America is not ready for deep-sea mining. My latest OpEd, in my local paper, The Star Democrat, this time: www.stardem.com/opinion/colu...

The Pale Blue Dot was just one frame out of a mosaic of 60 images recorded by the Voyager 1 cameras #OTD in 1990. Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all visible, though Earth and Venus were each just a fraction of a pixel. (2/n) science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

This is…unbelievable. Unconscionable. The story grows more nightmarish with every sentence, every paragraph. The worst part? Public servants who are inept or corrupt, maybe both, more concerned about inconveniencing an oil company than protecting human health.

The Royal Tyrrell Museum's galleries are like a Who's Who of famous death posture dinos:

Wow 48. Since there are only about 200 scientists in the USA this will surely be worth noting.

Bancroft received the President's Medal at GSA2024 in Anaheim. RIP www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/Awar...

We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera

Take it away Stone, it’s your night now. @pearljam.com youtu.be/qPh3S1DUC1s?...

They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think whether they should

If you take a breath today remember to be grateful to the bottom of your lungs to these guys that made it all possible. Ice-polished ~1.5 billion yo Proterozoic fossil cyanobacterial stromatolite pavement, at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier NP, MT. Oldest fossils I have ever seen!

Impressive rockfalls two days ago in the SW face of Cerro Chaltén! 🏔️😰 What. A. Place! 🤩 📷 Zachary Dreher

A Lithospheric Drip Triggered Green and Colorado River Integration 🧪⚒️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Four days of icy weather in Texas = oil, gas and petrochemical facilities released 1.6 million pounds of regulated pollutants. Companies were allowed to vent or burn off pollutants, because of "enforcement discretion" during the big freeze. ICN did the data: insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

NASA's Juno spacecraft detected the largest volcanic hotspot ever seen in our solar system. It appeared on Jupiter's moon Io, it covers 100,000 square kilometers (bigger than Lake Superior), and it radiates 80 trillion watts of heat. 🧪🔭 www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-ju...

Just an incredible and unusual landslide at Niscemi, Sicily, Italy, as captured by @planet.com SuperDove satellites 🧪⚒️🛰️

Serious stuff: “By 2100, global crop yields would be reduced by 11% if emissions rapidly plummet to net zero -- and by 24% if emissions continue to increased unchecked. In the shorter term, by 2050 climate change will decrease global crop yields by 8 percent”, regardless of scenario.

The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.

60 seconds of bomb and lapilli sized tephra pelting my room. Instead of capturing video of the fountains, I spent my time driving around and disconnecting the water catchment systems of friends who couldn’t get home before they closed the only road into our town. #Kilauea

Protostar detected spewing olivine & pyroxene crystals during 'bursts'👇⚒️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One heck of a warm nose... 0z NAM 12km forecast sounding for what the atmosphere will look like over the Brazos Valley Saturday night. Warm, moist air ~2,500' - 10,000' allows rain to fall. At/sub-32°, shallow Arctic air at the ground allows it to freeze on contact #bcstx

In a season so improbable, the impossible has happened! #iufb #vinscully

And oh yeah, Nick Saban have you learned anything yet? #iufb

In late November 2001, we went to campus early to catch the IU Purdue football game. It was miserable, it rained, the dorms were closed so we slept on the ground in a friends townhouse. Indiana won, denying Purdue a big ten championship chance, and it was totally worth the trip. #iufb

Oh my god it happened. #iufb

Really cool summary of a recent paper in Geology (gift link 🎁): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/s...

Rare Earths In Greenland

🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 In a new #TSR paper, scientists explore the origin of the Meadow Bank scarp in Illinois. Namely, is it related to reactivated faults, or is it only the result of glacial outburst flood erosion? ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/arti...

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

Grew up near Salt Creek. ‘Twas not salty. College near the Jordan River. Was not a river. Now Clear Creek. Very not clear.

A Sudden Decline in US Planetary Meetings in 2025 #PlanetSci 🧪

169 years ago this week (Jan 9, 1857), the M7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake ruptured over 350 km (220 miles) of the San Andreas Fault. Although named for Fort Tejon, historical reports suggest the rupture may have begun near Parkfield, where possible foreshocks were observed. buff.ly/cVPiaRZ

a study spanning multiple continents involving 50+ co-authors has found that the oceans added a record amount of heat in 2025—the energy equivalent of 12 atomic bombs going off in the ocean, one of the authors told me it's the eighth year in a row that the oceans have broken heat records like this

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I wrote about the cosmic grandeur of American space science and this president’s foolish attempts to sabotage it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Just in - "According to @climatecentral.org, 2025 ranks as the third-highest year (after 2023 and 2024) for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters..." + Interactive graphics/data: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv... + Climate Matters article: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Spectacular footage of pyroclastic flows at Semeru Volcano in Indonesia in November: ⚒️ youtu.be/rybUgYtvVFM?...

I just re-found the National Geographic episode on volcanoes that I used to watch nearly daily when I was like 6 years old! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQN...

⚒️ In this excellent podcast episode that clearly presses the ‘don’t panic’ button for the threat of an imminent large eruption at Yellowstone, I really loved this clever use of slowing down and speeding up music to describe how seismic tomography works.

I'm starting to get the emails. Reporters: please see my comments below.

Made a pilgrimage to 2 ghosts of sea level past & future in Florida, from last time global temp was similar to today 120,000 years ago: an outcrop of oolite in Miami from when it was a sandy shoal under the waves, and in Windley Key a fossil coral reef that now ominously sits 20 feet above sea level

The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast. buff.ly/2vAwspH

A remade USGS diagram codifies a enduring truth about Earth's water cycle: Humans play a central role. From our archives💧 eos.org/articles/not...

A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada. eos.org/thelandslide...

The #SFBayArea this king tide weekend. #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise

I do have a copy of “The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks” by N.L Bowen. I think mine may be a 1950s reprint.

These Rose Bowl video crews are doing amazing work finding the forlorn looks on Alabama fans faces. #iufb

So the trend for everyone on here is showing up as Indiana Basketball right? It’s not just me where the algorithm is confused? #iufb

Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

Ah the traditional fireworks holiday of December 27. Sorry dogs, everyone knows the 10 straight days of fireworks are totally necessary. How else would one celebrate December 27?