Kolmanskop offers a haunting blend of lost wealth, colonial history, and the unstoppable force of nature. Located just a few kilometers inland from Lüderitz in southwestern Namibia, Kolmanskop was ...

Namibia’s economy expanded by 2.7% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, marking the 16th conse ...

Marble from Namibia in which micro-burrows have grown in parallel arrangement downwards from a fracture filled with white calcium carbonate. Credit: Cees Passchier ...

• Mine & Quarry Volumes 1-5 by Sullivan Machinery Company “Marble Quarrying in Arizona” • Paige, Sidney, Marble Prospects in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. 1909.

Gantts Quarry, Ala., a settlement built for men who mined marble from the quarry of the same name, is now a ghost town. Talladega County is world renowned for its lustrous white marble.

Andrew Forrest’s plans for Australia’s biggest wind project includes a radical new turbine design that may reduce costs, and cut concrete emissions.

There’s something about viewing Earth from space — the shift in perspective has for decades moved us emotionally, scientifically, and philosophically. The iconic Earthrise image of our planet ...

An outcrop in Namibia showing the marble penetrated by micro-burrows. (Cees Passchier) An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work ...

Deep inside marble and limestone formations in the deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, scientists have uncovered something astonishing: thin, perfectly aligned tunnels—carved through solid ...

Scientists recently identified peculiar micro-burrows in marble and limestone formations in Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, ...

In the scorching deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, scientists have discovered a curious feature in the rocks – thin, orderly tubes running through marble and limestone, possibly created by ...

Scientists have discovered mysterious microscopic tunnels in marble and limestone formations across Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. These structures, which are embedded in rock, may be remnants of an ...