To get the United States running on clean energy will require a lot of metal: A single electric vehicle battery pack could contain around 8 kilograms of lithium, 14 kilograms of cobalt, and 35 ...

As patch towns go, Upper Lehigh was upper crust, a coal company enclave so lovely that tourists visited, Michael C. Korb writes in a new history of the place. The village within Butler Twp. grew ...

Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal — an extractive mining process that uses explosives to clear forests and scrape soil in order to ...

Sand is a critical mineral resource and its importance for socio-economic development is reflected in the fact that the volume of sand extracted globally exceeds the amount of fossil fuels and biomass ...

· Deep-sea mining at vents and seamounts is likely to lead to irrevocable biodiversity loss, and is thus scientifically incompatible with existing policy The deep sea contains a wealth of mineral ...