Mining is one of the dirtiest industries, contributing upwards of 5% of global carbon emissions. And then there are the local effects, including air pollution that harms nearby communities and ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- For several years, Boliden and Komatsu have collaborated on the electrification and automation of mining trucks in the open pit copper mine Aitik. Now the ...

A major pollutant from mining fossil fuels has been linked to an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to new research. Longterm exposure to sulfur dioxide, a component ...

Dozens of rock cores drilled decades ago and left largely forgotten in a Darwin warehouse have yielded more than 12,000 ...

The Trump administration has announced that it will use emergency authorities to rapidly increase the pace of approving fossil fuel and mining projects on public lands. The Interior Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A geology field trip will take participants into a historic coal mine and a fossil site on Saturday, May 3, according to a ...