Take a look at your fingertips. There you have a whirling maze of lines, and when you touch any surface, you leave your unique fingerprint on it. It’s the same with your web browser – even though you can’t see it, every move you make online leaves a virtual fingerprint. Digital fingerprints Just like your … Read more
The Supreme Court and Radical Environmental Deregulation One of the first professional jobs I ever had was working at the US Environmental Protection Agency, and it was a great job in a terrific organization. I continued working as a consultant for the US EPA throughout the 1980s and 1990s, but I left the agency as … Read more
Plans to reactivate a nuclear power plant near the capital city of the Philippines have been criticized by scientists over its proximity to a potentially active volcano. The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is located in the foothills of Mount Natib, only five miles from the caldera, and was built in the 1980s. It was … Read more
What’s Causing the Devastating Floods in China, India, and Bangladesh? #China: Location in Yingde, Qingyuan County, #Guangdong Province at 8:00 am on June 22. Flooded up to the second floor, 10 meters above the normal water level.# 洪水 #chinaflood #floodinchina pic.twitter.com/aRMpzjCqPR – Siraj Noorani (@sirajnoorani) June 22, 2022 In central and southern China, tens of … Read more
Withstanding the vagaries of time for several millennia, a 175 million-year-old fossil wood stands at a corner in the Osmania University College of Science, Saifabad, helping students in honing their skills and gaining expertise in the subject of geology. Surprisingly, very few know about this fossil wood belonging to the Jurassic Sediments of Pranahita Godavari … Read more
By Morgan Disbrow-Monz, GSA Science Policy Fellow Dr. David Applegate On 14 June 2022, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources advanced by voice vote Dr. David Applegate’s nomination to be the director of the US Geological Survey (USGS) to the Senate floor. The vote comes just over a month after the committee held … Read more
Working the Night Shift on the R / V Marcus Langseth by Tanner Purchase |June 22, 2022 Greetings from the night shift! On board the Marcus G. Langseth, operations are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Those of us on the research team have settled into our eight-hour work shifts with four-hour blocks … Read more
In a spectacular research moment, biologists captured the biggest Burmese python ever recorded in the state of Florida, USA. The humongous snake caught by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida measures 18 feet in length and weighs a whopping 215 pounds (approximately 98 kg), starting some serious conversations about the conservation of natural habitats in the … Read more
Scientific artist Kelly Stanford has sure come a long way since we last spoke to her in 2019. The Manchester, UK-based science communicator is a Physical Geography PhD candidate from the University of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute and winner of EGU’s Artist (not) in Residence in 2021. This year, at the Union’s General Assembly … Read more
I’m pleased to announce the online publication of a new paper from a Chinese-American geological team (Zhang et al., 2022). I’m the sole American! My role was minor, being mostly useful for literature review and writing. The senior author is my friend Yong-Li Zhang from Northeastern University, Shenyang. He was my host on my adventurous … Read more