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August 1: Dull day. Spent a good deal of the morning in Howard's office, interviewing Barbara Stanwyck, a pleasant, heavy-faced girl, very wrong for Sugarpuss...

They move through the night as if stitched into it, seamless and soundless. You don't hear an owl arrive. You feel it--the brief shift in the air above your head, a whisper of movement. It always feels me with a sense of awe. The silence...

The outline of conditions and topics for a negotiated settlement of the U.S.-Iran conflict called a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and signed by both sides last week in all probability won't prevent the approaching energy...

Whirlwinds come in variations. The weaker category is known as dust devils, and the range extends to full-blown tornadoes - and even hurricanes can in some ways be seen as an outsized members. What they have in common is whirls, winds and heat. You...

José Fernando BonaparteOne of the hardest-working, most intense and multi-faceted palaeontologists to ever grace our planet was José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 - 18 February 2020).We often imagine the great scientific pioneers as figures lo...

Villains, tyrants and heroes alike are immortalized in the scientific literature as researchers don each new species a unique scientific name -- and rename geographic sites with a settlers' mindset. If you pick through the literature, it is a w...

Almost 100 million years ago, the Kokorkom Desert stretched across the region now occupied by the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén in Argentina; it was a vast system of mobile dunes in a hot and arid climate, shaped by the wind. This fossil-rich zone, which is part of La Buitrera, discovered and studied over the last 25 years by Dr. Sebastián Apesteguía and his team, has been the site of numero…

The unusually straight, somewhat flattened mandibles of the gray whale Eschrichtius robustus - skeleton on display at the Charleston Marine Life Center in Charleston, Oregon (not THAT Charleston!). Photo by the author.I've been studying fossil baleen...

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'Merrington church stands at the east end of the village, and, from its elevated situation, is one of the most conspicuous land-marks in the county of Durham. The Norman portion of it is of great antiquity, being coeval in style with that o...

After two super intense days, Terese Thoni, Frank Schreier III, and I finished filming the studio parts of our Teaching Sustainability MOOC yesterday! Let me know if you would like to be notified when it launches! Source...

The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil. What looks to be a rather unremarkable ballooning at the top of a cave is actually the mould of a small rhinoceros, preser...

Logan's Run is a sci-fi movie from the 1970s, in which humans live in domes protected from a ravaged world outside. In these domes they live lives of pleasure and luxury. Until they reach the age of thirty, when they go to the Carousel and "rene...

On 8 June 2026, AGU joined a group of other organizations to express concern over changes to USDA Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Mission Area. The REE mission area - comprising the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), the Economic Research Service (ERS), and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) - is the backbone of...

Archita Bhattacharyya is an Environmental Scientist and a research and development fellow at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural affairs, England. For 2026, she is the Early Career Scientist Representative for the Hydrological Sciences division.

Science never ceases to impress! For decades, many researchers and water managers viewed water management through a narrow lens that often forced nature's complex plumbing into simplified and generalised boxes. Yet once we let data from over 14,000 watersheds speak for itself, this study shows that protecting our water future requires us to listen to the rhythm of the landscape; literally! It see…

The island of Maio, Cabo Verde, 600 km the west of Senegal, is the only place where Cretaceous mid-ocean floor of the distal Mauritania - Senegal - Guinea Bissau - Conakry (MSGBC) Basin is exposed, providing a unique opportunity to study the early stages of mid Atlantic opening at outcrop. The Basement Complex of Maio comprises...

Three excellent cli-fi novels envision a plausible future where sea level rise and climate change-intensified hurricanes cause massive economic disruption in the U.S.

Here is a fellow to strike terror into your heart. Meet Suchomimus tenerensis, a large, long-snouted spinosaurid theropod who prowled what is now Niger during the Early Cretaceous, roughly 125 million years ago. If you imagine a T. rex that...

A grab bag from my friends and colleagues working on Colorado River issues.... The good news From friend of Inkstain Karl Flessa (the guy who helped get me started thinking about the Colorado River Delta), a new analysis concluding that despite...