A guest post from Dr Lloyd White, Lecturer in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia, who is currently on board the JOIDES Resolution research vessel as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program. Continue reading
‘We’ve built our entire world around water. Our temperature scale, our bodies. Water shapes our continents, flows through our oceans and rivers, creates atmosphere and weather – this one substance does all of that. And we’ve got to a point where we’re so used to it, we ignore it.’ Alok Jha has written about a … Continue reading
Former President, author and palaeontologist Richard Fortey’s new BBC 4 documentary is kicking off tonight! ‘Nature’s Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution’ investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and meets some of the remarkable and unique species that live on them. Episode one, which travels to Hawaii to investigate how life colonises a newly born … Continue reading
Day 2 of Earth Science Week saw events happening across the country, from Fort William to Northern Ireland, as well continued coverage of our #100geosites project. Continue reading
Eternal thanks to the British Geological Survey‘s Lauren Noakes (@laurennotes), for sending us this little beauty – dinosaurs being transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World’s Fair. Potentially even better than last month’s flying dinosaur. Send us more, internet! Continue reading
A guest post from Martin Siegert, Professor of Geosciences at the University of Bristol and Principal Investigator of the NERC Lake Ellsworth Consortium. Martin will be giving the final Shell Lecture of 2013, ‘Lakes Beneath the Ice’, on 18 December. Find out more Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica is similar in size and topographic setting … Continue reading
Imperial College’s Matt Loader takes us on a tour of Piccadilly’s geological highlights… “I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day” – Walter Besant, novelist. 1901. When I moved to London just over two years ago, I was immediately struck by the history of … Continue reading
It’s been a dinosaury week so far at the British Science Festival! Our event, ‘Dinosaurs, monsters and myths’ kicked off a huge amount of press coverage for Nanotyrannus, a disputed new species. Once thought to be a juvenile T. Rex, Nanotyrannus now appears to be confirmed, thanks to a beautiful new specimen which has been … Continue reading
Curiosity succesfully landed on Mars over three weeks ago (Earth time), and has since sent us back this HD video of its spectacular plummet – including a not so graceful landing of the jettisoned heat shield: Now, the rover is on its way to its first region, Glenelg, 400 metres east of its landing spot. … Continue reading
How do you drive a rover on Mars? The latest rover to land on Mars, Curiosity, represents a huge leap forward in technology for exploring the planet. At 875 kilograms and ten feet long, it is about twice as long and five times as heavy as NASA’s twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, which … Continue reading
