A court-appointed liquidator said on Friday it has taken over the running of Toronto-listed First Quantum Minerals’ (FM.TO) Kingamyambo Musonoi Tailings (KMT) copper and cobalt project at Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii have provided more evidence of the extraordinary power and reach of global change, particularly the slowdown of a North Atlantic Ocean current system that could happen again and continues to be a concern to climate scientists.

South Africa’s department of trade and industry (DTI) has issued a touchy-feely reaction to the conclusion of international arbitration proceedings brought against South Africa in 2006, challenging the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act No. 28 of 2002 (MPRDA), and the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Mining Charter.

By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology.

Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii have provided more evidence of the extraordinary power and reach of global change, particularly the slowdown of a North Atlantic Ocean current system that could happen again and continues to be a concern to climate scientists.