Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Rising demand for critical minerals to fuel the green energy transition means an expansion of mining around the world. New mines are opening, existing mines are being scaled up. In the fourth ...

But mining for them in the deep sea is a controversial ... And that leads, of course, to some of the concerns about the environmental impact as well, as you might imagine. It's really complex.

Some of the most conflictive issues in the Pan Amazon revolve around construction of major infrastructure, industrial ...

Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On, Study Shows By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still ...

The environmental impacts of mining extend to carbon emissions apart from energy consumption. Many times, those mining facilities operate in regions where the electricity grids are highly ...

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As of early 2025, the United States had more than 5,000 data centers, according to industry reports, compared to around 1,000 ...

Going with the theme “Remembering the past, embracing the future” the weekend event was a celebration of 100 years of mining ...

A 2023 expedition to the mineral-rich Clarion Clipperton Zone by a team of scientists led by Britain's National Oceanography Centre found that the impacts of a 1979 test mining experiment were ...