Navajo tribal officials announced the first steps in restoring some land previously used for uranium ore mining on the Navajo ...

Environmental advocates and local tribes in Inyo County are rallying against a proposed gold mining project that threatens to ...

In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines ...

With its silver-white appearance, its ability to compress into a roly-poly ball at the prod of a pencil, and the fact that it is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature, mercury is one ...

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Two people walk down a boardwalk across the Mojave Desert at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge ... or whether more of this region will be given up to lithium mining. “It’s just uncertain times,” ...

In Germany’s Ruhr Valley, the Industrial Nature Trail connects former coal mines and steel plants that have been ... In Detroit, the Wildlife Corridor Initiative maps abandoned properties to ...

In Germany’s Ruhr Valley, the Industrial Nature Trail connects former coal mines and steel plants that have been ... In Detroit, the Wildlife Corridor Initiative maps abandoned properties to ...

Mining accidents are not uncommon in South Africa, where many abandoned mines have been taken over by informal diggers. Earlier this year, at least 78 bodies were pulled from an illegal gold mine ...