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Firings Reversed: Judge Says Some Federal Workers Must Be Reinstated
13 March 2025 @ 8:07 pm
Today, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the Trump administration to offer reinstatement to all probationary employees previously fired from the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury and Veterans Affairs.Explaining Mars’ Mysteriously Magnetic Crust
13 March 2025 @ 2:39 pm
Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records of the planet’s now-extinct magnetic field.Red Sea Corals Survived the Late Glacial Crisis
13 March 2025 @ 12:32 pm
Research indicates that delicate deepwater corals tolerated or adapted to major climate and salinity fluxes, “yet today, it’s a complete massacre.”The Middle East’s First Comprehensive Carbon Budget
13 March 2025 @ 12:31 pm
The first greenhouse gas budget for Central and West Asia—24 countries, including Yemen, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan—was just published.Erosion: An Overlooked Contributor to the Carbon Cycle
13 March 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Since physical and chemical erosion yield comparable carbon fluxes, studying both together is essential to avoid biases in erosion-driven carbon flux estimates.Landslides in Hebes Chasma, Mars
13 March 2025 @ 7:13 am
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. I rarely write about landslides on other planetary bodies, primarily because this is outside of my comfort zone. However, the European Space Agency (ESA) image below popped up on my feed this […]EPA Moves to Rewrite Water Rules Following Sackett Decision
12 March 2025 @ 7:29 pm
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced today that the agency would kick off a review of EPA rules and redefine “waters of the United States” to ensure that the agency aligns with the 2023 Supreme Court decision Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which limited the implementation of the Clean Water Act.United States and Ukraine Weigh Mineral Deal
12 March 2025 @ 2:05 pm
When U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met to sign a minerals agreement on 28 February, their discussion devolved into a heated, and widely covered, exchange. The minerals agreement, if signed, would result in half of Ukraine’ future revenue from minerals and natural resources going to the United States, in exchange for U.S. military support.Topography and the Terrestrial Water Cycle
12 March 2025 @ 1:57 pm
The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is still much to learn about Earth’s complex dynamics – both above, at, and below the surface.EPA Plans to Close Environmental Justice Offices, Leaving Communities to Face Pollution Alone
12 March 2025 @ 1:23 pm
Yesterday, news broke that a memo from Lee Zeldin, the new administrator of the EPA, directed the agency to eliminate all offices that focus on environmental justice.