Atlas Copco has appointed Don Cash to sales manager of its regional store in Denver. Cash has been working for Atlas Copco Construction Mining Technique USA for the past
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its draft study plan on hydraulic fracturing for review to the agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists. Natural
Let algae do the dirty work.Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, N.Y., are developing biodiesel from microalgae grown in wastewater. The project is doubly “green” because algae
"Over the last couple of generations, there has been a huge amount of ground water pollution worldwide, and this has had a negative impact on our drinking water supply," says
Nearly half a mile of rock retrieved from beneath the seafloor is yielding new clues about how underwater volcanoes are created, and whether the hotspots that led to their formation
In 2009, geologists drilling an exploratory geothermal well in Iceland’s Krafla volcano encountered a problem for which they were simply unprepared – magma (molten rock or lava underground) flowed unexpectedly
The National Ground Water Association (NGWA) is offering a new designation – the Certified Vertical Closed Loop Driller (CVCLD) – for drillers who construct closed-loop well systems for ground source
Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant aquifer under Mexico's Riviera Maya, research shows. The wastes contaminate a vast labyrinth
Using funding provided under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) has launched a demonstration project near one of the Savannah
In Antarctica, at the end of January, a research team investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history reached an important milestone completing the main ice core to a
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