An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum. Credit: Captmondo

What’s Inside Meteorites?

The August 2023 El Nino, as mapped from space. The huge mass of warm water against the coast of Ecuador and Peru exerts global influence on weather patterns. (Image: NOAA)

Weather-changing El Nino oscillation is at least 250 million years old

Mount Everest officially stands at 8,848 metres (29,029 feet) above sea level

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests...

Reconstruction of an avisaurid (e.g., A. darwini). Morphology of the tarsometatarsus suggests that these large birds engaged in raptorial behavior and could carry proportionally large prey. Illustration done by Ville Sinkkonen. Credit Clark et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Newly discovered Late Cretaceous birds may have carried heavy prey like...

Paul's Slide, at Post Mile 22, has been active for much of the history of Highway 1 on the Big Sur coast. (Photos by Kevin Schmidt/USGS)

Understanding landslides: a new model for predicting motion

The Pinnacles Desert

Iron nuggets in the Pinnacles unlock secrets of ancient and future...

Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning Credit & Copyright: Martin Rietze (Alien Landscapes on Planet Earth)

Tongan volcanic eruption triggered by explosion as big as ‘five underground...

Photo of Taylor’s Mill in Readington Township, New Jersey after the 5 April 2024 earthquake. | GEER-NIST

Closer look at New Jersey earthquake rupture could explain shaking reports

Amethyst-calcite geode from Los Catalanes already processed in the workshop and ready to sell. Photo: Fiorella Arduin Rode

Mystery of Uruguay’s amethyst geodes

Rose Quartz: The Pink Gemstone

Rose Quartz: The Pink Gemstone

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