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NASA rover drives through ancient Mars river, snaps stunning view
Mashable· 4 days agoNow, a NASA robot has rumbled through this ghost of Mars' water-rich past. In early June, the space...
NASA’s Perseverance Fords an Ancient River to Reach Science Target
NASA· 6 days agoPerseverance is in the later stages of its fourth science campaign, looking for evidence of carbonate and olivine deposits in the “Margin Unit,” an area along the inside of Jezero Crater’s rim ...
6 things you need to know about sand mining
Mining Technology via Yahoo Finance· 21 hours agoThink of the materials we mine, and you’ll probably think first of gold and other precious metals, of coal, of base metals like nickel and of battery...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 6 hours agoThe young men brace for the first shock of cold water as they enter the river, easing their way into another day of illegal gold mining. Every day, they touch and breathe mercury, a silverly ...
Tucson area braces for annual monsoon test of flood-prevention work
Arizona Daily Star· 3 days agoThis will be the first full summer of action for an almost $2.4 million culvert project in the...
Thousands of Artifacts Uncovered: Timor Island Findings Challenge Theories of Human Settlement in...
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoArchaeological discoveries on Timor Island suggest early humans used New Guinea, not Timor, as a...
Earth Matters: A brief history of our soil: Why the Valley land produces such amazing crop
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 5 days agoThere is a stretch of road that runs north along the Connecticut River from the Whately/Hatfield...
Cracks in one of Nevada’s oldest dams force rangers to limit campground access
KLAS articles via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCracks in a dam built in the 1880s have prompted rangers to limit access to Angel Lake campground in...
Glory to the Grand
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt runs thick, the color of terra cotta. It’s how the river would have been before the dam went in and held back all the sediment behind its walls. Sand...
Emergency repairs underway to failing dam at Angel Lake
Elko Daily Free Press· 1 day agoA crack in the 1880s-era dirt-and-rock dam at Angel Lake has forced the closure of Angel Lake some...