If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Strip Mining Worsened the Severity of Deadly Kentucky Floods, Say Former Mining Regulators. They Are Calling for an Investigation In past flooding, hydrologists have calculated runoff 1,000 times ...

Then a noisy strip mining operation hunkered nearby, and now the mountaintop is scarred, the well water stinks and the salamanders are gone. "When you go up to the top of the mountain, there's ...

Strip mining for phosphate rock violently transforms the environment, irreparably changing the character of the natural landscape. In many cases mines displace plants and animals and eat up thousands ...

a decision that contravenes the advice of government scientists and is set to intensify the global fight over strip-mining biodiverse deep ocean ecosystems. The Jan. 9 determination makes Norway ...

Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in devastating and deadly flooding in Eastern Kentucky and the ...

Rocks the size of fists went tumbling as shovels struck earth to make way for the nearly 8,000 native tree seedlings that about 100 volunteers hoped to plant on this old strip mining site over the ...