Washington state needs lithium to meet the demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy. But mines add to a legacy of ...

After a five-year fight, a US District Court for the District of Arizona granted a temporary restraining order to block a ...

Grist spoke with five experts to understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of ...

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, camels wandered the Sonoran Desert. How they got there, and what happened to them, is an incredible story.

In Valencia, the flooding was attributed to a “cut-off low pressure storm system,” as cold autumn winds came down from Northern Europe ... as Spain’s Sierra Nevada, they rose even higher ...

On Friday, Lee, along with the Nevada Division of Minerals and the nonprofit Trout Unlimited, celebrated the law’s signing at ...

Now a new and perhaps even more vexing concern has emerged: Highway sinkholes stemming from long-abandoned ... are approximately 588 mines beneath the surface in nine northern counties, mostly ...

The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...

The funding allows construction of Phase I of the project to proceed that is expected to produce 40,000 metric tons of ...

Just because a mine has been exhausted of its ore, that doesn't necessarily mean it has no value. A 2023 study suggests that the shafts of such abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing ...