Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South ...

Yes, dynamiting. To continue operations in areas depleted by alluvial mining (i.e. extracting gravel, crushed stone, sand and ...

Prominent Indonesian environmental forensic expert Bambang Hero Saharjo faces yet another potential lawsuit for serving as a ...

Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, stretches for 87,000km² ...

Lakes provide opportunities for recreation and swimming, but certain bodies of water can be hazardous to enter. The following ...

The only thing more dangerous than flying too close to the sun is dancing near a swimming pool on a winter night, and that's ...

Donald Trump’s plan to purchase Greenland is just one symptom of the world’s lust for polar minerals. But who wants to work ...

The Donlin mine's massive industrial operation will destroy thousands of acres of wetlands and streams and cause permanently elevated levels of dangerous ... tons of mining waste full of toxic ...

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People across the globe experienced an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human ...

Pairing one with a mining pool allows you to contribute to a global effort to validate transactions with minimal cost and risk. The GekkoScience Compac F is an example of a USB Bitcoin miner with ...