Earth Science

New Research on CO2 Release from Newly Exposed Organic-Rich Rocks Upends Carbon Cycle Models: Watersheds with Mountain Glaciation and Higher Erosion Rates Yield More Oxidative Weathering. October 20, 2023. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New Research on CO2 Release from Newly Exposed Organic-Rich Rocks Upends Carbon Cycle Models: Watersheds with Mountain Glaciation and Higher Erosion Rates Yield More Oxidative Weathering

Book Summary & Review: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt & Company, 2014). November 27, 2023. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Book Summary & Review: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt & Company, 2014)

Book Summary & Review: Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – by Peter Ward, Ph.D. (Harper Collins Publishers, 2007). November 27, 2023. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Book Summary & Review: Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – by Peter Ward, Ph.D. (Harper Collins Publishers, 2007)

Rusting of Rivers in Alaska’s Brooks Range Likely Resulting from Iron Oxidation Thought to be Caused by Thawing Permafrost Exposing Bedrock and/or Thawing Wetlands Activating Iron-Rich Soil Bacteria. December 22, 2023. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Rusting of Rivers in Alaska’s Brooks Range Likely Resulting from Iron Oxidation Thought to be Caused by Thawing Permafrost Exposing Bedrock and/or Thawing Wetlands Activating Iron-Rich Soil Bacteria

Satellite Monitoring of Land Movement: InSAR Remote Sensing Applications and Improvements. January 1, 2024. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Satellite Monitoring of Land Movement: InSAR Remote Sensing Applications and Improvements

The Anthropocene, Geologic Event or Geologic Epoch? Event, Says the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy. August 10, 2024. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Anthropocene, Geologic Event or Geologic Epoch? Event, Says the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy

The Ambipolar Electric Field: Its Existence, Strength, and Mechanisms Confirmed by NASA. September 19, 2024. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Ambipolar Electric Field: Its Existence, Strength, and Mechanisms Confirmed by NASA

The Sahara is “Greening” Again Temporarily: This Can Have Some Local Benefits Such as Reducing Desertification, but Catastrophic Flooding is Also Occurring. September 26, 2024. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Sahara is “Greening” Again Temporarily: This Can Have Some Local Benefits Such as Reducing Desertification, but Catastrophic Flooding is Also Occurring

New Model Explains Siberian Permafrost Craters: Sinking Meltwater Driven by Osmosis Triggers Methane Hydrate Blowouts. September 29, 2024. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New Model Explains Siberian Permafrost Craters: Sinking Meltwater Driven by Osmosis Triggers Methane Hydrate Blowouts

Earth’s Carbonate-Silicate Cycle: Will the Brightening Sun Disrupt It Enough Over the Next Billion Years to Destroy Life on Earth? Maybe or Maybe it Will Take Longer. January 12, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Earth’s Carbonate-Silicate Cycle: Will the Brightening Sun Disrupt It Enough Over the Next Billion Years to Destroy Life on Earth? Maybe or Maybe it Will Take Longer

Plants are a Better CO2 Sink Than Previously Understood, New Research Finds. January 21, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Plants are a Better CO2 Sink Than Previously Understood, New Research Finds

A Revised Ocean-Atmosphere Sulfur Cycle Model: Methanethiol (MeSH), a Biogenic Sulfur Gas from Marine Organisms, Helps Cool the Climate, New Research Finds. January 21, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: A Revised Ocean-Atmosphere Sulfur Cycle Model: Methanethiol (MeSH), a Biogenic Sulfur Gas from Marine Organisms, Helps Cool the Climate, New Research Finds

Carbon Source/Sink Balance from the Arctic-Boreal Zone: Sources Continue to Increase Relative to Sinks: Carbon Cycle Changes in the Arctic Permafrost Region Led by Accelerated Arctic Warming. January 22, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Carbon Source/Sink Balance from the Arctic-Boreal Zone: Sources Continue to Increase Relative to Sinks: Carbon Cycle Changes in the Arctic Permafrost Region Led by Accelerated Arctic Warming

