DULUTH — State regulators want any potential mining activity to be farther away from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness than currently allowed, leaving more restrictive regulations up to the ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...

Environmental concerns are raised anew about potential contamination from Canadian open-pit mines flowing through the waterways into Montana’s lakes, harming fish. Elkview Operations, one of Teck ...

I applaud my state Sen. Jen McEwen's lead in promoting common-sense protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Lake Superior by introducing a “prove it first” bill (SF59/HF 148) in ...

Canada's mining industry is under fire after an international tribunal found it committed environmental and human rights violations around the globe. Earlier this year, the International Rights of ...

COVE, Ariz. – Hundreds of abandoned uranium mines and mine waste piles on the Navajo Nation have for decades leached cancer-causing elements into the watershed around Cove, Arizona. And so the two ...

New research examines the potential for underwater noise pollution from seabed mining operations, which could affect the understudied species that live in the deep sea -- the largest habitat on Earth.

Calling mining pollution that’s existed for many decades an emergency now might seem a stretch. But participants in a transboundary mining conference in Juneau this week say there are circumstances — ...

Critics of crypto-mining operations say the burgeoning industry is not delivering on promises to provide jobs and economic development to rural areas in exchange for cheap power and tax breaks. Little ...

Washington, D.C. – The Biden administration should strongly advocate for Canada to address mining pollution that poses a significant danger to Alaskan communities, according to a new report from the ...

ALMA – Colorado mountain residents got so frustrated by the gold and gravel mining churning through wetlands along headwaters of the South Platte River they took oversight into their own hands. And, ...

Researchers find long-term exposure to mining pollution is associated with significant cognitive impairment in Peruvian ...