Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Heavy metals naturally occur in the Earth's crust, but human activities can increase their concentration in the environment, ...

Without concerted action, pollution threatens to leave the Drin River and its main tributaries “lifeless”, environmentalists ...

Northern Minnesota Republican Congressman Pete Stauber has reintroduced legislation to overturn a 20-year mining ban near the ...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) reintroduced a bill on Jan. 21 to ban sulfide-ore copper mining in the Boundary Waters ...

Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, ...

Social and environmental groups sued last year saying the $1.8 billion Hell’s Kitchen project could cause water and air ...

According to state media reports, Collins Mnangagwa chairs the Radnor Mine board. ZIMCN Investments, a company widely believed to be linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins, has been ...

Environmental and community groups have appealed the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to grant an air ...

Definition of Rare Earths Rare earth elements (REEs) are like the secret ingredients in modern technology. They're a group of ...