Science: tiny crystals can make volcanoes explode, eruptions and natural temperature variability, Australian Maliwawa rock art scenes, a supernova explosion in the Earth’s proximity

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks and other “stone” topics

In Europe, the stonemasons are preparing for the EuroSkills in January 2021 in Graz, Austria

We report on a training of participants in August held in Switzerland/ On the subject of WorldSkills there is criticism that some countries participate in the competition with fake candidates

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

This image of Jupiter, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020, was captured when the planet was 653 million km from Earth

Science: geological processes in the Himalaya, how iron deposits form, otters help to protect Aleutian limestone reefs, the release of carbon dioxide from desert soils

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks and other “stone” topics

Science: Sahara dust for the Amazon region, deep-sea coral reefs endangered by climate change, minerals‘ self-healing of irradiation damage, new findings about the Muqarnas vaults at the Alhambra

Recent discoveries about our planet in general, its rocks, and other “stone” topics

TU Delft researchers develop the “living coffin” made from mushroom mycelium to accelerate dead human bodies to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil

Measuring the oceans’ water temperatures by sound waves of earthquakes underneath the seafloor

Caltech researchers found a way to correlate the speed of such noise with climate change

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

The famous World Ocean Floor Panorama, published in 1977, was based on Marie Tharp’s (1920-2006) work in global seabed mapping

Science: bubbles of molten rock rising to the surface in the earth’s mantle, a dinosaur with another fossil in its stomach, the age of our planet’s solid inner core, water on the Earth

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks and other “stone” topics

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

Italian Salvatori Company has a large collection of so-called „Home Accessoires”, items made of stone which have a household function and also serve for decoration