuary
Down to Earth With: Coastal scientist Gary Griggs
Benchmarks: November 16, 1990: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is established
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
Golden Gate ghost ships rediscovered
Ocean
Down to Earth With: Coastal scientist Gary Griggs
Surfactants slow oceanic carbon dioxide uptake
Radium levels suggest Arctic Ocean chemistry is changing
Gyres spin up, currents get muddled
Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
Heating up Enceladus' ice-covered ocean
Driftwood reveals ancient Arctic currents and sea-ice levels
Ancient wildfires suggest rising atmospheric oxygen helped end past ocean anoxia
A new — and more toxic — normal? Harmful algal blooms find new habitats in changing oceans
Pluto may still have liquid ocean
Tiny ocean bacteria could play big role in climate
Drilling for gold inside a submarine volcano
Benchmarks: March 1961: Project Mohole undertakes the first deep-ocean drilling
Benchmarks: January 23, 1960: Humans reach the deepest point on Earth
The softer side of hydrothermal vents
North Sea uplift caused Jurassic cooling event
No laughing matter: Ocean nitrous oxide emissions greater than thought
Enceladus' extremely alkaline underground ocean
Ancient asteroids boiled Earth's oceans
Southbound icebergs off the hook for ice-age cooling
A pair of moons with underground oceans
Some coral reefs bounce back after bleaching
Did three convicts survive their escape from Alcatraz? Modern modeling adds to a decades-old mystery
Pliocene tropical oceans were warmer after all
Bare Earth Elements: Search the seafloor firsthand (and live!)
XPRIZE offers new ocean health awards
Tracking plastic in the oceans
Blogging on EARTH: First dispatches from EGU
Natural dust may be harmful to ocean organisms
Of sounds and cetaceans: Quieting a noisy underwater world
Sea sprawl: Into the blue frontier of ocean development
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Voyage to the plastic vortex
Game
Comment: Learning "Minecraft" as a forty-something proves the game can be an educational tool for all ages
Games: In Spore, cells divide and conquer
Lionel E. Jackson Jr.
Comment: National Geological Surveys: The past, present and future
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's vanished Amazon
Saglek Basin sediments suggest a Grand Canyon connection
Diamonds and the Eocene climate of the Bell River Basin
Siwash Rock as an urban geoheritage icon
Urban type sections
Urban geology: An emerging discipline in an increasingly urbanized world
Astrophotography
Titan's dunes form the same way as Earth's
Online stargazing with GigaGalaxy Zoom
Dune
Titan's dunes form the same way as Earth's
Pluto's surprising dunes
Travels in Geology: Northern Oman: Stunning canyons, towering dunes and the world's largest ophiolite
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Titan's oddly oriented dunes may be electrostatically sculpted
Two new looks at Titan's dunes
Geotextiles: From sludge to shoreline protection to surfing - what's next?
Titan
Titan's dunes form the same way as Earth's
New map of Titan shows moon's hidden surface
Cassini's legacy after two decades
Titan's oddly oriented dunes may be electrostatically sculpted
Sun shapes Titan's atmospheric makeup
Two new looks at Titan's dunes
Legislation
Congress, states look to address impacts of ocean acidification
Ocean Acidification
Congress, states look to address impacts of ocean acidification
Ocean acidification worsens overnight along California coast
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2015
Boron proxies detail past ocean acidification
Acid oceans followed Chicxulub impact
Corals find a way to adapt?
XPRIZE offers new ocean health awards
Blogging On Earth: Humans acidifying ocean at unprecedented rate
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Ocean Chemistry
Congress, states look to address impacts of ocean acidification
Gulf Stream eddies transport iron to North Atlantic subtropical gyre
XPRIZE offers new ocean health awards
Fish guts can alter ocean's chemistry
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Mercury
Mercury on the roof of the world
Mercury links Big Five extinction events
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
Volcanic activity contributed to first of the "Big Five" mass extinctions
Mercury's recent tectonics revealed
First global topographic map of Mercury released
Mercury levels support volcanic role in end-Cretaceous extinction
MESSENGER mission ends with a bang, and more data
Mercury formed by hit and run?
Sunlight mobilizes mercury in wetlands
The long legacy of Peru's "Mine of Death"
The rising global interest in coal fires
Tracking trace elements and isotopes in the oceans
Experiment
"Easy bake" fossils resemble real deal
Searching for the volcanic origins of iron ore
Seismic waves are blind to water
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
Solar eclipse mimics conditions on Mars
In feats of tectonic strength, grain size matters
In the lab, machine learning improves quake forecasts
Two-faced space worm could inform regenerative medicine
Red Planet Roundup: July 2016
Measuring rising seas is tricky in deltas
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew sealed inside Biosphere 2
The Syracuse University lava experiments
Granite
Scientists discover granite crystallizes at lower temperatures
Ups and downs of potassium feldspar may play role in clouds and climate
Granite countertops: NOT silent killers
Magma
Scientists discover granite crystallizes at lower temperatures
Searching for the volcanic origins of iron ore
Plumbing Masaya's lava lake
Cracking the temperature of columnar jointing
Chemical tipping point triggers eruptive transitions
Beneath one volcano, enough water to fill Lake Superior
New magma chamber discovered beneath New Zealand
Geologic Column: The notion of mantle plumes
Bubble accumulation could explain massive volcanic sulfur releases
Researchers profile magma chamber beneath North Korean volcano
Reading the ridges: Are climate and the seafloor connected?
How supervolcanoes are set off
Magma pancakes underlie Toba supervolcano
Magma mobilizes quickly beneath Mount Hood
AGU: Aloha, magma! Geothermal engineers drill into surprising lava
Temperature
Scientists discover granite crystallizes at lower temperatures
Hot tropics drove out ancient reptiles, but they came back
Young Costa Rican lavas might reflect pockets of primordial mantle
Sea-surface temperatures during last interglacial similar to modern day
Tallying temperature drops inside tornadoes
Earth's magnetic field illuminates ocean temperatures
Broadening ocean current could carry less heat poleward with climate change
Ant bodies shaped by environment
Underground ants can't take the heat
Pliocene tropical oceans were warmer after all
Hurricanes suppressed by air pollutants
Earliest instrumental temperature record recovered in Italy
La Niña could set the stage for flu pandemics
Iron
Gulf Stream eddies transport iron to North Atlantic subtropical gyre
New suspect emerges in theft of Earth's surface iron
Searching for the volcanic origins of iron ore
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel Slag
Early Earth enriched by iron rain
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron oxide pigments
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, geologist who deciphered banded iron formations
Ancient Egyptian artifact is otherworldly
Bolivia turns iron mountain into gold
Atmosphere
Winter precipitation in southwestern U.S. tied to Kiwi Coast
Sipping carbon-neutral fuel from the atmosphere
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
El Nino "flavors" affect California rainfall
Solar eclipse mimics conditions on Mars
A flammable planet: Fire finds its place in Earth history
Ancient wildfires suggest rising atmospheric oxygen helped end past ocean anoxia
Dust influences pollution levels in eastern China
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Mountains may cause huge waves in Venusian clouds
Earth's largest jet stream unexpectedly disrupted
Smokier U.S. West as climate changes
Cloud feedbacks drive climate sensitivity
Newly discovered Earth-like worlds are rocky, not gassy
Clouds can form without particles
Early Earth's atmosphere weighed half as much
Rainbows reclassified
Is aviation 'whitening' the sky?
Marine microorganisms drive summer clouds over Southern Ocean
Santa Ana winds get a fiery boost from the stratosphere
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Earth-like atmosphere enough to set some exoplanets spinning
As an aerosolizer, dust devils demoted
New satellite maps carbon dioxide sources and sinks in high definition
Carbon tet still offensive to ozone layer
The Chesapeake Bay gets some good news
Air pollutants from "megacities" a growing problem
Blogging on EARTH: Controversy over the weekend effect
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA keeps watch on a changing planet
Greening the friendly skies
Montreal Protocol affects more than just ozone
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Still in a haze: What we don't know about black carbon
New Zealand
Winter precipitation in southwestern U.S. tied to Kiwi Coast
New Zealand quake triggers two large slow-slip events
Complex Kaikoura earthquake forces rethink of multifault ruptures
Kaikoura quake jumped from fault to fault in New Zealand
New magma chamber discovered beneath New Zealand
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera erupts
Getting to the bottom of a tectonic plate
The geology of Middle-earth
Shifting winds blow away Taupo's 'Ultraplinian' title
Travels in Geology: From beaches to bush: Tramping in New Zealand
Energy 360: Leaving our corners for the radical middle: New Zealand sets an example
Cantabrians keep humor in the hardship
Don't forget about the Christchurch earthquake: Lessons learned from disaster
Earthquake shakes southern New Zealand
Highlights of 2011: New Zealand: After 8,000 aftershocks, when will it stop?
Killer quake strikes New Zealand
Travels in Geology: Glacial pools to sea caves: A tour of New Zealand's South Island
Southwest
Winter precipitation in southwestern U.S. tied to Kiwi Coast
Travels in Geology: Las Vegas: The scenery beyond the slots
Return of the Dust Bowl
Japan
Japanese diaries show sun's cycle sparks lightning on Earth
Active Japanese volcano due for large eruption?
Slow-moving slides may be triggered by cold temperatures
Surprise quake at Mount Fuji triggered by rising gases
A decade of slow slip may have preceded Japan's 2011 earthquake
Kamikaze typhoons spared Japan from Kublai Khan
Are slow-slip earthquakes under Tokyo stressing faults?
Setting sail on unknown seas: The past, present and future of species rafting
Voices: From Haiti to Japan: A tale of two disaster recoveries
Gauging nuclear disasters
Voices: Nuclear plants and natural disasters: Fukushima's fallout
Voices: The confounding economics of natural disasters
Voices: What happened at Fukushima?
Asia's hazardous month
Blogging on EARTH: AGU: Japan tsunami actually made population more vulnerable?
Japan's megaquake and killer tsunami: How did this happen?
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
Mag.-8.9 quake strikes Japan, tsunami heads for Hawaii
Lightning
Japanese diaries show sun's cycle sparks lightning on Earth
Bolts of insight on earthly gamma ray showers
Impact signature in rock produced by lightning strikes
Venezuela, Central Africa are Earth's lightning hot spots
Map shows where lightning zaps most
Volcanic lightning turns ash into glass
Volcanic lightning generated in a bottle
Blogging on EARTH: First dispatches from EGU
Storms brewing over volcanoes
Solar Cycle
Japanese diaries show sun's cycle sparks lightning on Earth
Does the sun trigger autoimmune disease?
Spot-free sun: Is that normal?
Sunspot
Japanese diaries show sun's cycle sparks lightning on Earth
The long road to understanding our star
Here comes the solar maximum: What we know - and don't know - about solar storms and their hazards
Spot-free sun: Is that normal?
Italy
Getting There & Getting Getting Around Monti Sibillini National Park
Travels in Geology: Jewel of the Apennines: Italy's Monti Sibillini National Park
A L'Aquila trigger, seismic gaps and poor construction: What we've learned from the August earthquake in Italy
Getting there and getting around Gubbio
Travels in Geology: Gubbio, Italy: A geologist's mecca
Underwater Roman marble traced to Greece, Italy and Turkey
Social trends and shifting climates had complex effects in medieval Italy
Benchmarks: March 17, 1944: The most recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Earthquake changed Po River's course in 16th-century Italy
Campi Flegrei makes its own concrete caprock
Benchmarks: October 9, 1963: The Vajont Landslide kills 2,500 in Italy
Voices: Judged unfairly in L'Aquila - roles and responsibilities should have been considered
Hazardous Living: Italian seismologists tragically convicted of manslaughter
Voices: Italian quakes and deaths point to industrial facilities as death traps
Earliest instrumental temperature record recovered in Italy
Voices: Italian seismologists: What should they have said?
Earthquake rocks central Italy
Hazardous Living: Bringing down the house at Pompeii
Hazardous Living: Geologists to be charged for not predicting earthquake?
Hazardous Living: Italian seismologists on trial for manslaughter
When and why L'Aquila came tumbling down
Mining
Going subterranean: Repurposed mines become innovative labs
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale coal mine fire kills 110, igniting reform
Congress mulls options for abandoned mines legislation
Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mine was prolific
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World heritage preserved in salt
Drilling for gold inside a submarine volcano
Bringing geoscience to bear on the problem of abandoned mines
A labyrinth of silver mines uncovered on the shores of the Aegean Sea
Down to Earth With: Tectonicist Eldridge Moores
Urban type sections
Finding and tracking conflict minerals in the heart of darkness
Thorny plant marks West African diamond deposits
Colonial mining left its mark in Andean ice cores
Benchmarks: June 1,1840: Setting out for the Copper Country
Could U.S. phosphate deposits help meet growing rare earth demand?
Lidar reveals Roman gold mines
Comment: Rebuilding geology faculty in Afghanistan
Down to Earth With: Lee Allison
January 26, 1905: The world's largest gem-quality diamond is unearthed
Mobile mapping with lidar hits the road
All that glitters... Acid mine drainage: The toxic legacy of gold mining in South Africa
Benchmarks: April 1, 1877: Prospector begins search for Tombstone's silver
Hot as Hell: Firefighting foam heats up coal fire debate in Centralia, Pa.
Reclaiming Alberta's oil sands mines
The long legacy of Peru's "Mine of Death"
West Virginia Coal: Dirty water, dirtier politics - but will there be a cleaner future?
Physics
Going subterranean: Repurposed mines become innovative labs
Laser experiments illuminate landslide physics
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar eclipse "proves" relativity
Electrical failure shuts collider down for the winter
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
The Big Turn-On
TV: Discovery Channel grows more curious
Research
Going subterranean: Repurposed mines become innovative labs
Slumgullion: Colorado's natural 'lab' offers insights into landslides worldwide
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a cold war ice fortress is built
Comment: Mudrock cement and the importance of basic research
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
The Arctic is open for research
Endangered Icebreakers: The future of Arctic research, exploration and rescue at risk
Once a digger, always a digger: Or, how I learned to stop researching and love deadlines
Jordan
Turning modern "eyes" on ancient sites
Travels in Geology: The King's Highway: The crossroads of ancient Jordan
Getting there and getting around Jordan
Lidar
Turning modern "eyes" on ancient sites
Lidar preserves record of destroyed theropod tracks
Lidar sheds light on roadside rockfall hazard
Comment: What's a map worth? The big cost and bigger benefit of three-dimensional elevation data
Lidar reveals Roman gold mines
New off-the-shelf aerial imaging technique trumps lidar
Bringing dinosaur biology into the 21st century
Mobile mapping with lidar hits the road
Slippery Slopes: How do we insure against landslides?
Photography
Turning modern "eyes" on ancient sites
Gettysburg rocks tell battlefield tales
Greenland's growing deltas: Combining historical and modern imagery to decode change in a telltale Arctic landscape
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Extinction
Algae ate themselves to death and caused a global extinction
Marine megafaunal extinction discovered
End of ice age may have been too wet for megafauna
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
Current marine extinction unprecedented
Humans, megafauna coexisted in Patagonia before extinction
The current extinction of life will leave a scant fossil record
Seeds may have saved bird-like dinosaurs from extinction
Mercury levels support volcanic role in end-Cretaceous extinction
Mammoths may have suffered from bone disease
Brachiopod die-off signaled mid-Permian mass extinction
Limited ranges left ammonites vulnerable to extinction
Extra rib may be sign of mammoth decline
Comet finished off North American big game animals, cooled the planet?
Deciphering mass extinctions
Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial
Extinction-era coal linked to Chinese cancer epidemic
Dust
Saharan dust a storm killer
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Arizona road hazard has surprising source
Dust influences pollution levels in eastern China
Ups and downs of potassium feldspar may play role in clouds and climate
Massive dust storm caused by climate, not conflict
Dust orbiting Jupiter is going the wrong way
Electric fields lift dust into the air at massive scales
Red Planet Roundup: September 2016
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 dust storm injures hundreds
As an aerosolizer, dust devils demoted
Desert dust influences monsoon rains
Sahara dust brings rain and snow to California
Return of the Dust Bowl
When the dust settles: Investigating lingering health questions 10 years after 9/11
Sahara
Saharan dust a storm killer
Weedy seeds gathered in once-green Sahara
Tropical rainfall shifts resulted in greener Sahara
Blogging on EARTH: Second dispatches from EGU
Species Rafting
Globe-trotting kelp set new world record
Opportunist organisms rafted across the Pacific on plastic
Message in a bottle gourd
Risk
Underwater WiFi? Rising sea levels threaten physical internet
Comment: Out of bounds: Rethinking U.S. flood risk delineation
More than a nuisance: Over time, small floods cost more than extreme events
New research suggests Syrian refugees must be accounted for in seismic risk models
Comment: Our flawed perceptions of risk
Fire
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" recounts the 1755 Lisbon disaster
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale coal mine fire kills 110, igniting reform
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
A flammable planet: Fire finds its place in Earth history
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The deadliest wildfire in American history incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga burns
Aerosols help mitigate ill effects of Amazon fires
Fire-driven clouds and swirling winds whipped up record-setting New Mexico blaze
Highlights of 2012: Climate 2012 - A window into what to expect for 2013 and beyond?
Policy in the Field: U.S. fire policy in the wake of catastrophic fire seasons
Hot as Hell: Firefighting foam heats up coal fire debate in Centralia, Pa.
Trial by Fire
Tsunami
Geomedia: Books: "This Gulf of Fire" recounts the 1755 Lisbon disaster
Readying the Caribbean for the next big wave
Hazards in paradise: Indonesia prepares for natural disasters
Residual strain explains later quakes
Mediterranean tsunami record may be overreported
Alaskan subduction zone mirrors Tohoku zone that unleashed tsunami
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Pyroclastic flows, not caldera collapse, caused Santorini tsunamis
Giant turbidite in Mediterranean Sea linked to ancient earthquake and tsunami
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii tsunami ushers in a Pacific-wide warning system
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Buried sands tell of tsunami hazard from creeping megathrust fault
Downgoing plate topography stopped 2005 Sumatra rupture
Hidden double earthquake spells trouble for tsunami-warning systems
Revealing potential tsunami inundation on California coast
Benchmarks: November 1, 1755: Earthquake destroys Lisbon
Ancient moss reveals tsunami timing
Sinkhole
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Everything's bigger in Texas, including the Wink sinkholes
Rosetta spies cometary sinkholes
Sinkholes: Florida grapples with the wonders of the not-so-deep
Great Lakes geologic sunken treasure
Sustainable Development
Down to Earth With: Geologist Robert Brinkmann
Comment: Providing resources for future generations - Technical and human challenges
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Take a stand (or sit) for better water quality management
'P' is for phosphate: Could urine solve a fertilizer shortage?
Geologic Column: Riding the rails to Omaha with Rudolf Clausius
Cascades
Geologic Column: A cautionary tale about "sleeping" natural hazards
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
AGU: Mount St. Helens has gone back to sleep
Pacific Northwest earthquake threat heightened?
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A volcanic wonderland
Social Media
Comment: Making social media work for scientists
Geomedia: On the Web: Dinologue: A dino blog
Crowdfunding spotlight
Crowdfunding science: A new piece of the research grant puzzle
Scripps launches Twitter carbon dioxide-meter
Science and the social media
Geomedia: Twitter gives heads-up to users and officials about earthquakes
Movie
Geomedia: Film: 'First Man' navigates Neil Armstrong's journey between two worlds
Geomedia: Film: A glimpse into the geology of 'Star Trek Beyond'
October 2018
Geomedia: Film: 'First Man' navigates Neil Armstrong's journey between two worlds
Where on Earth? - October 2018
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate
Astronomers find missing half of the universe
Extinct gibbon found in Chinese tomb
Dangers of Van Allen Belts driven by "local acceleration"
Ecuadorian volcano plays its pipe
Monsoon strength affects global ice volumes, not vice versa?
First Antarctic tetrapods
Surfactants slow oceanic carbon dioxide uptake
Pluto's surprising dunes
Where will the San Andreas Fault rupture next?
Earth's first footprints
Methane emissions offset some blue carbon burial benefits
Sipping carbon-neutral fuel from the atmosphere
Dry rivers secretly star in carbon cycle
Sunny Southern California burns, missing its coastal clouds
Geologic Column: Bone up on your spooky geo-vocabulary this Halloween
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
Getting There And Getting Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Travels in Geology: Roof of the Rockies: Trail Ridge Road
Dutch Masters: The Netherlands exports flood-control expertise
Comment: Why is it so hard to teach climate change?
Phosphate Rock
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate
Could U.S. phosphate deposits help meet growing rare earth demand?
Astronomy
Astronomers find missing half of the universe
An aurora named Steve
Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and astronomer Tom Kaye
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
MESSENGER mission ends with a bang, and more data
Sun shapes Titan's atmospheric makeup
Mysterious rapid radio burst captured live
Astronomy under the ice: Scientists use Antarctic ice to study some of the tiniest particles in the cosmos
Blogging on EARTH: Rarity the only reason for Venus transit fever?
Venus in transit to the transit
North star loses mass but still shines bright
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar eclipse "proves" relativity
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess
Online stargazing with GigaGalaxy Zoom
Super-Earths: Mirrors of our world?
Primate
Extinct gibbon found in Chinese tomb
Bipedalism left its mark on human skull: Kangaroos and upright rodents show same signs
Tiny bones pull India into the story of early primate evolution
Could early Homo pass the sniff test?
Humans evolved early to be more efficient sleepers
Human hands not most advanced
Earliest primates were tree dwellers
"Missing link" or major hype?
New cousin joins primate family tree - but it's also no missing link
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
Magnetism
Dangers of Van Allen Belts driven by "local acceleration"
Rethinking Pangea? Ancient ocean crust challenges supercontinent theory
Magnesium part of Earth's magnetic field engine
Of molten iron and magnetism
Radiation
Dangers of Van Allen Belts driven by "local acceleration"
Cosmic suntan
Flames fan lasting fallout from Chernobyl
Mysterious rapid radio burst captured live
Benchmarks: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity on February 26, 1896
Benchmarks: April 26, 1986: Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl
Granite countertops: NOT silent killers
Ecuador
Ecuadorian volcano plays its pipe
Voices: Volcanoes everywhere ... is there a link?
Milankovitch
Monsoon strength affects global ice volumes, not vice versa?
Geologic evidence confirms existence of 405,000-year Milankovitch cycle
Rainfall
Monsoon strength affects global ice volumes, not vice versa?
Swelling clay slows landslides
End of ice age may have been too wet for megafauna
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Tropical rainfall shifts resulted in greener Sahara
Hurricane wrath may be reduced by rainfall
Rainwater penetrates into ductile crust
Desert dust influences monsoon rains
Blame it on the rain: The proposed links between severe storms and earthquakes
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Tetrapod
First Antarctic tetrapods
Evolution of eyes, not limbs, led fish onto land
Closing a gap in the tetrapod fossil record
Tetrapod tracks reset timing of four-legged evolution
Methane
Pluto's surprising dunes
Methane emissions offset some blue carbon burial benefits
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Comment: Could NASA find evidence of extraterrestrial life by 2050?
Red Planet Roundup: February 2018
Reconstructing ancient oxidant levels and their climatic effects
Red Planet Roundup: November 2015
One-two punch of past warming may hold lessons
Methane be dammed!
Red Planet Roundup: March 2015
Hundreds of methane seeps discovered along the U.S. East Coast
Methane lingered after Gulf blowout
Subarctic lakes belch more methane on brighter days
Sudden gas eruption shakes the ground near Rome's airport
Listening for gas bubbles
Source code: the methane race
Still in a haze: What we don't know about black carbon
Testing methane's potential on the North Slope
USGS finds giant gas hydrate deposits on North Slope
New Horizons
Pluto's surprising dunes
Pluto may still have liquid ocean
Convection formed Pluto's polygons
A journey to Pluto and beyond with New Horizons
Pluto
Pluto's surprising dunes
Pluto may still have liquid ocean
Convection formed Pluto's polygons
A journey to Pluto and beyond with New Horizons
Hubble's pics of Pluto: Dark orange and charcoal-black
Wind
Pluto's surprising dunes
Arizona road hazard has surprising source
Titan's oddly oriented dunes may be electrostatically sculpted
Whirling "gravel devils" show wind can carry more than just sand
1883 sea rescue informs new model of wind-wave interactions
Earth's largest jet stream unexpectedly disrupted
Mysterious Antarctic algae blown in by high winds
Electric fields lift dust into the air at massive scales
Wind whips canyons into shape
Fire-driven clouds and swirling winds whipped up record-setting New Mexico blaze
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record winds buffet Mount Washington
Watch out Houston, Ike is coming
San Andreas Fault
Where will the San Andreas Fault rupture next?
