The moss Physcomitrium patens joins tardigrades and thale-cress as a species that has survived in space

The Department of Earth Sciences is delighted to announce that Professor Mike Searle has been awarded the Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Geosciences Union for 2026, in recognition of his fundamental contributions to Himalayan tectonics. buff.ly/KtBBj4q

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

...the sound of pyroclastic doom.. (Semeru, Indonesia) youtu.be/T02pJdKARLo?...

Good news... after a long period of insecurity, with the help of many Earth Sciences BSc and MSc will remain at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #aardwetenschappen Red Aardwetenschappen wordt Gered Aardwetenschappen!!!

Goed nieuws !

Vanavond Kristallnachtherdenking in Portugese Synagoge en stille tocht vanaf de Dam

The development of the Pizol Glacier within a few decades – and there are still retards who claim that man-made #climate change does not exist.

Testerep-now lost wadden islands at Belgian coast www.vliz.be/testerep/nl/...

Vikingmuseum in Den Oever dreigt te sluiten door gebrek aan vrijwilligers🛡️ Unieke collectie met schatten uit 1997 niet meer te zien. Museum zoekt gastheren en social media beheerder #viking #denoever #nhmedia https://nhnieu.ws/c4b1c8f

"Geologists are very pleasant companions, especially for geologists. It’s their art, to stop at every stone, and carry out an investigation at every layer of Earth" Swiss author Rodolphe Toepffer (1799-1846)

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

Prunella Scales as Sybil Fawlty is immortal, but she enjoyed a distinguished acting career

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

Technical Mastery on Numbur’s South Face: New Route Unlocked by Trio. everesttoday.com/technical-ma...

#Iceland #quake M4.5 | Iceland: 8.5 km ENE of Goðabunga Oct 20, 2025 10:51 am (Reykjavik time) Did you feel it? Submit a report! #moderate #M2+ #M3+ #M4+ #Iceland #South

A descent of the #HornbeinCouloir on #Everest had eluded the ski world for decades until… www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...

Gorner Glacier front has changed so much! Now dead ice is present on both sides of the valley but active front is 100s meters away!

Europe During The Last Ice Age brilliantmaps.com/ice-age-map/

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[2/2] This year’s melt was driven by a snow-poor winter and summer heatwaves. Glaciers below 3k m lost over 2 m of ice. Shrinking glaciers also destabilize mountains, as seen in May, when a rock–ice avalanche buried Blatten in the Lötschental. 🔗 to #GLAMOS report: doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

“This year turned out to be a little less extreme than we feared", says Matthias Huss, director of GLAMOS. “However, what worries me is that we’re getting used to these very negative years. It’s a new normal, but one that shouldn’t be there.” @matthias-huss.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

In tien jaar tijd is een kwart van de Zwitserse gletsjers gesmolten

Have you ever stood on an ancient seafloor bed? This is the banded iron formation (BIF) of Hamersley Range, Australia. Go big #hematite ! Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

#Magma under #Svartsengi in #Iceland reached 11 million cubic metres, just as the Icelandic Met Office had predicted. That is the same amount that escaped from Svartsengi in the last eruption. The likelihood of a new #eruption therefore increases.

A paper in Nature Communications provides evidence that Silverpit Crater, on the UK continental shelf, has an extraterrestrial impact origin. go.nature.com/4nL7Zz5 ⚒️ 🧪

"Seeing these provocative juxtapositions, visitors can gain insight into the central role women played in the production of scientific knowledge in Europe during the #17thC and #18thC centuries." @ MFA #Boston August 23-December 7,2025 #HPS 🐡👩🏻‍🔬

Andrzej Bargiel has just become the first person to climb up and ski down Mt. Everest without bottled oxygen, according to RedBull.

