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13 hours ago

Info text from HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice:

"Volcanic Activity Summary:
Episode 43 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended abruptly at 6:21 p.m. HST on March 10, 2026 after 9 hours of continuous lava fountaining. Additional details on this eruptive episode will be provided in the next official report.

All eruptive activity was confined to Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park."

👉 UPDATE:
🛑 Episode 43 has Ended 🛑

HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice

Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)
Issued: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 6:27 PM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H123

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13 hours ago

👉 UPDATE:
HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice

Volcano: Kilauea
🌋 Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH 👀
⬇️ (prev.: Warning)

✈ Current Aviation Color Code: 🟠
⬇️ (prev.: 🔴)

Issued: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 6:07 PM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H126

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20 hours ago

Screenshot of [V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater) at:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKuUyKt8mc

Amazing USGS live videos still.
(Links please see above) 👆

⚠️ [V1cam] seems currently fully covered by volcanic debris/Tephra! ⚠️

🌋 Pele’s volcanic shows
never get boring. 🌋

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20 hours ago

Activity Summary:

Episode 43 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption at Kīlauea summit began around 9:17 a.m. HST on March 10, 2026, and is continuing at this time.

Initial fountains began from the north vent with the south vent starting just before 10 a.m. HST.

Currently the south fountain is 1150 feet (350 meters) high and the north vent is 1000 feet (300 meters) high.

Maximum fountain heights for both vents were over 1300 feet (400 meters).

Lava flows are have covered about one third of the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu crater.

Precursory overflows began from the north vent at 8:20 a.m. HST and continued directly into the fountaining episode.

Tephra fallout, visible in HVO webcams from as early as 9:50 a.m. HST, is creating hazardous conditions in areas downwind, including neighboring communities and Highway 11.

Volcano Village and Mauna Loa Estates - up to 3 inches in diameter

Royal Hawaiian Estates - up half an inch in diameter and Pele's hair

Fallout that nearly continuously covers the ground has been reported at various overlooks in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park and Volcano Golf Course

👉 NEW UPDATE:
A few more details about the current eruption (Episode 43):

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT
U.S. Geological Survey

Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 12:17 PM HST (Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 22:17 UTC)

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22 hours ago

3/3 - UPDATE:

...indicate that winds are blowing from the south direction, which suggests that volcanic gas emissions and volcanic material may be distributed to the north direction from Halemaʻumaʻu.

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22 hours ago

2/3 - UPDATE:
Accordingly, the Volcano Alert Level is being raised from WATCH to WARNING.

The National Weather Service OR Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center reports that the plume from this eruption is reaching 25,000 feet above sea level. Ground-level sensors near the eruptive vents...

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22 hours ago

1/3 - UPDATE:
Episode 43 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea at 9:17 am HST on 3/10/2026 & continues as of this notice. Fallout up to football size pieces & smaller are reported at overlooks in Hawai'i Volcanoes National park, creating hazardous ground conditions.

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22 hours ago

UPDATE:
HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice

Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)

🌋 Current Volcano Alert Level:
⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

✈ Current Aviation Color Code:
⚠️ 🔴 ⚠️

Issued: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 10:54 AM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H124

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23 hours ago

[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

USGS Kilauea volcano Hawaii live cams:
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[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

[V2cam] Kīlauea volcano, (east Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

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1 day ago

Screenshot of "[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0tfYDxrUA

HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice

Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)
🌋 Volcano Alert Level: WATCH
✈ Current Aviation Color Code: 🟠

‼️ Episode 43 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea began at 9:17 HST on March 10, 2026. ‼️

#geology #geoscience #Volcano #volcanism ⚒

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5 days ago

And imagine this:

The German broadcasters #ARD #ZDF #ÖRR are airing the opening ceremony of the #MilanoCortina2026 #Paralympics as online live streaming:

👉 And there are NO subtitles available!

👉 NO optional audio description!

👉 NO sign language!

🚫 Inclusion within #Germany 🚫

#Olympia

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5 days ago

Screenshot of Sportschau.de webpage: the opening ceremony of the Winter-Olympics isn't on regular TV-broadcasting... just available as internet streaming.

I just noticed that the main two German TV channels #ARD #ZDF #ÖRR are NOT live TV-broadcasting the #Paralympics #MilanoCortina2026 opening ceremony... ONLY STREAMING!

