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How Recent Tibetan Plateau Uplift Enhanced Vegetation

March 18, 2021

Considering Earth's long geological history, the Tibetan Plateau is a never-before-seen geographical feature (see figure). We are living during a unique time when a...

Geology & Earth

by Hugh Ross Read

Mantle Bottom Pancakes Benefit Surface Life

September 28, 2020

The biggest island in the United States also is the fastest growing. Thanks to a steadily rising hot plume from the lower mantle, Hawaii...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Miracles of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Part 4

February 3, 2020

As human bodies age, thermodynamics, gravity, and electromagnetism take their toll. And what is true for human beings is also true for planets and...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Fine-Tuned India-Asia Collision Cools Earth for Human Habitation

May 6, 2019

Earth has experienced many tectonic plate collisions throughout its history. By far the most dramatic collision began 50 million years ago and continues to...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

The Great “Cene Change” That Made Civilization Possible

February 18, 2019

Theater aficionados know that noise and commotion behind the curtain during intermission of a theatrical performance intensifies expectation. Then, when the curtain rises after...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

How Cyclical Volcanic Activity Benefits Humanity

January 7, 2019

When we think about volcanoes, the images that typically come to mind are violent eruptions that devastate the surrounding landscapes and bring death or...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

Did a Giant Collider Help Give Us Extreme Climate Stability?

December 17, 2018

Floods and fires raged and boulders rained from the sky. Such a sci-fi-like scenario in Earth’s relatively recent past gave us, in part, the...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

How Did Earth Get Its Long-Standing Stable Climate?

December 10, 2018

In last week’s blog1 I described how a careful reconstruction of temperature proxies at sites all over the world revealed that the climate stability...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Present Climate Epoch Has Been Extremely Stable

December 3, 2018

One of the most outstanding and blessed features of Earth is that it has an ice age cycle where, for the past 9,000 years...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Miracles of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Part 3

October 15, 2018

About 800,000 years ago, a miraculous change took place on Earth. The ice age cycle transitioned from happening every 41,000 years to about every...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

Miracles of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Part 2

October 8, 2018

In part 1 of this three-part series, I wrote about how 800,000 years ago, a miraculous transition from a 41,000-year to an approximately 100,000-year...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

Miracles of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Part 1

October 1, 2018

This blog is the first of a three-part series on new scientific discoveries and research that reveal the hitherto unrecognized miraculous nature of a...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read