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Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705/life-beyond-measure-by-ed-yong/ 1/

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

As I write this, over 1,200 people are dead across Nepal and China, and nearly 5500 more are missing. About 900 people are trapped in hydropower tunnels clogged by debris. Herculean national and in…

Zircons interpreted to be of syn-volcanic origin recovered from the lower greenschist “black and white banded” Bhitardari chert, Eastern Iron Ore g...

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a promising carbon dioxide removal strategy, yet evaluating its net carbon removal potential requires

India’s race to build data centres is reshaping the country’s power system, raising difficult questions about energy, water and public resources

A new study challenges the notion that heavy rainfall can shield glaciers from decline.

Musings about a journey across two different worlds.

Abstract. Tropical shallow marine metazoan reefs have been biodiversity hotspots throughout their history, where this high biodiversity is thought to origi

Animal diversification across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition was a crucial event in Earth history, fundamentally altering our planet and its biosphere. However, Ediacaran fossil assemblages show li...

Did Deccan Volcanism cause the end Cretaceous mass extinction or was it the asteroid? What do the fossils and other environmental parameters say?

Did Deccan Volcanism cause the end Cretaceous mass extinction or was it the asteroid? What do the fossils and other environmental parameters say?

Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry. Ac...

The sprawling grasslands of western India are, in the popular imagination, the remains of woodlands that were leveled under British rule — areas to be reforested, rather than conserved. But a recent analysis of stories, songs, and poems from centuries past reveals that western grasslands predate British colonization.

So, it has been awhile, right? Over the past few years, there have been a lot of changes to my volcano communication world. Scientists moved from Twitter to Bluesky. People decided they wanted podc…