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Earth Science Week: "Geology helps the land tell you stories"

Earth Science Week: “Geology helps the land tell you stories” It’s this year’s Earth Science Week - see the American Geosciences Institute and Geological Societ...

October 1, 2016 10 min read

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October 2016

October 2016 It’s this year’s Earth Science Week - see the American Geosciences Institute and Geological Society of London sites). I have periodically attempted...

October 1, 2016 9 min read

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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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Sandscapes of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Sandscapes of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge I have just returned from an utterly memorable two weeks in the stunning, extraordinary, landscapes of Iceland. I have neve...

September 1, 2016 2 min read

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September 2016

September 2016 I have just returned from an utterly memorable two weeks in the stunning, extraordinary, landscapes of Iceland. I have never seen anything quite...

September 1, 2016 1 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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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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It's not just Namibian fairies

Described as one of the last great enigmas or mysteries, the so-called fairy circles of the arid lands of Namibia remain to be explained. Theories abound, and t...

April 1, 2016 6 min read

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April 2016

April 2016 Described as one of the last great enigmas or mysteries, the so-called fairy circles of the arid lands of Namibia remain to be explained. Theories ab...

April 1, 2016 5 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