I won’t lie, I like a craft beer every now and again. Don’t get me wrong I’m not a snob. All I really know is lager = good, IPA = bitter. But I have noticed that I do tend to be losing a lot of my money to beers that have geologically relevant names.  And […]

Everyone and their granny knows that globally glaciers are retreating. However, there is one region where the opposite is true. The Karakoram mountain range spans the borders of Pakistan, India, and China. Our best estimates suggest that the area is home to almost 14,000 glaciers and more than 2,200 km³ of ice-covered area. These Karakoram […]

Alex suggested we go along to see the beginning of the Hutton Club seminar series this semester to critique the presentation style and learn a bit from it. I do have to be quite polite about the talk as I feel it would be bad form to try and tear down my supervisor but conveniently […]

I’ve found myself in KB house for the first time in 3 years (it was either this or put the heating on and I’ll be damned if I let that happen before November) and I can’t say it’s an altogether welcome reunion. If I’ve got to sit here and do work they could at least […]

Key findings of paper In a paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, a study of 1,889 palm species from the Arecaeae plant family was conducted. The authors combine machine learning predictions with published predictions, where available, and have determined that over a thousand palm species (56% of all palm species) are threatened. The study […]