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"Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in [...]
Otherlands is unlike any other book I’ve encountered. Starting in the Pleistocene and roving back in time, for each epoch of the Cenozoic and each period of the Mesozoic and Paleozoic, Thomas Halliday takes us to a specific place and time, a [...]
And now for something completely different . . . 'The ups and downs of ammonites; how did ammonites adjust their position in the sea'.This activity demonstrates how some animals which are buoyant in water can change their depth in [...]
This month’s open thread on climate topics as 2025 wraps up. Please be courteous to each other. Tis the season!
The post Unforced Variations: Dec 2025 first appeared on RealClimate.
Climate risk scores on real estate listings are having an impact on prices and realtors are complaining. But who should pay for these losses? If you have been browsing Zillow or Redfin in recent years, you may have noticed that (in the US at [...]
I am Khadijah Audu, a PhD student in the geosciences at the University of Arkansas, where I specialize in remote sensing and GIS applications for multi-hazard assessment and environmental resilience. This October, I had the incredible privilege of [...]
This time we have studies from all over the world, among them a surprisingly large number of papers on historical data. Enjoy reading and let us know in case we’ve missed
This image is of a Hildoceras bifrons (Bruguière, 1789) ammonite fossil. The animal existed in the Jurassic Period. Fossil was
discovered in England. Fossil was on display at the Natural
History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) [...]
Nigel Brush and colleagues have assembled a record of human history in the Walhonding Valley of Ohio (see map below). Along with Jeffrey Dilyard and others, Brush has worked in the region for decades examining the history of human occupation … [...]
Good news for everybody. The weather forecast has the giant machine suddenly turning off.The invading blue army suddenly runs out of sandwiches and turns back for home. Greenland is going white, indicating [...]