And it’s been one of the country’s most visible flash points in the race to build new critical-mineral mines. While at first ...

A tweak in European Union rules for reporting methane has allowed open-pit mine operators to undercount their emissions.

Some would love the industry to return. “My grandfather worked in the mines, my uncles worked in the mines,” says Dan Siirila ...

Abandoned coal mines could be repurposed as underground farms to protect crops from rising temperatures. The first trial to find out whether deep farming is economically viable is taking place at the ...

There are about 500,000 abandoned mines in the United States, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and these long-forgotten facilities can pose a variety of risks to people unaware ...

South Dakota Mines was awarded a $3.1M federal ARPA-E grant to lead the RAPID-REE project, using AI to map rare earth ...

The Biden administration has approved sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine for the first time in another major policy shift, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday. The decision ...

Go inside a program that trains giant ‘hero rats’ to sniff out deadly explosives in a newly streaming documentary from FRONTLINE’s archives. Bart Weetjens with a baby African giant pouched rat, in a ...