San Andreas Fault shook Bay Area three times in a century
Californians prepare for the Big One
Creeping faults warn of impending earthquakes?
Ediacaran
Earth's first footprints
Precambrian rumblings of the Cambrian Explosion
Weak magnetic field may have triggered Earth's first mass extinction
Soft-bodied fossils cast in fool's gold
Trackway
Earth's first footprints
Lidar preserves record of destroyed theropod tracks
World's longest sauropod trackway exposed
Carbon
Methane emissions offset some blue carbon burial benefits
Carbon emissions spike when continents rift
Limestone reservoirs boost volcanic carbon emissions
Early spring thaw triggers Arctic greenhouse gas release
Ocean oxygen levels control seafloor carbon burial
Buckyballs behind Milky Way mystery
One-two punch of past warming may hold lessons
Down to Earth With: James White
Source code: the methane race
Arctic soils retain more carbon
Capturing carbon from coal plants: Is it feasible?
Cruising the Atlantic to trace elemental movements
Greening the friendly skies
Map reveals height of the world's forests
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Still in a haze: What we don't know about black carbon
Wetland
Methane emissions offset some blue carbon burial benefits
Beavers preserve wetlands in water-stressed areas
Lack of water threatens "Garden of Eden"
Sunlight mobilizes mercury in wetlands
Fuel
Sipping carbon-neutral fuel from the atmosphere
Trash-to-treasure: Turning nonrecycled waste into low-carbon fuel
Crystal Ball EARTH: Agriculture: The future will have a different face than the past
Breaking the Energy Barrier
Testing methane's potential on the North Slope
Clouds
Sunny Southern California burns, missing its coastal clouds
Ups and downs of potassium feldspar may play role in clouds and climate
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Gold
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Benchmarks: August 1576: False gold found in Meta Incognita
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Striped pyrites link earthquakes to gold deposition
Gold, lead and death in Nigeria
All that glitters... Acid mine drainage: The toxic legacy of gold mining in South Africa
War
Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, fueled by discovery of gold
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
September 2018
Ocean tide size linked to supercontinent cycle
Where on Earth? - September 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2018
European mammals will struggle under climate change
Obliquity and eccentricity determine exoplanet habitability
Ancient DNA reveals diversity of Southeast Asia
Mercury links Big Five extinction events
Readying the Caribbean for the next big wave
Sunstones useful as Viking-era GPS
New suspect emerges in theft of Earth's surface iron
Bolts of insight on earthly gamma ray showers
Gravity changes portended 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Grazing gave elephant ancestors an edge
New measurement shakes up earthquake estimates
Great Barrier Reef has died and recovered before
An asteroid redirected bird evolution
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale coal mine fire kills 110, igniting reform
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Geomedia: Books: Informative and inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Geologic Column: "Collect Rocks Day" offers opportunity for inspiration
Comment: Out of bounds: Rethinking U.S. flood risk delineation
Travels in Geology: The pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an ancient world
Getting There and Getting Around Cairo
Science as a family affair
Rivers in the sky: Improving predictions of atmospheric rivers to reduce risk
Tides
Ocean tide size linked to supercontinent cycle
Iceland
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson
Did a massive eruption spur Christianity in Iceland?
Imaging Iceland's volcanic roots
Magnetic method dates glacial floods in Iceland
How often should we expect volcanic ash clouds over Europe?
Of airplanes and ash clouds: What we've learned since Eyjafjallajökull
Scientists get rare opportunity to monitor caldera collapse in real time
King Oraefajokull
Hekla the heckler
Eerily quiet Katla
Where fire freezes: All eyes, ears and instruments on Iceland's volatile volcanoes
Geomedia: Books: Iceland's eruption of biblical proportions explored in 'Island on Fire'
Megafloods mostly shaped Icelandic canyon landscape
Lead-up to Icelandic earthquakes seen in groundwater chemistry
GPS measurements of ground inflation help forecast ash plumes
Warring trolls explanation for mysterious basalt pillars revised
Voices: Volcanoes everywhere ... is there a link?
Blogging on EARTH linkfest: More on the Iceland eruption
Fire and ice produced Eyjafjalla's explosion
Glaciers, not eruption: False alarm volcano mystery solved
Hazardous Living: Iceland afire
Volcanology
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson
Cracking the temperature of columnar jointing
Chemical tipping point triggers eruptive transitions
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Kayla Iacovino
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Colorado
Getting There And Getting Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Travels in Geology: Roof of the Rockies: Trail Ridge Road
Slumgullion: Colorado's natural 'lab' offers insights into landslides worldwide
Getting there and getting around Grand Junction, Colorado
Travels in Geology: A tale of two rivers: Grand Junction, Colorado
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross is found, photographed and mapped
Travels in Geology: Discovering Denver's dinosaurs
Getting there and getting around Denver
Making tracks through the Dinosaur Diamond
The Snowmastodon Project: Mammoths and mastodons lived the high life in Colorado
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
2013 Front Range Flooding: An Ecological Perspective
Disaster strikes along Colorado's Front Range
Travels in Geology: Precipitous peaks and dunes in Colorado
National Park
Getting There And Getting Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Travels in Geology: Roof of the Rockies: Trail Ridge Road
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Geologic Column: Travels with Claudia: Rediscovering America
Travels in Geology: Las Vegas: The scenery beyond the slots
Travels in Geology: Roaming the rocky coastline of Downeast Maine
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Ancient landslide gave us Zion Canyon
Exploring the newest gift to America: Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
Benchmarks: August 25, 1916: The National Park Service is established
Down to Earth With: National Park Service Geologic Resources Division chief David Steensen
Mesa Arch's 'hum' measured to track health of rock structure
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's first park geologist Greg Stock
Benitoite: A rare gemstone
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park is founded
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
Modeling a big mess from Yellowstone
Geocorps America: Putting geoscientists to work on federal lands
April 20, 1832: Arkansas' hot springs named the First National "Park"
Engineering
Dutch Masters: The Netherlands exports flood-control expertise
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Canterbury, paving the way for the Chunnel
Geologic Column: Dams in distress
Geologic Column: Giving Konrad Zuse his due
When schools shake: Keeping students and teachers safe during earthquakes
A L'Aquila trigger, seismic gaps and poor construction: What we've learned from the August earthquake in Italy
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
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill disappears
Down to Earth With: Engineer Jeffrey Bielicki
Ice Core Drilling
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2018
Oldest "Third Pole" ice core recovered
Reconstructing ancient oxidant levels and their climatic effects
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson
Down to Earth With: James White
Ice Recap
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: January 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2017
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: June 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: February 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: June 2015
Lead
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2018
T-A-P (Testing, Awareness, Prevention)
Troubled waters: Lead lurking in U.S. water supplies
August 2018
European mammals will struggle under climate change
Mercury links Big Five extinction events
Readying the Caribbean for the next big wave
Sunstones useful as Viking-era GPS
New suspect emerges in theft of Earth's surface iron
Bolts of insight on earthly gamma ray showers
Gravity changes portended 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Grazing gave elephant ancestors an edge
Great Barrier Reef has died and recovered before
An asteroid redirected bird evolution
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
Geomedia: Books: Informative and inspiring: "Why Dinosaurs Matter"
Travels in Geology: The pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an ancient world
Getting There and Getting Around Cairo
Rivers in the sky: Improving predictions of atmospheric rivers to reduce risk
Where on Earth? - August 2018
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Red Planet Roundup: August 2018
Natural solutions could save $50 billion in Gulf Coast flood damages
Searching for the volcanic origins of iron ore
Seismic waves are blind to water
A rocky source of nitrogen
Speartips point at south-to-north Clovis dispersal
Piecing together the puzzle of Pannotia
Charting 500 years of Mississippi floods
Lunar isotopes suggest early water on Earth
Island-dwelling mammal had small brain, keen senses
Plumbing Masaya's lava lake
Cracking the temperature of columnar jointing
Mountaintops get less lonely for alpine plants
Mineral clue to finding perfectly preserved fossils?
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
Comment: Leveraging physical oceanography in exoplanet exploration
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Geologic Column: The raw and the cooked
Geomedia: Books: Revisiting the Galileo affair
Place-based education: Teaching geoscience in the context of location and culture
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's vanished Amazon
Saglek Basin sediments suggest a Grand Canyon connection
Diamonds and the Eocene climate of the Bell River Basin
Travels in Geology: From sea to sky in British Columbia
Getting There And Getting Around Vancouver
Ecology
European mammals will struggle under climate change
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Surveying forests from afar
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Nineteenth-century cows muddied Southern California continental shelf
The current extinction of life will leave a scant fossil record
Earthworms build big mounds to escape floodwaters
Comment: Remarkable geology sets new Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument apart
Benchmarks: September 26, 1991: Crew sealed inside Biosphere 2
Beached iceberg alters Antarctic marine communities
Bark beetles not to blame for big fires?
Banana-preserving bacterium shows promise against bat-killing fungus
California's big trees dying of thirst
Can dam releases restore river ecosystems?
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Longer season for Rocky Mountain wildflowers
2013 Front Range Flooding: An Ecological Perspective
N.E.O.N.: Studying critical ecological issues on a continental scale
No pre-Columbian deforestation of the western Amazon
Europe
European mammals will struggle under climate change
Northern Finns didn't starve during Little Ice Age
A mammoth king: Was the legend of King Hygelac in "Beowulf" inspired by a fossil find?
Transylvanian ice cave reveals European winter climate record
Benchmarks: October 2, 1574: Dutch unleash the ocean as a weapon of war
Geologic Column: At the end of the Earth
Ice sheet has had lasting effect on European earthquakes
Getting there and getting around Croatia
Travels in Geology: Croatia: Land of limestone
Is there really a minerals crisis?
Exoplanet
Obliquity and eccentricity determine exoplanet habitability
Comment: Leveraging physical oceanography in exoplanet exploration
Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
TRAPPIST-1 system hosts seven "Earth-like" planets
Earth-like exoplanet shows signs of supporting life
'Hot Jupiter' atmospheres come into focus
Mass measured for smallest exoplanet yet
Earth-like atmosphere enough to set some exoplanets spinning
Comment: Exoplanets: Life on the Terminator
Exoplanets could have long-lived oceans
Unprecedented low water-vapor levels detected on exoplanets
In or Out? Has Voyager left the solar system?
Hot Earth orbits closest star system
Exoplanet forecast: Quartz with a chance of feldspar
Scientists find watery super-Earth
Super-Earths: Mirrors of our world?
Extraterrestrial Life
Obliquity and eccentricity determine exoplanet habitability
Comment: Could NASA find evidence of extraterrestrial life by 2050?
Geologic Column: Lessons from the final frontier
Genetics
Ancient DNA reveals diversity of Southeast Asia
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to protect crop diversity
Paleo Patrol: Neanderthal genome offers clues on what makes us human
Caribbean
Readying the Caribbean for the next big wave
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The deadly eruption of Mount Pelée
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
Viking
Sunstones useful as Viking-era GPS
Did the Medieval Warm Period welcome Vikings to Greenland?
A Martian icecap, now in 3-D
Atmospheric Science
Bolts of insight on earthly gamma ray showers
Rivers in the sky: Improving predictions of atmospheric rivers to reduce risk
Lollipop-shaped ice found in clouds
Why meteors snap, crackle and pop
Benchmarks: June 4, 1783: The era of aviation launches with the first balloon flight
Atmosphere, more than ocean, might drive Atlantic climate variation
More warming may mean more lightning
Fire-driven clouds and swirling winds whipped up record-setting New Mexico blaze
Subarctic lakes belch more methane on brighter days
Benchmarks: May 6, 1852: Edward Sabine links the geomagnetic and sunspot cycles
A new tool for atmospheric studies
Undergraduates build and launch a satellite to measure atmospheric drag
Five outstanding questions in earth science
Exoplanet forecast: Quartz with a chance of feldspar
Gravity
Gravity changes portended 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Down to Earth With: Maria Zuber
Gravity changes may warn of large earthquakes
Rethinking Pangea? Ancient ocean crust challenges supercontinent theory
Red Planet Roundup: July 2016
A new gravity map of Earth
Tohoku
Gravity changes portended 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Opportunist organisms rafted across the Pacific on plastic
Alaskan subduction zone mirrors Tohoku zone that unleashed tsunami
Gravity changes may warn of large earthquakes
Surprise quake at Mount Fuji triggered by rising gases
A decade of slow slip may have preceded Japan's 2011 earthquake
Giant quake sloshed fjords half a world away
Well-healed faults produce high-frequency earthquake waves
Voices: From Haiti to Japan: A tale of two disaster recoveries
Modeling
New measurement shakes up earthquake estimates
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals
Rising waters sink seafloors
Chemical tipping point triggers eruptive transitions
Delusions of grandeur in building a low-carbon future
Northeast and Midwest U.S. projected to warm faster than national average
Are North Atlantic storm tracks shifting south?
Tallying temperature drops inside tornadoes
El Niño gets animated
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Today's weather forecast: Good with a strong chance of improvement
Sailors right about sneaky rogue waves
How supervolcanoes are set off
Jelly volcano reveals eruption trigger
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Mantle plume alternative explains Australian volcanism
Seeing beneath Greenland's ice
Ocean dynamics speed sea-level rise along U.S. East Coast
Australia
Great Barrier Reef has died and recovered before
Humans arrived Down Under earlier than thought
Massive trove of dinosaur tracks cataloged in Australia
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest day of fire ever recorded in Australia
Fossil leaves provide clues to ancient Australian habitat
Getting there and getting around the Whitsundays
Travels in Geology: Australia's Whitsunday Islands: Sun, sand and silicic volcanism
Great drying led to great dying down under
Counting 'tree' rings in fish skulls provides climate clues
Giant bolide hit South Africa 2.5 billion years ago
Getting there and getting around in South Australia
Travels in Geology: Glaciers and grapes in South Australia
Travels in Geology: Aussie Outback Adventure
Ecosystem collapse in Pleistocene Australia
Voices: Harassment of scientists reaches a fever pitch
Travels in Geology: Australia's wonders, from ocean to desert
Travels in Geology: Twin coral reefs separated in time in Western Australia
Paleoclimate
Great Barrier Reef has died and recovered before
Geologic evidence confirms existence of 405,000-year Milankovitch cycle
Ice age didn't freeze Florida's category 5 hurricanes
Mediterranean tsunami record may be overreported
Volcanism spiked global temps during past hothouse
Mangroves sprouted in Arctic during Eocene
Reconstructing ancient oxidant levels and their climatic effects
Transylvanian ice cave reveals European winter climate record
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Sea-surface temperatures during last interglacial similar to modern day
Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Raymond S. Bradley
Frosted forams foil radiocarbon dating
When Earth hit the reset button on life: New research on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Bad weather hampered Mongol invasion of Europe
Growth rings in rocks reveal past climate
Fossil leaves provide clues to ancient Australian habitat
Volcanic aerosols not enough to cause mass extinctions?
Southbound icebergs off the hook for ice-age cooling
Widening the window of human dispersal into Arabia
Great drying led to great dying down under
Did volcanism drive Earth into global glaciation?
Old piles of shells reveal ancient El Niño patterns
Ancient storms recorded in Yucatán cave
Last Scottish glacier melted during big chill?
Pliocene tropical oceans were warmer after all
Boron proxies detail past ocean acidification
Of char and carbon: The story of a buried soil
New climate record challenges ideas about recent glaciations
Acid oceans followed Chicxulub impact
La Brea climate adaptation as different as cats and dogs
Arctic megafauna thrived on pollen-poor plants
Travels in Geology: Peru's petrified forest: The struggle to study and preserve one of the world's most remarkable fossil sites
Environmental changes contributed to Mediterranean cultural crisis
Volcanoes sparked - and prolonged - the Little Ice Age
Comet finished off North American big game animals, cooled the planet?
Why red leaves remain elusive in Europe
End Cretaceous
An asteroid redirected bird evolution
Dino deaths cleared the way for frogs
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Gerta Keller
Travels in Geology: Gubbio, Italy: A geologist's mecca
Antarctic no place to hide during end-Cretaceous extinction
Mammals hit harder than thought by end-Cretaceous extinction
Mercury levels support volcanic role in end-Cretaceous extinction
Impact or eruptions: Are both to blame in the great end-Cretaceous whodunit?
Limited ranges left ammonites vulnerable to extinction
Coal
Benchmarks: September 6, 1869: Pennsylvania's Avondale coal mine fire kills 110, igniting reform
Coal formation nearly froze Earth
Unexpected nanoparticles trace coal pollution
Lack of fungi did not lead to copious Carboniferous coal
Trash-to-treasure: Turning nonrecycled waste into low-carbon fuel
A Dirty Secret - China's greatest import: Carbon emissions
Voices: Must we capture and store carbon from coal to meet emission-reduction targets?
Voices: Natural gas can lead the way
Capturing carbon from coal plants: Is it feasible?
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.
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
The rising global interest in coal fires
West Virginia Coal: Dirty water, dirtier politics - but will there be a cleaner future?
Who deals with coal fires?
Kilauea
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Scott Rowland
New method offers improved monitoring of Kilauea
Kilauea eruptions could shift from mild to wild
Living in the shadow of Mauna Loa: A silent summit belies a volcano's forgotten fury
Kilauea's Explosive Past - and Future
Danger in paradise: The hidden hazards of volcano geotourism
Travels in Geology: Taking in Hawaii's Big Island
Resilience
Comment: Out of bounds: Rethinking U.S. flood risk delineation
From space to village: NASA's SERVIR program brings a big picture to local communities
Increasing resilience: A national imperative
Ancient Egypt
Travels in Geology: The pyramids of Giza: Wonders of an ancient world
First complete DNA sequences from Egyptian mummies
Ancient Egyptian artifact is otherworldly
Egypt
Getting There and Getting Around Cairo
Voices: A growing need for geoscience diplomacy
Museums: Cleopatra: The search for the last queen of Egypt
Atmospheric River
Rivers in the sky: Improving predictions of atmospheric rivers to reduce risk
Comment: Atmospheric rivers increase water supply in California — but only to a point
Sahara dust brings rain and snow to California
Hazardous Living: Preparing for the storm of the century
Gulf of Mexico
Natural solutions could save $50 billion in Gulf Coast flood damages
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
Which warm waters boosted Hurricane Harvey?
Fossil reefs show sea level rose in bursts
Above oil seeps, photosynthetic life flourishes
Methane lingered after Gulf blowout
Gulf oil spill threatens subsurface biodiversity
Toxic tide
Water Wise: An oil plume at depth, and NOAA vs. the White House
Water Wise: The leak is capped; but what's the oil's long-term fate?
Water Wise: Where will the oil spilled in the Gulf go?
Infrastructure
Natural solutions could save $50 billion in Gulf Coast flood damages
Geologic Column: Dams in distress
Troubled waters: Lead lurking in U.S. water supplies
Scientists map U.S. geoelectric hazards
Earthquake-resilient pipes aim to keep L.A.'s water flowing
A L'Aquila trigger, seismic gaps and poor construction: What we've learned from the August earthquake in Italy
Why is a gallon of gas cheaper than a gallon of milk?
Benchmarks: November 7, 1940, and November 25, 1990: Washington suffers a pair of debilitating bridge failures
Comment: Weathering a perfect storm from space
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill disappears
Deep Earth
Seismic waves are blind to water
Diamonds reveal water in deep mantle
Imaging Iceland's volcanic roots
Introducing Earth's inner inner core
Of molten iron and magnetism
Nitrogen
A rocky source of nitrogen
From farm to filter: Restored wetlands remediate nitrogen pollution
Burning grass releases more nitrogen pollution than burning wood
Nutrient deficiency delayed life after mass extinction
Convection formed Pluto's polygons
Uranium contamination in aquifers could be linked to nitrate
Sunlight liberates nitrogen from urban grime
Ancient lakes may have been refuges for early life
Thank subduction for Earth's nitrogen-rich air
Clovis
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
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick
Geoarchaeology
Speartips point at south-to-north Clovis dispersal
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Jerusalem tower facelift reveals it's 1,000 years younger
On the trail of Hannibal's army - and elephants - in the Alps
Ancient African villages shed light on Earth's magnetic field
Earliest stone tools pre-date Homo
From boom to bust in Neolithic Europe
Hydrological models locate ancient human migration routes
Hominin skull discovery fuels debate about early human evolution
Sinking sediment in deltas is as important as swelling seas
Environmental changes contributed to Mediterranean cultural crisis
Ancient Egyptian artifact is otherworldly
Blogging on EARTH: New lessons from antiquity, this time on construction
Modern humans arrived in South Asia 25,000 years later than previously thought?
New dates place Spanish cave art as oldest in Europe
Hazardous Living: Bringing down the house at Pompeii
Museums: Cleopatra: The search for the last queen of Egypt
Underwater basalt formation looks like a city wall
Stone Tools
Speartips point at south-to-north Clovis dispersal
Trio of studies track stone tool technology in Kenya
Nothing is clear about who left marks on ancient bones
Monkeys smash stone tool theories
New dating of 'hobbit' sheds light on when it lived
Ancient Indonesian tools made by mysterious inhabitants
Earliest Americans were wide-ranging wanderers
Butchery or trampling? Controversy marks ancient animal bones
July 28, 1996: Kennewick man is discovered
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and into Arabia?
July 2018
Piecing together the puzzle of Pannotia
Lunar isotopes suggest early water on Earth
Island-dwelling mammal had small brain, keen senses
Plumbing Masaya's lava lake
Cracking the temperature of columnar jointing
Mountaintops get less lonely for alpine plants
Mineral clue to finding perfectly preserved fossils?
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Geologic Column: The raw and the cooked
Geomedia: Books: Revisiting the Galileo affair
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's vanished Amazon
Diamonds and the Eocene climate of the Bell River Basin
Travels in Geology: From sea to sky in British Columbia
Getting There And Getting Around Vancouver
Where on Earth? - July 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Diamonds reveal water in deep mantle
Trio of studies track stone tool technology in Kenya
Pterosaurs flew into the Late Cretaceous
Did a massive eruption spur Christianity in Iceland?
An aurora named Steve
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
Weedy seeds gathered in once-green Sahara
Yellowstone's Mexican mantle plume
Rolling thunder portends remote eruptions
India's urban areas punch city-shaped holes in fog
Cretaceous volcanic ash seeded U.S. oilfields
Benchmarks: July 29, 1958: The Birth of NASA
Comment: The changing shape of local climates
Down to Earth With: Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker
Geologic Column: Tarnish on the Golden State
Hazards in paradise: Indonesia prepares for natural disasters
Toxic treatments: Lead lingers in folk remedies
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Getting there and getting around England
Geologic evidence confirms existence of 405,000-year Milankovitch cycle
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" is Superlative
Mississippi Delta
Charting 500 years of Mississippi floods
From farm to filter: Restored wetlands remediate nitrogen pollution
Mapping Louisiana's disappearing shoreline
Mississippi sand still abundant
Biophysical economics: The Mississippi Delta as a lens for global issues
Mississippi Delta drowning
Sediment
Charting 500 years of Mississippi floods
Are diatoms triggering submarine landslides?
