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A leap of faith: Should we trust AI with a million-year problem?

August 8, 2025
A leap of faith: Should we trust AI with a million-year problem?
Photo by Dan Meyers. Source: Unsplash

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been here a while, and it isn’t going anywhere, not any time soon. It has become an integral part of many lives and businesses. When I speak of AI, I am not referring to GenAI (generative AI) that writes your emails for you: Think about the algorithms that suggest what movie you should watch next, the voice assistant that adds milk to your shopping list, and ...[Read More]

The importance of building early warning systems from the ground up

July 23, 2025
The importance of building early warning systems from the ground up
A landslide near Medellín, Colombia on a steep and heavily weathered section of hillslope on 13 July 2022, resulting in two fatalities. Source: Imaggeo

As the Early Warnings for All (EW4ALL) initiative gathers pace with its 1st Multi-Stakeholder Forum last month in Geneva, we have welcomed a recognition by experts of the importance of tailoring early warning systems to local needs. The ambition to ensure everyone on Earth is protected by a multi-hazard early warning system by 2027 is bold and demands an urgent setup of systems around the world. D ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet Andreas Kvas, researcher of Earth’s gravity affected by climate change!

November 17, 2023
Andreas Kvas

Hello Andreas. Welcome to GeoTalk! You’re a specialist in Geodesy, and your research surveys the Earth’s spatial and gravitational properties as they relate to climate change. Could you tell us more about how Geodesy can help us understand climate change? Geodesy studies Earth’s geometric shape, orientation in space, and gravity field. Each of these components changes in time and is af ...[Read More]

Far over the Misty Mountains cold, to dungeons deep and caverns old: the geology of the Lord of the Rings.

September 29, 2023
Far over the Misty Mountains cold, to dungeons deep and caverns old: the geology of the Lord of the Rings.
Image credit: Kevan Emmott (Flickr)

“He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth.” J.R.R. Tolkien (1955) Return of the King ‘The Lord of the Rings‘ by J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most famous english-language fantasy book series’ ever written. It set the blueprint for ...[Read More]