The Bureau of Land Management is restoring up to 11 cubic feet per second of water previously diverted to the Uncompahgre ...

At a congressional hearing, one executive welcomed President Trump’s “starting gun” to begin mining. Democrats and ...

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In this week's Current Climate newsletter, Trump has ignited a new fight over seabed mining; America’s only rare-earth mine ...

University of Montana paleontologist Kallie Moore has spent the past several years unearthing a short-lived attempt around ...

If the proposed mine at Oak Flat is built, it would be deeper than the height of the Eiffel Tower and wider than the length ...

Maung Tu, 40, a manager at a mining company, purchased a betel nut farm of 2.4 hectares, or 6 acres, near the southern tip of ...

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Ronin the African giant pouched rat is one of more than 100 rats trained by a Belgian nonprofit to sniff out deadly land mines. Guinness World Records / APOPO Former conflict zones are littered ...

The town of Elgin was settled in 1882 south of Caliente, along the Muddy River. The community was focused ... five years after the nearby mine and mill closed down. The land is now controlled by the ...

From above, the Amazon rainforest appears as a dense, emerald-green paradise, but as the plane descends, the damaged landscape becomes visible with its gaping wounds carved by illegal gold mining.

The war in Ukraine is showing the power of weaponry once thought outdated. Mines and artillery have proven essential, alongside cutting-edge tech like AI and drones. One expert told BI that mines ...