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Looking under Lusi: Indonesian mud volcano linked to nearby volcanic complex
Red Planet Roundup: February 2018
Western wildfires affect water quality
Pharmaceuticals in urban sediments reveal wastewater treatment effectiveness
Neolithic farmers impacted sedimentation
Dehydrated sediment layer made Sumatra quake stronger
Whirling "gravel devils" show wind can carry more than just sand
Red Planet Roundup: April 2017
Supernova explosion detected in Early Pleistocene sediments
Frosted forams foil radiocarbon dating
Dating of landslides around Oso reveals recurring patterns
Oceanographers solve mysterious beach explosion
Subseafloor biosphere extended to greatest depth yet
Lake sediments suggest mild volcanic winter after massive Toba eruption
Ancient floods degassed Lake Kivu
Sediment load shapes rivers
Kamikaze typhoons spared Japan from Kublai Khan
Sinking sediment in deltas is as important as swelling seas
Giant dunes, not mega-tsunami deposits?
Mississippi Delta drowning
Re-examining the Burgess Shale
Early Earth
Lunar isotopes suggest early water on Earth
Meteorite impacts may have kick-started ancient subduction
Small warm ponds: Ideal incubators for first life?
Young Costa Rican lavas might reflect pockets of primordial mantle
When and how did plate tectonics begin on Earth?
Life on land 300 million years earlier than thought
Liverworts, not moss, dominated Earth's early terrestrial ecosystems
Comment: Did life start on a snowball?
Early Earth's atmosphere weighed half as much
Zircons hold clues to early Earth
Searching for the ancestors of meandering rivers
Magnetic field around since Hadean
Early Earth enriched by iron rain
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, geologist who deciphered banded iron formations
Minerals also evolve
Lava
Plumbing Masaya's lava lake
Lava shaped Lake Tahoe
Young Costa Rican lavas might reflect pockets of primordial mantle
Martian channels carved by lava, not water?
Augustine Volcano's earthquakes and explosive eruption caused by a clogged conduit
The Syracuse University lava experiments
Monitoring
Plumbing Masaya's lava lake
Rolling thunder portends remote eruptions
Hazards in paradise: Indonesia prepares for natural disasters
Measuring earthquakes using fiber-optic cables
Benchmarks: November 13, 1985: Nevado del Ruiz eruption triggers deadly lahars
Observers at the edge of the ice: Smaller, cheaper machines can safely go where humans can't
Helium escape may help predict volcanic activity
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The deadly eruption of Mount Pelée
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
On-site inspections
Beyond the bomb: The world's nuclear watchdog expands its science
Alps
Mountaintops get less lonely for alpine plants
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World heritage preserved in salt
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches sweep through Austrian towns, killing dozens
Travels in Geology: Zermatt: Europe meets Africa in Switzerland's iconic Alps
On the trail of Hannibal's army - and elephants - in the Alps
How deep do the Alps go?
Sculpting the Alps
On Hannibal's Trail: The clues are in the geology
Burgess Shale
Mineral clue to finding perfectly preserved fossils?
Did mud volcanoes set the stage for Burgess Shale fossils?
Burgess Shale fossil find offers glimpse of early parenting
Hallucigenia finally finds a home
New burgess shale fossil site found in Canada's Kootenay National Park
Re-examining the Burgess Shale
Nuclear
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
Nuclear Fallout
On-site inspections
Beyond the bomb: The world's nuclear watchdog expands its science
Satellites can detect underground nuclear explosions
Gauging nuclear disasters
Space Weather
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
Benchmarks: May 23, 1967: Space weather forecasters avert war
Down to Earth With: Solar physicist Thomas Berger
Comment: Weathering a perfect storm from space
Comment: Who should be worried about space weather
Amateur radio users help scientists study space weather
The long road to understanding our star
Spot-free sun: Is that normal?
Chesapeake Bay
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Ancient seawater found in Chesapeake Bay impact crater
The Chesapeake Bay gets some good news
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, from impact craters to executive orders
Conservation
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
Celebrity climb
Benchmarks: January 10, 2013: Pinnacles National Park is founded
Methane be dammed!
Protecting the mineral treasures of Antarctica's Larsemann Hills
Travels in Geology: Peru's petrified forest: The struggle to study and preserve one of the world's most remarkable fossil sites
Thirsty Cities: Water management in a changing environment
Shells
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood
Old piles of shells reveal ancient El Niño patterns
Diversity
Place-based education: Teaching geoscience in the context of location and culture
Fieldwork among the pixels: Virtual and augmented reality diversify geoscience education
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Geology for everyone: Making the field accessible
Canada
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's vanished Amazon
Travels in Geology: From sea to sky in British Columbia
Getting There And Getting Around Vancouver
Travels in Geology: The geological riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Getting there and getting around Tumbler Ridge
Travels in Geology: Tumbler Ridge: Finding dinosaurs — and their predecessors and descendants — in northeastern British Columbia
Toad behavior linked to climate change
Siwash Rock as an urban geoheritage icon
Closing a gap in the tetrapod fossil record
Ice (Re) Cap: August 2015
Tackling "Boundary Faults" across the Alaska-Yukon border: A report from the field
Getting there and getting around the Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale bestseller
Travels in Geology: Famous fossils and spectacular scenery at British Columbia's Burgess Shale
Reclaiming Alberta's oil sands mines
Travels in Geology: Stonehammer Geopark: A billion years of stories
North American Plate
The Paleo-Bell River: North America's vanished Amazon
Peeling North American Plate causing East Coast earthquakes
Large earthquake rattles Baja California
2018
Saglek Basin sediments suggest a Grand Canyon connection
Pollen
Saglek Basin sediments suggest a Grand Canyon connection
Fossil leaves provide clues to ancient Australian habitat
Arctic megafauna thrived on pollen-poor plants
It's a Dirty Job, But Someone's Gotta Do It
Diamond
Diamonds and the Eocene climate of the Bell River Basin
Diamonds reveal water in deep mantle
Junk gem reveals new diamond-forming process
Subducted seawater the source of fluid-rich diamonds
Thorny plant marks West African diamond deposits
January 26, 1905: The world's largest gem-quality diamond is unearthed
A watery surprise from Earth's depths: Mineral provides first direct evidence for water in mantle's transition zone
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Travels in Geology: Arkansas: A geologic diamond in the rough
June 2018
Sea-level rise could cut off wastewater service to millions in U.S.
"Dam levels critical" in Cape Town
Did a massive eruption spur Christianity in Iceland?
Tracking Hurricane Harvey's freshwater plume
Weedy seeds gathered in once-green Sahara
Yellowstone's Mexican mantle plume
Rolling thunder portends remote eruptions
India's urban areas punch city-shaped holes in fog
Down to Earth With: Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker
Geologic Column: Tarnish on the Golden State
Toxic treatments: Lead lingers in folk remedies
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Getting there and getting around England
Where on Earth? - June 2018
Red Planet Roundup: June 2018
Skate eggs found on hydrothermal vents
TRAPPIST-1 system hosts seven "Earth-like" planets
Are diatoms triggering submarine landslides?
Solar eclipse mimics conditions on Mars
Taking the surprise out of sneaker waves
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended
Which warm waters boosted Hurricane Harvey?
Oldest human remains outside Africa found in Israel
From silver to snow: Full cloud seeding cycle observed
A new look at Cheddar Man
Lava shaped Lake Tahoe
Swelling clay slows landslides
Benchmarks: June 15, 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Comment: Could NASA find evidence of extraterrestrial life by 2050?
Down to Earth With: Geologist and paleontologist David Wilcots
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
Geologic Column: Rebranding Alexander
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" spotlights seismic risk
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Salmon River through the Idaho Batholith
Getting there and getting around Idaho
Fieldwork among the pixels: Virtual and augmented reality diversify geoscience education
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals
Wastewater
Sea-level rise could cut off wastewater service to millions in U.S.
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended
Pharmaceuticals in urban sediments reveal wastewater treatment effectiveness
D.C. wastewater no longer going to waste
Treated water that's too pure lets arsenic sneak in
December 2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Oxide Pigments
Energy Notes: August 2007-2008
Down to Earth With: Maurice J. 'Ric' Terman
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
EIA: Worldwide oil demand will plummet in 2009
Minerals also evolve
Swarm of earthquakes rattles Yellowstone
Travels in Geology: Australia's wonders, from ocean to desert
November 2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cultured Quartz Crystal
Energy Notes: July 2007-2008
Down to Earth With: John 'Jack' Reed Jr.
Geologic Column: Saving the World? Or Just Saving Money?
Californians prepare for the Big One
Earthquake rattles eastern Indonesia
GM, Ford, Chrysler CEOs may carpool to Capitol
Granite countertops: NOT silent killers
Lay of the Land: Terrain's Toll on the U.S. Civil War
Maldives' residents looking for a new patch of land
Montreal Protocol affects more than just ozone
November 26,1872: Great Diamond Hoax Exposed
Phoenix takes a bow
Raising bees and capturing rainwater: U.S. prisons go green
Raising California's Sinking Delta
The Disappearing Lake
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
There and back again: Alien From Earth tells the tale of the Hobbit
US earthquakes actually a powerful Siberian quake
Wal-Mart to use wind energy
October 2008
Energy Notes: June 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and astronomer Tom Kaye
October 31, 1992: Vacation reverses position on Galileo
'The Big Necessity' Reclaiming feces
Arctic soils retain more carbon
Bailout bill passes, extends renewable energy tax credits
Danger and wonder in Nat Geo's "Giant Crystal Cave"
Energy mission: "Kilowatt Ours"
Granite countertops: NOT silent killers
GSA meeting: Biofuels vs. food - developing countries suffer most
GSA meeting: Hydrocarbons not going into the sunset just yet
GSA meeting: Water, water everywhere ... creating some to drink
Hot enough for ya? Investigating climate change in "Heat"
Lay of the Land: Terrain's Toll on the U.S. Civil War
Odd crests helped dinos communicate
Pakistan quake kills at least 170
Travels in Geology: Thrills and spills at West Virginia's New River Gorge
Trial by Fire
VA geologists axed due to budget crunch
With falling oil prices, short-sellers may win big
September 2008
Energy Notes: May 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Down to Earth With: Award-winning sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Benchmarks: September 21, 1938: The great New England Hurricane strikes
The art of un-legislating
A whale of a wind turbine
Beads of water on the moon
Bolivia turns iron mountain into gold
Brazil says 'no thanks' to OPEC
Creeping faults warn of impending earthquakes?
Dye-ing for efficient solar power
Electrical failure shuts collider down for the winter
Energy's the hot topic this week on the Hill
Games: In Spore, cells divide and conquer
Glacier moves in fits and starts
It's a Dirty Job, But Someone's Gotta Do It
Large earthquake rocks Iran oil port
Mapping safer drinking water
NASA's hurricane pages updated
New York's Dirty Secret: The effort to clean up America's largest oil spill
Spot-free sun: Is that normal?
Swapping one greenhouse gas for another
The quicker oil picker upper
Toxic tide
Travels in Geology: Taking in Hawaii's Big Island
Trial by Fire
December 2009
Energy Notes: August 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diamond
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Benchmarks: December 1, 1959: Antarctic Treaty Signed
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A fool's look into the future
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and gas around the world
Crystal Ball EARTH: Natural Hazards: Reducing society's risks
Before Lucy: Older hominid Ardi challenges thinking about human evolution
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: Minerals management: The changing commodities scene
Crystal Ball EARTH: Space: NASA keeps watch on a changing planet
Geomedia: Twitter gives heads-up to users and officials about earthquakes
Mars' ice is pure, not dirty
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
November 2009
Energy Notes: July 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
Are birds dinosaurs? New evidence muddies the picture
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" published
Clearing roadways: A little salt goes a long way
Court rules against Army Corps in New Orleans flooding case
It's all in the wrist: Humans lack a knuckle-walking ancestor
Mississippi Delta drowning
Why red leaves remain elusive in Europe
October 2009
Energy Notes: June 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gallium
Down to Earth With: Jessica Whiteside
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Before Lucy: Older hominid Ardi challenges thinking about human evolution
Chemical clues reveal ancient geography
Earth tides in A major
Geology 101: Reading the story in the rocks
Glaciers, not eruption: False alarm volcano mystery solved
It's all in the wrist: Humans lack a knuckle-walking ancestor
Musical magnetic reversals
Nanoscale carbon capture
NASA's LCROSS crashes on the moon
New cousin joins primate family tree - but it's also no missing link
Not the oldest hominid
Putting Earth's history to sound
Surviving field school: Better than reality TV
The cosmos on key
The trailblazers
The vital statistics
Tracking volcanic ash: Helping airplanes avoid catastrophe
Venus' gentler, Earth-like past
September 2009
Energy Notes: May 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cobalt
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Benchmarks: September 16, 1987: Montreal Protocol Signed
Art and dinosaurs
Earth tides in A major
Earthquake rocks Sumatra
Geology 101: Reading the story in the rocks
Getting a master's in social geology
Mars' ice is pure, not dirty
Mini-T. rex fossil found in China
Moon much wetter than thought
Powerful earthquake strikes Samoa
Putting Earth's history to sound
Redefining Quaternary
Scores dead, injured following Indonesian earthquake
Surviving field school: Better than reality TV
The cosmos on key
Travels in Geology: Arkansas: A geologic diamond in the rough
August 2009
Energy Notes: April 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Ferrous Slag
Down to Earth With: Ted Irving
Asia's hazardous month
Benchmarks: August 17, 1959: Hebgen Lake earthquake and landslide
Getting a master's in social geology
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
June 2009
Energy Notes: February 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Pumice and Pumicite
Down to Earth With: Randy Olson
Travels in Geology: The Midwest's Little Egypt
Three Cheers for Peak Oil!
A tale of two rocks: Moon-like rocks right next door
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar eclipse "proves" relativity
Cityscape, 'wet regions' fueled Atlanta tornado
Dinosaurs of a feather may not have evolved together
Iron fertilization foiled by "shrimp"
Jupiter breaks out in spots
Old plutonium reveals new secrets
Redefining Quaternary
Storms brewing over volcanoes
Travels in Geology: Tanzania's natural wonders
When wildfires attack: Should I stay or should I go?
White House climate report: U.S. changes already apparent
May 2009
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thorium
Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
DOE promises $2.4 billion for clean coal
Dry dock to wet tap: Old ships become floating desalination plants
FY 2010 budget cuts Yucca, oil and gas programs
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Homo erectus footprints show modern way of walking
Making electric grids smarter
Paving the way for electronic waste recycling
Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil
Student scientists cast a long shadow
Using Citizens in Science Research
April 2009
Energy Notes: December 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Down to Earth With: Michael Novacek
Oil barrel politics
Running into the brick wall of Creationism again
Benchmarks: April 26, 1986: Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl
Benchmarks: The first Earth Day
Coal-to-liquids: Can fuel made from coal replace gasoline?
Earth: The movie (not the magazine)
Earthquake prediction: Gone and back again
Earthquake rocks central Italy
Geoscientists Without Borders: Geologists Lend a Hand
Iron fertilization foiled by "shrimp"
Jupiter breaks out in spots
Lack of water threatens "Garden of Eden"
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
Seal missing link found in the Arctic
Storms brewing over volcanoes
Travels in Geology: Exploring Lake Baikal, the Sacred Sea
March 2009
Energy Notes: November 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iodine
Down to Earth With: Maria Zuber
Alaska's Mt. Redoubt erupts at last
Bats and white-nose syndrome = VA cavers, please stay out
Comet finished off North American big game animals, cooled the planet?
Dinosaurs of a feather may not have evolved together
FY 2010 budget cuts Yucca, oil and gas programs
Glaciers present a complicated tale
Natural dust may be harmful to ocean organisms
People of the Ice
Rewriting rivers: What it means for river restoration
Saving Energy and Water Through Superior Sanitation
Scientists assess Redoubt's fury
Swarm of earthquakes rattles Yellowstone
Texas Board of Education votes to strike amendment questioning evolution
Undersea volcano erupts near Tonga
February 2009
Energy Notes: October 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lime
Down to Earth With: New congressional science fellows
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: Mount St. Helens has gone back to sleep
As Green As It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin is born - and so began modern biology
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" heat up
Biofuels and food: Mutually exclusive?
Criminals steal London dino's dung
Earthworms churn out calcite crystals
Homo erectus footprints show modern way of walking
How amphibious whales returned to the sea
Larger raindrops may make tornadoes more likely
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
Pollutants threaten the Everglades' future
Scientists Go to the Movies
Travels in Geology: The Osa Peninsula - a different side of Costa Rica
Wanted: Interim nuclear waste storage site
January 2009
Energy Notes: September 2007-2008
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gold
Down to Earth With: John Copeland
Oil barrel politics
'The Big Necessity' Reclaiming feces
Ancient meteorites reveal early magnetic fields
Benchmarks: January 3, 1961: Three men die in nuclear reactor meltdown
Comet finished off North American big game animals, cooled the planet?
Danger and wonder in Nat Geo's "Giant Crystal Cave"
Danger in the Deep: Chemical weapons lie off our coasts
Energy mission: "Kilowatt Ours"
Fish guts can alter ocean's chemistry
Guatemalan landslide kills 33
Hot enough for ya? Investigating climate change in "Heat"
Hurricane Ike sent Galveston's beaches out to sea
Minerals also evolve
Obama asks EPA to reconsider state-set emissions standards
Pelosi: Science first for economic recovery
People of the Ice
Shell tectonics may explain Mars mysteries
Stonehenge's Mysterious Stones
There and back again: Alien From Earth tells the tale of the Hobbit
Travels in Geology: Atop the German Alps
Underwater basalt formation looks like a city wall
USGS fights false Yellowstone warning
Weird whale tusks act as matchmakers
December 2010
Energy Notes: August 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Clay Minerals
Travels in Geology: Kilauea: Experiencing Pele's wrath through the eyes of a young geologist
Getting There and Getting Around Hawaii
The Sleeping Giants
The first dinner in a beast
Benchmarks: December 31, 1853: Dinner in a dinosaur
Highlights of 2010: Definitive statements: a new trend?
Voices: Geologists on the wrong side of the law
Blogging on Earth: Driveway sealants add PAHs to environment
Blogging on EARTH: Yellow submarine robot debuts at AGU meeting
Highlights of 2010: Offshore wind in Texas and the curious case of Massachusetts
Highlights of 2010: What does it mean to be human?
November 2010
Energy Notes: July 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lead
Travels in Geology: To the top of Europe: Jungfrau, Switzerland
Walking with Dinosaur Bones
Making Jurassic Tracks in the Jura
Getting There And Getting Around Switzerland
Down to Earth With: Jeffrey Post
Benchmarks: November 27, 1873: Red River logjam removed for good
Human migration: How sustainable is it?
A Dirty Secret - China's greatest import: Carbon emissions
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: An encouraging start, an inauspicious end
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: The final chapter
Earth science rocks at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Greening the friendly skies
Hazardous Living: Bringing down the house at Pompeii
Merapi continues to erupt
Questions arise over earliest evidence of human tool use
October 2010
Energy Notes: June 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Travels in Geology: Up to Michigan's U.P.
Getting There And Getting Around Michigan
Down to Earth With: Matthew Parker
From science to science fiction
Benchmarks: October 13, 1947: A disaster with Project Cirrus
Elemental Traces in the Atlantic: The art of clean sampling
Age changes you: Torosaurus actually just old Triceratops
Cruising the Atlantic to trace elemental movements
Earth science rocks at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Impossible Odds, Irrepressible Hope: Pakistan's water woes and the science that can solve them
On Hannibal's Trail: The clues are in the geology
Tsunami kills hundreds in Indonesia
September 2010
Energy Notes: May 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Travels in Geology: Clear water and cataclysm at Oregon's Crater Lake
Getting There And Getting Around Oregon
Down to Earth With: Dr. Jonathan Patz
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener begins a fateful polar expedition
Voices: Dead or alive ... or neither? Why a dormant volcano is not a dead one
Blogging on EARTH: Climate change threatens Virginia's vacation spots
Earliest fossil evidence of humans in Southeast Asia?
Further reading and international collaborations
Impossible Odds, Irrepressible Hope: Pakistan's water woes and the science that can solve them
Museums: Cleopatra: The search for the last queen of Egypt
The rising global interest in coal fires
Who deals with coal fires?
August 2010
Energy Notes: April 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Perlite
Travels in Geology: Lower Engadine Valley, Switzerland
Getting There And Getting Around Zürich
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
Florida swamps - ancient sinkholes
Sinkholes: Florida grapples with the wonders of the not-so-deep
Voices: Must we capture and store carbon from coal to meet emission-reduction targets?
Age changes you: Torosaurus actually just old Triceratops
Blogging on EARTH: Previously unknown fault responsible for Haiti quake
Earliest fossil evidence of humans in Southeast Asia?
Hazardous Living: New Orleans, five years after Katrina
Opening up space travel to everyone
Water Wise: An oil plume at depth, and NOAA vs. the White House
Water Wise: Where will the oil spilled in the Gulf go?
July 2010
Energy Notes: March 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Platinum Group Metals
Travels in Geology: Volcanoes, beaches and rainforests: Terrain hopping in Costa Rica
Getting There and Getting Around Costa Rica
Down to Earth With: Nick Brooks
Benchmarks: July 11, 1997: Neanderthal DNA unraveled
Comment: Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide: The missing science
Baja quake sheds light on liquefaction
Hazardous Living: Climategate climatologists cleared of wrongdoing
Local coastal impacts underestimated from sea-level rise
Map reveals height of the world's forests
Offbeat Betting: Volcano betting gathering steam
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
The thrill to drill in the chill
Water Wise: The leak is capped; but what's the oil's long-term fate?
June 2010
Energy Notes: February 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Getting There and Getting Around Costa Rica
Travels in Geology: Floods, Fires and Bears in Montana's Bitterroot Valley
Getting There and Getting Around Montana
Down to Earth With: Katerina Dontsova
Gain some, lose some
Benchmarks: June 30, 1972: Timekeepers add first "leap second" to clocks
Saving Afghanistan: Redevelopment one resource at a time
Afghanistan's mineral wealth
Blogging on EARTH: Ancient whale with a big bite named for Moby Dick author
Blogging on EARTH: Controversy over the weekend effect
Finding water in the heart of darkness: Afghanistan's ongoing water challenges
Gulf oil spill threatens subsurface biodiversity
Hazardous Living: Geologists to be charged for not predicting earthquake?
Natural gas production linked to earthquakes in Texas
Slippery Slopes: How do we insure against landslides?
Water Wise: Where will the oil spilled in the Gulf go?
May 2010
Energy Notes: January 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Germanium
Down to Earth With: Todd Hoefen
Getting there and getting around Patagonia
Venturing into Argentina
Travels in Geology: Patagonia: The ends of the earth
Nuclear Fallout
Benchmarks: May 18, 1952: Stonehenge's age solved with Carbon-14
Voices: Must we capture and store carbon from coal to meet emission-reduction targets?
Voices: Should science dictate whether to rebuild after a natural disaster?
Closing Istanbul's seismic gap
Dinosaurs' true colors revealed
Natural gas production linked to earthquakes in Texas
Paleo Patrol: Neanderthal genome offers clues on what makes us human
Paleo Patrol: Was mankind's first leap in a forest or savanna?
Science and soccer: They're both child's play
April 2010
Energy Notes: December 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Salt
Down to Earth With: Andrew Feustel
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: From parasitic cones to equatorial glaciers
Comment: Peak Soil: Does civilization have a future?
Voices: Greening the Gross Domestic Product
Blogging on EARTH linkfest: More on the Iceland eruption
Can snowstorms be categorized like hurricanes or other hazards?
China quake kills at least 400
Hazardous Living: Good reading - is the apocalypse upon us?
Large earthquake rattles Baja California
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
March 2010
Energy Notes: November 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cesium
Down to Earth With: Sharon Mosher
The Washington Monument's Apex
March 23, 1821: Bauxite Discovered
Voices: Redefining humanity through energy use
A history of "Big Ones"
Chile's quake larger but less destructive than Haiti's
Closing Istanbul's seismic gap
Geomedia: Twitter gives heads-up to users and officials about earthquakes
Pacific Northwest earthquake threat heightened?
Scientists find watery super-Earth
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Temblor flattens Turkish towns
February 2010
Energy Notes: October 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Asbestos
Down to Earth With: Mike Gallagher
Conjunction injunction: Recent and future planetary alignments
Benchmarks: February 4, 1962: Five planets align - but no end of the world
Voices: Should science dictate whether to rebuild after a natural disaster?