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. David R. Montgomery. University of California Press, 2012. Book Review and Summary. March 3, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. David R. Montgomery. University of California Press, 2012. Book Review and Summary

Ice Flow Via Ice Quakes with ‘Stick-Slip’ Motion Along Layers of Sulfates Deposited by Volcanoes: Upgrading Flow Models to Account for Temperate Ice. March 27, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ice Flow Via Ice Quakes with ‘Stick-Slip’ Motion Along Layers of Sulfates Deposited by Volcanoes: Upgrading Flow Models to Account for Temperate Ice

Lithospheric Dripping Under the North American Craton Discovered with Seismic Full-Waveform Tomography. April 5, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Lithospheric Dripping Under the North American Craton Discovered with Seismic Full-Waveform Tomography

Lithospheric Foundering Under the Sierra Nevada: New Rare Evidence? April 20, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Lithospheric Foundering Under the Sierra Nevada: New Rare Evidence?

Evapotranspiration Increases Humidity, Making Heat Waves Slightly Worse: But ‘Corn Sweating’ is a Misnomer Since It is a Minor Contributor. July 28, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Evapotranspiration Increases Humidity, Making Heat Waves Slightly Worse: But ‘Corn Sweating’ is a Misnomer Since It is a Minor Contributor

Trifluoroacetic Acid Rain: A Milder PFAS-Like Concern as Environmental Concentrations Grow. July 28, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Trifluoroacetic Acid Rain: A Milder PFAS-Like Concern as Environmental Concentrations Grow

Study Estimates ‘Functional Biosphere Integrity’: Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research Continues Useful ‘Planetary Boundaries’ Idea That, Unfortunately, Often Feeds Catastrophist Headlines. August 23, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Study Estimates ‘Functional Biosphere Integrity’: Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research Continues Useful ‘Planetary Boundaries’ Idea That, Unfortunately, Often Feeds Catastrophist Headlines 

Methanogenesis: Part 1: Discovery of New Oxygen-Tolerant Methanogens May Partially Explain Recent Increase in Biogenic Atmospheric Methane: Coastal Methanogenesis is More Abundant Than Thought and Implications for Methane Budgeting. September 3, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Methanogenesis: Part 1: Discovery of New Oxygen-Tolerant Methanogens May Partially Explain Recent Increase in Biogenic Atmospheric Methane: Coastal Methanogenesis is More Abundant Than Thought and Implications for Methane Budgeting

Methanogenesis: Part 2: Deep-Sea Methanogens and Chemosynthesis: Quantifying Its Contribution. September 4, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Methanogenesis: Part 2: Deep-Sea Methanogens and Chemosynthesis: Quantifying Its Contribution

Methanogenesis: Part 3: Fingerprinting Methane by Isotopes Reveals Sources and CRISPR Gives Insights into Enzyme Mechanisms for Methanogenesis. September 4, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Methanogenesis: Part 3: Fingerprinting Methane by Isotopes Reveals Sources and CRISPR Gives Insights into Enzyme Mechanisms for Methanogenesis

Methanogenesis: Part 4: Growth and Spread of Methanogens Due to Fertilization, Ocean Currents, Warmer Oceans, Melting Glaciers, and Deep-Sea Mining. September 4, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Methanogenesis: Part 4: Growth and Spread of Methanogens Due to Fertilization, Ocean Currents, Warmer Oceans, Melting Glaciers, and Deep-Sea Mining

Methanogenesis: Part 5: Methane Budgeting and Determining Source Contributions. September 4, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Methanogenesis: Part 5: Methane Budgeting and Determining Source Contributions

Regional Characterization and Classification of Salt Structures in Kingdom (Software): AAPG Webinar, September 18, 2025: Summary & Review. September 19, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Regional Characterization and Classification of Salt Structures in Kingdom (Software): AAPG Webinar, September 18, 2025: Summary & Review

Beyond Rock Characterization: Deep Learning in Mineral Classification: AAPG Webinar: September 24, 2025: Summary & Review. September 25, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Beyond Rock Characterization: Deep Learning in Mineral Classification: AAPG Webinar: September 24, 2025: Summary & Review