The EarthSphere Blog explores life and the planet supporting it. Three or more articles are published weekly but never more than one a day. The goal is simple: entertain and inform.
The most recent blogs appear on ArcheanWeb’s homepage, and a archive listing of the posts is below.
- El Niño
- 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
- 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
- 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
- An Existential View of Climate Change
- Building Blocks of Life
- Water Created by the Sun
- Post Industrial Environmental Blues
- Ecosystems: A Hitchhiker’s Story
- Phantom Forests of the Oregon Coast
- Little Volcanoes
- Shifting Weather Patterns and More Rain
- Ocean Dead Zones: The Water of Death
- Isostatic Rebound, Earthquakes, and Melting Ice
- 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
- Managing Ecosystems, Adapting to Climate Change
- Let’s Not Focus on Planting Trees
- Climate Change Gets Personal