The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

Centuries of mining activity have left a toxic legacy that has ensnared its inhabitants in a vicious cycle of displacement, landscape mutilation, environmental pollution, ...

A satellite photo taken after a devastating mining disaster in South Africa revealed a golden river of dried mud glimmering on the landscape. But its gleaming shine was caused by a torrent of ...

Toxic mine pollution has turned Ohio rivers orange. Now it’s being made into paint. By Chelsea Lee, CNN ... Can ancient eco-engineering help fix our degraded landscapes?

Last June, Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine, also in the Yukon, spilled an avalanche of zinc and cyanide into the landscape and nearby waterways after the failure of a heap leach facility.

Understanding Rare Earth Elements Rare earth elements, or REEs, are a group of 17 metals crucial for many modern technologies ...

Hazardous abandoned coal mine lands – relics of the pre-1977 unregulated coal mining industry – linger, polluting the landscapes and threatening the safety and health of people and ecosystems.

Two recent papers show how natural landscape transformation and degradation, due to pasture and crop monoculture creation and mining in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, can increase bioaccumulation of ...

The protests in Serbia voice a loud and clear message–that the quest for environmental sustainability needs to be holistic in that it takes into account not only the end goal of having cleaner ...

NPCA is fighting for widespread mining reform so a 19th-century law giving the mining industry first dibs on public lands ...

With rolling hills, forests and hiking trails, Southeast Ohio is a haven for lovers of the outdoors. Yet cutting through the landscape are countless orange-stained streams, colored by the iron ...