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While we still remain reliant on fossil fuels, there is tremendous momentum towards renewable energy in many countries. Increasingly, our homes and businesses are powered by solar panels and wind ...

Introduction Flying over Nevada on a clear day is one of the great joys of being an economic geologist. The Basin and Range country has abundant structural features, intrusions, deformed ...

There’s a revolution going on in the auto industry right now. Tesla, Inc. has proven demand for electric vehicles (EV’s) and invited the entire industry to join in the fun. From ...

Clay is a very fine grained natural rock or soil material made up of one or more clay minerals. As with most things in geology there is no academic consensus ...

Looking over my partner’s makeup ingredients on the weekend made me curious as to where makeup users thought their makeup came from, and did they care at all? The answer ...

The term ‘volcanic popcorn’ was coined in order to describe the volcanic rock named perlite. Early records include Charles Ballenger and Richard Dunlop using the term in 1954 and describing ...

You may not think of farming and mining as two complimentary activities, but what most people don’t know is that farming is much more dependent on mining than intuition would ...

Often biologists and geologists are portrayed as being at odds on their views of resource development. Biologists are typically seen as only wanting to stop or slow down natural resource development, ...

At 3am in the small town of Pucón in southern Chile, the Villarica volcano put on an incredible light show, and demonstrated the power of the Earth beneath our feet. ...

Global Warming is quite literally a ‘hot topic’ these days, and is often a major cause of contention between political parties, scientists and the public and even countries. Just last ...