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U.S. Expands Coal Leasing to Meet AI Energy Demands

The United States has announced a major expansion of coal leasing and extended operations of aging coal-fired power plants as part of a broader plan to meet surging electricity demand. The Department...

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Geotechnically Sustainable Peat Management in Scotland’s A9 Dualling Project

The A9 Dualling project between Tomatin and Moy in Scotland is integrating an innovative Peat Management Plan to mitigate the environmental impacts of road construction across deep peatland areas. Pe...

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Recovering Critical Minerals from Waste: New USGS-State Partnerships Underway

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has awarded nearly $3 million in cooperative agreements to support 13 state geological surveys in joint work to inventory and characterize critical minerals in mine...

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Mercury and Arsenic Hotspots Identified in Ghana’s Artisanal Gold Belt

A year-long assessment by Pure Earth and Ghana’s Environmental Protection Authority sampled soil, water, crops and fish across six of Ghana’s 13 mining regions. Results show mercury in soils at Konon...

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Transforming Waste into High-Value Biomaterials: The ABEL Project

In the Netherlands, a new research consortium is pioneering technologies to convert low-grade organic waste into durable, reusable biomaterials. The initiative, called ABEL (Ab-initio Biowaste Loop),...

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Building Tunnels Responsibly: A Dual Approach to Risk

As we live in an era where tunnelling and underground technologies are rapidly gaining traction worldwide, it becomes increasingly essential to address the environmental and geo-structural challenges...

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GeoStudio 2025.1 offers a balanced mix of new functionalities and enhancements to our core tools. This version introduces Python scripting, enabling more efficient workflows, and 3D reinforcement ana...

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Ten Houses Lost to Riverbank Collapse in An Giang and the on-going Crisis

On May 18, 2025, a 70-meter stretch of riverbank along the Ong Chuong River in Vietnam’s An Giang Province failed, causing the rear sections of ten homes in Cho Moi District to collapse into the wate...

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Reducing Laughing Gas from WWTPs: A Practical Engineering Approach

Nitrous oxide (N₂O), often associated with medical or culinary uses, is also a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential nearly 300 times that of CO₂. A lesser-known but significant sourc...

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Geotechnical Slope Design for Lithium Deposits in a Shifting Market Landscape

As the demand for lithium continues to rise, particularly from the electric vehicle and renewable energy storage sectors, hard rock lithium deposits—primarily hosted in spodumene-rich pegmatites—are...

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