At stake is control of public lands in Western states, and conservationists fear increased efforts to roll back protections ...

The 95th General Assembly began Monday, January 6, 2025 with much pomp and circumstance at the Capitol in Little Rock.

A startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean’s ...

The Will County Board postponed making a decision Thursday on a quarry proposed for Wheatland Township over the objections of ...

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The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001. But U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police operation cut off food and basic supplies to thousands who were illegally digging ...

The country is mere days away from a new presidential administration, and from Rep. Harriet Hageman’s, R-Wyo., view, the tone ...

Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated Arctic island, has been transformed by the climate crisis in recent decades.

The project, led by UTA physicist J. Ping Liu, seeks to make the mining of critical rare earth elements more cost-efficient ...

Elizabeth Economy is Co-Director of the US, China, and the World Project and Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s ...

Arkansas lawmakers are pushing a new bill to restrict crypto mining operations near military bases, citing security concerns.