Can snowstorms be categorized like hurricanes or other hazards?
Court rules against Army Corps in New Orleans flooding case
Hubble's pics of Pluto: Dark orange and charcoal-black
Reclaiming Alberta's oil sands mines
Termites and climate change: Here, there and everywhere?
Voices: If global warming is real, why is it snowing in DC?
What makes a disaster? Does this blizzard count?
January 2010
Energy Notes: September 2008-2009
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron Ore
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England prohibits Alchemy
Comment: Peak Soil: Does civilization have a future?
Earthquakes overwhelm Tajikistan, Solomon Islands
Exoplanet forecast: Quartz with a chance of feldspar
Haiti devastated by major earthquake
Haitian quake no shock to geologists
On Her Majesty's space agency
Termites and climate change: Here, there and everywhere?
Testing methane's potential on the North Slope
Tetrapod tracks reset timing of four-legged evolution
December 2011
Energy Notes: August 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Garnet
Travels in Geology: Barbados: Ascending the sea-level staircase
Getting There and Getting Around Barbados
Revealing the ancient sea levels recorded in reefs
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
Science as a model for governance
Afghanistan's mineral resources laid bare
Voices: Harassment of scientists reaches a fever pitch
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
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?
November 2011
Energy Notes: July 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tin
Travels in Geology: Unearthing the ghosts of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Get Dirty
Getting There and Getting Around Albuquerque
Benchmarks: November 7, 1940, and November 25, 1990: Washington suffers a pair of debilitating bridge failures
Down to Earth With: Matt Kuchta
Voices: Harassment of scientists reaches a fever pitch
Cantabrians keep humor in the hardship
CryoScoop: Massive rift portends Antarctic berg
Geotextiles: From sludge to shoreline protection to surfing - what's next?
Highlights of 2011: Energy and economics 2011-2012
Highlights of 2011: New Zealand: After 8,000 aftershocks, when will it stop?
Return of the Dust Bowl
Voices: Climate change and civil conflict: New clues from El Nino
Where the rubber meets the road
October 2011
Energy Notes: June 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Potash
Travels in Geology: The Burren: Ireland's "Great Rock" Region
Getting There and Getting Around the Burren
Benchmarks: October 1904: Mineralogy solves a murder
Down to Earth With: The Swindling Geologist
Geologic Column: The double-edged sword of commercialization
Voices: An old Earth for all Muslims but how does evolution fit in?
All that glitters... Acid mine drainage: The toxic legacy of gold mining in South Africa
Cold case files: Forging forensic isoscapes
CryoScoop: A must-read special issue
Hazardous Living: Collision forces behind devastating Turkey quake
Return of the Dust Bowl
Santa Fe impact crater discovery: A series of fortunate events
September 2011
Energy Notes: May 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rare Earth Elements
Travels in Geology: Nova Scotia: A driving tour of Pangaea
Getting There and Getting Around Nova Scotia
A day without Glory
All that glitters... Acid mine drainage: The toxic legacy of gold mining in South Africa
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx is discovered and described
Charting a course correction: A review of Earth: The Operators' Manual
CryoScoop: Sea ice synopsis and a whale tale
CryoScoop: Woolly rhino traveled with an ice scraper
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
Thinking outside the rocks in the search for ancient earthquakes
Travels in Geology: Glacial pools to sea caves: A tour of New Zealand's South Island
Voices: Climate change and civil conflict: New clues from El Nino
When the dust settles: Investigating lingering health questions 10 years after 9/11
August 2011
Energy Notes: April 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Gypsum
Travels in Geology: Australia's Blue Mountains Delight the Senses
Getting There and Getting Around The Blue Mountains National Park
Benchmarks: August 1576: False gold found in Meta Incognita
Down to Earth With: Deanna D'Alessandro
Geologic Column: Snow globes, light shows and t-shirts
Voices: A growing need for geoscience diplomacy
A day without Glory
Blogging on EARTH: The lighter side of geo-jargon
CryoScoop: Green Light to McMurdo
CryoScoop: Ice islands and a new Antarctic map
Great Lakes geologic sunken treasure
Is there really a minerals crisis?
Thinking outside the rocks in the search for ancient earthquakes
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
When the dust settles: Investigating lingering health questions 10 years after 9/11
July 2011
Energy Notes: March 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Indium
Travels in Geology: Florissant fossil beds: An Eocene time capsule
Getting There and Getting Around Colorado Springs
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Down to Earth With: Deep-Sea submersible Alvin
Voices: A growing need for geoscience diplomacy
Voices: Austerity axes geological survey in Greece
Voices: The confounding economics of natural disasters
Blogging on EARTH: Webb Space Telescope ensnared in political drama
Creationism creeps into mainstream geology
Endangered snow: how climate change threatens West Coast water supplies
Great Lakes geologic sunken treasure
Hazardous Living: Atlantis' final countdown
Is there really a minerals crisis?
The Coconino's starring role in the creationist-geologist battle
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Shasta
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A volcanic wonderland
Travels in Geology: Twin coral reefs separated in time in Western Australia
June 2011
Energy Notes: February 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Down To Earth With: John Underhill
Benchmarks: June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga burns
Gauging nuclear disasters
Blogging on EARTH: Arsenic provides a G#ALA event in the science world
Creationism creeps into mainstream geology
D-Day's Legacy: Remnants of invasion linger in beach sands
Don't forget about the Christchurch earthquake: Lessons learned from disaster
Endangered snow: how climate change threatens West Coast water supplies
Japan's megaquake and killer tsunami: How did this happen?
Mysterious disease sounds the death knell for bats
The Coconino's starring role in the creationist-geologist battle
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Shasta
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A volcanic wonderland
Travels in Geology: Stonehammer Geopark: A billion years of stories
May 2011
Energy Notes: January 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tantalum
Travels in Geology: Soaking up the Dead Sea: A trip to Israel's salty sea is a geological and historical delight
Getting There and Getting Around Israel
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: Earthquakes or Volcanoes?
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown flood kills thousands
Science and the social media
D-Day's Legacy: Remnants of invasion linger in beach sands
Don't forget about the Christchurch earthquake: Lessons learned from disaster
Hazardous Living: Italian seismologists on trial for manslaughter
Japan's megaquake and killer tsunami: How did this happen?
Mysterious disease sounds the death knell for bats
New federal guidelines aim to combat bat-killing fungus
Strategies to meet our water and energy needs: Insight from a Texas "Treemap"
Tracking trace elements and isotopes in the oceans
Tracking Yellowstone's Activity
April 2011
Energy Notes: December 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Feldspar
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Saturn's rings: The remains of an icy moon
Science and the social media
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?
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
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
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
March 2011
Energy Notes: November 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Chromium
Down to Earth With Richard Prum
Keeler's legacy
Deadly tornadoes
Benchmarks: March 18, 1925: Tri-state twister kills 695 people
Voices: Wildfires and debris flows: Federal mud
A memoir: A decade-plus of tracking lunar larceny
Bacteria back from the brink
How oil and water helped the U.S. win World War II
The rise of community remote sensing
Travels in Geology: Precipitous peaks and dunes in Colorado
Travels in Geology: Trekking the Inca Trail
February 2011
Energy Notes: October 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Copper
Travels in Geology: Ever-Changing Turkey
Getting There, Getting Around and Getting Informed
Down to Earth With Kateryna Klochko
Voices: Humans at high temperatures
2012 budget requests a mixed bag for science
A memoir: A decade-plus of tracking lunar larceny
Benchmarks: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity on February 26, 1896
Blogging on EARTH: FEMA's plans for New Madrid
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
Hazardous Living: Discovery's emotional final voyage
How oil and water helped the U.S. win World War II
Killer quake strikes New Zealand
OPEC and Oil: The next 50 years
Questions arise over earliest evidence of human tool use
The Changing Face of Sudan
Travels in Geology: Precipitous peaks and dunes in Colorado
Triassic Park: On the origin of (dinosaur) species
January 2011
Energy Notes: September 2009-2010
Mineral Resource of the Month: Molybdenum
Travels in Geology: Mallorca set in stone
Getting There and Getting Around Mallorca
Down to Earth With: Hope Jahren
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler confirms Saturn's rings not solid
Benchmarks: January 23, 1960: Humans reach the deepest point on Earth
A Dirty Secret - China's greatest import: Carbon emissions
Voices: Does all scientific work deserve public attention?
Voices: Humans at high temperatures
Voices: Log off and get outside again
Blogging on EARTH: South Sudan secedes - what does that mean for its oil?
Hazardous Living: Preparing for the storm of the century
Museums: Cleopatra: The search for the last queen of Egypt
OPEC and Oil: The next 50 years
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and into Arabia?
The Changing Face of Sudan
Triassic Park: On the origin of (dinosaur) species
December 2012
Energy Notes: August 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Soda Ash
Travels in Geology: Exploring Vulcan's Playground: The Volcanoes of Southern Italy and the Aeolian Islands
Getting There and Getting Around Sicily
Benchmarks: December 4, 1992: The Seattle Fault Zone is described
Bare Earth Elements: A geo-themed pop quiz in honor of 12/12/12
Two NASA spacecraft reveal ancient underground cracks from moon's formation
Satellites can detect underground nuclear explosions
The long road to understanding our star
Here comes the solar maximum: What we know - and don't know - about solar storms and their hazards
Simple organic compounds detected by Curiosity on Mars
Highlights of 2012: Climate 2012 - A window into what to expect for 2013 and beyond?
Highlights of 2012: Outlook on natural gas
Down to Earth With: Antarctic meteorite hunters
Increasing resilience: A national imperative
Sun provides water to the moon?
November 2012
Energy Notes: July 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Mercury
Travels in Geology: The desert geology of Namibia: A writer and her father explore otherworldly dunes, oases and meteorites
Getting There and Getting Around Namibia
The Skeleton Coast
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 dust storm injures hundreds
Down to Earth With: Jacob Haqq-Misra
Bare Earth Elements: Voices from GSA 2012
Bare Earth Elements: GSA highlights, days 2 and 3
Highlights of 2012: Climate 2012 - A window into what to expect for 2013 and beyond?
Highlights of 2012: Outlook on natural gas
Down to Earth With: Antarctic meteorite hunters
Increasing resilience: A national imperative
Bare Earth Elements: GSA highlights, day 1
SEC mandates businesses disclose use of conflict minerals
Bigfoot education and outreach
Bigfoot education and outreach
USArray: Geoscientists' "Earth Telescope"
Blame it on the rain: The proposed links between severe storms and earthquakes
October 2012
Energy Notes: June 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Dimension Stone
Travels in Geology: Touring geologic time in Colorado Springs
Getting There and Getting Around Colorado
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a cold war ice fortress is built
Down to Earth With: Lawson Brigham
Voices: Judged unfairly in L'Aquila - roles and responsibilities should have been considered
Hot Earth orbits closest star system
SEC mandates businesses disclose use of conflict minerals
Bigfoot education and outreach
Bigfoot education and outreach
USArray: Geoscientists' "Earth Telescope"
Blame it on the rain: The proposed links between severe storms and earthquakes
Sun provides water to the moon?
Arctic humidity on the rise
Risky business: Modeling catastrophes
The Bakken boom and the new wild west: A young geologist's perspective
Do–it–yourself lava flows: Science, art and education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
September 2012
Energy Notes: May 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tungsten
Travels in Geology: South Africa on safari for the geological Big Five
Getting There and Getting Around South Africa
Benchmarks: September 23, 1933: The U.S. oil industry arrives in Saudi Arabia
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Arctic humidity on the rise
Risky business: Modeling catastrophes
The Bakken boom and the new wild west: A young geologist's perspective
Voices: Riding the dragon: Commercial space exploration
Antarctic trees surprise scientists
The Syracuse University lava experiments
Do–it–yourself lava flows: Science, art and education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
August 2012
Energy Notes: April 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hydraulic Cement
Travels in Geology: Lake Tahoe Jewel of the Sierra Nevada
Getting There and Getting Around Nevada
Benchmarks: August 24, 1873: The Mount of the Holy Cross is found, photographed and mapped
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
The Syracuse University lava experiments
Do–it–yourself lava flows: Science, art and education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
Bare Earth Elements: Let the real Curiosity begin
Hazardous Living: Watching Curiosity land safely was exhilarating
Blogging on EARTH: Curious to watch Curiosity land on Mars?
On the web: Shake, rattle and roll: What does an earthquake sound like?
How the school of rock came to be
Trash-to-treasure: Turning nonrecycled waste into low-carbon fuel
School of rock: Educating educators at sea
2012: The end of the world or just another year of living in harm's way?
Voices: Italian quakes and deaths point to industrial facilities as death traps
July 2012
Energy Notes: March 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aluminum
Travels in Geology: Trapped by geology in Iceland with flights grounded by volcanic ash, one writer seeks out the island's geologic wonders
Getting There and Getting Around Iceland
Off the beaten path in the north of Iceland
Benchmarks: July 1, 1912: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officially becomes the first of its kind in U.S.
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
Bare Earth Elements: Welcome to the GEOlympics
How the school of rock came to be
Trash-to-treasure: Turning nonrecycled waste into low-carbon fuel
School of rock: Educating educators at sea
2012: The end of the world or just another year of living in harm's way?
Karakoram glaciers buck global, regional trends
Bringing dinosaur biology into the 21st century
Blogging on EARTH: Finding prehistoric souvenirs in Michigan
Five outstanding questions in earth science
Neutralizing the rain: After much success in the battle against acid rain, challenges remain
Sumatran strike-slip earthquakes challenge seismologists
June 2012
Energy Notes: February 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Magnesium
Travels in Geology: Northeastern Australia's Atherton Tablelands young volcanoes, waterfalls and rainforest near the Great Barrier Reef
Getting There and Getting Around Cairns
Benchmarks: June 10, 1886: New Zealand's Mount Tarawera erupts
Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
Five outstanding questions in earth science
Neutralizing the rain: After much success in the battle against acid rain, challenges remain
No pre-Columbian deforestation of the western Amazon
New dates place Spanish cave art as oldest in Europe
Blogging on EARTH: Rarity the only reason for Venus transit fever?
Voices: Italian quakes and deaths point to industrial facilities as death traps
Venus in transit to the transit
Ecosystem collapse in Pleistocene Australia
Better warnings for the consequences of earthquakes: Bringing seismic hazard and risk assessments to policy
Carbon and the city: Tracking emissions from megacities
Blogging on EARTH: Congress considers severe weather policy options
Tree-climbing hominin with opposable toes co-existed with Lucy
Blogging on EARTH: Panelists weigh in on tsunami preparedness policy
May 2012
Energy Notes: January 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Manganese
Travels in Geology: Santorini: Dangerous volcano, postcard-perfect jewel of the Aegean
Getting There and Getting Around Greece
Benchmarks: May 15, 1909: The Northern Great Plains earthquake
Down to Earth With: The Geographers of the Solar System
Better warnings for the consequences of earthquakes: Bringing seismic hazard and risk assessments to policy
Carbon and the city: Tracking emissions from megacities
Kilauea's Explosive Past - and Future
Policy in the field: What's next for tax policies and the American clean energy economy?
Sumatran strike-slip earthquakes challenge seismologists
Volcanoes sparked - and prolonged - the Little Ice Age
Voices: Making tough decisions in a changing climate
IceGoat: The next generation
Voices: Defending science: The link between creationism and climate change
Earliest instrumental temperature record recovered in Italy
North star loses mass but still shines bright
Mobile mapping with lidar hits the road
U.S. Navy navigates a sea change in the Arctic
Quoth the feathered, iridescent Microraptor, Nevermore
April 2012
Energy Notes: December 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Aggregates
Getting There and Getting Around Chile
Travels in Geology: Chile: Exploring the archaeology, volcanoes and hot springs of the northern Atacama Desert
Benchmarks: April 1, 1946: Hawaii tsunami ushers in a Pacific-wide warning system
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
IceGoat: The next generation
Voices: Defending science: The link between creationism and climate change
Mobile mapping with lidar hits the road
Managing the seismic risk posed by wastewater disposal
U.S. Navy navigates a sea change in the Arctic
Blogging On EARTH: Wisconsin's microquake mystery
Blogging on EARTH: Congress considers severe weather policy options
The trouble with tornado tracking
Foretelling next month's tornadoes
La Niña could set the stage for flu pandemics
Danger in paradise: The hidden hazards of volcano geotourism
March 2012
Energy Notes: November 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Cadmium
Travels in Geology: Going to extremes in Death Valley
Getting There and Getting Around California
Benchmarks: March 1961: Project Mohole undertakes the first deep-ocean drilling
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Tree-climbing hominin with opposable toes co-existed with Lucy
Blogging on EARTH: Panelists weigh in on tsunami preparedness policy
La Niña could set the stage for flu pandemics
Danger in paradise: The hidden hazards of volcano geotourism
Quoth the feathered, iridescent Microraptor, Nevermore
Voices: From Haiti to Japan: A tale of two disaster recoveries
Undressing Vesta
Blogging On Earth: Humans acidifying ocean at unprecedented rate
Listening for gas bubbles
Gold, lead and death in Nigeria
February 2012
Energy Notes: October 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Boron
Travels in Geology: Hiking Mount Nyiragongo in Virunga National Park, Congo
Getting There and Getting Around Africa
Visiting Virunga's gorillas
Benchmarks: February 7, 2009: Deadliest day of fire ever recorded in Australia
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
AAG: Eruption of El Salvador's Ilopango explains A.D. 536 cooling
Listening for gas bubbles
Gold, lead and death in Nigeria
CryoScoop: Two-decade Antarctic drilling effort complete
Unearthing Antarctica's mysterious mountains
Geologic Column: Lessons from the final frontier
Dangerous dust: Erionite - an asbestos-like mineral causing a cancer epidemic in Turkey - is found in at least 13 states
Tracking plastic in the oceans
January 2012
Energy Notes: September 2010-2011
Mineral Resource of the Month: Rhenium
Travels in Geology: Utah: Exploring the scenic byways and slot canyons of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Getting There and Getting Around southern Utah
Benchmarks: January 3–5, 1982: 18,000 landslides wreak havoc on the San Francisco Bay area
Down to Earth With: Lee Allison
Astronomy under the ice: Scientists use Antarctic ice to study some of the tiniest particles in the cosmos
Dangerous dust: Erionite - an asbestos-like mineral causing a cancer epidemic in Turkey - is found in at least 13 states
Tracking plastic in the oceans
Setting off a supervolcano
Source code: the methane race
December 2013
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Travels in Geology: The Bay of Kotor: Europe's southernmost "Fjord"
Getting There and Getting Around Croatia
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
Bare Earth Elements: EARTH's Top 10 online stories of 2013 ... (Yes, it's a list)
Bare Earth Elements: AGU 2013 wrap-up
Energy 360: Moving energy - No easy feat, but a vital conversation
Comet ISON still intrigues and inspires, even after its demise
Juno salutes its home planet and heads to Jupiter
Hazards abroad: Sent home
Be prepared: Navigating the risks of hazards research
Curiosity finds an ancient habitable environment in Mars' Gale Crater
In or Out? Has Voyager left the solar system?
Gifts: Holiday gift guide
Geologic Column: Beer's secret ingredient: geology
Giant quake sloshed fjords half a world away
Old photos help scientists relocate 1906 San Francisco quake rupture point
World War G: Zombies, energy and the geosciences
Witnessing geology in action: A rockfall in the garden of the gods
Science denialism: The problem that just won't go away
A public service announcement: Improve geologic literacy starting on the home front
Once a digger, always a digger: Or, how I learned to stop researching and love deadlines
Bailing through the Boulder flood: One neighborhood's experience
October 2013
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Energy Notes: June 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Hafnium
Travels in Geology: Western Nebraska's geoheritage gems
Getting There and Getting Around Nebraska
Down to Earth With: Kirk Johnson
Benchmarks: October 9, 1963: The Vajont Landslide kills 2,500 in Italy
XPRIZE offers new ocean health awards
World's largest deep earthquake recorded
Hominin skull discovery fuels debate about early human evolution
CSI La Brea: Tiny traces reveal big secrets of the tar pits
Caspian Sea: Negotiation Support System
Gaming the system in the Caspian Sea: Can game theory solve a decades-old dispute?
Undergraduates build and launch a satellite to measure atmospheric drag
Tackling "Boundary Faults" across the Alaska-Yukon border: A report from the field
Eyes on the sky watch the unpredictable Draconid meteor shower
New subduction zone may close Atlantic ocean
Think differently: renewable hydrogen generation
Energy storage brings a renewable energy future one step closer
A personal plea
A hurricane by any other name: How Sandy changed the way we issue storm warnings
Alaskan volcano doesn't just huff and puff, it screams
November 2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Travels in Geology: The wild east of Wyoming: Bone wars, outlaw hideouts and crack climbing
Boondocking 101: How to camp for free in Wyoming
Getting There and Getting Around Wyoming
Energy Notes: July 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Thallium
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
November 10, 1934: Arizona declares war against California at Parker Dam
Bare Earth Elements: IceCube observatory spurs "dawn of new age" in astronomy
Old photos help scientists relocate 1906 San Francisco quake rupture point
World War G: Zombies, energy and the geosciences
Witnessing geology in action: A rockfall in the garden of the gods
MAVEN takes off for Mars to study the planet's atmosphere
Science denialism: The problem that just won't go away
A public service announcement: Improve geologic literacy starting on the home front
Bailing through the Boulder flood: One neighborhood's experience
Corals find a way to adapt?
Slab tear explains perplexing Colombian earthquake activity
Hydrological models locate ancient human migration routes
The Lizard King rises
NOAA quantifies oil danger from shipwrecks
CSI La Brea: Tiny traces reveal big secrets of the tar pits
Caspian Sea: Negotiation Support System
Gaming the system in the Caspian Sea: Can game theory solve a decades-old dispute?
September 2013
Energy Notes: May 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Lithium
Travels in Geology: Exotic dunes and atomic bombs in New Mexico's White Sands
Missile testing
Getting There and Getting Around New Mexico
Writing on the Rocks
Down to Earth With: Tanya Atwater
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, geologist who deciphered banded iron formations
Sinking sediment in deltas is as important as swelling seas
Environmental changes contributed to Mediterranean cultural crisis
Scientists demonstrate strengths and shortcomings of method for determining ancient earthquake size
Ancient volcanic island arc blocked Antarctic current formation
Arsenic in wells in Vietnam suggests dig-deeper approach has issues
Arsenic levels in China may be predicted by modeling
Think differently: renewable hydrogen generation
Energy storage brings a renewable energy future one step closer
A personal plea
A hurricane by any other name: How Sandy changed the way we issue storm warnings
Rescuing geologic maps during a coup
Energy 360: Leaving our corners for the radical middle: New Zealand sets an example
On the web: Mount St. Helens goes online to reach the masses
Trans-Niño years could foster tornado outbreaks
Building resource corridors in Afghanistan: A solution to an interminable war?
Rescuing data from the dark
Digitizing Earth: Developing a cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences
August 2013
Energy Notes: April 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Kyanite
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits are described
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
On the web: Mount St. Helens goes online to reach the masses
Trans-Niño years could foster tornado outbreaks
Building resource corridors in Afghanistan: A solution to an interminable war?
