News feed for the Geo-Institute of the ASCE.

This is a semi-regular blog dealing primarily with geology and earth science, but also incorporating general science, politics, music culture and sports. Basically everything, but mainly geology.

Green Cement?, written 2 days ago, A California entrepreneur wants to start turning straw into gold by bubbling power-plant fumes through seawater. Industry sources have written about it since 2007, but this month the the story...

Thawing permafrost likely to boost global warming, written 2 days ago, Greenhouse gas emissions from previously frozen organic carbon in soil are seen as larger than previously believed

I'm on Blogetery.com, written 1 week ago, Today I'm not saying goodbye to Wordpress.com just yet. I've got to keep all my blogs full and intact so that I can the administrators on scienceblogs.com come on over to look at my blogs to see if... This is my 2.0 version of The Great Dinosaur Mystery and ...

Geology and planetary science. Done good.

::: Satellite Images Reveal More Ice Melt at two of Greenland's Largest Glaciers, written 1 week ago, "Ohio State University (OSU) researchers monitoring daily satellite images of Greenland's glaciers have discovered break-ups at the Petermann and Jakobshavn glaciers's—two of the country's la...

Earth and space science.

(Video) Tribal Canoe Journey for Troubled Sea: Part 2, written 1 day ago, The USGS and the Coast Salish Tribal Nation have partnered during the annual Tribal Canoe Journey to study and help improve resources of the Salish Sea. This final episode in the Corecast Tribal Journey gives an overview of th...

New Stream Feature - Day's Dispatches, written 1 week ago, Now that I have converted over to the new scanner and control software, I am recording as MP3 all of the communications that come across the air. What I am working on at the moment is to present a history of the day's dispatches in audio for...

The Colorado Plateau Story: the real Jurassic Parks, written 3 days ago, Today we make a return to our series on the geologic story of the Colorado Plateau. The Mesozoic Era left a stunning variety of rocks across the region. The Triassic story, with the Moenkopi and Chinle formations has been told,...