Before the federal government shut down on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said it would team up with Mountain ...

I approached both Tiffany and Apple and said if I could find opportunities in Alaska, in the Yukon, in B.C., to do a project ...

An excavator clears out trees on an old mine site Nov. 21, 2024, near Pella. The state was working to reclaim land that once was used for coal mining. The land was to be turned into a public space ...

Offering views that span Mule Mountains to the Native Oak Tree Forest, the site does boast the "highest ... to purchase 10 lots on 0.64 acres that include your very own "gold mine bunker!" The hidden ...

Just beyond a fenced-off access road in fields of tall grass on public land in Pennsylvania’s northwest sits a natural gas well pad that sat idle for close to a decade. The old fracking site suddenly ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

It doesn’t take much for a century-old mine shaft to cave in around you. Or for the mercury, lead or arsenic leftovers to leech into the Silver State’s already strained groundwater supply. That’s why, ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

A disused coal mine in Wollongong will be the first test site for a renewable energy company that lowers weights down old ...

Contrary to what a federal official and environmentalists have said, an old Patagonia Mountains mine overseen by the state environmental agency didn’t spew orange sludge pollution into a neighboring ...

Michigan has 24,000 known contaminated sites, a legacy of heavy manufacturing where industries carelessly discarded hazardous materials with minimal regulatory oversight. Taxpayers are often left to ...