Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the next major earthquake

Shares in Australian gold explorer Alicanto Minerals (ASX:AQI) took a major hit on Tuesday after the company revealed that partner Barrick Gold had pulled out

Canada’s Nutrien (TSX:NTR), the world’s largest potash miner, is closer than ever to fulfilling all conditions for the merger between Potash Corp. and Agrium, which created the company, after

World’s No.1 miner BHP (ASX:BHP) is selling its Cerro Colorado mine, its smallest Chilean copper operation, to EMR Capital Advisors Pty, an Australian private equity firm that

ICE, ICE baby Copper prices retreated again on Monday to $3.09 a pound or $6,830 a tonne, bringing losses for the bellwether metal over the

A detailed study of the California fault has discovered a new kind of movement that isn’t accounted for in earthquake forecasting. Source: Science Daily

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to dredge contaminated sediment from streambeds and dig ditches to divert water away from tainted rocks and soil,

Fears of tariffs and a potential global trade war have jostled U.S. stocks over the past few months, but there is a sense among investors

The retreat of the West Antarctic ice masses after the last Ice Age was reversed surprisingly about 10,000 years ago, scientists found. The reason for

New research overturns more than a century of claims that the source of turquoise used and revered by ancient civilizations in Mexico, such as the

A new study helps clarify how ammonia is present in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Using computer modeling, the researchers found ammonia molecules trapped in liquid cloud

Research has shown that reactions of alpha-hydroxy acids, similar to the alpha-amino acids that make up modern proteins, form large polymers easily under conditions presumed