Samples taken from mine wastewater and Sherman Creek, where the dead fish were found, showed no obvious signs of pollution.

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

For more than a century, outsiders have come for what’s on this land. First, it was for gold. Today, it’s for lithium, a ...

And most importantly for the people of Greenland, mining of any kind comes with inevitable environmental consequences, like pollution and disruptions to wildlife. The Trump administration’s ...

Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as more floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining pollution. The gold mine dump near Snake Park, Soweto, is loaded with toxic ...

While the ability to pull enough minerals from these sources to power the energy transition is still a long way off, ...

Peruvian biologist Luis Castillo told Mongabay that although there are no studies directly linking the decline of giant frogs on mining or wastewater pollution, there’s proof that the problems ...

And most importantly for the people of Greenland, mining of any kind comes with inevitable environmental consequences, like pollution and disruptions to wildlife. An aircraft carrying President ...

as the cost of retrofitting the plants to meet air-pollution limits would be a prohibitive R300-billion. The application for exemptions was made in the context of extreme loadshedding in 2023 and ...

A copper mine in British Columbia produces a metal the world needs to phase out fossil fuels. It holds promise — and danger.