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Transien modelling results: Atmospheric CO2 concentration (in pink) compared to ice core data (solid line) and other proxies. Willeit et al, 2019

More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented...

earthquake monitoring

Crowdsourcing speeds up earthquake monitoring

San Andreas Fault

California’s current earthquake hiatus is an unlikely pause

lambeosaurine (crested 'duck-billed' dinosaur)

First-confirmed occurrence of a lambeosaurine dinosaur found on Alaska’s North Slope

Mars

Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

Iron-oxidizing bacteria live in environments as extreme as the deep ocean and as common as roadside ditches. A recent paper in Frontiers proposes distributing the iron that these bacteria naturally produce to 'fertilize' phytoplankton and help remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Study Looks to Iron from Microbes for Climate Help

Hurricane Irma forming over the Atlantic Ocean in September 2017.

Large volcanic eruptions can alter hurricane strength and frequency

Crocodylomorphs were a highly morphologically and ecologically diverse clade. These extinct crocodile relatives had a much richer variety of skull shapes than living crocodilians, suggesting a wide range of feeding strategies. Credit: Darren Naish, Tetrapod Zoology

Untangling the evolution of feeding strategies in ancient crocodiles

Horseshoe Bend, Arizona

Horseshoe Bend, Arizona

plate boundaries

What are the different types of plate tectonic boundaries?

K-T Boundary / K-Pg Boundary

K-T Boundary “Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary”

Badlands near Drumheller, Alberta

K-Pg Boundary “Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary”

Fossilized fish piled one atop another

66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass...

San Andreas Fault

Signs of 1906 earthquake revealed in mapping of offshore northern San...

Deep below the Earth in the Tonga-Fiji region of the South Pacific, one enormous earthquake triggered another.

Massive earthquakes provide new insight into deep Earth

Massachusetts State Geologist Stephen Mabee and colleagues recently annoucned that newly digitized surficial geology maps of the entire state are available online now. They provide details of what Mabee calls the 'kitty litter' mix of glacial tills, various sands and gravels on the earth's surface. Credit: USGS/MassGIS

State geologist, partners create new surface geology maps for Massachusetts

Graphite & Hexagonal Diamond

Cool Earth theory sheds more light on diamonds

Cross-sections of Earth’s mantle down to 1,400 km depth showing changes in its flow as ancient ocean beds fall into Earth’s deep interior.

Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically

Scientists from The Australian National University have discovered the have discovered that 558 million-year-old Dickinsonia fossils do not reveal all of the features of the earliest known animals, which potentially had mouths and guts.

Mystery shrouding oldest animal fossils solved

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