👉 But they did plenty on 'regular' #Olympics!

🚫 Inclusion within #Germany 🚫

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5 days ago

The Geologist (alternative title: The Mineralogist) is a painting by the German painter Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885) from the 1860s. It belongs to the collection of the 'Von der Heydt Museum' in Wuppertal/Germany, which acquired it through a bequest in 1913. Spitzweg’s painting style belongs to Late Romanticism.

Material and technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 44 × 34.5 cm (17 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches)
Date: 1852–1856

Picture: Wikipedia / Public domain

⚒ Happy #FieldworkFriday!

The classic: 'The Geologist' by Carl Spitzweg (ca. 1860).

⛏ Rock hammer, 🔎 hand lens, and stratigraphy — has anything really changed since then?

#GeoArt #Geology #Art #painting

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5 days ago

Interesting! Thank you for adding details.

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5 days ago

A famous quote, often cited as a proverb regarding leadership and crisis management from Sir Raymond Priestley, a geologist and Antarctic explorer who served with both Shackleton and Scott:

"For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton."

Meaning: It emphasizes that while others excel at specific tasks, Shackleton is the best choice for overcoming hopeless, life-threatening situations.

⚒ #Shackleton #Geology #Endurance #Antarctica #exploration #history #expedition

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5 days ago

Picture shows the ship Endurance frozen into the Antarctic ice and about to get crushed.

The Endurance: a three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Picture: Frank Hurley, Public Domain.

Happy Endurance Discovery Day!

On March 5th, 2022, exactly 100 years to the day after Shackleton was laid to rest, the #Endurance22 expedition located the wreck 3,008 meters deep in the Weddell Sea.

#Shackleton #Endurance #Antarctica #exploration #expedition #history

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6 days ago

Absolutely! Not only it's how the 'outside world' (non-scientific) or possible clients see you. Unfortunately, your former science colleagues often put you 'outside the bubble' as well - not part of the academic world anymore.

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6 days ago

When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit “My scientific life [had] gathered there, thread by thread,” this researcher writes

Sooner or later, many of "us" scientists reach this point. It definitely changes things...

⚒ 🧪

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1 week ago

Artistic palaeo-reconstructions of ecosystem states in Central Europe over the last 23 million years, focusing on large herbivores and taxa indicative of openness. First row Neogene – evolutionary origin of present taxa, second row Pleistocene – pre-Homo sapiens baseline, third row Holocene – non-analogous ecosystems shaped by Homo sapiens.

From:
Biological Conservation

Volume 316, April 2026, 111749

"Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome"

This has major implications for the current #ClimateEmergency #Klimawandel mitigation plans to plant AMAP trees within #Europe & #Germany.

👉 Probably another wrong direction to fight #ClimateChange #globalwarming #ClimateCrisis.

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1 week ago

Biological Conservation

Volume 316, April 2026, 111749

Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome

"The study shows that current reforestation practices are on the wrong track—both here in Denmark, where subsidies are only granted for planting dense forests, and elsewhere in Europe. This will not only be harmful for biodiversity; it will be in direct contradiction to the type of ecosystems that Europe's species have evolved in over millions of years," says Professor Jens-Christian Svenning from the Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), Department of Biology at Aarhus University, senior author of the study.

Source:
"Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon"

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-dense-dark-forests-europe-modern.html

New study: Europe had MUCH LESS dark dense forests vs today!

🚫🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳

"For over 20 million years, the landscape of Europe has been a tree-rich mosaic of grasslands, scrubs and more or less open woodlands with an abundance of wildflowers"

👇 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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1 week ago

Screenshot of movie scene from 'Dr.No' (1962): a Geology book lying on a white shelf. Title: "Geological Configuration Eastern Caribbean - Lyell".

🌴 Tropics, ⛏ Geology, 🕵️‍♂️ deadly schemes - welcome to Dr. No.

This happens when a geologist watches movies: ...he starts checking the movie props.

#FilmSky #BookSky #movies
#JamesBond #DrNo #geology

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3 weeks ago

Volcanic Activity Summary:
Episode 42 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended abruptly at 11:38 p.m. HST on February 15 after 9 hours and 48 minutes hours of continuous lava fountaining. Additional details on this eruptive episode will be provided in the next official report.

