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Volcanic rock added to Outer Banks beach could help capture carbon

The Outer Banks are already on the front lines when it comes to climate change, but largely for the wrong reasons. Rising seas and ferocious hurricanes, both fueled by global warming, regularly threaten seaside homes and roads along the narrow strip of barrier islands off North Carolina. Now researchers hope to use those same beaches …

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The man keeps the rock for years, hoping it's gold.  It turns out to be much more valuable

The man keeps the rock for years, hoping it’s gold. It turns out to be much more valuable

In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy reddish rock lying in yellow clay. He took it home and tried everything to crack it open, sure there was a nugget of gold inside the …

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