A rare and highly reactive iron mineral called green rust appears to have played an important role in ancient oceans, suggest new findings, which may have implications for the formation of Earth’s ...

A rare and highly reactive iron mineral called green rust appears to have played an important role in ancient oceans, suggest new findings, which may have implications for the formation of Earth’s ...

Green rust could be used to eradicate toxic and radioactive elements from the environment, according to a Newcastle University report. An international team of scientists conducted a study on green ...

A rare kind of mineral which scientists hope could be used to remove toxic metals and radioactive species from the environment played a similar, crucial role early in Earth's history. Research carried ...

The world's primary economic source of iron ore, iron formations, are ancient sedimentary rocks that appear as solid as rocks can be. How did they get to be like that? According to researchers, it has ...

Though they may seem rock solid, the ancient sedimentary rocks called iron formations - the world's chief economic source of iron ore - were once dissolved in seawater. How did that iron go from a ...

Mars is a large enough planet that astrobiologists looking for life need to narrow the parameters of the search to those environments most conducive to habitability. NASA's Mars Curiosity mission is ...

A rare kind of mineral known as “green rust”, which could be used to scrape toxic metals and radioactive species from the environment, also played a similar and crucial role early in Earth’s history.

Anyone planning a storage facility for atomic waste should make sure to bury their canisters in an area where green rust will form. Radioactive waste decaying down at the dump needs millions of years ...

"Green rust" played a key role in making the Earth habitable and may now have an equally important role to play in cleaning it up for the future. Green rust is a highly reactive iron mineral which ...