Today, most people visiting our public lands are aware of the principles of Leave No Trace. One easy way to remember the 7 ...

Canada's mining industry is under fire after an international tribunal found it committed environmental and human rights violations around the globe. Earlier this year, the International Rights of ...

A new University of Virginia study led by environmental scientist Justin Richardson shows that phosphorus pollution driving ...

Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. and into surrounding lakes and streams ...

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 ...

Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

The pristine white snowpack blanketing the Rocky Mountains may look pure, but a new study reveals it carries an invisible ...

Town of Farmington will consider sand mining permit at February 10 meeting as neighbors express concerns about dust, noise and pollution.

The resolution, which would allow mining of copper, nickel and other metals in the Superior National Forest south of the ...