Earth Science:
An ugly fact killing a beautiful hypothesis I'm not mentioning any names, and don't ask me any details. In fact, don't repeat this story. Some years ago, when I was a mere graduate student, a fellow student working in an unnamed country in Africa...
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Posted on July 29, 2008 8:00 PM • 21 Comments •
Did Past Climate Changes Promote Speciation in the Amazon? Any time you've got a whopping big river like the Amazon (or a mountain chain like the Andes, or an ocean, or whatever), you've gotta figure that it will be a biogeographical barrier. Depending on the...
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Posted on July 29, 2008 6:00 PM • 0 Comments •
NASA's fire and smoke web site, with photos such as the one shown below, keeps track of, well, fire and the attending smoke....
Posted on July 22, 2008 11:10 PM • 1 Comments •
Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy is neither documentary nor mockumentary. Maybe a bit of both and a lot of neither. But it is funny and relevant.
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Posted on July 15, 2008 5:01 AM • 10 Comments •
This summer may see first ice-free North Pole from PhysOrg.com (AP) -- There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says. [...] Climate change causing significant shift...
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Posted on June 30, 2008 11:33 PM • 0 Comments •
NASA's JPL has a new web site which focuses on surface conditions on one specific planet: The Earth. It has a Sea Level Viewer which is basically a very fancy menu for a number of multi-media presentations, and a list of current or proposed missions....
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Posted on June 23, 2008 7:21 PM • 2 Comments •
The film we've all been waiting for ... Randy Olson (of Flock of Dodos fame) has produced a new film called Sizzle. In the film Olson uses the approach he used in Dodos to address the global warming issue. I have not seen the film...
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Posted on June 10, 2008 8:40 AM • 14 Comments •
Dinosaur tracks are reported for the first time on the Arabian Peninsula. These new tracks are located in Yemen. This find is interesting and important for several reasons....
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Posted on June 1, 2008 11:35 AM • 2 Comments •
water spout Check out this series of photos of a water spout up on Leech Lake, Minnesota. These were shot by Roger Underwood, of Ames, Iowa....
Posted on May 30, 2008 12:32 PM • 1 Comments •
... But don't panic. Apparently, this is normal. It turns out that bacteria living at the bottom of the sea are far more abundant and diverse than scientists had previously thought. These bacteria appear to be consuming the planet's oceanic crust. This raises several interesting...
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Posted on May 28, 2008 1:06 PM • 6 Comments •