Rescuing data from the dark
Digitizing Earth: Developing a cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences
Geologic Column: Assessing energy and mining workforce needs
Core skills in the geosciences: The geoblogosphere chimes in on what students need to know
Hidden graves give up their secrets to geologists
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First astrogeologist on the moon
Hurricane hunters fly toward improved storm forecasts
Getting there and getting around in Cuba
Travels in Geology: Journeying through Cuba's geology and culture
Location, Location, Location
Home sweet home for field campers
Mapping field camp's past and present: Exploring a mainstay of geoscience education
Bare Earth Elements: The field camp experience in photos
July 2013
Energy Notes: March 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Bismuth
Travels in Geology: The Canary Islands: Touring the "Hawaii of Europe"
Mass wasting
Getting There and Getting Around Spain
Down to Earth With: Anna Henderson
July 28, 1996: Kennewick man is discovered
Blogging on EARTH: A letter from field camp
Getting there and getting around in Cuba
Mediterranean mammals migrated prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Travels in Geology: Journeying through Cuba's geology and culture
Location, Location, Location
Home sweet home for field campers
Mapping field camp's past and present: Exploring a mainstay of geoscience education
Bare Earth Elements: The field camp experience in photos
Alaskan volcano doesn't just huff and puff, it screams
Map provides clues to natural protection of U.S. coastal communities
Ancient Egyptian artifact is otherworldly
Corn syrup model splits Yellowstone's plume in two
Iowa impact crater confirmed
The energy-water nexus: Managing water in an energy-constrained world
Droning on for science
June 2013
Energy Notes: February 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Nickel
Travels in Geology: The ephemeral Florida Keys
Getting There and Getting Around Florida
Bechmarks: June 1, 1873: The Modoc-Lava Beds War Ends
Down to Earth With: James White
Hurricanes suppressed by air pollutants
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 3)
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 2)
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 1)
Blogging on EARTH: New lessons from antiquity, this time on construction
The energy-water nexus: Managing water in an energy-constrained world
Droning on for science
Modern humans arrived in South Asia 25,000 years later than previously thought?
Oceanic records paint a more complex picture of human evolution
Removing predators increases carbon emissions
Old landscapes see the light thanks to improved imaging
The past is key to the future: Historical observations strengthen modern science
N.E.O.N.: Studying critical ecological issues on a continental scale
May 2013
Energy Notes: January 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Barite
Travels in Geology: Slickrock sojourn in Moab, Utah
Road biking in Moab
Getting There and Getting Around Utah
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake devastates western China
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Drought outlook indicates further problems in Plains and West
The past is key to the future: Historical observations strengthen modern science
N.E.O.N.: Studying critical ecological issues on a continental scale
Scripps launches Twitter carbon dioxide-meter
Bare Earth Elements: Cool time-lapse shows movement of ice and animals in Antarctica's Ross Sea
Geologic Column: Sometimes, the sky really is falling
Lofted by hurricanes, bacteria live the high life
Why is the U.S. so insecure about its energy security? Measures of energy independence show it is increasing, not decreasing
How the NC-20 Succeeded
Denying sea-level rise: How 100 centimeters divided the state of North Carolina
Sahara dust brings rain and snow to California
April 2013
Energy Notes: December 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Diatomite
Travels in Geology: Adventuring in upstate New York and remembering a life cut short
Getting There and Getting Around New York
Benchmarks: April 1916: "Jingo the Stegosaurus" campaigns to keep the U.S. out of World War I
Blogging on EARTH: Spring has sprung, at least in some places
Why is the U.S. so insecure about its energy security? Measures of energy independence show it is increasing, not decreasing
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
National Weather Service introduces impact-based warnings for tornadoes
How the NC-20 Succeeded
Denying sea-level rise: How 100 centimeters divided the state of North Carolina
Bare Earth Elements: Mars-Observing Fleet Set to Face Silent Treatment
Big quakes topple traditional views of fault behavior
Widely used index may have overestimated drought
Spotlight on UCORE projects
Community college at sea: Research experiences for community college students build the STEM pipeline
Apollo science, 40 years later: Scientists reopen a lunar cold case
March 2013
Energy Notes: November 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Tellurium
Travels in Geology: Havasu Canyon: Land of blue-green water
The River Runners' Route
Getting There And Getting Around Arizona
Benchmarks: March 1913: The first complete geologic timescale is published
Down to Earth With: Adrian Hunt
Big quakes topple traditional views of fault behavior
Widely used index may have overestimated drought
Spotlight on UCORE projects
Community college at sea: Research experiences for community college students build the STEM pipeline
Apollo science, 40 years later: Scientists reopen a lunar cold case
Florida swamps - ancient sinkholes
Sinkholes: Florida grapples with the wonders of the not-so-deep
Well-healed faults produce high-frequency earthquake waves
Disaster debris hotlines and fast grants
Geologic Column: You gotta have a plan
Releasing a flood of controversy on the Colorado River
Setting sail on unknown seas: The past, present and future of species rafting
February 2013
Energy Notes: October 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Beryllium
Travels in Geology: Abode of the clouds: A journey to Meghalaya, India
Getting There and Getting Around India
Benchmarks: February 3, 1953: Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" is published, opening a window on the underwater world for millions
Down to Earth With: Terry Plank
Sahara dust brings rain and snow to California
Setting sail on unknown seas: The past, present and future of species rafting
Bare Earth Elements: Voices from GSA 2012
Moon could have formed from Earth after all: Reviving and revising the giant impact theory
Drinking toilet water: The science (and psychology) of wastewater recycling
How strong was the Carrington Event?
The dangers of solar storms: That which gives power can also take it away
Two NASA spacecraft reveal ancient underground cracks from moon's formation
January 2013
Energy Notes: September 2011-2012
Mineral Resource of the Month: Vanadium
Benchmarks: January 1, 1960: The Discovery of "Extinct Radioactivity" The quest to date the elements that formed the solar system
Down to Earth With: Brian Tucker
Apps: Improving home energy efficiency in 2013
Moon could have formed from Earth after all: Reviving and revising the giant impact theory
Drinking toilet water: The science (and psychology) of wastewater recycling
How strong was the Carrington Event?
The dangers of solar storms: That which gives power can also take it away
Superquakes, supercycles, and global earthquake clustering: Recent research and recent quakes reveal surprises in major fault systems
Getting there and getting around the Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale bestseller
Travels in Geology: Famous fossils and spectacular scenery at British Columbia's Burgess Shale
The long road to understanding our star
Here comes the solar maximum: What we know - and don't know - about solar storms and their hazards
Voices: Judged unfairly in L'Aquila - roles and responsibilities should have been considered
May 2015
Energy Notes: October 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Graphite
Counting 'tree' rings in fish skulls provides climate clues
California's big trees dying of thirst
Geomedia: On the web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Megafloods mostly shaped Icelandic canyon landscape
Pre-settlement erosion rates illuminated
Energy Notes: November 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron oxide pigments
Comment: The new frontier: Homesteading on Mars
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Geologic Column: On the Summer Solstice
Getting there and getting around in South Australia
Travels in Geology: Glaciers and grapes in South Australia
Comparing apples to oranges, hyenas to humans
The new anthropology: From bones and stones to biology and behavior
And best picture goes to...'Dante's Peak'
Rock stars: Geologists on the silver screen
Flames fan lasting fallout from Chernobyl
Amber-encased plant could be oldest known grass: Specimen may also preserve a Cretaceous-aged hallucinogen
Where on Earth? - May 2015
Red Planet Roundup: May 2015
Ancient moss reveals tsunami timing
More warming may mean more lightning
A decade of slow slip may have preceded Japan's 2011 earthquake
Yosemite's cliffs in retreat
Comet water unlike Earth's
Could U.S. phosphate deposits help meet growing rare earth demand?
Mysterious rapid radio burst captured live
Earliest primates were tree dwellers
Geologic Column: The Rumpelstiltskin Factor
Comment: When scientists come under legal attack
Bird genomes untangle branches of avian family tree
Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The deadly eruption of Mount Pelée
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
On-site inspections
Beyond the bomb: The world's nuclear watchdog expands its science
Getting there and getting around Nepal
Of temperature and tone: Has climate shaped human languages?
Travels in Geology: A trek through Himalayan geology in Nepal
Fire-driven clouds and swirling winds whipped up record-setting New Mexico blaze
Ground-shaking research: How humans trigger earthquakes
Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Drought
"Dam levels critical" in Cape Town
Cape Town faces a waterless future
Drought drove early humans from Africa
Both urban flooding and rural drying to intensify
Evidence of devastating drought found beneath the Dead Sea
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
California drought stops slow-moving landslides
Benchmarks: November 29, 1991: The Interstate 5 dust storm injures hundreds
Protracted drought threatens California levees
Chinese cave art reveals record of climate change
Geologic Column: Jack and Jill: The sequel
Geomedia: On the web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
California drying out
California: A profusion of drought restrictions with varying results
Colorado River Basin sees severe groundwater depletion
On the Web: Personalizing drought data with digital tools
Geomedia: California's climatic catastrophes detailed in "The West Without Water"
Humans are influencing some extreme weather events, but not all
Drought outlook indicates further problems in Plains and West
Widely used index may have overestimated drought
Dry dock to wet tap: Old ships become floating desalination plants
Impossible Odds, Irrepressible Hope: Pakistan's water woes and the science that can solve them
Lack of water threatens "Garden of Eden"
Return of the Dust Bowl
April 2018
Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur
Geoscience on Film: Roadcuts and rockfalls in mountainous Mizoram
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" is Superlative
How Borneo got its elephants
Lidar preserves record of destroyed theropod tracks
Origins of plant photosynthesis illuminated
Radium levels suggest Arctic Ocean chemistry is changing
Whatever happened to thagomizers and other tail weapons?
Hot tropics drove out ancient reptiles, but they came back
Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils
Unprecedented exploration of undersea volcano yields surprising results
World's longest underwater cave found in Mexico
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Getting there and getting around Oman
Slumgullion: Colorado's natural 'lab' offers insights into landslides worldwide
From farm to filter: Restored wetlands remediate nitrogen pollution
Geomedia: Books: Solar eclipses past, present and future
Earth's "hum" heard at ocean bottom
Where on Earth? - April 2018
Geologic Column: Over the hills and far away
Travels in Geology: Underground awe in France: The caves of the Causses
Getting there and getting around the Causses
Pairing geoheritage and economic development: China's Guizhou Province offers a modern model
Acid rain triggered deadly Chinese landslide
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 wreckage found using modern oceanography tools
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
Chemical tipping point triggers eruptive transitions
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Oldest "Third Pole" ice core recovered
Ceres: A bright spot in the asteroid belt
Residual strain explains later quakes
Measuring earthquakes using fiber-optic cables
Surveying forests from afar
Globe-trotting bacteria found at both poles
Pesky ticks even plagued dinosaurs
Carbon emissions spike when continents rift
Gyres spin up, currents get muddled
Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
Geomedia: On the Web: How will melting ice impact your city?
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Climate change linked to specific weather events for the first time
Sea Ice
Ice (Re)Cap: July 2018
Radium levels suggest Arctic Ocean chemistry is changing
Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
Driftwood reveals ancient Arctic currents and sea-ice levels
Comment: Arctic warming and midlatitude weather: Is there a connection?
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Comment: Crazy times in the Arctic
Wintering in the high Arctic reveals surprising results
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Arctic climate change marked by warmer, wetter conditions
The Arctic is open for research
Endangered Icebreakers: The future of Arctic research, exploration and rescue at risk
Ice (Re) Cap: June 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: February 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Seasonal ice-cover reduction throughout Arctic waters mapped
Warm river water melted Arctic sea ice
Bare Earth Elements: Cool time-lapse shows movement of ice and animals in Antarctica's Ross Sea
Blogging on EARTH: Spring has sprung, at least in some places
U.S. Navy navigates a sea change in the Arctic
CryoScoop: Sea ice synopsis and a whale tale
Mineralogy
Diamonds reveal water in deep mantle
Benchmarks: October 1904: Mineralogy solves a murder
Did crustal chemistry buoy Western Plains?
Down to Earth With: Mineralogist George W. Robinson
New nationwide soil map available online
Earthworms churn out calcite crystals
Minerals also evolve
Africa
Trio of studies track stone tool technology in Kenya
Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils
Glass shards reveal a fiery history in Ethiopia
Getting there and getting around Kalahari
Travels in Geology: Tracking African animals and deranged drainages across the Kalahari
Early humans dealt with Ethiopian supervolcanoes
Teaching geology to biologists: An essay on an interdisciplinary field trip in Africa
Double trouble: Volcanic eruption leads to strong earthquake eight months later
Irrigation drives rain away in East Africa
Widespread malaria risk from African dams
Finding and tracking conflict minerals in the heart of darkness
Ancient floods degassed Lake Kivu
Earliest stone tools pre-date Homo
One whale's incredible journey details East Africa's uplift
Monkeys in the New World earlier than thought
The new anthropology: From bones and stones to biology and behavior
Out of Africa, time and again
Benchmarks: August 15, 1984 & August 21, 1986: African killer lakes erupt
Mapping how malaria risk changes as new dams go up
Modern humans arrived in South Asia 25,000 years later than previously thought?
Oceanic records paint a more complex picture of human evolution
Paleo Patrol: Out of Africa and into Arabia?
Homo
Trio of studies track stone tool technology in Kenya
Mastodon bones point to significantly earlier human presence in North America
The new kid on the block
Redefining Homo: Does our family tree need more branches?
Could early Homo pass the sniff test?
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
Cretaceous
Pterosaurs flew into the Late Cretaceous
Age changes you: Torosaurus actually just old Triceratops
Dinosaurs' true colors revealed
Pterosaur
Pterosaurs flew into the Late Cretaceous
Tiniest pterosaur found in British Columbia
Tricky take-off limited pterosaur size
Religion
Did a massive eruption spur Christianity in Iceland?
Creationism comes to the county fair
Running into the brick wall of Creationism again
Voices: An old Earth for all Muslims but how does evolution fit in?
Mantle Plume
Yellowstone's Mexican mantle plume
Imaging Iceland's volcanic roots
Geologic Column: The notion of mantle plumes
Mantle plume alternative explains Australian volcanism
Textbook mantle plume theory may need revision
Resolving a misplaced source of volcanism in the Galapagos
Corn syrup model splits Yellowstone's plume in two
Usarray
Yellowstone's Mexican mantle plume
Bigfoot education and outreach
USArray: Geoscientists' "Earth Telescope"
Yellowstone
Yellowstone's Mexican mantle plume
Snake River eruption history offers glimpse into Yellowstone hot spot dynamics
Modeling a big mess from Yellowstone
Corn syrup model splits Yellowstone's plume in two
Tracking Yellowstone's Activity
Air Pollution
India's urban areas punch city-shaped holes in fog
Unexpected nanoparticles trace coal pollution
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog smothers London
Dust influences pollution levels in eastern China
Chinese air pollution clears up mystery of London's 1952 hazardous haze
Burning grass releases more nitrogen pollution than burning wood
Kilauea increases asthma risk
Sunlight liberates nitrogen from urban grime
Secondary aerosols a primary cause of Chinese smog
Acid rain recovery in the Northeast
Neutralizing the rain: After much success in the battle against acid rain, challenges remain
Fog
India's urban areas punch city-shaped holes in fog
Harvesting fog could bring water to millions
India
India's urban areas punch city-shaped holes in fog
Geoscience on Film: Roadcuts and rockfalls in mountainous Mizoram
Tiny bones pull India into the story of early primate evolution
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Nigel Hughes
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
Geoscience on Film: Traversing the contours and culture of an ancient delta
Geoscience on Film: Setting the scene amid extreme tectonic and sedimentary processes
Early horse history written in Indian coal mine
The subcontinent's sturdy mammals
Modern humans arrived in South Asia 25,000 years later than previously thought?
Benchmarks: December 3, 1984: Bhopal gas leak kills thousands
Ash
Cretaceous volcanic ash seeded U.S. oilfields
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
How often should we expect volcanic ash clouds over Europe?
Ash vs. airplanes
Warning: Ash Ahead!
Of airplanes and ash clouds: What we've learned since Eyjafjallajökull
Sand shouldn't stand in for volcanic ash in jet engine tests
Chaitén's vigorous volcanic history revealed
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Modeling a big mess from Yellowstone
Kilauea eruptions could shift from mild to wild
Volcanic ash feed southern ocean plankton
Shifting winds blow away Taupo's 'Ultraplinian' title
Voices: Volcanoes everywhere ... is there a link?
Blogging on EARTH linkfest: More on the Iceland eruption
Fire and ice produced Eyjafjalla's explosion
Hazardous Living: Guatemala and Ecuador under volcanic siege ... and other hazards
Hazardous Living: Iceland afire
Tracking volcanic ash: Helping airplanes avoid catastrophe
Gas
Cretaceous volcanic ash seeded U.S. oilfields
Bubble accumulation could explain massive volcanic sulfur releases
Above oil seeps, photosynthetic life flourishes
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A fool's look into the future
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and gas around the world
As Green As It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Coal-to-liquids: Can fuel made from coal replace gasoline?
Natural gas production linked to earthquakes in Texas
Of sounds and cetaceans: Quieting a noisy underwater world
The Changing Face of Sudan
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
Oil
Cretaceous volcanic ash seeded U.S. oilfields
Above oil seeps, photosynthetic life flourishes
Benchmarks: October 9, 1865: First Successful U.S. Oil Pipeline
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Oil-encased water droplets are mini-ecosystems for microbes
NOAA quantifies oil danger from shipwrecks
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: A fool's look into the future
Crystal Ball EARTH: Energy: Oil and gas around the world
Three Cheers for Peak Oil!
Voices: Natural gas can lead the way
As Green As It Gets: Algae Biofuels
Bailout bill passes, extends renewable energy tax credits
Blogging on EARTH: South Sudan secedes - what does that mean for its oil?
Brazil says 'no thanks' to OPEC
Coal-to-liquids: Can fuel made from coal replace gasoline?
Congress lets bans on outer continental shelf drilling expire
EIA: Worldwide oil demand will plummet in 2009
GSA meeting: Hydrocarbons not going into the sunset just yet
Hazardous Living: Guatemala and Ecuador under volcanic siege ... and other hazards
Houston avoids worst of Ike; gas prices jump
How oil and water helped the U.S. win World War II
New York's Dirty Secret: The effort to clean up America's largest oil spill
Obama asks EPA to reconsider state-set emissions standards
Of sounds and cetaceans: Quieting a noisy underwater world
Oil industries escape Ike's wrath
OPEC and Oil: The next 50 years
Reclaiming Alberta's oil sands mines
The Changing Face of Sudan
The quicker oil picker upper
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
Water Wise: An oil plume at depth, and NOAA vs. the White House
West Virginia Coal: Dirty water, dirtier politics - but will there be a cleaner future?
With falling oil prices, short-sellers may win big
Phytoplankton
Cretaceous volcanic ash seeded U.S. oilfields
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2017
Above oil seeps, photosynthetic life flourishes
Ocean 'sneezes' spread algae-infecting virus
Nutrient runoff feeding Baltic Sea dead zone
Volcanic ash feed southern ocean plankton
Acid oceans followed Chicxulub impact
Space Exploration
Benchmarks: July 29, 1958: The Birth of NASA
Down to Earth With: Maria Zuber
Down to Earth With: Buzz Aldrin
Cassini's legacy after two decades
Making oxygen with MOXIE
A great time to land on Mars
Mars class of 2020: A diverse group of missions takes aim at the Red Planet
Geomedia: Books: Exploring space is risky business
Comment: In space, timing is everything
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Benchmarks: January 31, 1961: Ham the chimpanzee, first hominid in space
Philae: Achievement and disappointment
Rosetta's journey
What's in a name: Rosetta, Philae, and 67P?
Rosetta mission ends with a bang: But the discoveries will continue
Benchmarks: February 1962 and 1984: John Glenn and Bruce McCandless make space flight history
Comment: The new frontier: Homesteading on Mars
Geologic Column: Lessons from the final frontier
A tale of two rocks: Moon-like rocks right next door
Bids in space: When should we outsource government science?
Opening up space travel to everyone
Global Warming
Comment: The changing shape of local climates
Twentieth-century warming linked to Pacific trade winds
Voices: Italian seismologists: What should they have said?
Prediction
Comment: The changing shape of local climates
Seismic patterns help forecast eruptions from quiet stratovolcanoes
Lead-up to Icelandic earthquakes seen in groundwater chemistry
Crystal Ball EARTH: Natural Hazards: Reducing society's risks
Department
Down to Earth With: Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Transportation
Down to Earth With: Highway paleontologist Shane Tucker
Arizona road hazard has surprising source
How often should we expect volcanic ash clouds over Europe?
Ash vs. airplanes
Warning: Ash Ahead!
Of airplanes and ash clouds: What we've learned since Eyjafjallajökull
Road salt may be a larger problem for lakes than thought
Sand shouldn't stand in for volcanic ash in jet engine tests
Comment: Pipe Dreams: What have we learned from the Volkswagen Clean-Diesel scandal?
Geologic Column: The 'impact factor' of potholes
Racing to the future of automotive efficiency and performance
New model predicts pumice drift patterns
Geologic Column: By train or pipeline: That is the question
Energy 360: Moving energy - No easy feat, but a vital conversation
Carbon and the city: Tracking emissions from megacities
Geologic Column: Saving the World? Or Just Saving Money?
GSA meeting: Biofuels vs. food - developing countries suffer most
Indonesia
Hazards in paradise: Indonesia prepares for natural disasters
Looking under Lusi: Indonesian mud volcano linked to nearby volcanic complex
Ancient Indonesian tools made by mysterious inhabitants
Getting there and getting around Bali
Travels in Geology: Bali beckons
Sumatran strike-slip earthquakes challenge seismologists
Earthquake rattles eastern Indonesia
Earthquake rocks Sumatra
Merapi continues to erupt
Scores dead, injured following Indonesian earthquake
Tsunami kills hundreds in Indonesia
Lead Poisoning
Toxic treatments: Lead lingers in folk remedies
Antimony may have poisoned Pompeii's drinking water
NYC pigeons are canaries of lead poisoning
Toxic Gardens: The long legacy of urban lead
Rome's lead water pipes likely not a health risk
Gold, lead and death in Nigeria
England
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Getting there and getting around England
Mesozoic
Travels in Geology: Mesozoic masterpiece: England's Jurassic Coast
Early Triassic fossil showed live birth in action
Trial by Fire
February 2014
Travels in Geology: A taste of Provence
Southern Rhone wines
Getting There and Getting Around France
Benchmarks: February 23 – 24, 1999: Alpine Avalanches sweep through Austrian towns, killing dozens
Getting there and getting around Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Energy Notes: September 2012-2013
Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel
Down to Earth With: Eric Riggs
GPS measurements of ground inflation help forecast ash plumes
Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
Getting there and getting around on the John Muir Trail
Be aware and prepare
Travels in Geology: Walking toward Whitney: A journey through the Sierra High Country along the John Muir Trail
A tsunami by many other names
A history of tsunami-like waves on the Great Lakes
Tsunamis from the sky: Can meteotsunamis be forecast?
Harvesting fog could bring water to millions
Ocean dynamics speed sea-level rise along U.S. East Coast
Warring trolls explanation for mysterious basalt pillars revised
2013 Front Range Flooding: An Ecological Perspective
When water, gravity and geology collide: Firsthand observations of the impacts of the 2013 Colorado floods
Disaster strikes along Colorado's Front Range
MAVEN takes off for Mars to study the planet's atmosphere
Undergraduates build and launch a satellite to measure atmospheric drag
Climbing
Down to Earth With: John 'Jack' Reed Jr.
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's first park geologist Greg Stock
Travels in Geology: Rocks and Climbing at Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Geomedia: Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival is geologic showcase
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Shasta
Congressional Fellow
Down to Earth With: New congressional science fellows
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
July 2009
Down to Earth With: Jack Horner
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
Saving Afghanistan: Redevelopment one resource at a time
Afghanistan's mineral wealth
Canyonlands National Park: The Southwest's best-kept secret
Earthquake shakes southern New Zealand
Finding water in the heart of darkness: Afghanistan's ongoing water challenges
New USGS chief appointed
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Rebuilding Afghanistan
Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil
The Moon Men: "Rocket Men" and "Voices from the Moon"
Travels in Geology: Exploring mountains and eating llama in Northern Argentina
When and why L'Aquila came tumbling down
Paleomagnetism
Down to Earth With: Ted Irving
Extinct lunar magnetic field lasted longer than previously thought
Permian-Triassic extinctions timed differently on land and at sea
Brooks Ellwood and the unusual applications of magnetism
Mediterranean mammals migrated prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Ocean Geochemistry
Down to Earth With: Peter Brewer
Blogging On Earth: Humans acidifying ocean at unprecedented rate
Asteroid
Down to Earth With: Lucy McFadden
It's an asteroid, no wait, a comet, no wait…
Small asteroid spotted circling Earth
What are the odds?: Automated system calculates the likelihood that asteroids will hit Earth
Ancient asteroids boiled Earth's oceans
Mineral in Chelyabinsk meteorite reveals past collision
Africa's impact is one that even the dinosaurs would have seen coming
2012: The end of the world or just another year of living in harm's way?
