Historic Posts
- Fear of the Deep
- Women’s Rights in Oregon Today and Tomorrow
- El Niño
- An Orwellian Dilemma
- Water: Let the Saudis have it
- An Oligocene Descent into the Cold
- An Early Eocene Hothouse
- No Global Warming Surprises This Week
- Water
- The Cone of Ignorance
- The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis
- Life on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Let It Rain
- Jurassic Heat
- No Water to Drink
- Schrödinger’s Baby
- The Purcell Lobe
- Subsidence
- Yellowstone: Statistics Versus Climate Change
- La Niña Keeps on Coming
- Barents Sea Hot Spot
- Life on a Backwater Planet
- A New Start in the Triassic
- Life Crashes as the Permian Ends
- Permian Water World
- Carboniferous Cooling
- Carboniferous Period
- Art Spotlight
- End of the Devonian
- Devonian Life Sinks into Mass Extinction
- The Rise of Devonian Trees
- Devonian World
- Silurian Magic
- Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction
- The Big Ordovician Freeze
- The Rise and Fall of Ordovician Life
- The Ingredients for Life
- Climate Change Momentum
- Hyper Evolution
- Late Ediacaran Mass Extinction
- The Ediacaran World
- Our Common Ancestors
- The Cryogenian Big Freeze
- Eukaryotes and Oxygen
- Eukaryotes
- Limnic Eruption
- Nusantara
- Seawalls Are Not a Panacea
- Arctic Beavers Adapt to Climate Change
- Missing Oxygen
- Banded Iron Formations
- Floating Homes
- Climate Adaptation Versus Climate Change
- Underground Fires
- Life Takes Another Leap Forward
- A Blue-Green Revolution
- Creeping Landslides Threaten Alaskan Highway
- The Rise and Fall of a Chemosynthetic Empire
- The Cost of Flooding We All Pay For
- Thwaites Glacier, What’s the Fuss
- Abiogenesis Jumpstarts Evolution
- Arctic Yedoma — Supercharging Greenhouse Gases
- Righting Climate Change
- News Spotlight – Rain, Rain, and More Rain
- An Existential View of Climate Change
- Building Blocks of Life
- Water Created by the Sun
- Post Industrial Environmental Blues
- Earth, the Largest Ecosystem
- Ecosystems: A Hitchhiker’s Story
- Phantom Forests of the Oregon Coast
- Little Volcanoes
- Shifting Weather Patterns and More Rain
- A Day on Buddha’s Farm
- Ocean Dead Zones: The Water of Death
- Isostatic Rebound, Earthquakes, and Melting Ice
- The universe and the soul of the world
- The universe is self-produced through opposites
- From the dialectical work of forces to the archetype of Three
- From cosmological models to the archetype of Four
- COP26: The Tuvalu Speech
- Rising Solar Winds
- The Rise of Animal Life
- Nitrous Oxide, The Shunned Stepchild of the Greenhouse Gas Family
- Blue Carbon Revival
- Myths, Keeping the Chaos at Bay
- Dinosaurs and the Deccan Traps
- Climate Change Brings an Explosion of Bomb Cyclones
- The Pineapple Express and Atmospheric Rivers
- A Garden Surprise When Ollie Appears
- Tree Rings Record History
- Saltwater, Corroded Pipes, and Ghost Forests
- Retirement and Climate Change
- Are Trees the Optimal Life-form?
- Cars, Homes, and People Swallowed by Sinkholes
- Purple Haze
- Your Beachfront Dream Just Got More Expensive
- Water From Cosmic Debris Supports Life
- A Litmus Test for Your Environment
- Greenland Rises as Ice Melts
- Cascadia Unfolding: Anatomy of a Disaster
- Species Loss: Rate of Change Matters
- Mass Extinction Events: Life’s Struggle for Survival
- The Seeds of Life
- Politics: A tipping point for climate change?
- Bluefin Tuna: A case of overeating
- Polar Vortex: Cold weather meets global warming
- Arctic Warming
- Wildfires and Mudslides
- Saltwater invades Florida’s water supplies
- Disaster on White island
- Hot earth is normal
- Washington: home to dangerous volcanoes
- Regional temperatures: Location, location, location
- Climate change at the margins
- An ancient analog to global warming
- Asteroids, dinosaurs, and mercury poisoning
- The world’s water towers
- The entanglement tango and teleportation
- Riding on the Pineapple Express
- Ocean Acidification
- The case of Tuvalu
- Coastal wetlands
- Gulf Stream and the Little Ice Age
- Melt awards for 2019
- The economics of environmental pollution
- Seabed mining: Technological marvel or environmental folly?
- King Julien’s disappearing Madagascar rainforest
- Temperature Data
- Hot, dry, and windy: Australia’s wildfires explode
- Hot ocean waters affecting New Zealand kelp
- Arctic Methane Craters
- Raining Fire: pyrocumulonimbus clouds – pyroCbs
- Much ado about tipping points
- Ignore climate change in decision making; what does this mean?
- Embrace a Hot Earth
- Volcanic tsunamis
- Microgrids, conservation, and energy
- Saltwater and sewers: A nasty combination
- Greenhouse gas emissions fall: Good news and bad news
- Earth’s heat budget and global warming
- Iron and stardust: A common bond
- Ocean warming dwarfs atmospheric warming
- More Methane
- Can we quit fossil fuels?
- Science and Environmental Policy
- A hot earth analog
- Acid and phytoplankton in the ocean’s food chain
- The Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Ouroboros
- Heat affects the ocean’s food chain
- A crab crisis from coastal water acidification
- Controlling your carbon footprint – Sort of
- Modeling microclimate change
- Oceanic carbon sequestration: good and bad
- Forests as a pathway for terrestrial carbon sequestration
- ArcheanWeb & Social Media
- Tree planting as a carbon sequestration plan
- The politics of climate change and climate policy
- Carbon sequestration in soils
- Water vapor amplification and global warming
- Climate change and surface water
- The collapse of Antarctic ice shelves
- A dose of realism in environmental research
- Ogallala Aquifer groundwater, sustaining life
- Rising seas: Let’s look at the numbers
- Kimberlite pipes, diamonds, and zircons
- Tongass National Forest: The good, the better, and the beautiful
- Extractive versus sustainable logging
- Ice-free Arctic: Trade routes will open up
- Thinking big: Bold engineering ideas
- King tides, bringing reality home
- The Colorado River is running dry
- Flash drought?
- Heat, oxygen deprivation, and extinction
- Science versus an ideological approach: data versus magical thinking
- When do forests become a carbon liability?
- German ice wine getting pricey
- Environmental protection starts with your lawn
- Lawn Alternatives
- Morning coffee and the environment
- Pandemic planning: A triumph of ideology over science, and a failure of leadership
- Crop diversity leads to healthy ecosystems
- The Axial Seamount: a very active volcano
- Arctic carbon transport via groundwater
- Environmental DNA: What is it and why does it matter
- The Icelandic Plume
- Yellowstone National Park, part of a living earth
- PETM: A case of rapid climate warming
- Denman Canyon, threatening the heart of Antarctica
- Species adaptation to climate change
- Cyanobacteria: Links to the origins of life
- Chemosynthetic life: The first mass extinction
- Thermohaline circulation
- Riding the global conveyor belt
- Beer and cannabis: A dynamic duo
- Florida Everglades, not what it used to be
- The Everglades water wars
- Concrete and carbon dioxide
- Pavement heat in the concrete jungle
- The rain garden, an incremental solution