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Almost 15,000 selected online resources/reports made available to clients, I2M Associates, geoscientists, and the general public worldwide with a focus on geoscientific and other matters of interest to I2M management.
I2M Consulting personnel also monitor hazardous field conditions around the world via our Field Alerts program, cybersecurity conditions on the Internet in our Security Alert program, and relevant bias in the Media in our Confronting Media Bias Alerts program.
Candidate papers, technical news items, classic reports, and new publications can be submitted to the I2M Web Portal editors for review. Those deemed worthy are summarized, abstracted, and/or reviewed with [Editorial comments...] and will be listed under What’s New.
Society conflicts, and training issues involving Artificial Intelligence, various Agencies, Colleges, Universities... as well as those related to Non-Science Issues (Creationism, Intelligent Design, etc.), plus related U.S. and world economic issues.
Resources relating to astrogeology, off-world natural resource exploration and development, planet defense, and associated news of space developments. Also including information related to off-world activities, such as the development of robotics, health issues of zero gravity, and to serious reports of extraterrestrial matters that may create unintended consequences for humans.
Asteroids and Comets Astrophysicists/Astrogeologists and their Work Extraterrestrial Matters Lunar Activities Mars Activity Other Planets and Planetoids Pluto Activities Robots and Robotics and Space-Craft Designs Solar Activities - Past and Present Space Elevator Space Fight Activities, Propulsion Systems, Power Supplies Special Satellite News The NASA James Web Telescope Titan - The Large Moon of Saturn Venus Activity
Biological resources relating to natural-resource development, biomedical research, environmental remediation, critters of the past, and conservation.
Biomass and derived biofuels related resources...
Climate Change (Global Warming or Cooling) resources and related issues, both political and technical, including CO2 sequestration, and Anthropocene issues.
Resources for various services and companies of possible interest to clients, associates, and geoscientists.
Resources relating to mining and environmental topics on natural resource development and industrial remediation.
Resources relating to oil & gas, water, environmental associated regulations, and litigation issues.
Resources from various related U.S. government agencies and state resources
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Department of Agriculture (USDA) Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Information Administration (EIA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Federal Budgets and Spending National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) State Resources TCEQ - Texas The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) US Geological Survey (USGS)
Various useful resources such as related research journals, technical tools, databases, glossaries...
Geo- and hydrochemistry resources relating to oil & gas development and the various associated fields of interest.
Geophysics, Environmental, Geological, Geotech subjects that apply to energy, mining and environmental issues of the day, and the associated applications of interest to I2M management.
Geospatial resources relating to oil & gas development and the associated energy, mining and environmental uses and applications.
Geothermal energy resources and associated issues...
Health and safety resources related to traveling overseas, mining, oil and gas development and production and environmental projects. Also includes cyber-security issues.
All Helium Resources and Uses migrated from the subcategory under Oil & Gas
Related to hydroelectric dams and pumped storage of water to create electrical or mechanical power.
The occurrence of hydrogen in the subsurface and use as an energy resource
The latest resources involving hydrogeology, geology, and the related environmental issues...
Resources with distinct international impacts that may or may not have applications in the U.S.
To this must added recent ideas on society responses to future issues related to natural resource development and use.
Resources related to general mining subjects but not to nuclear, coal or other energy resources.
Critical Mineral Resources Deep Sea Mining Gold-Silver Exploration & Mining Projects Lithium, Potash, Halite, & P2O5 Mining Projects Mineral Exploration Activities - General Off-World Exploration, Mining, & Technology Other Metals Other Non-Metals Silver Exploration & Mining Wastes & Environmental Issues
Information related nuclear power plants, nuclear power generation of electricity, associated economics, SMRs
Includes all oil and gas-related resources, i.e., gas hydrates, oil sand, tar sands, etc.
Local, national, and international geological societies and associations.
This category includes discussions on rare earth deposits, mining and associated economic assessments
International regulations related resources...
Risk Assessment subjects associated with natural occurrences or with those applicable to mining, oil & gas, or other industrial activities and their waste products.
Solar energy related resources...
Toxicological-related resources associated with natural occurrences or those applicable to mining, oil & gas, or other industrial activities and waste products.
Uranium (nuclear minerals) exploration, development and related environmental resources and issues...
Exploration, Mining, Marketing, & Acquisitions Mapping and Geospatial Information Nuclear Power - Economics, Design, & Industry Other Sources, RTGs, Sea Water, Thorium, Helium-3, & Fusion Research Processing Yellowcake, Special Fuels, and Used Fuel Processing Recovery, Remediation and other Mining-Related Technology Related Environmental Issues
Wind energy related resources...
