Environmentalists are sounding the alarm on the potential harm of a precious metals mine that could be built on the doorstep of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Meanwhile, those who ...

The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling the area it hopes to mine. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey On Wednesday, the ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor. The ...

Coal mining operations take up a lot of space. Even if they are taken out of commission, they still lie there, dormant. Peabody is looking to change that. The coal giant is repurposing parts of its ...

KoBold, a US mining startup backed by billionaire investors including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, raised $537 million in its latest funding round, the company said. The funding round, co-led by ...

Ghana is one of the world’s gold hotspots. It is Africa’s largest producer of gold and it ranks sixth globally. In 2023, 4 million ounces were produced. It is essential to Ghana’s economy, ...

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Dr. Lezak is a researcher at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford who studies the politics of climate change. Seventy years ago, the United States was the world’s leading producer ...

When Clarissa Mwanza spoke to me of her work mining zinc in central Zambia, she looked anxious. Her husband, working alongside her, nearly died last year during a mining accident. He injured his leg ...

Apple’s Notes app in iPadOS 18 includes a new feature called Smart Script that allows users to handwrite text and then have it smoothed and straightened in real time. It promises to make text scrawled ...

Researchers have looked for ways to use Bitcoin as a way to boost renewable energy. The real world is much more complicated. Researchers have looked for ways to use Bitcoin as a way to boost renewable ...

Two of Blue Origin’s earliest employees, former President Rob Meyerson and Chief Architect Gary Lai, have started a company that seeks to extract helium-3 from the lunar surface, return it to Earth, ...