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Terra Balcanica Resources Corp. Secures Mineral Exploration License in Bosnia-Herzegovina
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (148+ words) geneonline. com Terra Balcanica Resources Corp. Secures Mineral Exploration License in Bosnia-Herzegovina Terra Balcanica Resources Corp. secured a new mineral exploration license in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday, granting the company legal rights to conduct geological research within the region. The permit…...
What is El Ni'o? Here's what to know
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (413+ words) Wesseden Reservoir near Huddersfield when it was at just 8% full in June 2025. (Tom Maddick via SWNS) The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued a warning that there is an 80% likelihood that we'll see an El Ni'o event between June and…...
Assessing the Earliest Evidence for Life in the Geologic and Genomic Records
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (186+ words) Both the geologic and genomic records provide information on the earliest history of terrestrial life. Despite the challenges inherent to the fragmentary and highly metamorphosed earliest rock record, microfossils as old as "3. 5 billion years (Ga) and potential morphological and isotopic…...
From Earth to Industry " Office of the Vice President for Research
35+ min ago (793+ words) Contemplate for a minute what that minicomputer in your pocket, your phone, is made of. How it works. Its complexity. What's it made of and where it comes from. The origin story of, among other components'mobile phones, drones, electric cars…...
Africa on the ropes: a new tectonic plate is forming in the south of the continent
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (183+ words) Geologists have been observing for years a 2, 500 km 'zone of weakness' stretching from Tanzania to Namibia, rich in resources. A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science by researchers from the University of Oxford has identified unmistakable…...
Net Zero Fossil Fools In Britain
3+ hour, 23+ min ago (165+ words) We don't know if this headline from the Labour Party government is just virtue signaling babble, but it is a sad reminder that climate craziness is still the rage in the UK. The government's 7th "carbon reduction budget" proposes an 87% cut…...
Mystery about the asteroid that killed dinosaurs is finally solved
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (1068+ words) The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs filled the sky with dust and soot for years. Sunlight faded, and the oceans turned cold and dark. The fossil record shows something that still surprises scientists " life held on better in the dimmest,…...
Collecting fracture fluids [IMAGE] | Eurek Alert! Science News Releases
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (35+ words) Collecting fracture fluids (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Prof. Magdalena Osburn collects fracture fluids, composed of water and dissolved gases. Sanford Underground Research Facility More on this News Release Organized microbial "workforces" keep Earth"s underground biosphere running...
Extraordinary fossils solve a 500-million-year mystery: Bryozoans were there at the dawn of animal life
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (158+ words) image: The early Cambrian bryozoan Protomelission gatehouseifrom the Xiann'dong Formation, South China. Image shows a colony with individual capsules, called zooids, that held separate individuals of the colony. view more Fossil evidence from approximately 520-million-year-old rocks in China finally places…...
What Does Conoco Know? A Comparison Of Montney And US Completions
4+ hour, 56+ min ago (138+ words) Of course, adding more proppant to a well has cost implications, but the fact that many US plays have been using higher proppant intensities than the Montney at scale for many years suggests that there is economic merit to the…...