We are all the bearers of the endoskeleton and share a common ancestor, the first vertebrate.

Today, June 20th, 2024 at 1:50pmPST is the Estival (Midsummer) Solstice, a single moment in time when the Sun reaches it's highest annual...

The Appalachians are older than the Sierra Nevadas and the Rockies, but they are not the oldest mountain chain in North America. All the...

It is not fun to experience a natural disaster. It is scary and overwhelming, intense & terrible. Yet the world we love would not exist...

For those of you who live along the coast of Central and Northern California, you likely live in the California Coast Ranges and on top...

What was Gondwana? Gondwana was a huge megacontinent that formed as smaller landmasses squeezed together, long before life inhabited the...

Where is the Tethys Sea? I was lucky enough to spend time on one of the last vestiges of the Tethys Sea this summer as a heat wave baked...

How do you interact with the Earth? Humans have an intimate connection with the Earth, all plant and animal Earthlings do - we evolved to...

Imagine, you are in a space ship. Below is a world with oceans and land, volcanic eruptions, swirling clouds, dust storms, and carpets of...

There are ~1,350 potentially active volcanos on Earth. In 2022 people flocked to see the spectacle of volcanic eruptions in Iceland,...

On Earth, an ecosystem has evolved that includes a wide variety of animals, plants, protists, fungi, bacteria, and Archaea. Earth life is...

For at least 50 years we have been living in the Anthropocene Epoch, and until recently all of us Anthropos (Greek for human beings) were...

Why are temperatures cooler in the winter? The Sun feels more distant and fails to warm our skin, so many assume that the Sun is further...

Time is a mystery, and after this last year it seems more mysterious than ever. We exist in time, it is ongoing and seemingly changes...

The equinox is one of the oldest solar celebrations in human history. Some cultures have been celebrating the official start of Spring...

Focus is an experience of convergence, our attention trained on a single point of interest, the center of energetic expenditure. Focus is...

How do you cope with environmental uncertainty and rapid change? You adapt, because every generation of your ancestors going back to the...

Today (Tuesday, September 22nd) is the first official day of autumn for the northern hemisphere. The word autumn simply indicates the...

It feels like we are still just waiting for the pandemic to be over...but we should be preparing to live with this harsh reality for a...

Iceland is a volcano on steroids. Not only is it the highest peak of the longest mountain chain on Earth (the mid-Atlantic ridge), it is...