ScienceDaily: Lightning reshapes rocks at the atomic level

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News     Lightning reshapes rocks at the atomic level   Posted: 05 Aug 2015 04:17 PM PDT A lightning strike can reshape a mineral’s crystal structure, according to a new study. Researchers once believed only meteorites could do so. From a million miles away, NASA camera …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Computer simulations indicate calcium carbonate has a dense liquid phase

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   Computer simulations indicate calcium carbonate has a dense liquid phase Posted: 22 Aug 2013 12:22 PM PDT Computer simulations could help scientists make sense of a recently observed and puzzling wrinkle in one of nature’s most important chemical processes. It turns out that calcium carbonate …

COEXISTing in a Steady State

Ethical MarketsGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

Avarice is a vice, the exaction of usury is a misdemeanour, and the love of money is detestable. –  John Maynard Keynes   Poised on the brink of economic meltdown as we are, governments all over the world are baying frantically for growth. But growth is not the answer to …