Nature and biosphere are used interchangeably,” according to Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’s global report on The Economics of Biodiversity (2021,...
Recently, while preparing a guidebook on the Southern Pennines, I revisited several key geological localities after many years away. Sadly, I discovered...
Growing up in Springfield, Ohio, I was a good 700 miles from the ocean, but one day that distance dramatically shrank. I was around seven years old when...
The Mineral Cup was launched by Eddie Dempsey in 2017 and is now an annual competition where people vote for the best of two minerals. Controversially,...
Spatial skills are a critical competency for success in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and are a non-negotiable in geoscience (McLaughlin...
A digital twin is a live, virtual version of something real. It updates as new data arrive and lets us test “what if?” questions, exploring the consequences...
In recent years, universities across many western nations, including several in the UK, have closed Earth science courses and downsized their geology departments....
A negative bias surrounds women in their midlife – highlighted recently when a well-known TV presenter used the phrase ‘women of a certain age’ to...
