Richard Fortey, #paleontologist and expert in #trilobites, passed away this spring. Read my #tribute to a great writer who influenced important choices in my #life. www.gondwanatalks.com/l/richard-fo... #geology #richardfortey #fossils #trilobite @nhm-london.bsky.social

Partial #eclipse of the sun on 29 March 2025. Seen from #Belgium it was shrouded by #clouds, which made the spectacle more haunting and #beautiful. Thx E. Niemegeers, J Deltour for the pics. Check my post on the #totaleclipse of the #sun last year: 🖤 www.gondwanatalks.com/l/total-sola... #totality

A few impressions from my time in #Fuerteventura. Most people go there for the beaches and all-in hotels, but I came to see the #soilscapes. Go to GondwanaTalks to read the article on this wonderful, forgotten place. www.gondwanatalks.com/l/fuertevent... #soilscience #soil #soilrocks #suelo

Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, has astonishing #soilscapes. This #island became a desert after centuries of erosion. Its volcanic colours range from ochre to red, black and mauve. Life clings to rocks, dew and skeletic soils. 🤎🩵🧡 #Fuerteventura #CanaryIslands #Canarias #soilscience

Happy birthday Jane Goodall! At 91 you are more active than most people. You remain an inspiration to all. I'm happy to be a #volunteer for #JGIBelgium Read my post on when I met Jane: www.gondwanatalks.com/l/meeting-ja... #JaneGoodall #GoodDayAll

Read about Jane Goodall, animals and ethical questions on #8M International women's day. A few reflexions on why we eat and keep animals. #empathy #animals #meat #vegan #janegoodall www.gondwanatalks.com/l/animals-we...

Happy Valentine! Signs of love are everywhere, if you look for them. #love #nature #savetheplanet #planet

Int'l Day of #women and girls in #science. Read about #MaryAnning the fossil hunter from #Dorset in #Britain. She was pivotal for #Darwin 's theories and in smashing dogmas. ▶️Link: www.gondwanatalks.com/l/women-of-g... Image: ChatGPT, #ammonite probably not accurate. #lymeregis #palaeontology

#Santorini, read more about this #volcano and the other volcanoes in Europe, and which ones are the most menacing. 🌋🟧➡️ Link to post: www.gondwanatalks.com/l/grand-tour... Pic: Aleksandar Pasaric on Pexels. #geology #eruption #greece #volcanology #volcanoes

With #Santorini and #CampiFlegrei being restless, have a read of my article on the #volcanoes of #Europe. Which are our #supervolcanoes? How likely is an #eruption? 🔥🟨 #Naples #Greecevolcanoes #thera #vesuvius www.gondwanatalks.com/l/grand-tour...

Elements necessary for #life, like phosphorous, how did they form on Earth? Most #phosphorous in rock won't work, it must be bio-available P. All crucial questions to decipher the origin of life. #originoflife #abiology #earth #geology #earthscience #gondwanatalks #lightning #earlyearth #biology

Will #war ever stop? The human toll is horrendous, but there is also massive damage to natural resources such as #soil. In this post on #Ukraine, read how the fertile #chernozem soils are affected, and how they fight back! Link to post ▶️ www.gondwanatalks.com/l/chernozems... 🟦 #soilscience #humus

Do you also think that major natural disasters and their aftermath deserve profound planning and mitigation? Can we deal with a #supereruption? Link to article : ➡️ 🌋 www.gondwanatalks.com/l/supererupt... 🌋 #supervolcano #volcanologist #volcano #aftermath

Supereruptions, can they happen and how to prepare? How to grow food when a sulphur haze blocks the sunlight? Link to article ➡️🌋 www.gondwanatalks.com/l/supererupt... 🌋 #volcanoes #volcanologist #growingfood #foodcrisis #newfood #gondwanatalks #yellowstone #campiflegrei #tambora #toba

Stillife of my rocks and minerals. #hematite, pieces of coral, aragonite, amethyst. Check out the #mineral topics on my blog: ➡️💎 www.gondwanatalks.com/en/series/mi...

Fossil ferns helped early earth scientists to literally assemble the idea of #Gondwana and #platetectonics. 🪨Link to post: www.gondwanatalks.com/l/plate-tect...