From 27 September there is an increased likelihood of a magma intrusion and even an eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The Met Office has raised the warning level. The period during which there is an increased chance may last for up to three months. #geosciences #volcanism #iceland

On September 22, Polish climber Andrzej Bargiel reached the summit of Mount Everest (8,848 m) and skied down to base camp at 5,364 m—all without supplemental oxygen. He is the first person in history to achieve this feat. It also marks only the third Polish ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen.

A “glacial forebulge” is a long hill that forms in front of an ice sheet.🧊 In @eos.org, the authors of a recent review article give an overview of glacial forebulges, how scientists study them, and what questions remain. 🔗 buff.ly/UAsL19M #AGUPubs #Glaciers #IceSheets #Geology #Earthquakes

New seismology experiment: Researchers map magma beneath Laacher See, Eifel DE Research paper: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.... Source: erdbebennews.de/2025/09/laac... #geosciences #volcanism #eifel

This round we have two pretty blue minerals which and be used as gems in pectolite and haüyne so they’re more or less tied for the art vote. I’m going to give haüyne the physics vote for fluorescence and volcanic origin. #MinCup25

Archaeologists uncover evidence of human survival in Ice Age Britain Archaeologists have discovered conclusive evidence that early humans not only lived in Britain more than 700,000 years ago but also endured one of northern Europe’s most extreme ice ages... archaeologymag.com/2025/09/evid...

New paper led by my PhD student, Edwin Rodriguez! Building on previous work, we present a systematic description of the ONE BILLION YEAR OLD fossils of the phosphates of the Diabaig Formation, NW Scotland — including some early eukaryotes and new species... #paleontology #fossils #geology

This is fascism. The fact that it's in response to a brutal & unacceptable murder (the motives of which are still unknown!) doesn't mean that it isn't fascism. It is terrifying and un-American. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Aletsch Glacier has lost 4.6 m of ice thickness at Konkordiaplatz (2800 m asl) during this summer 2025! 🧊😱 - It was 6 m during the absolute 2022 record year - 4.7 m in 2023 - 4 m in 2024 All years are now terrible... the new normal in the Alps! 🔥📈 Data by @matthias-huss.bsky.social @glamos.ch 1/

Collapse of a serac below Gobba di Rollin (3 898 m,Val d'Ayas) last sunday! Via @meteovalledaosta

The Tracy Arm/South Sawyer Glacier landslide (Alaska) and tsunami generated a wave run up of 470m - 500m! 😱🌊 This is 2nd highest recorded value after the Lituya Bay (Alaska) record of 524m in 1958. Source: USGS Via @climatologist49.bsky.social

Excuse me? End of Earth science at NASA??? 🧪 ⚒️

Ice thickness loss at this place on Mer de Glace exceeds 10 cm per day since the August heatwave began! 🔥 📈 Since May, the cumulative loss is around 8 meters!

🔴⚠️🔥♨️Large parts of the iberian peninsula are engulfed by smoke.From Ourense and CastillayLeón to Extremadura in Spain,as well as Coimbra in Portugal:#wildfires with extreme 🌡 are out of control.#IncendiosForestales #ClimateEmergency ⬇️last 12hrs by meteosat-12 via @zoom.earth

"There are clear signs of inflation beneath Svartsengi, which was beginning to be seen before the eruption ended, and its speed has probably increased since the eruption ended." #geosciences #volcano #iceland www.mbl.is/frettir/innl...

Mendenhall River almost at the forecasted flood peak from glacial lake outburst flood at Suicide Basin #Juneau #GLOF 🧪⚒️ water.noaa.gov/gauges/mnda2

My latest article 👇 gets into how hard it is to date stuff in some of the oldest rocks on the planet, and why it matters ⚒️🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

August 11, 1858, the peak of Mount Eiger (3.970 meters) in the Swiss Alps is successfully conquered by local guides Christian Almer, Peter Bohren & Irish mountaineer Charles Barrington.

⚠️ A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii and parts of Alaska. The west coast of the US and BC is under a tsunami watch. Here is important information about tsunami alerts and preparedness actions. www.weather.gov/safety/tsuna...