All eruptive activity was confined to Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice

Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)
🌋 Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH
✈ Current Aviation Color Code: 🟠

Issued: Sunday, February 15, 2026, 11:44 PM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H84

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3 weeks ago

Volcanic Activity Summary:
Episode 42 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea began at 1:50 p.m. HST on February 15, 2026, and continues as of this notice.
Two fountains are present both approaching or exceeding 1000 feet (300 meters) in height. The fountains are producing heat and ash that is driving the plume rising from the eruption site.
The National Weather Service reports that the plume from this eruption is reaching 35,000 feet above sea level. Ground-level sensors near the eruptive vents indicate that winds are blowing from the northeast direction, which suggests that volcanic gas emissions and volcanic material may be distributed to the southwest direction from Halemaʻumaʻu near the ground. However at this time ground crews in the area report no ashfall. Above 18,000 feet above sea level, winds are from the west and may distribute volcanic material to the east.

All eruptive activity is confined to Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice
Issued: Sunday, February 15, 2026, 3:15 PM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H83

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3 weeks ago

Activity Summary:

Episode 42 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began around 1:50 p.m. HST on February 15, 2026, and is still continuing.

Precursory activity for this episode took place over the preceding day (1:05 pm HST February 14), and included over 10 overflows in a range of sizes as well as in-vent spattering. In the hours leading up to the episode onset, significantly larger overflows issued from both north and south vent.

Continuous overflows began at 1:08 pm HST from the south vent with overflows from the north vent starting later.

As of 2:45 p.m. HST, both vents are fountaining, with fountain heights of approximately 1000-1200 feet high (300-350 meters) and about 800-100 feet high (250-300 meters) from north and south vent, respectively. The episode is producing ash and tephra, most of which appears to be dispersing to the southwest under the influence of relatively strong ground-level winds from the northeast. The plume top has reached over 15,000 feet (4,600 meters) above sea level and may potentially spread fine ash and Pele's hair in other directions depending on the ultimate height reached.

No tephra fall has been reported in public areas at this time.

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT
U.S. Geological Survey
Sunday, February 15, 2026, 2:58 PM HST (Monday, February 16, 2026, 00:58 UTC)

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3 weeks ago

[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

USGS Kilauea volcano live cams:
⚒

[V1cam]
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

[V2cam]
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

[V3cam]
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

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3 weeks ago

Screenshot of USGS Kilauea Volcano live camera:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0tfYDxrUA&pp=0gcJCUABo7VqN5tD

HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice

Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)
🌋 Volcano Alert Level: WATCH
✈ Current Aviation Color Code: 🟠

‼️ Episode 42 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea began at 1:50 pm HST on February 15, 2026 ‼️

#geology #geoscience #Volcano #volcanism

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3 weeks ago

Tree planting is no climate solution at northern high latitudes - Nature Geoscience Planting trees in high-latitude regions can be counterproductive to climate change mitigation, according to a synthesis of the biophysical and ecological impacts of planting trees.

Planting/extending forests in northern boreal & Taiga areas probably would have negative impacts!

Same if moor/peatland areas would be replaced by forests.

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3 weeks ago

Google AI summary:

"Moorlands (peatlands) store significantly more carbon than forests, holding over

twice the amount of carbon found in all the world's forests combined, primarily in their deep, waterlogged peat layers which prevent decomposition and lock carbon away for millennia. While forests are massive carbon sinks, peatlands store more carbon per unit area and in total, making them crucial global carbon reservoirs."

Additionally the protection & rewetting of moor/peatlands, which is far more effective 2 remove+store CO2 vs forests! This would be important too.

Trees often nursed for selling+planting "forests" & could be cut+sold & used later, to create 'climate business'. That's why pt'lands are unpopular!

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3 weeks ago

Volcano Watch — Handling the pressure: what gases trapped inside crystals tell us USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists use tiny features within crystals in erupted lava to answer big questions about the underlying plumbing system at Kīlauea.

🌋 More about Hawaii & volcanism:

www.usgs.gov/observatorie...

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3 weeks ago

USGS Daily Elevated Volcano Summary ⚒

🌋 Kilauea Volcano Alert Level = WATCH.

✈ Aviation Color Code = 🟠 Issued Thu., Feb. 12, 2026 19:02 UTC

⏸ The Halemaʻumaʻu eruption of Kīlauea is paused ⏸

⚠️ The forecast for the onset of episode 42 lava fountaining is February 13-17 ⚠️

🌋 What's your guess?

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