The way the #geography and #tectonics of the Middle East changed was pivotal in shaping how we became human. A post on how a new ocean, the #RedSea, opened during the final spasms of the ancient #Tethys ocean; and what that meant for human ancestors. www.gondwanatalks.com/l/middle-eas... #evolution

On the Middle East and how we became human. An article on human evolution along the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the #Tethys Ocean. #humanevolution #redsea #aquaticape #waterside #hominids #humanity #redsea #middleeast. Link to post: ➡️ www.gondwanatalks.com/l/middle-eas...

Soil scientists, what am I seeing here? Small soil nodules brought up to the surface by ants or other soil life? #soil #soilscience #bodem #soillife #soils4life #soilscientist #bodemkunde. 🤎Go to soil posts: www.gondwanatalks.com/en/soils/

The first known case of macho behaviour is hundreds of millions of years old. This #trilobite has a trident used for jousting and winning female favours. #richardfortey #palaeontology #geology #fossils #arthropods 🦕🐜 www.gondwanatalks.com/l/gondwana-s...

Wonderful #Wolfmoon. First full moon after the winter #solstice. More on why there is a #moon: 🚀🌕🌙 www.gondwanatalks.com/l/origin-of-...

Lichen in frost in dunes, at the sea front, Belgium. Wonderful life. 🦕🍀 #lichen #life #naturephotography #belgium

#Gondwana has always fascinated me. The long gone southern #supercontinent that enabled forming the world we know today. Read more: 🦕 www.gondwanatalks.com

Have we created an Age of #Fire? Are we living in the #Pyrocene? Some thoughts on the role of fire in our human epoch, and in the geological past, e.g. in the Carboniferous when there was more #oxygen in the air. #ageoffire ➡️🔥https://www.gondwanatalks.com/l/pyrocene-life-on-a-blazing-planet/

A few titles I'm reading. Some are entirely consumed while in bars and restaurants (which happens when living in Spain 🍷). Some books were gifts! Thanks to the givers! And to the authors. #marginalian #moss #trilobite #minerals #andreawulf #elainemorgan #thomashalliday #carlorovelli #madelaineboehme

A few things about myself and why I started GondwanaTalks. ✨🦕🍀🔭 www.gondwanatalks.com/en/about/ 🐚 #scienceblog #sciencenews #scientist #geology #planet #earth #climate #life #soil

Moon and Venus early Januari in #Belgium, an amazing sight. See better pics of the night sky taken by my uncle Johan Bonne with his telescope. 🔭 #amateurastronomy #telescope #space #stars #astronomer #sciencerocks #spacescience #gondwanatalks #gondwana ☄️✨ www.gondwanatalks.com/l/amateur-as...

As California is ablaze with fire, have a reread of this post I wrote in 2022, as it is still valid today. On wildfires in the geological past and how we created the #Pyrocene. 🔥 #ageoffire #wildfire #californiafire www.gondwanatalks.com/l/pyrocene-l...

All those fires in California remind me once more we may well be living in the #Pyrocene, a geological epoch governed by wildfires. More thoughts on this idea here: www.gondwanatalks.com/l/pyrocene-l... #wildfire #california #geology #anthropogene #holocene #humanity #climatechange

In 2024 I wrote 10 articles in 3 languages! ✨🦕 Which one did you like most? #gondwanatalks #geologyrocks #geology #science #sciencewriter #earthscience #dinosaurs #climate #nature #planet #eclipse #spain Go to all articles: www.gondwanatalks.com/en/articles/

#Sand is being exploited more quickly than it is replenished by nature. A post on the #geology of sand, cement and the impact of concrete. #gondwanatalks #concrete #pantheon #hormigon #construction #minerals #resources #exploitation #geologyrocks www.gondwanatalks.com/l/sand-cemen...

Thanks for following and supporting GondwanaTalks, closing its fifth year. Best wishes! ✨🎉🥂 Www.gondwanatalks.com.

On whales with legs and how terrestrial quadrupeds returned to the sea, the legacy of #Cousteau, humans and #water, and meeting #Beluga #whales. 🌊🐳💙 www.gondwanatalks.com/l/ocean-plan...