Undressing Vesta
Highlights of 2010: Definitive statements: a new trend?
Bids in space: When should we outsource government science?
Deciphering mass extinctions
Giant dunes, not mega-tsunami deposits?
Dam
Down to Earth With: Matt Kondolf
Geologic Column: Dams in distress
Benchmarks: May 31, 1889: Johnstown flood kills thousands
Benchmarks: November 27, 1873: Red River logjam removed for good
Geomedia: Books: 'Floodpath' recounts the deadly collapse of California's St. Francis Dam
Widespread malaria risk from African dams
Damming the salmon
Iraq's biggest dam on unsure footing
Ground-shaking research: How humans trigger earthquakes
Can dam releases restore river ecosystems?
May 2018
Cape Town faces a waterless future
When more humidity means less water
El Nino "flavors" affect California rainfall
Geologic evidence confirms existence of 405,000-year Milankovitch cycle
Geoscience on Film: The Burma Arc in Myanmar
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended
Which warm waters boosted Hurricane Harvey?
Oldest human remains outside Africa found in Israel
From silver to snow: Full cloud seeding cycle observed
A new look at Cheddar Man
Lava shaped Lake Tahoe
Swelling clay slows landslides
Down to Earth With: Geologist and paleontologist David Wilcots
"Greening" stormwater in Philadelphia
Geologic Column: Rebranding Alexander
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" spotlights seismic risk
Fieldwork among the pixels: Virtual and augmented reality diversify geoscience education
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals
Where on Earth? - May 2018
Geologic Column: A world without measure
Rising waters sink seafloors
Flightless dino had bright, rainbow-colored feathers
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
New map of Titan shows moon's hidden surface
How Borneo got its elephants
Lidar preserves record of destroyed theropod tracks
Origins of plant photosynthesis illuminated
Radium levels suggest Arctic Ocean chemistry is changing
Whatever happened to thagomizers and other tail weapons?
Hot tropics drove out ancient reptiles, but they came back
Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils
Unprecedented exploration of undersea volcano yields surprising results
World's longest underwater cave found in Mexico
Benchmarks: May 3, 2003: New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain falls
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Travels in Geology: Northern Oman: Stunning canyons, towering dunes and the world's largest ophiolite
Getting there and getting around Oman
Oceanic crust in all its glory
Slumgullion: Colorado's natural 'lab' offers insights into landslides worldwide
From farm to filter: Restored wetlands remediate nitrogen pollution
Geomedia: Books: Solar eclipses past, present and future
Double-dip La Nina blamed for Colorado's dry winter
Snowpack
When more humidity means less water
Double-dip La Nina blamed for Colorado's dry winter
Sierra Nevada snowpack lowest in 500 years
Shrinking snowpack projected in western U.S. as rain-snow boundary climbs higher
Endangered snow: how climate change threatens West Coast water supplies
West
When more humidity means less water
Geologic Column: Lighting out for the territory
Drought outlook indicates further problems in Plains and West
Endangered snow: how climate change threatens West Coast water supplies
Return of the Dust Bowl
El Nino
El Nino "flavors" affect California rainfall
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
El Niño gets animated
Early Pacific seafarers set sail in El Niño years
A new — and more toxic — normal? Harmful algal blooms find new habitats in changing oceans
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Persistent Pacific warmth overshadows El Niño
El Niño disaster stunted children's growth
Old piles of shells reveal ancient El Niño patterns
Ocean waves explain which La Niña events will linger
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
Geoscience on Film
Geoscience on Film: The Burma Arc in Myanmar
Geoscience on Film: Roadcuts and rockfalls in mountainous Mizoram
"The Himalaya Connection": Telling a story of geoscientific exploration on film
Geoscience on Film: Innovation meets tradition for earthquake safety
Geoscience on Film: Soaking in beautiful Bhutan
Geoscience on Film: The view from outside Kathmandu
Geoscience on Film: Revisiting an earthquake-ravaged region, one year on
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
Geoscience on Film: Traversing the contours and culture of an ancient delta
Geoscience on Film: Setting the scene amid extreme tectonic and sedimentary processes
Myanmar
Geoscience on Film: The Burma Arc in Myanmar
Planet
TRAPPIST-1 system hosts seven "Earth-like" planets
Second stars can distort planet size estimates
Newly discovered Earth-like worlds are rocky, not gassy
Conjunction injunction: Recent and future planetary alignments
Benchmarks: February 4, 1962: Five planets align - but no end of the world
Mars' ice is pure, not dirty
Super-Earths: Mirrors of our world?
Telescope
TRAPPIST-1 system hosts seven "Earth-like" planets
Mysterious rapid radio burst captured live
Twinkle, twinkle new little star
Core
Are diatoms triggering submarine landslides?
Glass shards reveal a fiery history in Ethiopia
Magnesium part of Earth's magnetic field engine
Introducing Earth's inner inner core
March 29, 1936: Notes on Earth's Inner Core
Ancient meteorites reveal early magnetic fields
Of molten iron and magnetism
Bacteria
Solar eclipse mimics conditions on Mars
Globe-trotting bacteria found at both poles
Tiny ocean bacteria could play big role in climate
Tree of life reshaped
Oil-encased water droplets are mini-ecosystems for microbes
Antibacterial clays could fight superbugs
Lofted by hurricanes, bacteria live the high life
Bacteria back from the brink
Blogging on EARTH: Arsenic provides a G#ALA event in the science world
Eclipse
Solar eclipse mimics conditions on Mars
Geomedia: Books: Solar eclipses past, present and future
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar eclipse "proves" relativity
Oregon
Taking the surprise out of sneaker waves
"Blob"-related warming contributed to Pacific Northwest ozone spike
Getting there and getting around Hells Canyon
Damming the salmon
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Pacific Northwest's heavenly Hells Canyon
New off-the-shelf aerial imaging technique trumps lidar
Setting sail on unknown seas: The past, present and future of species rafting
Waves
Taking the surprise out of sneaker waves
1883 sea rescue informs new model of wind-wave interactions
Sailors right about sneaky rogue waves
Induced Seismicity
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended
Human-induced quakes included in new seismic hazard maps
Israel
Oldest human remains outside Africa found in Israel
Jerusalem tower facelift reveals it's 1,000 years younger
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
Cloud
From silver to snow: Full cloud seeding cycle observed
Lollipop-shaped ice found in clouds
New cloud types recognized
Mountains may cause huge waves in Venusian clouds
Red Planet Roundup: February 2017
Cloud feedbacks drive climate sensitivity
Clouds can form without particles
For cloud formation, a little aerosol goes a long way
AGU: Colorado ski industry owes Great Salt Lake thank you note
Geoengineering
From silver to snow: Full cloud seeding cycle observed
Burying the sky: Turning carbon dioxide into rock
Geomedia: Books: Looking at the World Anew in "The Planet Remade"
From science to science fiction
Benchmarks: October 13, 1947: A disaster with Project Cirrus
Link between volcanoes and drought cools geoengineering prospects
Is it time to invest in entrepreneurial geoengineering?
Dating
Lava shaped Lake Tahoe
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Humans arrived Down Under earlier than thought
Minerals deformed by meteorites reveal age of impact
Jerusalem tower facelift reveals it's 1,000 years younger
Magnetic method dates glacial floods in Iceland
Timing of famed "Millennium Eruption" pinpointed
Meteorites did not spark Ordovician biodiversification
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
Philippines
Benchmarks: June 15, 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts
Benchmarks: November 8, 2013: Super-typhoon Haiyan tests Philippines warning protocols
Asia's hazardous month
Volcanic Eruprtion
Benchmarks: June 15, 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts
Unprecedented exploration of undersea volcano yields surprising results
Oxygen
Comment: Could NASA find evidence of extraterrestrial life by 2050?
A flammable planet: Fire finds its place in Earth history
Ocean oxygen levels control seafloor carbon burial
Benchmarks: Sept. 26, 1912: Birth of Preston Cloud, geologist who deciphered banded iron formations
Nutrient runoff feeding Baltic Sea dead zone
Trial by Fire
Greece
Geologic Column: Rebranding Alexander
Earthquakes shaped ancient Greek culture
Down To Earth With: John Underhill
Pyroclastic flows, not caldera collapse, caused Santorini tsunamis
Getting there and getting around peninsular Greece
Travels in Geology: Peninsular Greece: A gorgeous state of collapse
Voices: Austerity axes geological survey in Greece
Hazardous Living: Bringing down the house at Pompeii
Seismicity
Geomedia: Books: "Quakeland" spotlights seismic risk
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Eavesdropping on Old Faithful
Initial earthquake behavior does not predict outcome
Lack of afterslip in Nepal hints at mounting tensions
Nearly half of Americans in lower 48 at risk for potentially damaging quake shaking
Balanced boulders in earthquake country highlight interconnected faults
Ice sheet has had lasting effect on European earthquakes
Campi Flegrei makes its own concrete caprock
Source of Red Sea's mysterious cannon earthquakes revealed
Injection experiment offers new view of fluid-filled faults
Down to Earth With: Marine Geophysicist Maya Tolstoy
Ground-shaking research: How humans trigger earthquakes
Superquakes, supercycles, and global earthquake clustering: Recent research and recent quakes reveal surprises in major fault systems
Blame it on the rain: The proposed links between severe storms and earthquakes
On the web: Shake, rattle and roll: What does an earthquake sound like?
Idaho
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Salmon River through the Idaho Batholith
Getting there and getting around Idaho
Getting there and getting around Hells Canyon
Damming the salmon
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Pacific Northwest's heavenly Hells Canyon
Big Data
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals
Recovery of 1960s sea-ice satellite images wins dark data contest
Geologic Column: Data security: freezers, floppies and flash drives
Rescuing data from the dark
Digitizing Earth: Developing a cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences
Discovery
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals
Six new deep-sea species discovered
Hazardous Living: Discovery's emotional final voyage
Social Networking
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals
Crowdfunding spotlight
Crowdfunding science: A new piece of the research grant puzzle
Television
Geomedia: Television: "One Strange Rock" is Superlative
Geomedia: Television: 'NOVA' for the earth science enthusiast
TV: Discovery Channel grows more curious
Feathers
Flightless dino had bright, rainbow-colored feathers
Asymmetrical fossil feathers fill in timeline of flight
First fossilized bird of another feather found in Brazil
Oldest birds unearthed in China
All dinosaurs may have had feathers
Dinosaur feathers burst into color
Quoth the feathered, iridescent Microraptor, Nevermore
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx is discovered and described
Dinosaurs of a feather may not have evolved together
Dinosaurs' true colors revealed
Greenland
Ice (Re)Cap: May 2018
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Greenland's growing deltas: Combining historical and modern imagery to decode change in a telltale Arctic landscape
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2017
Comment: Crazy times in the Arctic
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
Benchmarks: October 1, 1960: Camp Century, a cold war ice fortress is built
Ice (Re)Cap: August 2016
Benchmarks: September 21, 1930: Alfred Wegener begins a fateful polar expedition
Ice (Re)Cap: June 2016
Did the Medieval Warm Period welcome Vikings to Greenland?
Ice (Re)Cap: February 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: April 2015
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Seeing beneath Greenland's ice
CryoScoop: A must-read special issue
Cassini
New map of Titan shows moon's hidden surface
Heating up Enceladus' ice-covered ocean
Cassini's legacy after two decades
Evolutionary Biology
Origins of plant photosynthesis illuminated
Predators may have spurred evolution of ancient brittle stars
Horses evolved to get along: Competition between species not main evolutionary driver
Tiny fish illuminates tooth fairy mystery
Turtle shells evolved for burrowing, not protection
Cretaceous amber suggests societal behavior in insects is at least 100 million years old
Fish evolved quickly after earthquake
Tree of life reshaped
A Cambrian-like explosion of mammals in the Mid-Jurassic
Bigger is better in the sea
Bird genomes untangle branches of avian family tree
Benchmarks: February 12, 1809: Charles Robert Darwin is born - and so began modern biology
Highlights of 2010: What does it mean to be human?
How amphibious whales returned to the sea
Paleo Patrol: A hominin family reunion at the Smithsonian
Paleo Patrol: Neanderthal genome offers clues on what makes us human
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
Paleo Patrol: Was mankind's first leap in a forest or savanna?
Questions arise over earliest evidence of human tool use
Chemistry
Radium levels suggest Arctic Ocean chemistry is changing
Pharmaceuticals in urban sediments reveal wastewater treatment effectiveness
Benchmarks: January 13, 1404: England prohibits Alchemy
Lead-up to Icelandic earthquakes seen in groundwater chemistry
Science and soccer: They're both child's play
Permian
Hot tropics drove out ancient reptiles, but they came back
Hangover echinoderms survived the Great Dying
Downgrading the Great Dying
When Earth hit the reset button on life: New research on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Energy Storage
Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils
Shale boom could fuel batteries
Racing to the future of automotive efficiency and performance
Energy storage brings a renewable energy future one step closer
Recycling
Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils
Ultraviolet lights the way for rare earth recycling
Trash-to-treasure: Turning nonrecycled waste into low-carbon fuel
Paving the way for electronic waste recycling
Saving Energy and Water Through Superior Sanitation
Mexico
World's longest underwater cave found in Mexico
Large earthquake rattles Baja California
Paleontologist
Down to Earth With: National Park Service senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci
Desert
Travels in Geology: Northern Oman: Stunning canyons, towering dunes and the world's largest ophiolite
Getting there and getting around Las Vegas
Travels in Geology: Las Vegas: The scenery beyond the slots
Travels in Geology: Cones and craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
Travels in Geology: Tracking African animals and deranged drainages across the Kalahari
Tropical rainfall shifts resulted in greener Sahara
Electric fields lift dust into the air at massive scales
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
Geologic Column: Lighting out for the territory
Travels in Geology: Winter sun and tectonic tales in Tucson
France
Travels in Geology: Underground awe in France: The caves of the Causses
Getting there and getting around the Causses
Getting There & Getting Around Corsica
Travels in Geology: Corsica: A fusion of cultures on the Mediterranean's most mountainous isle
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Canterbury, paving the way for the Chunnel
Travels in Geology: Lentils, lace and lava: France's Massif Central
Geoparks
Pairing geoheritage and economic development: China's Guizhou Province offers a modern model
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
UNESCO adopts Global Geoparks Program
Geoheritage: Preserving Earth's legacy
Travels in Geology: Stonehammer Geopark: A billion years of stories
Karst
Pairing geoheritage and economic development: China's Guizhou Province offers a modern model
Travels in Geology: Limestone and legends in Northern Vietnam
Getting there and getting around Croatia
Travels in Geology: Croatia: Land of limestone
Getting there and getting around in Cuba
Travels in Geology: Journeying through Cuba's geology and culture
March 2018
Pairing geoheritage and economic development: China's Guizhou Province offers a modern model
Down to Earth With: Conservation engineer Emily Pidgeon
Oldest "Third Pole" ice core recovered
Ceres: A bright spot in the asteroid belt
Residual strain explains later quakes
Measuring earthquakes using fiber-optic cables
Surveying forests from afar
Globe-trotting bacteria found at both poles
LIP split by South Atlantic breakup was sourced from deep
Pesky ticks even plagued dinosaurs
Carbon emissions spike when continents rift
Gyres spin up, currents get muddled
Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
Geomedia: On the Web: How will melting ice impact your city?
Geologic Column: Pie on Pi Day, and Einstein's lesser-known legacy
Getting There & Getting Around Corsica
Travels in Geology: Corsica: A fusion of cultures on the Mediterranean's most mountainous isle
Where on Earth? - March 2018
Benchmarks: March 29, 1912: Scott's South Pole Journey Ends in Death
Geomedia: Books: "Aerial Geology": A stunning and informative addition to any coffee table
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Lakeshore shape influences lake-effect snow
Heating up Enceladus' ice-covered ocean
Gettysburg rocks tell battlefield tales
World's longest sauropod trackway exposed
Oldest blood cells found in Early Jurassic ichthyosaur
Spawning salmon engineer landscapes
Drought drove early humans from Africa
How do earthquakes impact landslides?
Creeping danger: Landslide threatens Peruvian village, especially when the earth quakes
Isotopes reveal sources of centuries-old alabaster artifacts
Meteorite impacts may have kick-started ancient subduction
Coal formation nearly froze Earth
Greenland's growing deltas: Combining historical and modern imagery to decode change in a telltale Arctic landscape
Did mud volcanoes set the stage for Burgess Shale fossils?
Acid Rain
Acid rain triggered deadly Chinese landslide
Acid rain recovery in the Northeast
Landslides
Acid rain triggered deadly Chinese landslide
Creeping danger: Landslide threatens Peruvian village, especially when the earth quakes
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Can distant earthquakes trigger submarine landslides?
Fungi stabilize steep slopes
Slow-moving slides may be triggered by cold temperatures
A story in the sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" may have been real
Ancient landslide gave us Zion Canyon
California drought stops slow-moving landslides
Vibrations make large rocky landslides flow like water
Benchmarks: January 3–5, 1982: 18,000 landslides wreak havoc on the San Francisco Bay area
Dating of landslides around Oso reveals recurring patterns
Comment: Assessing the threat from massive rock slope failures in the Norwegian fjordlands
Benchmarks: May 12, 2008: Earthquake devastates western China
Laser experiments illuminate landslide physics
Red Planet Roundup: May 2015
Down to Earth With: The USGS Landslide Response Team
Tohoku tsunami may have gotten a boost from submarine slump
Benchmarks: October 9, 1963: The Vajont Landslide kills 2,500 in Italy
Utah gravity slide was one for the record books
Oso landslide report yields some answers
Comment: The Oso landslide shows need for insurance and better planning
Seattle's landslide risk greater than thought
Voices: Wildfires and debris flows: Federal mud
Blogging on EARTH: First dispatches from EGU
Guatemalan landslide kills 33
Hazardous Living: Preparing for the storm of the century
Hazardous Living: Thirty years after Mount St. Helens exploded
Slippery Slopes: How do we insure against landslides?
Solar Wind
Red Planet Roundup: April 2018
Sun provides water to the moon?
Sonar
Benchmarks: April 4, 2011: Air France Flight 447 wreckage found using modern oceanography tools
Seeing the seafloor in high definition: Modern mapping offers increasing clarity on Earth's vast underwater landscape
Of sounds and cetaceans: Quieting a noisy underwater world
Ceres
Ceres: A bright spot in the asteroid belt
And then there was one: Ceres' disappearing ice volcanoes
Undressing Vesta
Crater
Ceres: A bright spot in the asteroid belt
Travels in Geology: Cones and craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
Mystery impact may have kicked off dramatic warming event
Buried lunar craters filled by lava long ago
Scarps and craters reveal moon's dynamic side
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral discovery ends Meteor Crater debate
Mars Monthly
Iowa impact crater confirmed
Santa Fe impact crater discovery: A series of fortunate events
Dawn
Ceres: A bright spot in the asteroid belt
Undressing Vesta
Forest
Surveying forests from afar
Fossil forest recorded ancient sunspots
Comment: To intervene or not to intervene: Improving the environment
Aerosols help mitigate ill effects of Amazon fires
California's big trees dying of thirst
Helium
LIP split by South Atlantic breakup was sourced from deep
Volcanoes
LIP split by South Atlantic breakup was sourced from deep
Mediterranean drawdown may have caused burst of volcanism
Volcanism spiked global temps during past hothouse
Glass shards reveal a fiery history in Ethiopia
Surprise quake at Mount Fuji triggered by rising gases
King Oraefajokull
Hekla the heckler
Eerily quiet Katla
Where fire freezes: All eyes, ears and instruments on Iceland's volatile volcanoes
Impact or eruptions: Are both to blame in the great end-Cretaceous whodunit?
Modeling 'magma mush' could reveal volcanic histories
Opalescent pools shimmer beneath Santorini
Campi Flegrei makes its own concrete caprock
Ancient floods degassed Lake Kivu
Volcanic lightning turns ash into glass
Bare Earth Elements: "Volcano of Fire" eruption forces evacuations in Mexico
Down the Earth With: Clive Oppenheimer
A front-row seat at a fire-and-ice show
Getting there and getting around the Andean Volcanoes
Andean ski volcanoes
Chaitén's vigorous volcanic history revealed
Down to Earth With: The USGS Landslide Response Team
Travels in Geology: Skiing into the heart of an Andean Volcano
Magma pancakes underlie Toba supervolcano
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Stephen Sparks
Mantle plume alternative explains Australian volcanism
Down to Earth With: Terry Plank
Down to Earth With: James Balog
Comment: Preparing for the volcano in your backyard: New Zealand sets an example
Travels in Geology: Lentils, lace and lava: France's Massif Central
Link between volcanoes and drought cools geoengineering prospects
Travels in Geology: Bali beckons
First building blocks in Oahu found
Kilauea eruptions could shift from mild to wild
Santiaguito Volcano's clockwork behavior provides an exceptional laboratory
Infrasound reveals lava lake levels
Benchmarks: August 15, 1984 & August 21, 1986: African killer lakes erupt
Volcanic ash feed southern ocean plankton
New model predicts pumice drift patterns
Living in the shadow of Mauna Loa: A silent summit belies a volcano's forgotten fury
Augustine Volcano's earthquakes and explosive eruption caused by a clogged conduit
Shifting winds blow away Taupo's 'Ultraplinian' title
Magma mobilizes quickly beneath Mount Hood
Resolving a misplaced source of volcanism in the Galapagos
Volcanic lightning generated in a bottle
GPS measurements of ground inflation help forecast ash plumes
Alaskan volcano doesn't just huff and puff, it screams
Droning on for science
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
The Syracuse University lava experiments
Do–it–yourself lava flows: Science, art and education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
Kilauea's Explosive Past - and Future
Danger in paradise: The hidden hazards of volcano geotourism
AAG: Eruption of El Salvador's Ilopango explains A.D. 536 cooling
Comment: Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide: The missing science
Voices: Dead or alive ... or neither? Why a dormant volcano is not a dead one
Voices: Volcanoes everywhere ... is there a link?
AGU: Aloha, magma! Geothermal engineers drill into surprising lava
AGU: Mount St. Helens has gone back to sleep
Alaska's Mt. Redoubt erupts at last
Beads of water on the moon
Blogging on EARTH linkfest: More on the Iceland eruption
Blogging on EARTH: Second dispatches from EGU
Fire and ice produced Eyjafjalla's explosion
Glaciers, not eruption: False alarm volcano mystery solved
Hazardous Living: Good reading - is the apocalypse upon us?
Hazardous Living: Guatemala and Ecuador under volcanic siege ... and other hazards
Hazardous Living: Iceland afire
Hazardous Living: Thirty years after Mount St. Helens exploded
Merapi continues to erupt
Offbeat Betting: Volcano betting gathering steam
Pacific Northwest earthquake threat heightened?
Report from Ground Zero
Scientists assess Redoubt's fury
Storms brewing over volcanoes
Swarm of earthquakes rattles Yellowstone
The trailblazers
Tracking volcanic ash: Helping airplanes avoid catastrophe
Tracking Yellowstone's Activity
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Shasta
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A volcanic wonderland
Travels in Geology: Taking in Hawaii's Big Island
Tsunami kills hundreds in Indonesia
Undersea volcano erupts near Tonga
USGS fights false Yellowstone warning
Insect
Pesky ticks even plagued dinosaurs
Neonicotinoids: Prominent pesticides escape into the environment
To find a mate, go big or go small, just don't go medium
Ants developed farming millions of years ago
Busy as a bee: New species of bee quarries into sandstone
Ant bodies shaped by environment
Cretaceous amber suggests societal behavior in insects is at least 100 million years old
Underground ants can't take the heat
Bark beetles not to blame for big fires?
