Large-scale processes such as continental drift and erosion of mountains have significant effects upon our planet.

This week the geoscience roundup looks at landslides, coastal forests and the recent history of the Antarctic ice sheet.

The Earth’s past helps us to understand its future – as examples from salt deposits, lake deposits and atmospheric measurement demonstrate.

This week there’s an ocean theme, with news about the Pacific plastics, ocean circulation, and the formation of the Mediterranean Sea.

This week the geoscience roundup looks at historic volcanic eruptions, dinosaurs – and a new auroral phenomenon.

This week we consider actual earthquake hazard in Papua New Guinea and potential hazard in Mexico – along with an unusual volcanic phenomenon.

This week there’s a theme – earthquakes, volcanoes, and the very high levels of damage they can cause.

Earthquakes, deserts, volcanoes…even dinosaurs. It’s all go in the geoscience world this week.

There’s a volcano-themed edition of the geoscience round up, as we look at Mount Sinabung, Yellowstone scare stories, and some new research on predicting volcanic eruptions.

Geoscience is all embracing. This week there’s poetry to go along with climate change research and not one but two Twitter cups.