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Solar power could enable 400 million Africans without water to tap into groundwater aquifers. However, we must ensure smaller projects do not lose out in the rush for new technology

By Jo Nova This new study pokes holes in the dogma five different ways Credit to Kenneth Richards who found the study and discussed it at NoTricksZone

Watch on SteynOnline or ADH TV By Jo Nova My appearance with the wonderful Mark Steyn Tuesday is playing at SteynOnline, or on the Australian ADH TV. Mark was tickled with the idea from my article last week: The science is...

By Jo Nova Where do people live? These marvelous spike maps mark out a 3D representation of the population density on each two-kilometer-square pixel of Earth’s surface...

Photo of the 2015 explosion of Calbuco Volcano in Chile, by Keraunos ob, posted on the Earth of Fire blog by Bernard Duyck.   By Jo Nova A year ago I wrote about the odd link between the Hunga Tonga volcanic dust and...

The remnants of a long gone coral reef are not in the water here, but on top of the cliff. This is what real climate change looks like:

Scott Manley has done an excellent summary video of the Tongan volcano, much of the science and history of it as well as the effects thousands of miles away...

Guest “They nailed this one” by David Middleton Scientific archaeology is essentially forensic history. It is an interdisciplinary effort, involving multiple disciplines, often including: archaeology, geology,...

They found that these global geologic events are generally clustered at 10 different timepoints over the 260 million years, grouped in peaks or pulses of roughly 27.5 million years apart. The most recent cluster of geological...

Ben Davidson speaks from Spaceweathernews.com mentions that there was a short sharp geomagnetic storm over the East Coast of Australia around the time the Queensland Callide Power plant exploded.

We panic about the next half degree of warming (above the 1.5 we’ve already had) but the depth of the ice age was savagely cold. For years the experts told us what Earths temperature was then, but apparently they were...

Don’t look now, it’s a climate disaster of massive proportions and it has nothing to do with CO2.

Something that marks how strange times are, was that in March and April, a group of seismologists found seismic activity fell by 50% at 185 stations around the world (at least in certain high frequency bands from 4 –...

A $600 million renewable energy project planned for Mount Isa is expected to create hundreds of jobs during construction and produce cheaper, cleaner power for North West Queensland.

Guest “who needs PhD’s?” by David Middleton Mrs. Middleton sent me this little gem… Who Needs Geoscientists?Mike Simmons, Andy Davies, Andy W. Hill and Mike StephensonThe evolving role of geoscience...