May 2, 2016 Volcano zone reservoirs could hold huge amounts of gold and silver The heat is on for prospectors in what could be the next gold rush. According to a recent study in the journal Geothermics, a team of geologists has discovered a mother lode of gold and silver inside super-heated reservoirs within New Zealand’s Taupo Volcanic Zone.
May 2, 2016 Confirmed: Space rock created Swedish lake After two centuries of arguing about its origin, scientists have finally confirmed that Hummeln Lake in southern Sweden is an impact crater
May 2, 2016 Mysterious, wavelike cloud hugs Grand Teton mountains (Photo) A bizarre sheet of clouds embraced the highest peak in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming last week, enchanting even the park's most seasoned visitors.
May 2, 2016 Volcano megafloods may have formed Europe’s mightiest waterfall The canyon that holds Europe's most powerful waterfall may have been formed in a flash by just a few monster floods, new research suggests
May 2, 2016 America's amazing, drivable crater: Alamo impact yields secrets One of America's biggest impact craters was sliced and diced until it spread across Nevada like a plate of crudités
May 2, 2016 Hints of colonial pollution hidden in Andean ice cap Traces of air pollution from 16th-century Spanish silver mines were discovered deep inside an ice cap in the Peruvian Andes, scientists announced today (Feb.
May 2, 2016 World's biggest trove of gold built by ancient 'secret agents' The source of Earth's biggest trove of gold may have been found: One scientist now points to a trio of agents working in concert: volcanic activity, ancient microbes and an oxygen-depleted atmosphere The new theory may explain why there's a string of gold beds in the Witwatersrand basin, near Johannesburg, South Africa, that collectively make up 40 percent of all of the gold that has ever been, or ever will be, dug out of the ground, said study author Christoph Heinrich, a geologist at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland
May 2, 2016 Surprise! Fish lurk in Antarctica's dark underworld In a cold and dark underwater world, where a never-ending rain of rocks keeps the seafloor barren, researchers were startled to find fish, crustaceans and jellyfish investigating a submersible camera after drilling through nearly 2,500 feet of Antarctic ice
May 2, 2016 Barren deserts can host complex ecosystems "Biological soil crusts" don't look like much.
April 28, 2016 What caused this weird crack to appear in Michigan? A strange and sudden buckling of the earth in Michigan five years ago is now being explained as a limestone bulge, researchers reported Feb.9.
