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Please read this

Please read this Erik Klemetti is an assistant professor of Geosciences at Ohio’s Denison University and he writes Eruptions , a blog about all things volcanic...

September 1, 2016 9 min read

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August 2016

August 2016 I witnessed my first flash flood decades ago in the Oman. Fortunately we were camped far enough - just - above the floor of the wadi to be able to s...

August 1, 2016 2 min read

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"No one actually studies sand" - misconceptions and science literacy

For one reason or another (likely to be discussed in a future post), I have been working on an essay that attempts to address cross-cultural aspects of viewing...

July 1, 2016 4 min read

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July 2016

July 2016 For one reason or another (likely to be discussed in a future post), I have been working on an essay that attempts to address cross-cultural aspects o...

July 1, 2016 4 min read

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A Reverence for Rivers (3): Piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights

We only have ONE hydrologic system, dammit! School kids know that (it’s in all their textbooks), geologists, geophysicists, geomorphologists, environmental scie...

June 1, 2016 19 min read

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Camels don't fly, deserts don't bloom

Back in November last year, I described how, very controversially, Arizona is exporting its water in vast quantities to Saudi Arabia, via alfalfa to feed Saudi...

May 1, 2016 9 min read

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Theeb

“Epic” “intimate” “brutal” “riveting” “spellbinding” “spectacular.” The adjectives come tumbling out of the reviews - but please see this movie for yourself. De...

April 1, 2016 4 min read

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Sand wars continue, unabated

It just doesn’t stop, and the scale of the damage to communities and the environment is staggering. NASA recently released the pair of images, above, showing ch...

March 1, 2016 4 min read

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Sunbathing in the microscopic desert jungle

The desert has its own palette, distinctive and at the same time subtle yet dramatic. There are many factors at work creating the patterns and hues of arid land...

March 1, 2016 6 min read

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March 2016

March 2016 It just doesn’t stop, and the scale of the damage to communities and the environment is staggering. NASA recently released the pair of images , above...

March 1, 2016 5 min read

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Totally off-piste, but I have to say this

I spent twenty years of my life living and working in the US. My wife is American. My kids were born in Detroit and Dallas (and my daughter currently works in n...

March 1, 2016 11 min read

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2016: the year of the Bagnold dunes

Last month, NASA issued a press release to announce that the Curiosity Rover had reached the “Bagnold dunes” and was preparing to investigate. The image above i...

January 1, 2016 10 min read