Tag Archives: natural
Does living near an oil or natural gas well affect your drinking water?
A jar holding waste water from hydraulic fracturing “The answer to that question is usually ‘no,’ but there are exceptions,” said Stanford Professor Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the … Continue reading
Natural or manmade quakes? New technique can tell the difference
A study by Stanford researchers found that the likelihood of large-magnitude manmade earthquakes increases over time, independent of the previous seismicity rate. Credit: cigden/Shutterstock.com A new study by Stanford researchers suggests that earthquakes triggered by human activity follow several indicative … Continue reading
Long term effect of natural gas leakage discovered
Sherry Vargson ignites the tap water in her kitchen in Granville Summit, Pennsylvania, in 2012. Her family?s farm is in the Marcellus Shale region, where the fracking rigs have contributed to increased methane in the water supply. Melanie Stetson Freeman … Continue reading
Natural History Museum, Paris
Wayne just returned from Paris – one event he attended was the opening of a new mineral section at the Natural History Museum. Nice to revisit a few of our gold specimens. He reports about 400 attended the opening, including … Continue reading
Natural History Museum, Paris
Wayne just returned from Paris – one event he attended was the opening of a new mineral section at the Natural History Museum. Nice to revisit a few of our gold specimens. He reports about 400 attended the opening, including … Continue reading
In the brain there are ‘anti-stress’ natural
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wpid-164e4c0c152ce093ae461d8df9222fe0.jpg” IMG class=”hide” alt=”Nel cervello c’