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Saudi Arabia imports sand " despite being a country dominated by desert, the sand of the Arabian Peninsula is too smooth and round for use in construction concrete, because thousands of years of wind erosion have polished the grains to a shape that does not bond well with cement, and most construction sand must be imported from countries like Australia
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (1068+ words) In 2023, Saudi Arabia paid approximately $140, 000 to import construction-grade sand from Australia. The figure is small in dollar terms, but the trade flow it represents is the visible part of a much larger phenomenon. Saudi Arabia, a country dominated by some…...
Abandoned coal mines may be releasing hidden carbon into the air, but researchers think the same drainage could also point toward a cheaper kind of climate fix
2+ week, 5+ day ago (698+ words) Research from West Virginia University finds that abandoned coal mines leak significant CO2 through water drainage, but the same chemistry, contained underground and accelerated by microbes, points to one of the cheapest passive carbon-capture mechanisms ever documented....
Lithium trace in upper air linked to Falcon 9 rocket breakup
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (633+ words) New York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 - A plume of lithium pollution detected in the upper atmosphere in February 2025 has now been directly linked to the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket stage. Researchers report that this even Lithium trace in upper air…...
Sentinel 1 maps reveal flexible crust beneath Tibetan Plateau
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (879+ words) Space Daily Sentinel 1 maps reveal flexible crust beneath Tibetan Plateau The study, published in the journal Science, combines one of the most extensive geodetic datasets assembled for a continental collision zone with detailed modelling to track how the Tibetan Plateau…...
New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (487+ words) But that's just one of many tasks that are on the horizon for AVIRIS-5, short for Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-5, which has a lot in common with sensors used to explore other planets. About the size of a microwave…...
Five things to know about Australia's critical minerals
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (456+ words) China dominates the production of metals used in everything from solar panels to precision missiles -- and has threatened to strangle supplies as it fights a festering trade war with Washington. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese travels to the White House…...
Millennium Space Ships TRACERS Spacecraft to Launch Site for NASA Mission
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (206+ words) Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025 Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing subsidiary, has delivered two spacecraft for NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission to Vandenberg Space Force Base. The milestone sets the stage for final integration and…...