Crumbly amber holds dinosaur secrets
Carbon Emissions
Carbon emissions spike when continents rift
Volcanism spiked global temps during past hothouse
Delusions of grandeur in building a low-carbon future
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Paleontology
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist and astronomer Tom Kaye
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
Evolution of eyes, not limbs, led fish onto land
Two ichthyosaurs become one
Ancient plankton communities stressed before mass extinction
Geologic Column: Editia elegantis: A story of science, discovery and the elegance of a wife's contribution
The first dinner in a beast
Benchmarks: December 31, 1853: Dinner in a dinosaur
Underwater archaeology reveals pre-Clovis people butchered mastodon in Florida
Geologic Column: A Jurassic romance
Geomedia: Documentaries: Bearded ladies doing paleontology
Earliest primates were tree dwellers
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits are described
Hell Creek Formation reveals a 'chicken from hell'
Travels in Geology: Peru's petrified forest: The struggle to study and preserve one of the world's most remarkable fossil sites
Dueling dinosaurs hit the auction block
The trouble with turtles: Paleontology at a crossroads
Hominin skull discovery fuels debate about early human evolution
The Lizard King rises
CSI La Brea: Tiny traces reveal big secrets of the tar pits
Mediterranean mammals migrated prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Bringing dinosaur biology into the 21st century
Ecosystem collapse in Pleistocene Australia
"Missing link" or major hype?
Age changes you: Torosaurus actually just old Triceratops
Are birds dinosaurs? New evidence muddies the picture
Art and dinosaurs
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" heat up
Benchmarks: September 30, 1861: Archaeopteryx is discovered and described
Blogging on EARTH: Ancient whale with a big bite named for Moby Dick author
Deciphering mass extinctions
Dinosaurs of a feather may not have evolved together
Dinosaurs' active lifestyles suggest they were warm-blooded
Dinosaurs' true colors revealed
Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial
It's a Dirty Job, But Someone's Gotta Do It
Mini-T. rex fossil found in China
Move over Homo habilis: Early human evolution remapped
New cousin joins primate family tree - but it's also no missing link
Odd crests helped dinos communicate
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
Questions arise over earliest evidence of human tool use
Re-examining the Burgess Shale
Seal missing link found in the Arctic
Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil
Tetrapod tracks reset timing of four-legged evolution
There and back again: Alien From Earth tells the tale of the Hobbit
Triassic Park: On the origin of (dinosaur) species
Warming
Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
Einstein
Geologic Column: Pie on Pi Day, and Einstein's lesser-known legacy
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar eclipse "proves" relativity
Mary Caperton Morton
Geomedia: Books: "Aerial Geology": A stunning and informative addition to any coffee table
Early fossils demonstrate dinosaurs' slow rise
Arctic humidity on the rise
Mobile mapping with lidar hits the road
Biodiversity
Geomedia: Books: "Half-Earth" is only half-compelling
Dino deaths cleared the way for frogs
Meteorites did not spark Ordovician biodiversification
Downgrading the Great Dying
A Cambrian-like explosion of mammals in the Mid-Jurassic
Gulf oil spill threatens subsurface biodiversity
Drilling
Down to Earth With marine geoscientist Harold Tobin
Drilling for gold inside a submarine volcano
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: Volcanologist John Eichelberger
Down to Earth With: Bruce Benson
Ice Sheet
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2018
Greenland's growing deltas: Combining historical and modern imagery to decode change in a telltale Arctic landscape
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2015
Ice sheet has had lasting effect on European earthquakes
Ice (Re)Cap: October 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: June 2015
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
Icebergs were the original Florida snowbirds
Ice (Re) Cap: December 2014
Ice (Re) Cap: October 2014
Seeing beneath Greenland's ice
Snow
Lakeshore shape influences lake-effect snow
Water weight and surface rebound trigger small quakes in California
Slipping point: Snow scientists dig in to decipher avalanche triggers
Shrinking snowpack projected in western U.S. as rain-snow boundary climbs higher
A front-row seat at a fire-and-ice show
Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
Snow triggers quakes on Mount Rainier
AGU: Colorado ski industry owes Great Salt Lake thank you note
Can snowstorms be categorized like hurricanes or other hazards?
Voices: If global warming is real, why is it snowing in DC?
Snowstorm
Lakeshore shape influences lake-effect snow
Blogging on EARTH: Second dispatches from EGU
Can snowstorms be categorized like hurricanes or other hazards?
Designing Snowflakes
Voices: If global warming is real, why is it snowing in DC?
What makes a disaster? Does this blizzard count?
Enceladus
Heating up Enceladus' ice-covered ocean
Cassini's legacy after two decades
Saturn
Heating up Enceladus' ice-covered ocean
Cassini's legacy after two decades
Titan's oddly oriented dunes may be electrostatically sculpted
Saturn's rings: The remains of an icy moon
Keeler's legacy
Benchmarks: April 9, 1895: James Edward Keeler confirms Saturn's rings not solid
Enceladus' extremely alkaline underground ocean
Sun shapes Titan's atmospheric makeup
Two new looks at Titan's dunes
Cassini spots new moon in Saturn's rings
Saturn's polar hexagon stable over time
Civil War
Gettysburg rocks tell battlefield tales
Geology shaped outcomes of Civil War battles
Geologic Column: Geography as destiny: How glaciation led to the Civil War
Lay of the Land: Terrain's Toll on the U.S. Civil War
Jurassic
Oldest blood cells found in Early Jurassic ichthyosaur
North Sea uplift caused Jurassic cooling event
Geologic Column: A Jurassic romance
A Cambrian-like explosion of mammals in the Mid-Jurassic
Dinosaurs' true colors revealed
Trial by Fire
Ecosystem
Spawning salmon engineer landscapes
Beavers preserve wetlands in water-stressed areas
Comment: The Congressional ecosystem: A paleontologist's perspective
Liverworts, not moss, dominated Earth's early terrestrial ecosystems
Can dam releases restore river ecosystems?
Crumbly amber holds dinosaur secrets
Polar dino tracks show full ecosystem
Removing predators increases carbon emissions
Releasing a flood of controversy on the Colorado River
Mississippi Delta drowning
February 2018
Spawning salmon engineer landscapes
Drought drove early humans from Africa
How do earthquakes impact landslides?
Creeping danger: Landslide threatens Peruvian village, especially when the earth quakes
Isotopes reveal sources of centuries-old alabaster artifacts
Meteorite impacts may have kick-started ancient subduction
Coal formation nearly froze Earth
Growing up saber-toothed: Strong from the start
Greenland's growing deltas: Combining historical and modern imagery to decode change in a telltale Arctic landscape
Did mud volcanoes set the stage for Burgess Shale fossils?
Double-dip La Nina blamed for Colorado's dry winter
Where on Earth? - February 2018
Geologic Column: Travels with Claudia: Rediscovering America
Getting there and getting around Las Vegas
Travels in Geology: Las Vegas: The scenery beyond the slots
Benchmarks: February 12, 1986: France and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Canterbury, paving the way for the Chunnel
Looking under Lusi: Indonesian mud volcano linked to nearby volcanic complex
Geomedia: Books: Putting 'Seeds on Ice' to protect crop diversity
Red Planet Roundup: February 2018
Fossil sea turtle hatchling reveals its Eocene proteins
Fossil reefs show sea level rose in bursts
Ice age didn't freeze Florida's category 5 hurricanes
Mineral Resource of the Month: Titanium
Congress mulls options for abandoned mines legislation
Beavers preserve wetlands in water-stressed areas
Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mine was prolific
Unexpected nanoparticles trace coal pollution
Arizona road hazard has surprising source
Denali's Asian dinosaurs
Mediterranean tsunami record may be overreported
Small warm ponds: Ideal incubators for first life?
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
Dividing line: The past, present and future of the 100th Meridian
A flammable planet: Fire finds its place in Earth history
Peru
Creeping danger: Landslide threatens Peruvian village, especially when the earth quakes
Colonial mining left its mark in Andean ice cores
El Niño disaster stunted children's growth
How the Spanish invasion altered the Peruvian coast
Travels in Geology: Peru's petrified forest: The struggle to study and preserve one of the world's most remarkable fossil sites
The long legacy of Peru's "Mine of Death"
Travels in Geology: Trekking the Inca Trail
Snowball Earth
Coal formation nearly froze Earth
Comment: Did life start on a snowball?
Warty algae-like sheets survived Snowball Earth events
Did volcanism drive Earth into global glaciation?
Bone
Growing up saber-toothed: Strong from the start
Did the first humans arrive in North America a lot earlier?
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I
Mammoths may have suffered from bone disease
Sauropod skull mystery
Gender equity in dino bones
Earliest primates were tree dwellers
One-of-a-kind dinosaur skull goes digital
March 2017
Growing up saber-toothed: Strong from the start
Maui reef degradation linked to contamination in coastal groundwater
Dental plaque reveals later start date for hominin cooking
Seafloor volcanism linked to glacial cycles
Getting there and getting around Easter Island
Travels in Geology: Easter Island's enduring enigmas
El Niño gets animated
White Cliffs of Dover on the retreat
Tectonics trigger underwater volcanism
Down to Earth With: Planetary geologist James W. Head III
Geomedia: Radio: "The Infinite Monkey Cage" takes listeners to the edge of the universe and beyond
Early spring thaw triggers Arctic greenhouse gas release
Pyroclastic flows, not caldera collapse, caused Santorini tsunamis
Earth's magnetic field illuminates ocean temperatures
Soil moisture may help predict power outages in hurricanes
Where on Earth? - March 2017
Travels in Geology: Exploring Maine's magnificent Mount Katahdin
Ice (Re)Cap: March 2017
Life on land 300 million years earlier than thought
Gravity changes may warn of large earthquakes
Tiny fish illuminates tooth fairy mystery
Kaikoura quake jumped from fault to fault in New Zealand
Chinese air pollution clears up mystery of London's 1952 hazardous haze
Beneath one volcano, enough water to fill Lake Superior
Geologic Column: Rebirth on the vernal equinox
Benchmarks: March 11–13, 1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 Paralyzes New York City
Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson
Geomedia: Film: Exploring Florida's aquifers with filmmaker Tom Fitz
Early Pacific seafarers set sail in El Niño years
Early fossils demonstrate dinosaurs' slow rise
Discovered: One of the last-surviving Asian dinosaurs
Ants developed farming millions of years ago
Early humans dealt with Ethiopian supervolcanoes
Assessing how well earthquake hazard maps work: Insights from weather and baseball
To cool the planet, volcanoes of the future will need more firepower
Broadening ocean current could carry less heat poleward with climate change
The Dinosaur Garden of the Gobi: Motivating future paleontologists
Saving Mongolia's dinosaurs and inspiring the next generation of paleontologists
Comment: Crazy times in the Arctic
Improved genetic simulations identify human genes passed down from Neanderthals, Denisovans
Tar Pits
Growing up saber-toothed: Strong from the start
La Brea climate adaptation as different as cats and dogs
CSI La Brea: Tiny traces reveal big secrets of the tar pits
Delta
Greenland's growing deltas: Combining historical and modern imagery to decode change in a telltale Arctic landscape
Travels in Geology: Tracking African animals and deranged drainages across the Kalahari
Measuring rising seas is tricky in deltas
Sinking sediment in deltas is as important as swelling seas
Raising California's Sinking Delta
La Nina
Double-dip La Nina blamed for Colorado's dry winter
Ocean waves explain which La Niña events will linger
La Niña could set the stage for flu pandemics
January 2018
No river meant no floods for ancient Indus settlements
Mediterranean drawdown may have caused burst of volcanism
Congress mulls options for abandoned mines legislation
Beavers preserve wetlands in water-stressed areas
Unexpected nanoparticles trace coal pollution
Arizona road hazard has surprising source
Denali's Asian dinosaurs
Mediterranean tsunami record may be overreported
Small warm ponds: Ideal incubators for first life?
Down to Earth With: Wildfire meteorologist Craig Clements
Dividing line: The past, present and future of the 100th Meridian
A flammable planet: Fire finds its place in Earth history
Nothing is clear about who left marks on ancient bones
Where on Earth? - January 2018
Travels in Geology: Roaming the rocky coastline of Downeast Maine
Benchmarks: January 25, 1968: The last firefall: A Yosemite tradition flames out
Ice (Re)Cap: January 2018
It's an asteroid, no wait, a comet, no wait…
Predators may have spurred evolution of ancient brittle stars
Western wildfires affect water quality
Geologic Column: Celebrating Old Rock Day
Stable isotopes offer novel methods of disease detection
Impact signature in rock produced by lightning strikes
In feats of tectonic strength, grain size matters
Fossilized dinosaur feces reveal flexitarian diet
From space to village: NASA's SERVIR program brings a big picture to local communities
Science meets art: Tiny trilobite gets huge makeover
In the lab, machine learning improves quake forecasts
Turkey DNA reveals Mesa Verde denizens moved to New Mexico
Nautical charts reveal coral decline around Florida Keys
Earthquakes shaped ancient Greek culture
Volcanism spiked global temps during past hothouse
New Zealand quake triggers two large slow-slip events
19th-century discovery now reveals modern human arrival in Sumatra
Mysterious Miocene bipedal footprints found in Crete
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Comment: Making the first (and last) geoscience class count
United States
Geologic Column: Travels with Claudia: Rediscovering America
Dividing line: The past, present and future of the 100th Meridian
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery returns from the West
Geologic Column: Thanksgiving's unsung hero
Nevada
Getting there and getting around Las Vegas
Travels in Geology: Las Vegas: The scenery beyond the slots
Beavers preserve wetlands in water-stressed areas
Firefighting gets a leg up from earthquake sensor networks
Asbestos found in Nevada and Arizona: Roadblock and potential health hazard?
Messinian Salinity Crisis
Mediterranean drawdown may have caused burst of volcanism
Mediterranean mammals migrated prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Sea Level
Mediterranean drawdown may have caused burst of volcanism
Fossil reefs show sea level rose in bursts
Sea-surface temperatures during last interglacial similar to modern day
Measuring rising seas is tricky in deltas
How the NC-20 Succeeded
Local coastal impacts underestimated from sea-level rise
Raising California's Sinking Delta
Salt
Red Planet Roundup: February 2018
How the Arctic became salty
Travels in Geology: Sky-high adventure on Bolivia's Altiplano
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World heritage preserved in salt
Whirling "gravel devils" show wind can carry more than just sand
Road salt may be a larger problem for lakes than thought
Shallow crust magma with a dash of salt and peperite
Bacteria back from the brink
Protein
Fossil sea turtle hatchling reveals its Eocene proteins
Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil
Ice Age
Ice age didn't freeze Florida's category 5 hurricanes
End of ice age may have been too wet for megafauna
Small floods can carve big canyons
Cave paintings confirm mystery European bison species
Comment: Will we eliminate Earth's Ice-Age cycle?
Humans, megafauna coexisted in Patagonia before extinction
Ice sheet has had lasting effect on European earthquakes
Southbound icebergs off the hook for ice-age cooling
July 28, 1996: Kennewick man is discovered
Fieldwork revises ice-free corridor hypothesis of human migration
Earliest instrumental temperature record recovered in Italy
December 2017
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
Driftwood reveals ancient Arctic currents and sea-ice levels
Climate change linked to specific weather events for the first time
In the lab, machine learning improves quake forecasts
Turkey DNA reveals Mesa Verde denizens moved to New Mexico
Nautical charts reveal coral decline around Florida Keys
Earthquakes shaped ancient Greek culture
Volcanism spiked global temps during past hothouse
New Zealand quake triggers two large slow-slip events
19th-century discovery now reveals modern human arrival in Sumatra
Geologic Column: Dams in distress
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix
Mysterious Miocene bipedal footprints found in Crete
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Ali Nabavizadeh
Comment: Making the first (and last) geoscience class count
Where on Earth? - December 2017
Travels in Geology: The geological riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Benchmarks: December 5, 1952: The Great Smog smothers London
Comment: Arctic warming and midlatitude weather: Is there a connection?
Both urban flooding and rural drying to intensify
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
Transitional Chilesaurus fills gap between major dinosaur groups
What drives hot spots of sea-level rise?
Dino deaths cleared the way for frogs
Caldera clays may hold key to lithium independence
Can fossil footprints reveal the weight of a dinosaur?
Seismic patterns help forecast eruptions from quiet stratovolcanoes
Antimony may have poisoned Pompeii's drinking water
Imaging Iceland's volcanic roots
Alaskan subduction zone mirrors Tohoku zone that unleashed tsunami
Desktop seismology: How a maker-inspired device is changing seismic monitoring
Cassini's legacy after two decades
Zinc
Mineral Resource of the Month: Zinc
October 2017
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
Bare Earth Elements: Bone up on your spooky geo-vocabulary this Halloween
Geomedia: Books: Vivid anecdotes abound in "Eruption: The untold story of Mount St. Helens"
Northern Finns didn't starve during Little Ice Age
Can distant earthquakes trigger submarine landslides?
How long will the lava flow? Predicting eruption durations with satellite monitoring
Another whiptail dinosaur added to sauropod family tree
Mangroves sprouted in Arctic during Eocene
Microbes care about energy efficiency
Two-faced space worm could inform regenerative medicine
Limestone reservoirs boost volcanic carbon emissions
Chemical clues illuminate fossil plant relationships
T-A-P (Testing, Awareness, Prevention)
Troubled waters: Lead lurking in U.S. water supplies
Can preserved proteins reveal paint-by-numbers plumage?
Cretaceous collagen: Can molecular paleontology glean soft tissue from dinosaurs?
New method offers improved monitoring of Kilauea
Where on Earth? - October 2017
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The deadliest wildfire in American history incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Geologic Column: A masochist hikes through the heather
Red Planet Roundup: October 2017
Water weight and surface rebound trigger small quakes in California
First complete DNA sequences from Egyptian mummies
Mapping Louisiana's disappearing shoreline
Lollipop-shaped ice found in clouds
Solar-powered paint could produce hydrogen for fuel
Minerals deformed by meteorites reveal age of impact
Neolithic farmers impacted sedimentation
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" aptly named
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
Getting there and getting around Flagstaff, Arizona
Travels in Geology: Cones and craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
New map of Arctic geology published
How the Arctic became salty
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or premature conclusion? Examining the ethical implications of naming a new epoch
Comment: Providing resources for future generations - Technical and human challenges
Glass shards reveal a fiery history in Ethiopia
Volcanism triggered end-Triassic extinction
Jerusalem tower facelift reveals it's 1,000 years younger
Making oxygen with MOXIE
A great time to land on Mars
Mars class of 2020: A diverse group of missions takes aim at the Red Planet
Strontium
Mineral Resource of the Month: Strontium
August 2017
Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon
Ancient wildfires suggest rising atmospheric oxygen helped end past ocean anoxia
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery returns from the West
Geomedia: Books: Exploring space is risky business
Reconstructing ancient oxidant levels and their climatic effects
Asymmetrical fossil feathers fill in timeline of flight
T. rex's bone-crushing bite
Coatings may prevent pipeline clogs
A mammoth king: Was the legend of King Hygelac in "Beowulf" inspired by a fossil find?
Baby Louie dinosaur fossil gets a formal name
Earthquakes make volcanoes more — and less — gassy
Transylvanian ice cave reveals European winter climate record
Dust influences pollution levels in eastern China
Young Costa Rican lavas might reflect pockets of primordial mantle
Why meteors snap, crackle and pop
Where on Earth? - August 2017
Geologic Column: Alternative history: Earth in a funhouse mirror
Benchmarks: August 31, 1886: Magnitude-7 earthquake rocks Charleston, South Carolina
Down to Earth With: Cave microbiologist Hazel Barton
Comment: In space, timing is everything
Geomedia: Books: Earth faces challenges, but are they tipping points?
Red Planet Roundup: August 2017
Titan's oddly oriented dunes may be electrostatically sculpted
Evidence of devastating drought found beneath the Dead Sea
Eavesdropping on Old Faithful
Nineteenth-century cows muddied Southern California continental shelf
Getting there and getting around Austria's Salzkammergut
Travels in Geology: Austria's Salzkammergut: World heritage preserved in salt
Stock traders' algorithm finds slow earthquakes
Delusions of grandeur in building a low-carbon future
Earth-like exoplanet shows signs of supporting life
Lidar sheds light on roadside rockfall hazard
Horned dinosaur find a first for eastern North America
Massive trove of dinosaur tracks cataloged in Australia
Bottom dropping out of coral reefs
In a position to lead: How military technology and innovation can ease the world's water challenges
Mastodon bones point to significantly earlier human presence in North America
June 2017
Mineral Resource of the Month: Fluorspar
Down to Earth With: Paleoclimatologist Gifford H. Miller
Geomedia: Mixed media: Geo-art collaboration shifts perspectives on earth materials
Martian channels carved by lava, not water?
Evolution of eyes, not limbs, led fish onto land
New cloud types recognized
Northeast and Midwest U.S. projected to warm faster than national average
Two ichthyosaurs become one
Platinum may point to impact theory for Younger Dryas
Rearranging the dinosaur family tree
Comment: A moving target: What you need to know about drone regulations
The only Earth: Exploring the link between plate tectonics and life on the blue planet
Whirling "gravel devils" show wind can carry more than just sand
Burying the sky: Turning carbon dioxide into rock
Where on Earth? - June 2017
"The Himalaya Connection": Telling a story of geoscientific exploration on film
Getting there and getting around Kalahari
Travels in Geology: Tracking African animals and deranged drainages across the Kalahari
Benchmarks: June 1977: First Excavations at Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds
Geologic Column: Is it aged or mature?
Down to Earth With: Biogeochemist Stephen MacAvoy
Geomedia: Books: Looking at the World Anew in "The Planet Remade"
Red Planet Roundup: June 2017
Ceres' homemade organic materials
The mackerel year: Tambora changed how New England fished
Monsoon shifts shaped early Chinese cultures
Ups and downs of potassium feldspar may play role in clouds and climate
Horses evolved to get along: Competition between species not main evolutionary driver
Timing of famed "Millennium Eruption" pinpointed
Comment: Kitchen counter geology: Bringing rock identification to a new audience
1883 sea rescue informs new model of wind-wave interactions
When and how did plate tectonics begin on Earth?
Meteorites did not spark Ordovician biodiversification
Are North Atlantic storm tracks shifting south?
"Blob"-related warming contributed to Pacific Northwest ozone spike
How often should we expect volcanic ash clouds over Europe?
Tibetan Plateau populated long before advent of agriculture
Acid Mine Drainage
Congress mulls options for abandoned mines legislation
Bringing geoscience to bear on the problem of abandoned mines
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Mix of acid mine drainage and fracking fluid a recipe for remediation?
All that glitters... Acid mine drainage: The toxic legacy of gold mining in South Africa
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
Remediation
Congress mulls options for abandoned mines legislation
Bringing geoscience to bear on the problem of abandoned mines
Gold, lead and death in Nigeria
Arizona
Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mine was prolific
Arizona road hazard has surprising source
Getting there and getting around Flagstaff, Arizona
Travels in Geology: Cones and craters in Flagstaff, Arizona
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Travels in Geology: Sedona: A journey to the edge of a supercontinent
November 10, 1934: Arizona declares war against California at Parker Dam
Getting there and getting around in Tucson
Searching the stars
Travels in Geology: Winter sun and tectonic tales in Tucson
Benchmarks: April 1, 1877: Prospector begins search for Tombstone's silver
Native American
Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mine was prolific
Turkey DNA reveals Mesa Verde denizens moved to New Mexico
The first Americans: How and when were the Americas populated?
