The intrepid German traveller completed his impressive goal in Palau, an island nation in the Western Pacific Ocean ... beaches and there's just a phosphate mine in the centre.

After the decline of the slave trade, Klein Curaçao served many purposes, including phosphate mining since the late 19th century. Now, the only frequenters of the island are miners, fishermen and ...

Also known as the Egg Island Wreck, the Arimoroa was a 260-foot freighter that was purposely run aground ablaze in May of 1970. The wreck still sticks above the surface, its hull in shallow water with ...

Beyond that, this remote, splat-shaped Indian Ocean island ... s economic engine: phosphate. Many islanders trace their heritage to the indentured workers who began mining in the late 1800s.

Politically, the island is not independent, as it is part of the Pacific Ocean state of the Republic of Kiribati ... the islanders huddle on scraps of soil preserved untouched by phosphate mining.

Christmas Island sits in the Indian Ocean approximately 220 miles south of Java ... transformed Christmas Island from an obscure territory known primarily for phosphate mining into an ecotourism ...

His company, Premium Seas, harvests the Undaria that grows naturally on mussel-farm lines in the Firth of Thames, turning the ...

South African National Parks (SANParks) has shot down an “audacious” application by a phosphate mining company to mine inside the boundaries of the ecologically-sensitive West Coast National Park.

It is raising concerns about environmental safety. At the center of the controversy is a former phosphate mine in Dover. It is also home to a superfund site. Back in 2010, Hillsborough County ...

Stablecoin issuer Tether has announced it intends to deploy its existing and future Bitcoin hashrate to Ocean’s Bitcoin mining pool in an effort to strengthen the network’s decentralization.

South African National Parks has denied Kropz Plc’s (LON: KRPZ) request to extend its phosphate mining operations into the West Coast National Park, citing legal prohibitions on mining within ...