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Alberta's electricity market is changing quickly. Here's what you need to know. The post Alberta’s evolving electricity market appeared first on Canadian Climate Institute.

Llamas, iconic animals of the Andes Mountains, have been the trusted companions of humans for thousands of years. Domesticated by the ancient Andeans, llamas have a prominent place in the geography and history of the …

Photographer: Paolo Bardelli Summary Author: Paolo Bardelli Stratospheric polar clouds, as the name suggests, are typically confined to the poles and occur in winter at high latitudes where the stratosphere cools to temperatures of -120 …

Worldwide income may fall by 19% by 2049 because of changes in climate. That’s according to a new study published in Nature. Poorer countries in the tropics that have historically contributed the least to greenhouse …

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida, (Carpenter, 1864). While rare today, these are British Columbia’s only native oyster. Had you been dining on …

The snow line on Mount Everest Region glaciers on May 1,, 2024 indicated by yellow dots on the Landsat image. Note that Nangpa La and Nup La-two high passes (5800-5900 m) are both snow free. …

Back in 2014, I was invited to join the AGU Blogosphere to post about geoscience education and educational technology (see my very first post, Join the Trek to explore Geoscience Education). Over time, as my …

This will be the new home of my blog Georneys. I’ll be moving all of my posts here from the AGU blogosphere – and starting some new blogging in 2024. Stay tuned!

It has been a stunning night. I never believed the auroras would make it into Central California, and most of the predictions suggested it wouldn't. But then reports started pouring in; sightings in South Carolina, …

A new home for the Landslide Blog I started this blog on 16 December 2007 – that feels like a long time ago now – as a site on Blogger. In 2010, the American Geophysical …

Trumpeter Swan observed last week at Ragged Mountain Reservoir, near Charlottesville, Virginia Well, this is it: The last post at Mountain Beltway here at the AGU Blogosphere. AGU has been so accommodating, hosting my blog …

Close your eyes and picture a river…go on, do it! What did you see? Did you picture a clear, deep mountain stream? A raging river in a steep gorge? A creek with grassy banks and …

Here are what the Marine Stewardship Council’s new requirements for sharks caught in certified sustainable fisheries mean. Sharks and their relatives are some of the most threatened vertebrates on Earth, and the number one threat …

The Vatican publicly shared, on May 17, 2024, their revised standard operating procedures regarding claims of religious supernatural phenomena. The document includes an introduction and a set of rules or actions on how to investigate …

Indonesia is a country of volcanoes. An impressive amount of subduction-related volcanoes. The country features four different volcanic arcs, chains of volcanoes above subducting oceanic plates. The most important one is the Sunda Arc, home …