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South Africa’s 2.7-billion-year-old mountain that produced 40% of the world’s gold still holds half a trillion dollars

Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa, since the Archean Eon which is roughly 2.7 billion years old. This isn’t just an ordinary heap of debris sitting on metals; it's one of the main contributing factors in the geology as well as the economy of the whole continent. The landscape across Johannesburg…

The Times of India

What lies beneath Egypt’s Giza Pyramid: Satellite radar study claims vast underground structures

Reports emerging in March 2025 have drawn attention to fresh claims about hidden structures beneath the Pyramid of Khafre on the Giza plateau. An Italy-based research group, working with satellite radar imagery rather than ground excavation, says it has identified large underground features extending deep below the monument. The team…

The Times of India

Natural hydrogen can make decarbonising industry cheaper – NZ’s turbulent geology could give it an edge

Hydrogen is emerging as a critical part of the low-carbon transition for industries where electrification is not a straightforward solution.

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Bandera Volcano Ice Cave: The weird lava tube in New Mexico whose temperature is always below freezing

Due to a weird quirk of geology, New Mexico's Bandera Volcano Ice Cave never warms above 31 degrees Fahrenheit, even when temperatures outside exceed 100 F in summer.

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What Science Knows About the 2013 Floods, And What It Doesn’t About Kedarnath

In June 2013, Uttarakhand witnessed destruction on a scale that reshaped both geography and memory. Days of relentless rain triggered cloudbursts, landslides, and a sudden glacial lake outburst that sent a violent mix of water, rock, ice, and debris racing through the Mandakini valley. Entire settlements vanished. Roads and bridges…

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Why the Deity at Kamakhya Temple Bleeds Once a Year

There are temples that calm you down. And then there are temples that quietly disturb your thinking. Kamakhya Temple, sitting on Nilachal Hill in Assam, belongs to the second kind. There is no idol here. No serene marble face of the Goddess. And once every year, the temple shuts its…

Times Life

China may be sitting on one of the largest gold finds ever recorded, worth $83 billion

China's geological officials are reviewing findings indicating exceptionally substantial gold deposits in the country's northeast and central regions. Exploration work has reignited interest in Liaoning province's Dadonggou gold deposit, as well as another large site in Hunan. Early estimates suggest that these deposits could be among the largest ever discovered…

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Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour

The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago

The Guardian - UK

'I Know My Rocks': People We Meet On Vacation's Emily Bader Is Super Into Geology, And Now I Love The Netflix Star Even More

Of quartz she's this adorable in real life!

Cinemablend

All the barriers to rare earth mining in Greenland

Donald Trump wants to dismantle China’s near-monopoly on the supply of rare earths

The Independent UK

West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ice sheet is shaped like a hitchhiker’s thumb – an apt metaphor, because the West Antarctic ice…

The Conversation

Oil Prices vs Investor Returns: It's What's Beneath the Surface That Counts

Engineering, geology and operating discipline can determine the success of oil and gas projects as much as the cost per barrel.

Kiplinger

After almost 20 years helping to operate rovers on Mars, NASA geologist and astronaut candidate Lauren Edgar says stepping foot on the Red Planet 'would be a dream'

Edgar once designed science experiments for astronauts to perform. Now she'll be the astronaut performing them.

Space

Geology could crush hopes of extracting all North Sea’s oil and gas

The remaining fields tend to be smaller, more remote and more technically challenging to drill into

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The geology that holds up the Himalayas is not what we thought, scientists discover

A 100-year-old theory explaining how Asia can carry the huge weight of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau needs to be rewritten, a new study suggests.

The Guardian - UK

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Other lives: Palaeontologist and geology teacher who discovered the first mammal fossil from the time of the dinosaurs in Scotland

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Why it’s not a problem that dinosaurs are sold for millions of dollars – art historian

A juvenile dinosaur fossil, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, has sold at Sotheby’s New York for US$30.5 million (£22.7 million). It is part of a recent resurgence of art-market interest in fossils and natural history – palaeontology and geology especially. Indeed, this latest dinosaur sale was part of an auction specifically dedicated to…

The Guardian - UK

Fossils, forests and wild orchids: exploring the white cliffs of Denmark

A short stretch of chalk cliffs on the island of Møn could soon become a world heritage site due to its unique ecology of wild orchids and geology of 30-million-year-old fossils

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Taal Lake: The volcanic crater that has 'an island within a lake, within an island within a lake, within an island'

Taal Lake on Luzon Island in the Philippines is a volcanic crater lake with a rare geology of nested islands and water.

Evening Standard

Geologists unveil UK ‘super regions’ with best potential for transition projects

The UK has a diverse subsurface, which can play a key role in supporting efforts to reach the country’s legally binding climate goals, geologists say.

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Lake Natron: The caustic, blood-red lake in Tanzania that turns animals to 'stone'

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

Euronews

Bahrain wins top prize at Venice Architecture Biennale with a pavilion tackling extreme heat

Titled "Heatwave", the Bahrain Pavilion's award-winning project addresses the issue of extreme heat by suspending a cooling ceiling over public seating.

LiveScience

'The Big One' could rock the Pacific Northwest and fuel sea-level rise and massive flooding

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, but that could reverse in an instant.

The Conversation

1 billion years ago, a meteorite struck Scotland and influenced life on Earth

We’ve discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology.

The Times of India

Revealed! The world’s only four green sand beaches

Imagine a beach where the sand shimmers not in the usual shades of gold, white, or black, but in a striking, rare green. This extraordinary phenomenon exists in just four places on Earth, where unique geological processes have crafted a spectacle unlike any other. These green sand beaches owe their…

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