Latest 10 Resources
Uranium Unleashed reported on July 18 2026 that this week wasn't defined by movements in the uranium spot price—it was defined by what happened behind the scenes. While U₃O₈ remained stuck in the mid-$85/lb range, a series of developments reinforced a major shift in the nuclear fuel market: enrichment capacity has become the industry's most important supply constraint, overtaking uranium mining itself.
From government investment in domestic enrichment and strong utility contracting activity to a growing disconnect between uranium equities...
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The AmoLab say that they may be hacking the Code of Aging.
World-Changing Clinical Trial Results: It's All About the Vagus Nerve:
HRV (Heart rate variability) functions as a biomarker in health and disease. It is also the best biomarker to track our longevity. The chart shows our clinical trial results on HRV, conducted at KRISS. In this double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, we obtained results that showed the activities of the parasympathetic nerves of the autonomic nervous system were increased by over 275% by stimulating the car...
Skibba reported in mid-July 2026 that in the 1920s, the hot and arid Elk Hills west of Bakersfield were embroiled in the Teapot Dome oil lease scandal that ultimately tarnished the reputation of President Warren Harding. A century later, controversy over another energy project has returned to the region.
Oil wells fill the landscape in the Elk Hills oil field in western Kern County, Calif.
Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
California’s first carbon capture and storage facility became operational in Kern County’s Elk Hills oil fi...
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AI has warned us about AI replicating....The Stargate Parallel
Credit: Pinterest.com
The social media post describes machines that can "maintain, repair, and even assemble other machines". In Stargate SG-1, this is the exact evolutionary leap that allowed the Replicators to become an unstoppable, galaxy-spanning plague: [1, 2]
The "Toy" Phase: They originally started innocently as small, block-based mechanical "toys" created by an android named Reese. [3, 4]
Autonomous Component Integration: Just like the post describes bipedal r...
Mishra reported in mid-July 2026 that the commercial deployment of the sea-water uranium extraction technology could contribute to strengthening domestic nuclear fuel supply chains.
The licensing agreement also aligns with ongoing federal initiatives aimed
at strengthening America's nuclear industrial base.
(Representational image)Aleksandr/Patsperspective
Austin-based SuperCritical Materials Corp. has secured a license from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to commercialize a patented uranium and critical materials extraction tec...
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Hower and 4 co-authors reported in 2023 that coal is increasingly evaluated as a source of rare earth elements (REEs) in the United States to address the overreliance on imported REEs. The objective of this study was to assess the distribution of REEs in lignites from selected mining areas in the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain region.
Outcrop distribution of Paleocene to Eocene lignite-bearing rocks in Texas is illustrtared in the above figure. Counties referred to in Table 1 are labelled. Central Texas is the region between the Angelina and Colo...
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Wang and two co-authors conducted laboratory experiments in 2015 to investigate isotopic fractionations during oxidation of tetravalent uranium, U(IV), by dissolved oxygen. In hydrochloric acid media with the U(IV) dissolved, the d238U value of the remaining U(IV) increased as the extent of oxidation increased.
The above figure illustrates the results of the adsorption mass balance modeling by the authors. Oxidation kinetics are modeled to confirm their Experiment 3. For convenience, the starting U(IV) concentration was arbitrarily set to...
Calm Space released a video on the Fermi Paradox in June 2026. Where is everybody? It asks and explores. But it appears the universe is silent. With two hundred billion trillion stars and billions of potentially habitable planets, we should be detecting alien civilizations everywhere. But after sixty years of searching, we've found nothing. No radio signals. No signs of intelligent life. Just complete silence.
This is the Fermi Paradox, one of the most unsettling mysteries in science. The explanations range from hopeful to terrifying. Ma...
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Optic Expedition released an AI-generated video of significant interest regarding "human" development. Although Grok reliability is suspect, let's see if Perplexity, Claude or other advanced AI can support the elements presented in this video. See below.
For over a hundred years, these Sumerian tablets sat in pieces, broken and scattered, guarding whatever was pressed into them. Then someone fed the fragments to Grok, the AI, and asked it to do what no human ever could, read the parts that were lost. What it pulled out of that clay is the re... Read More... »
Purepoint Uranium presented this video in early December 2025. The uranium market is already in a supply deficit, but most investors can't see it yet. This video breaks down why official supply-demand charts look balanced while a real shortage exists beneath the surface, hidden by declining mine production and shrinking mobile inventory.
We'll explain in the video just how the usable uranium buffer is much smaller than publicly reported numbers suggest, why new supply can't arrive fast enough to fill the gap, and what signals investors sh...
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