U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota has introduced legislation to permanently ban mining for copper, nickel and precious metals ...

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has filed a motion to pause legal proceedings on the proposed Stibnite Gold ...

Smith emphasizes that her legislation would not ban or restrict existing or potential mining projects outside the Rainy River watershed.

New research has found that some tropical trees in the Peruvian Amazon can be used to monitor mercury pollution from gold mining, offering an alternative to expensive air monitors. Previous research ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Unlike more controversial forms of deep-sea mining that require dredging the ocean floor, these dissolved minerals can be extracted directly from the ocean water itself. In the 1920s, German ...

From the tiniest microorganisms to the largest mammals, life on Earth thrives through interconnected, mutually beneficial relationships. Ghana’s natural forests are a perfect example of this delicate ...

Flash flooding from heavy rain in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia inundated a nickel mining site on March 16. Contaminants at the site from the mining process turned the floodwaters blood red.

SADC provides opportunities in various sectors such as Energy, Tourism, Environment and Land Management, Water, Mining, Employment and Labour, Culture, Information and Sport as well as Transport and ...

The Ministry of Water Development and Sanitation also feared its “devastating consequences”, including the contamination of ground water leading to destruction of crops along the river’s banks.

Multiple presenters to the legislature's committee on public bills said the Houston government's plan to lift the ban on uranium exploration and mining and ... volumes of water mixed with chemicals.