An engineer tasked with reviewing the spill of about two million tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore at a Yukon gold mine says it ...

Enough coal ash slurry to fill 800 Olympic swimming pools swallowed a town in 2008, carrying toxins, sickness and bitter ...

Millions of yards of ashy sludge broke through a dike at TVA Fossil Plant near Harriman, Tennessee, on Dec. 22, 2008.

Detecting disasters in underground mining, such as explosions and structural damage, has been a persistent challenge over the years. This problem is compounded for first responders, who often have no ...

Victoria Gold's Eagle gold mine site north of Mayo, Y.T., is shown in this handout aerial photo taken Wednesday, July 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO — Yukon Government© The Canadian Press ...

Stephen B. Morton/AP A high-profile, yearslong fight over a proposal to mine near the nation’s largest blackwater swamp in Georgia has come to an end.

A coalition of 16 environmental organizations formally challenged the federal government’s environmental review of the proposed South32 Hermosa mine project, citing critical flaws in the analysis.

Investigators from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration have completed an investigation into a fatal mining accident in Raleigh County from February. The accident on ...

The International Finance Corporation will provide a $400 million subordinated loan for Pakistan’s Reko Diq copper-gold mine, according to an IFC disclosure on Friday.

Melissa Murray, NYU Law Professor joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to break down the ruling from the 9th circuit regarding Donald Trump’s ability to command the national guard on ...

Surviving a mass disaster of this kind may be hailed as a kind of “miracle”. But what is it like to survive – especially as the only one? Surviving a disaster ...