Machine learning may be a game-changer for climate prediction
New research demonstrates that machine-learning techniques can be used to accurately represent clouds and their atmospheric heating and moistening, and...
Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?
Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site...
Barrick Gold walks away from Guyana joint venture project
Shares in Australian gold explorer Alicanto Minerals (ASX:AQI) took a major hit on Tuesday after the company revealed that partner...
Indian regulator approves Nutrien’s sale of stake in SQM to Tianqi
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,...
BHP to sell Chile’s Cerro Colorado copper mine to equity fund EMR
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...
Copper and cars: Boom goes beyond electric vehicles
ICE, ICE baby Copper prices retreated again on Monday to $3.09 a pound or $6,830 a tonne, bringing losses for...
'Slow earthquakes' on San Andreas Fault increase risk of large quakes
A detailed study of the California fault has discovered a new kind of movement that isn't accounted for in earthquake...
EPA to clean up wastewater at 26 Colorado mines
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to dredge contaminated sediment from streambeds and dig ditches to divert water away...
Wall Street builds immunity to trade war rhetoric
Fears of tariffs and a potential global trade war have jostled U.S. stocks over the past few months, but there...
What saved the West Antarctic Ice Sheet 10,000 years ago will not save it today
The retreat of the West Antarctic ice masses after the last Ice Age was reversed surprisingly about 10,000 years ago,...