A collaborative effort involving The Nature Conservancy (TNC), its Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership, Sun Tribe ...

In what has to be its wackiest nugget yet, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency this week revealed that “Federal ...

In what sounds like a plot from a Cold War satire, President Trump’s federal workforce reduction plan is being stymied by an ...

It’s been nearly 10 years since the Environmental Protection Agency breached a holding plug at the Gold King Mine north of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A police officer moves a barrier for an emergency vehicle, Oct. 9, 2024, at Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in ...

A proposed new mine in Osceola County to extract nearly 800,000 tons per ... The operation would also generate marketable, table-grade salt. Brine water waste would be disposed of deep underground via ...

Kerr-McGee Quivira mine counts among more than 1,100 mines, milling sites and waste piles scattered across the Navajo Nation from the uranium mining period, many of them abandoned. Now, after years of ...

SANTIAGO - Chile's development agency Corfo on Tuesday opened a call for studies on the extraction of cobalt and rare earths from mining waste, offering $3-million to $4-million per project for a ...

There is more than a century’s worth of mine waste in B.C. from legacy and operating mines, and some of that waste contains valuable critical minerals that can now be extracted using various ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep ...

The United States is nowhere near its goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030, according to new analysis from the University of California, Davis. In September 2015, the U.S. set an ambitious ...