This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. NICE, ...

An effort to jumpstart copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has died in Congress. A provision that would pave the way for mining in the Superior National Forest in ...

According to some sources, the US President Donald Trump is about to unveil a measure to ensure that no one finds this mine ...

Conservation groups gathered to support two national monuments, opposing a plan by the Trump administration to open lands to mining.

With changes in federal regulations and a high demand for critical minerals, southwestern Colorado’s mining potential is once ...

The crucial conference in France comes after Trump ordered the US to pursue deep-sea mining with potentially damaging ...

Extracting rare metals from the ocean floor risks harming largely unexplored ecosystems and presents a dilemma the ...

The deep ocean needs to be studied, not mined, but the Trump administration is barreling ahead, violating international law.

More than 100 people gathered in Forest Lake to talk about the prospect of more coal mining and almost all opposed the idea.

Among the more than 150 executive actions President Donald Trump has taken since assuming office in January are orders that aim to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and commercial fishing in the ...

The document describes oceans as facing a “global emergency,” ravaged by warming temperatures, plastic pollution, and the ...

Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the ...