As global demand for copper, lithium, and other critical minerals climbs, Canada’s mining industry is experiencing a subtle ...

Reasons to be Cheerful explains how "gravity batteries" are giving former mines a second life—while offering an economic and environmental boost to communities once reliant on coal. From Europe to ...

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way — a phenomenon known as “ mine subsidence ” that poses a threat to ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states ...