We live on an ocean planet, occurred to me once more as I walked along a strangely quiet sea in #Belgium. Read my post on #oceans, marine life including #whales with legs and #belugas. 🌊🐋🐟💙 www.gondwanatalks.com/l/ocean-plan...

How the moon was formed. A Mars-sized proto-planet, #Theia collides with Earth. How did scientists get to this hypothesis? www.gondwanatalks.com/l/origin-of-... 🔥⚡☄️(Artistic image conceptualized by K. Bonne and made using OpenAI's DALL-E model). #space #earth #solarsystem #science #planets

The lunar samples from the #Apollo missions to the #moon are still being analyzed today to understand how the moon formed, as our moon is massive compared to Earth, unlike other planet-moon systems. A fascinating story. www.gondwanatalks.com/l/origin-of-...

Full moon, a sweet sight. But was the moon always there? Check my post on the hypotheses of how the #moon formed,an ongoing field of research full of opposing ideas. www.gondwanatalks.com/l/origin-of-... 🌙🌕 #spacescience #luna #fullmoon #lunascience #nasa #gondwanatalks

Excellent book with interviews with scientists by the late #EduardoPunset. On DNA, origin of life, quarks, quanta, strings and why we, are here. I'm reading it in #torrelodones #science #gondwanatalks www.gondwanatalks.com

The marine algae by biologist Helena Cruz de Carvalho are unicellular phytoplankton that make shells in unimaginable shapes. www.gondwanatalks.com/l/marine-alg... #plankton #oceanlife #climate #artforearth #earth #gondwanatalks #gondwana

Can beauty save us? 🐟That is the crux of my last post on mariene algae captured in enchanting #cyanotype by biologist Helena Cruz de Carvalho #biology #algae #marineart #plankton #earth #climatechange #ocean #oceanlife #gondwana #sciencefordummies #scienceandart www.gondwanatalks.com/l/marine-alg...

#stillife of #minerals. Art & science. Coral, aragonite, limestone cobbles, amethyst, hematite. #geologyrocks #geology #geologia #artandscience more in 3 languages on 💎🐚 www.gondwanatalks.com

My book #trilobite by Richard Fortey, coffee and the quote on the sugar made my day. This author inspired me to study #geology, a choice I never regretted. #geologyrocks #palaeontology #quotes #coffee #gondwanatalks #gondwana www.gondwanatalks.com

Sharing a good laugh with #JaneGoodall, was one highlight of several years of doing #volunteer work for the Jane Goodall Institute #Belgium. 👱‍♀️👩‍🦰💃Happy World Volunteer Day! #worldvolunteerday #chimpanzee #wildlife #climate

Happy World Soil Day! 🌾🍇🍄‍🟫 Studying soil is fascinating, because it opens up a microcosm that connects all spheres of our planet and make it a #habitable one. Never think that #soil is just 'dirt'. Those who think so, don't know what they miss. 🤎💚🩵 learn more: www.gondwanatalks.com #worldsoilday

#Soil is life. It nurtures our food, stores carbon, filters water, and supports ecosystems. As a soil scientist, I see its hidden value every day. And through my posts on www.gondwanatalks.com, I want other people to learn about it. Let’s protect this vital resource for future generations! 🌾

Isn't this soil profile wonderful? It's developed under a Mediterranean climate on Palaeozoic rocks. Actually it was on a beach at the Côte d'Azur. Life can't get much better. #soil #soilscience #earthscience #scientist #worldsoilday #cotedazur #gondwana #soilprofile #geologyrocks

What is the #DANA phenomenon? Read more about it in my post on the storms in Spain, focussing on the science of it. Why is it worse, how is it caused? How can the risks be mitigated? www.gondwanatalks.com/l/spain-2024... #jetstream #weather #climate #spain #meteo #geology #soilscience #earthscience

What's in a name? #GondwanaTalks is named after the great, lost supercontinent Gondwana, that united Africa, South America, India, Australia, Antarctica and other smaller pieces of land. Read more about how it formed. www.gondwanatalks.com/l/gondwana-s...

Hi, I'm Kathelijne, writer and editor of GondwanaTalks, a multilingual #blog on #nature, #planet, #climate and #life. Check it out: www.gondwanatalks.com/en/articles/