Mining

Her life was short. Scientists estimate she lived for about six or seven weeks in the underground den, before it…

Bob Murray is many things. The last coal baron. A huge Trump supporter. A climate denier. A big deregulation fan.…

Three executives from the mining company that detonated a 46,000-year-old  Indigenous Australian heritage site to…

Right now, just 17% of the world’s energy comes from renewable sources. The lion’s share still comes from…

The deep sea is one of the least understood places on Earth. Among its oddities are hydrothermal vents, cracks in…

Russian Instagram blogger Sergey Zamkadniy usually posts images of beautiful sunsets or riverine adventures. His…

Underwater caves in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have yielded evidence of a prehistoric ochre mine, in a discovery…

Gold mining is becoming an increasingly dangerous threat to the Amazon. A new study has found that barely any trees…

A culturally important archaeological site in Western Australia was destroyed this past weekend during the expansion…

A new analysis of 250 studies has found that the negative impacts of deep sea mining would be severe and could last…

A new study has found that the impacts of deep sea mining are still felt a quarter of a century later.

Billions of years ago when the world was still young, treasure began forming deep underground. As the edges of…

Regulators in China are considering a ban on cryptocurrency mining as an “undesirable” economic activity, according…

Land mines are notorious for leaving a legacy of ongoing destruction from Southeast Asia to Africa, taking the lives…

You probably don’t spend a lot of time pondering what your smartphone is made of. But maybe you should, because the…

On Friday, an Australian court denied permitting for a coal mine in the heart of coal country. Though it can be…

Authorities said this weekend that the death toll from an industrial disaster in Brumadinho, Brazil in Minas Gerais…

Apple’s second press blitz of the fall delivered details on a bunch of new devices. But the company also made some…

The irony of transitioning to clean energy is we’re going to have to mine the shit out of the Earth to do it. Much…

Steven Seagal and DJ Khaled have taught us that if a celebrity endorses a cryptocurrency project, you should…