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New publication provides largest ever insight into world’s groundwater depletion rates

A new study was recently published in the Nature journal, regarding the rates of groundwater level change in underground aquifers around the globe. Furthermore, the study considered millions of data...

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“Frost quakes” felt around Chicago during recent cold wave

Chicago recently experienced a cold wave, which started on January 13 and reached temperatures as low as -23 degrees Celsius, triggering cases of a phenomenon known as “frost quake” or cryoseism. A...

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California’s Salton Sea identified to contain one of the world’s largest lithium reserves

A group of researchers recently published their study concerning a vast geothermal lithium reserve that was found under Salton Sea, California. Furthermore, lithium is a critical metal in the produc...

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Potential $37 billion rare earth mineral deposit found in Wyoming mine

An old coal mine in rural Wyoming was recently found to contain deposits of rare earth minerals that could be worth up to $37 billion. Brook Mine is located near the city of Sheridan and was acquire...

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Norway’s parliament strikes deal backing deep-sea mining in the Arctic Ocean

Norway’s minority government made a deal with two large opposition parties on Tuesday, December 5, to open seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic Ocean, despite heavy opposition. The amended versi...

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New study investigates partial replacement of Portland cement with waste London Clay

A new paper titled “Reutilising waste clays from tunnelling operations as a cement replacement material in concrete - An innovative circular approach” by Kanavaris, F., et al., discusses the effectiv...

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Study finds that geothermal energy could be harnessed from underground car parks

A study published earlier this year at the Science of the Total Environment journal deducted that heat trapped in underground car parks can be retrieved in the form of geothermal energy. Furthermore...

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62nd Rankine Lecture title and outline announced

It was recently announced by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) that the 62nd Ranking Lecture will take place on the 13th of March 2024, at Imperial College London. As was made known in Marc...

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Introduction to Foundation Engineering using Terzaghi’s Bearing Capacity Equation

Helical pile foundation design is an engineering science, thanks in part to the work of Austrian mechanical engineer Karl von Terzaghi. Learn more about using his equation in this introduction to fou...

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Dr. Paul W. Mayne’s 14th Athenian Lecture on Geotechnical Engineering now available on YouTube

Dr. Paul W. Mayne recently gave the 14th Athenian Lecture on Geotechnical Engineering on October 4, which took place in Athens, Greece, and was titled "Geotechnical Site Characterization Using Shear...

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