When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...

Gurnee, has introduced legislation in the Illinois General Assembly to require the removal of all coal ash ponds and other ...

Alongside relatively stable gold demand – due principally to gold’s dual nature as a consumer good and an investment asset – the global gold market is one of resilience and balance.

Bhupender Yadav reiterated government's commitment to comprehensive pollution control in the Delhi-NCR As Delhi and several parts of the country battle the rise in the Air Quality Index due to ...

Fracking’s Forever Problem: Eighth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. BELLE VERNON, Pa.—Off a back road in the hilly country south of Pittsburgh, a tributary to the Monongahela ...

Kai Baucom, a graduate research assistant at Pittsburg State University, lifts a handful of rocks from the bottom of the Spring River and checks for any mussels. The fish and rare mussels hiding in ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

The team's next steps are to pilot the technology and its use in rural and peri-urban communities in South Africa, and further afield, that struggle with water scarcity pressures. The scientists say ...

They’re gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, and worth billions. No, not Hollywood starlets and hunks and the stars of K-Pop. Well, OK, yes – they are gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, ...

While areas rich in rare minerals may be a blessing for the economies of countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), they can also be a curse for the local populations. They fuel the ...

Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people. Rare earths are at ...

MISSOURI, USA — The government will soon deploy low-flying aircraft to sweep Missouri and other Midwest states over the next year, scanning the ground for the presence of critical minerals. The U.S.