Public complaints around bitcoin mining noise pollution are growing, but miners have plenty of solutions at their disposal. Let’s use them. Bitcoin mining is loud. Anyone reading that sentence who has ...

Critics of crypto-mining operations say the burgeoning industry is not delivering on promises to provide jobs and economic development to rural areas in exchange for cheap power and tax breaks. Little ...

DULUTH — State regulators want any potential mining activity to be farther away from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness than currently allowed, leaving more restrictive regulations up to the ...

HELENA, MT — U.S. Geological Survey researchers say rising levels of nitrate and selenium in Canada’s Elk River are unparalleled in the annals of modern monitoring. The concentrations of selenium and ...

A Canadian mining company has been hit with a $114,750 fine after repeatedly dumping illegal amounts of cobalt-laced waste into a river system in British Columbia, Victoria News reported. Provincial ...

The Ktunaxa Nation’s success in finally convincing the governments of Canada and the United States to convene the International Joint Commission (IJC) to address the long-standing coal mining ...

Mining involves moving a lot of rock, so some mess is expected. However, mining operations can continue to affect ecosystems long after activity has ended. Heavy metals and corrosive substances leach ...

A federal judge's ruling released today holds Northshore Mining Co. to state air pollution regulations that compare asbestos-like fibers in Silver Bay air with air in St. Paul. U.S. District Court ...

ALMA – Colorado mountain residents got so frustrated by the gold and gravel mining churning through wetlands along headwaters of the South Platte River they took oversight into their own hands. And, ...

The Bush administration has delivered the second half of a one-two punch against rules the Clinton administration put into effect to rein in environmental damage by hardrock mines in the West. The ...

Scientists have found that the highest recorded levels of atmospheric mercury exist in an unlikely place — Peru's Amazon rainforest. The study, published on Wednesday in Nature Communications, pointed ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report suggests that the noise pollution produced by deep-sea mining activities could have far-reaching effects on the marine environment, ...