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Available public sources do not give a single, authoritative tonnage for Venezuela’s lithium reserves; mainstream datasets list the largest South American lithium resources concentrated in the “Lithiu...
Venezuela is widely reported as holding the world’s largest proven oil reserves—commonly cited around 303 billion barrels in 2025—placing it ahead of Saudi Arabia and Iran in several recent compilatio...
Venezuela is widely reported to hold the world’s largest proven oil reserves, with recent tallies clustered around roughly 297–303 billion barrels of "proven" reserves and broader estimates of technic...
Venezuela’s best-documented rare earth occurrences cluster in the Guiana Shield and the Orinoco Mining Arc — notably sites in Bolívar and Amazonas states including the Cerro Impacto carbonatite — with...
Laramie, Wyoming, sits on a high intermountain plain with commonly reported elevations clustered around 7,165–7,220 feet above sea level (about 2,184–2,200 meters), though exact figures vary by source...
There is no independently verified, publicly available inventory of Venezuela’s coltan or tantalum reserves accepted by major geological agencies; most figures trace back to Venezuelan government clai...
The Apollo moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s are documented by contemporaneous NASA mission reports and decades of scientific follow-up work, and the core claim that humans landed on the...
Available reporting and datasets do not show Venezuela as a major controller of the global lithium, cobalt or nickel supply chains; the largest lithium reserves are in the “Lithium Triangle” (Bolivia,...
Reputable institutions and mainstream scientists have not issued a single, unified “refutation” of every claim made by GeoEngineeringWatch.org, but multiple credible analyses and peer‑reviewed discuss...
Geoscience literature and agency reporting show that geomagnetic reversals are slow, messy events taking from about a few hundred years in short excursions up to several thousand — most commonly quote...
Available reporting and datasets do not provide a single, recent, authoritative estimate of lithium reserves or average grades specifically for Venezuela’s pegmatite fields; major public compilations ...
Global rankings of “largest recoverable oil reserves” depend on definitions and real-world constraints: by conventional proven-reserve tallies , but when technology, infrastructure and investment are ...
The rollout of herbicide‑tolerant (HT) genetically modified (GM) crops removed a key constraint on glyphosate use and coincided with large increases in kilograms applied per hectare and total national...
Heavy and extra‑heavy oil deposits such as Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt drive higher extraction costs because the crude is extremely viscous, contains more contaminants (sulfur, metals) and requires large...
Vietnam has long been touted as a rare-earth heavyweight but recent authoritative data have punctured the hype: the U.S. Geological Survey sharply revised Vietnam’s reserves down from around 22 millio...
California’s commonly cited statewide withdrawal of roughly , which converts to about , comes from USGS-era compilations and sector breakdowns showing heavy irrigation demand, but that figure does not...
California uses a large share of U.S. water in absolute terms but its , while water directed to agriculture and the environment dominates intra‑state totals. National withdrawal rankings and Californi...
Global silver supply — the sum of mine production and recycling — has failed to keep pace with demand in recent years, producing a multi‑year structural deficit that continued into 2025 and helped dri...
Venezuela’s oil endowment is dominated by heavy and extra‑heavy (sour) grades concentrated in the Orinoco Belt — the bulk of its roughly 298–303 billion barrels of proven reserves are heavy/sour rathe...
The claim on antipollutionplan.com that “a single eruption from a volcano puts 10,000 times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all human activity throughout history” is unsupported by mainst...