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

What happens on a park’s borders can dramatically impact the air, water and wildlife inside the park itself. Industrial-scale mining operations on the border of a park could have disastrous ...

Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is mined, pollute our air, contaminate our water and destroy invaluable ...

Professor Tibbett said, "Today we mine mostly for resources that make up our everyday devices, such as our phones, but the impact of mining is very damaging to the environment. This need not be ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed multiple executive orders designed to advance policies that are ...

Our recent study raises questions about the sustainability of nickel mining practices as we highlight its environmental and social impacts in ... but also destroy habitats and threaten wildlife ...

As drinking-water sources and aquatic wildlife habitats are being increasingly and unnecessarily contaminated by endocrine disruptors, the effects on imperiled ... The toxins from mining wash ...

Naturepl.com / David Shale / WWF The deep sea is home to habitats and species found nowhere ... that a proposed new extractive industry -- deep seabed mining (DSM) -- would have an irreversible impact ...