El Laco in Chile is an iron-rich volcano complex and also a source of rare earth elements.  (Image credit: Daniel P. Gauer via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0) Volcanoes that are rich in iron might be prime locations to find high concentrations of rare earth elements . Recent lab experiments have demonstrated that when iron-rich magmas

A team of biologists in Israel has grown an extinct — or at least extirpated — tree species of the myrrh genus Commiphora from an ancient seed found in the northern Judean Desert in the 1980s. Morphological features of Sheba at different ages: (a) ancient seed prior to planting; (b) developing seed at 5 weeks

Carbonate minerals are of particular interest in paleoenvironmental research as they are an integral part of the carbon and water cycles, both of which are relevant to habitability. In new research, planetary scientists focused on carbon and oxygen isotope measurements of carbonate minerals detected by NASA’s Curiosity rover within the Gale crater on Mars. An

A team of researchers at CSIRO has decoded the genome of the spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus), a critically endangered species of marine fish endemic to Tasmania. The spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus). Image credit: CSIRO. Brachionichthys hirsutus is a rare species of benthic fish in the handfish family Brachionichthyidae. This unusual fish lives only in the

Using ammonia is regarded as a promising method of transporting hydrogen. However, an efficient process is also needed to convert it back into hydrogen and nitrogen. An international research team has gained new insights into the mode of operation of an iron catalyst that can be used to split ammonia into nitrogen and hydrogen. Hydrogen

Egypt and Germany have strengthened their bilateral cooperation with the signing of a €30m grant agreement for a green hydrogen project. The agreement was signed during a meeting between the Egyptian Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat and German State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Jochen

Norway’s Scatec and Germany’s PtX signed a Euro 30 million (EGP 1.6 billion) grant agreement to support Egypt’s green hydrogen project, the Ministry of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation announced on Tuesday. The agreement signing took place with the attendance of Karim Badawi, Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources; Svenja Schulze, Germany’s Federal

By City A.M - Oct 07, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT 3i Infrastructure is selling its stake in French green energy firm Valorem for €309 million, a significant uplift from its previous valuation. The sale is expected to generate a 21% annualized return and a 3.5 times gross money multiple on 3i Infrastructure's original investment. Proceeds

New Delhi: India is currently working on converting existing ships into vessels that run on green energy, Union minister of new and renewable energy Pralhad Joshi said on Monday in his address at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference in Germany. “We are focusing on converting existing vessels to operate on green hydrogen or its derivatives. The

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of long-snouted notosuchian from the fragmentary remains found in Brazil’s Adamantina Formation. Epoidesuchus tavaresae is a new species of Peirosauridae from the Cretaceous Adamantina Formation, Brazil. Image credit: Ruiz et al., doi: 10.1002/ar.25559. Epoidesuchus tavaresae inhabited the ancient supercontinent Gondwana during the Late Cretaceous epoch, around 72

Two injured individuals of Mnemiopsis leidyi , a species of planktonic animals known as comb jellies or ctenophores, are capable of rapidly fusing into a single entity in which some physiological functions are integrated, according to new research. While maintaining a population of Mnemiopsis leidyi in a seawater tank, Jokura et al. noticed an atypically

New research by paleontologists from the University of Leicester, the University of Birmingham and Liverpool John Moores University demonstrates an unexpectedly high degree of variation in the hands and feet of pterosaurs, comparable with that observed in living birds. The discovery indicates that pterosaurs were not confined to a life in the skies but were