Antonia Kuo, ‘Milk of the Earth’, 2025, exhibition view. Courtesy: the artist and Chapter NY, New York; photograph: Charles Benton Solar Array (all works 2025), one of several pieces in the show ...

Clearly defined roles and responsibilities for day-to-day operation should be in place in every mine. There should be suitably qualified engineers appointed to carry out monitoring and maintenance of ...

Mining is essential to modern lifestyles. Copper, iron and other mined products are vital to the products many people take for granted, like electronic devices. Being able to buy these goods quite ...

In Kenya’s gold mining regions, women face an impossible choice: risk poisoning or watch their families go hungry. Their ...

Tailings are a slurry of fine-grained rock and water ... The release of tailings and other toxic materials from mining companies in Southern Arizona has been tied to environmental problems ...

Nine years after the Gadsden Steam Plant stopped burning coal, its unlined coal ash pond is still polluting Alabama ...

Carrying eagle feathers and chanting prayers, Western Apache runners hit the road on a roughly 80-mile journey this month to try to save their sacred land from being fast-tracked by President Donald ...

Most of our old electronics end up in landfills or backyard workshops, which then leak metals into the groundwater, creating toxic brews ... approach will not halt mining overnight, but every ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. “We could potentially see whether mining is starting to ...

The leftover slurry was piped ... uranium and other toxic waste back toward the tailings piles. Second, as the NMED described it, it acts as a “plug in the bottom of a funnel that holds impacted ...