Down to Earth With: Ethnogeologist Steven Semken
Geologic Column: Thanksgiving's unsung hero
Kennewick Man related to modern Native Americans
July 28, 1996: Kennewick man is discovered
Alaska
Denali's Asian dinosaurs
Alaskan subduction zone mirrors Tohoku zone that unleashed tsunami
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Early spring thaw triggers Arctic greenhouse gas release
Benchmarks: July 9, 1958: Megatsunami drowns Lituya Bay, Alaska
Buried sands tell of tsunami hazard from creeping megathrust fault
Fish evolved quickly after earthquake
First all-digital geologic map of Alaska released
Ice (Re)Cap: April 2016
Alaskan megathrust fault more active under Kodiak
Augustine Volcano's earthquakes and explosive eruption caused by a clogged conduit
Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
Tackling "Boundary Faults" across the Alaska-Yukon border: A report from the field
Alaska's Mt. Redoubt erupts at last
Scientists assess Redoubt's fury
Testing methane's potential on the North Slope
USGS finds giant gas hydrate deposits on North Slope
Maine
Travels in Geology: Roaming the rocky coastline of Downeast Maine
Getting there and getting around Mount Katahdin
Travels in Geology: Exploring Maine's magnificent Mount Katahdin
Exploring the newest gift to America: Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
Tourism
Benchmarks: January 25, 1968: The last firefall: A Yosemite tradition flames out
Travels in Geology: Trekking the high terrain of Tajikistan
Danger in paradise: The hidden hazards of volcano geotourism
Yosemite
Benchmarks: January 25, 1968: The last firefall: A Yosemite tradition flames out
Down to Earth With: Yosemite's first park geologist Greg Stock
Seismometers listen for falling rocks
Yosemite's cliffs in retreat
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
Comet
It's an asteroid, no wait, a comet, no wait…
Philae: Achievement and disappointment
Rosetta's journey
What's in a name: Rosetta, Philae, and 67P?
Rosetta mission ends with a bang: But the discoveries will continue
Rosetta spies cometary sinkholes
Comet water unlike Earth's
Rosetta: Off to decipher a comet's secrets
Comet ISON still intrigues and inspires, even after its demise
Hubble Space Telescope
It's an asteroid, no wait, a comet, no wait…
Jupiter's shrinking Great Red Spot
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess
Invertebrate
Predators may have spurred evolution of ancient brittle stars
Robotic mussels track temperature change
Deciphering mass extinctions
Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial
Water Quality
Western wildfires affect water quality
Antimony may have poisoned Pompeii's drinking water
T-A-P (Testing, Awareness, Prevention)
Troubled waters: Lead lurking in U.S. water supplies
Down to Earth With: Evan Thomas
Road salt may be a larger problem for lakes than thought
Geologic Column: Beer's secret ingredient: geology
Neutralizing the rain: After much success in the battle against acid rain, challenges remain
Science and soccer: They're both child's play
Extreme Weather
Climate change linked to specific weather events for the first time
More than a nuisance: Over time, small floods cost more than extreme events
The mackerel year: Tambora changed how New England fished
Tallying temperature drops inside tornadoes
Crippling heat stress projected by midcentury in densely populated regions
Benchmarks: April 12, 1934: Record winds buffet Mount Washington
Social sciences improve tornado warnings
Humans are influencing some extreme weather events, but not all
Impact
Impact signature in rock produced by lightning strikes
Minerals deformed by meteorites reveal age of impact
Platinum may point to impact theory for Younger Dryas
Mystery impact may have kicked off dramatic warming event
Impact or eruptions: Are both to blame in the great end-Cretaceous whodunit?
Meteorites might have created Earth's earliest continents
Geologic Column: The 'impact factor' of potholes
Ancient asteroids boiled Earth's oceans
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral discovery ends Meteor Crater debate
Giant bolide hit South Africa 2.5 billion years ago
Mineral in Chelyabinsk meteorite reveals past collision
Africa's impact is one that even the dinosaurs would have seen coming
Acid oceans followed Chicxulub impact
Ancient seawater found in Chesapeake Bay impact crater
Lessons from the Russian meteor burst
Iowa impact crater confirmed
Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial
Giant dunes, not mega-tsunami deposits?
Santa Fe impact crater discovery: A series of fortunate events
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, from impact craters to executive orders
Shocked Quartz
Impact signature in rock produced by lightning strikes
Santa Fe impact crater discovery: A series of fortunate events
Crustacean
Fossilized dinosaur feces reveal flexitarian diet
Re-examining the Burgess Shale
Shell-shocked: How different creatures deal with an acidifying ocean
Trilobite
Science meets art: Tiny trilobite gets huge makeover
First trilobite eggs found in fool's gold
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Nigel Hughes
Did tidal zone trilobites lead the way onto land?
New Mexico
Turkey DNA reveals Mesa Verde denizens moved to New Mexico
Benchmarks: July 4, 1054: "Birth" of the Crab Nebula
A tantalizing treasure
On the trail of treasure in the Rocky Mountains
Witnessing geology in action: A rockfall in the garden of the gods
Santa Fe impact crater discovery: A series of fortunate events
Coral
Nautical charts reveal coral decline around Florida Keys
Bottom dropping out of coral reefs
Maui reef degradation linked to contamination in coastal groundwater
Travels in Geology: Touring Texas' Trans-Pecos
Some coral reefs bounce back after bleaching
Twentieth-century warming linked to Pacific trade winds
Oldest-known skeletal animals found
Cryptic creatures made for a spectacular hanging garden
Corals find a way to adapt?
Blogging on EARTH: Finding prehistoric souvenirs in Michigan
Travels in Geology: Twin coral reefs separated in time in Western Australia
Ancient Ruins
Earthquakes shaped ancient Greek culture
Travels in Geology: Turkey's storied Turquoise Coast
Underwater Roman marble traced to Greece, Italy and Turkey
Travels in Geology: Peninsular Greece: A gorgeous state of collapse
Sumatra
19th-century discovery now reveals modern human arrival in Sumatra
Dehydrated sediment layer made Sumatra quake stronger
Downgoing plate topography stopped 2005 Sumatra rupture
Sumatran strike-slip earthquakes challenge seismologists
Earthquake rocks Sumatra
Politics
Down to Earth With: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix
Comment: The Congressional ecosystem: A paleontologist's perspective
Geologic Column: Alternative history: Earth in a funhouse mirror
Volcanoes and historical politics
Energy 360: Moving energy - No easy feat, but a vital conversation
Energy 360: Leaving our corners for the radical middle: New Zealand sets an example
Why is the U.S. so insecure about its energy security? Measures of energy independence show it is increasing, not decreasing
Oil barrel politics
The art of un-legislating
Voices: A growing need for geoscience diplomacy
Bailout bill passes, extends renewable energy tax credits
Blogging on EARTH: South Sudan secedes - what does that mean for its oil?
Energy's the hot topic this week on the Hill
Is it time to invest in entrepreneurial geoengineering?
Obama asks EPA to reconsider state-set emissions standards
November 2017
Opportunist organisms rafted across the Pacific on plastic
Extinct lunar magnetic field lasted longer than previously thought
Dino deaths cleared the way for frogs
Caldera clays may hold key to lithium independence
Can fossil footprints reveal the weight of a dinosaur?
Seismic patterns help forecast eruptions from quiet stratovolcanoes
Antimony may have poisoned Pompeii's drinking water
Volcanic activity contributed to first of the "Big Five" mass extinctions
Imaging Iceland's volcanic roots
Alaskan subduction zone mirrors Tohoku zone that unleashed tsunami
Marine megafaunal extinction discovered
Desktop seismology: How a maker-inspired device is changing seismic monitoring
Where on Earth? - November 2017
Benchmarks: November 18, 1929: Turbidity currents snap trans-Atlantic cables
Geologic Column: Giving Konrad Zuse his due
Getting there and getting around Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Travels in Geology: The diverse geology, landscapes and whiskys of Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Comment: The Congressional ecosystem: A paleontologist's perspective
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
Ice (Re)Cap: November 2017
Microbes influence ooid formation
Second stars can distort planet size estimates
Humans arrived Down Under earlier than thought
When agriculture went to our heads
Geomedia: Books: Vivid anecdotes abound in "Eruption: The untold story of Mount St. Helens"
Northern Finns didn't starve during Little Ice Age
Can distant earthquakes trigger submarine landslides?
How long will the lava flow? Predicting eruption durations with satellite monitoring
Another whiptail dinosaur added to sauropod family tree
Mangroves sprouted in Arctic during Eocene
Microbes care about energy efficiency
Pharmaceuticals in urban sediments reveal wastewater treatment effectiveness
Two-faced space worm could inform regenerative medicine
Limestone reservoirs boost volcanic carbon emissions
Chemical clues illuminate fossil plant relationships
T-A-P (Testing, Awareness, Prevention)
Troubled waters: Lead lurking in U.S. water supplies
Cretaceous collagen: Can molecular paleontology glean soft tissue from dinosaurs?
Appalachian Mountains
Travels in Geology: The geological riches of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
Tectonic rejuvenation in North America's ancient mountains
A real rift in the midcontinent
Travels in Geology: Thrills and spills at West Virginia's New River Gorge
Crust
Red Planet Roundup: December 2017
When and how did plate tectonics begin on Earth?
Breakup of Pangea led to thicker oceanic crust
Enso
What drives hot spots of sea-level rise?
Trans-Niño years could foster tornado outbreaks
La Niña could set the stage for flu pandemics
Voices: Climate change and civil conflict: New clues from El Nino
Natural Resources
Caldera clays may hold key to lithium independence
Comment: Providing resources for future generations - Technical and human challenges
Comment: To intervene or not to intervene: Improving the environment
Thirsty business: How the tech industry is bracing for a water-scarce future
Wedge approach proposed to lower water stress
A dry and ravaged land: Investigating water resources in Afghanistan
Virtual water: Tracking the unseen water in goods and resources
Energy Notes: January 2013-2014
Mineral Resource of the Month: Niobium
Staking a claim: Deep-sea mining nears fruition
Mix of acid mine drainage and fracking fluid a recipe for remediation?
Caspian Sea: Negotiation Support System
Gaming the system in the Caspian Sea: Can game theory solve a decades-old dispute?
Energy 360: Leaving our corners for the radical middle: New Zealand sets an example
Building resource corridors in Afghanistan: A solution to an interminable war?
SEC mandates businesses disclose use of conflict minerals
Saving Afghanistan: Redevelopment one resource at a time
Afghanistan's mineral wealth
Around the world in the Solar Taxi
Finding water in the heart of darkness: Afghanistan's ongoing water challenges
How oil and water helped the U.S. win World War II
Is there really a minerals crisis?
Restarting U.S. rare earth production?
Voices: Climate change and civil conflict: New clues from El Nino
Ancient Rome
Antimony may have poisoned Pompeii's drinking water
Geologic Column: The dog days of July
Travertine buildup reflects ancient Rome's water usage
Rome's hidden water trade led to glory, maybe ruin
Rome's lead water pipes likely not a health risk
Blogging on EARTH: New lessons from antiquity, this time on construction
December 2016
Marine megafaunal extinction discovered
Geologic Column: New Year's as we know it is new
Ant bodies shaped by environment
Scientists find earthquakes trigger instantaneous aftershocks on neighboring faults
Getting there and getting around Shetland
Travels in Geology: Scotland's stunning Shetland
Panama's isthmus stays 3 million years young: Further evidence needed to support an older age
Slow-moving slides may be triggered by cold temperatures
Green corridors led humans out of Africa
Mysterious Antarctic algae blown in by high winds
Cosmic suntan
Rethinking Pangea? Ancient ocean crust challenges supercontinent theory
An undersea volcano yields its secrets
Seafloor topography drives Earth's great conveyor belt
Wintering in the high Arctic reveals surprising results
New research suggests Syrian refugees must be accounted for in seismic risk models
Life-saving diplomacy: The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program at thirty
Tiniest pterosaur found in British Columbia
Extinct tiger had unique elbow, hunting style
A story in the sediment: Emperor Yu's "Great Flood" may have been real
Improved genetic simulations identify human genes passed down from Neanderthals, Denisovans
Geologic Column: Conscious landscapes: Thinking like a septic tank
Comment: To intervene or not to intervene: Improving the environment
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I
Down to Earth With: Underwater cave explorer Jill Heinerth
Travels in Geology: Exploring an icon of Patagonia: Chile's Torres del Paine National Park
Where on Earth? - December 2016
Geomedia: Gifts: Holiday Gift Guide
Ice (Re)Cap: December 2016
Tiny bones pull India into the story of early primate evolution
New species of extinct dolphin found in Smithsonian archives
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
Nutrient deficiency delayed life after mass extinction
Small-scale factors influence mantle flow under the seafloor
Smokier U.S. West as climate changes
A L'Aquila trigger, seismic gaps and poor construction: What we've learned from the August earthquake in Italy
Tilted Himalayan temples hold clues to past shaking
Cloud feedbacks drive climate sensitivity
Why tectonic plates lurch forward when they break
Ancient plankton communities stressed before mass extinction
Kilauea increases asthma risk
Philae: Achievement and disappointment
Rosetta's journey
What's in a name: Rosetta, Philae, and 67P?
Rosetta mission ends with a bang: But the discoveries will continue
Bare Earth Elements
Bare Earth Elements: Bone up on your spooky geo-vocabulary this Halloween
Bare Earth Elements: Tour brings hurricane hunting aircraft and expertise to the masses
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: "Volcano of Fire" eruption forces evacuations in Mexico
Bare Earth Elements: Past and present directors dissect the future of USGS
Bare Earth Elements: Search the seafloor firsthand (and live!)
Bare Earth Elements: Mars rocks wear manganese coats
Bare Earth Elements: EARTH's Top 10 online stories of 2013 ... (Yes, it's a list)
Bare Earth Elements: AGU 2013 wrap-up
Bare Earth Elements: IceCube observatory spurs "dawn of new age" in astronomy
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
Bare Earth Elements: The field camp experience in photos
Bare Earth Elements: Cool time-lapse shows movement of ice and animals in Antarctica's Ross Sea
Bare Earth Elements: Mars-Observing Fleet Set to Face Silent Treatment
Bare Earth Elements: Voices from GSA 2012
Bare Earth Elements: A geo-themed pop quiz in honor of 12/12/12
Bare Earth Elements: GSA highlights, days 2 and 3
Bare Earth Elements: GSA highlights, day 1
Bare Earth Elements: Let the real Curiosity begin
Bare Earth Elements: Welcome to the GEOlympics
Blogging on EARTH: Rarity the only reason for Venus transit fever?
Blogging On EARTH: Wisconsin's microquake mystery
Blogging on EARTH: Arsenic provides a G#ALA event in the science world
Blogging on EARTH: The lighter side of geo-jargon
Blogging on EARTH: Webb Space Telescope ensnared in political drama
Halloween
Bare Earth Elements: Bone up on your spooky geo-vocabulary this Halloween
Historical Geology
Getting there and getting around Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Travels in Geology: The diverse geology, landscapes and whiskys of Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Benchmarks: December 10, 1930: Seattle's Denny Hill disappears
Benchmarks: October 4, 1915: Dinosaur National Monument Founded
Benchmarks: July 22,1960: Mineral discovery ends Meteor Crater debate
Kamikaze typhoons spared Japan from Kublai Khan
Lidar reveals Roman gold mines
Clues to limestone weathering written in Western Wall
Benchmarks: July 15, 1806: Zebulon Pike launches Southwest expedition
The history, science and poetry of New England's stone walls
Old landscapes see the light thanks to improved imaging
The past is key to the future: Historical observations strengthen modern science
Bare Earth Elements: GSA highlights, day 1
Benchmarks: March 1, 1872: "Bone Wars" heat up
Benchmarks: November 22, 1859: "On the Origin of Species" published
Scotland
Getting there and getting around Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Travels in Geology: The diverse geology, landscapes and whiskys of Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Geologic Column: A masochist hikes through the heather
Travels in Geology: Geo-diversity and geologic history in the North West Highlands of Scotland
Getting there and getting around Shetland
Travels in Geology: Scotland's stunning Shetland
Last Scottish glacier melted during big chill?
Living mountains and wild places
Bag your first Munro
Travels in Geology: The inspiring, globe-trotting rocks of Scotland
Scotch Whisky
Travels in Geology: The diverse geology, landscapes and whiskys of Scotland's Southwestern Islands
Cold case files: Forging forensic isoscapes
Whoi
Down to Earth With: Deep-sea biologist Stace Beaulieu
Star
Second stars can distort planet size estimates
High-powered simulation tracks evolution of universe in detail
Twinkle, twinkle new little star
Unprecedented low water-vapor levels detected on exoplanets
North star loses mass but still shines bright
Online stargazing with GigaGalaxy Zoom
Scientists find watery super-Earth
Neolithic
When agriculture went to our heads
Neolithic farmers impacted sedimentation
Mount St. Helens
Geomedia: Books: Vivid anecdotes abound in "Eruption: The untold story of Mount St. Helens"
On the web: Mount St. Helens goes online to reach the masses
AGU: Mount St. Helens has gone back to sleep
Hazardous Living: Thirty years after Mount St. Helens exploded
Little Ice Age
Northern Finns didn't starve during Little Ice Age
Benchmarks: October 2, 1574: Dutch unleash the ocean as a weapon of war
Late Antique Little Ice Age underpinned unrest and upheaval in Europe and Asia
Social trends and shifting climates had complex effects in medieval Italy
Volcanoes sparked - and prolonged - the Little Ice Age
Paleoseismology
Can distant earthquakes trigger submarine landslides?
Tilted Himalayan temples hold clues to past shaking
Alaskan megathrust fault more active under Kodiak
In Turkey, the older the fault, the bigger the quake: Good news for Istanbul?
The Bay Area's next 'big one' could strike as a series of quakes
San Andreas Fault shook Bay Area three times in a century
Old photos help scientists relocate 1906 San Francisco quake rupture point
Scientists demonstrate strengths and shortcomings of method for determining ancient earthquake size
Thinking outside the rocks in the search for ancient earthquakes
Lava Flow
How long will the lava flow? Predicting eruption durations with satellite monitoring
A front-row seat at a fire-and-ice show
Do–it–yourself lava flows: Science, art and education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
Time
How long will the lava flow? Predicting eruption durations with satellite monitoring
Geologic Column: Is it aged or mature?
Geologic Column: The beginning of "time" as we know it
Benchmarks: June 30, 1972: Timekeepers add first "leap second" to clocks
Russia
Mangroves sprouted in Arctic during Eocene
Benchmarks: July 15-24, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz mission launches space collaboration
A front-row seat at a fire-and-ice show
Mineral in Chelyabinsk meteorite reveals past collision
Russian earthquake ruptures superfast and deep
Early results
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
The Thirsty Dragon and the Wealthy Bear
The thrill to drill in the chill
Travels in Geology: Exploring Lake Baikal, the Sacred Sea
Emissions
Limestone reservoirs boost volcanic carbon emissions
Earthquakes make volcanoes more — and less — gassy
Smokier U.S. West as climate changes
No laughing matter: Ocean nitrous oxide emissions greater than thought
Comment: Pipe Dreams: What have we learned from the Volkswagen Clean-Diesel scandal?
One-two punch of past warming may hold lessons
Carbon tet still offensive to ozone layer
Removing predators increases carbon emissions
Carbon and the city: Tracking emissions from megacities
Where the rubber meets the road
Limestone
Limestone reservoirs boost volcanic carbon emissions
Clues to limestone weathering written in Western Wall
Travels in Geology: Winter sun and tectonic tales in Tucson
Getting there and getting around Croatia
Travels in Geology: Croatia: Land of limestone
Travels in Geology: Journeying through Cuba's geology and culture
Lay of the Land: Terrain's Toll on the U.S. Civil War
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
September 2017
Can preserved proteins reveal paint-by-numbers plumage?
Less-developed countries with high climate risk need better access to weather and climate data
Neolithic farmers impacted sedimentation
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" aptly named
Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Gregory Erickson
Cassini's legacy after two decades
New map of Arctic geology published
How the Arctic became salty
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or premature conclusion? Examining the ethical implications of naming a new epoch
Comment: Providing resources for future generations - Technical and human challenges
Glass shards reveal a fiery history in Ethiopia
Volcanism triggered end-Triassic extinction
Jerusalem tower facelift reveals it's 1,000 years younger
Making oxygen with MOXIE
A great time to land on Mars
Mars class of 2020: A diverse group of missions takes aim at the Red Planet
Where on Earth? - September 2017
Getting there and getting around Bolivia's Antiplano
Travels in Geology: Sky-high adventure on Bolivia's Altiplano
Geologic Column: Musings on the autumn equinox
Comment: A pitch to study BREW: The beer-renewable energy-water nexus
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
Benchmarks: September 23, 1806: Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery returns from the West
Geomedia: Books: Exploring space is risky business
Ice (Re)Cap: September 2017
End of ice age may have been too wet for megafauna
Dehydrated sediment layer made Sumatra quake stronger
Reconstructing ancient oxidant levels and their climatic effects
Asymmetrical fossil feathers fill in timeline of flight
T. rex's bone-crushing bite
When schools shake: Keeping students and teachers safe during earthquakes
Coatings may prevent pipeline clogs
A mammoth king: Was the legend of King Hygelac in "Beowulf" inspired by a fossil find?
Baby Louie dinosaur fossil gets a formal name
Earthquakes make volcanoes more — and less — gassy
Transylvanian ice cave reveals European winter climate record
Dust influences pollution levels in eastern China
Young Costa Rican lavas might reflect pockets of primordial mantle
Why meteors snap, crackle and pop
Northeast and Midwest U.S. projected to warm faster than national average
Afghanistan
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Comment: Rebuilding geology faculty in Afghanistan
A dry and ravaged land: Investigating water resources in Afghanistan
Rescuing geologic maps during a coup
Building resource corridors in Afghanistan: A solution to an interminable war?
Afghanistan's mineral resources laid bare
Saving Afghanistan: Redevelopment one resource at a time
Afghanistan's mineral wealth
Finding water in the heart of darkness: Afghanistan's ongoing water challenges
Rebuilding Afghanistan
Agricultural Development
Down to Earth With: Alexander Stewart
Neolithic farmers impacted sedimentation
Geomedia: Film: 'Written on Water': A Modern Tale of a Dry West
Geomedia: Books: Breaking New Ground
Pollutants threaten the Everglades' future
Great Lakes
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The deadliest wildfire in American history incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Travels in Geology: Sculptures of wind and ice: Sleeping Bear Dunes and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshores
Great Lakes geologic sunken treasure
Midwest
Benchmarks: October 8, 1871: The deadliest wildfire in American history incinerates Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Midwest's hybrid rift formed in three stages
Geomedia: Zombie Science? New Madrid and "Disaster Deferred"
Gulf Coast
Mapping Louisiana's disappearing shoreline
Local coastal impacts underestimated from sea-level rise
Hydrogen
Solar-powered paint could produce hydrogen for fuel
Oceanographers solve mysterious beach explosion
Power
Solar-powered paint could produce hydrogen for fuel
Burying the sky: Turning carbon dioxide into rock
Making electric grids smarter
Solar
Solar-powered paint could produce hydrogen for fuel
How strong was the Carrington Event?
Dye-ing for efficient solar power
Multimedia
Geomedia: Radio: "Big Picture Science" aptly named
Bare Earth Elements: Tour brings hurricane hunting aircraft and expertise to the masses
Mesa Arch's 'hum' measured to track health of rock structure
When science meets film at MIT
Bare Earth Elements: Search the seafloor firsthand (and live!)
Calculating America's energy landscape
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
On the Web: Ka-pow! Superhero short films get kids thinking about climate change
Comment: The Oso landslide shows need for insurance and better planning
Bare Earth Elements: IceCube observatory spurs "dawn of new age" in astronomy
Hominin skull discovery fuels debate about early human evolution
Bare Earth Elements: The field camp experience in photos
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 3)
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 2)
Blogging on EARTH: Behind the scenes with a storm chaser (part 1)
Bare Earth Elements: Cool time-lapse shows movement of ice and animals in Antarctica's Ross Sea
Bare Earth Elements: Voices from GSA 2012
Bare Earth Elements: Welcome to the GEOlympics
Designing Snowflakes
Earth science rocks at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Granite countertops: NOT silent killers
Rebuilding Afghanistan
The Disappearing Lake
Trial by Fire
Wal-Mart to use wind energy
North Atlantic
How the Arctic became salty
Are North Atlantic storm tracks shifting south?
Southbound icebergs off the hook for ice-age cooling
1912 not an exceptional iceberg year
Massive icebergs scoured Arctic seafloor
Geologic Time
Comment: The Anthropocene: Foregone or premature conclusion? Examining the ethical implications of naming a new epoch
