Archaeology3h
Egyptian Gold Mining Camp Excavated Near Red Sea
JABAL SUKARI, EGYPT— La Brújula Verde reports that the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities completed a two-year ...
This tiny Pennsylvania community was deemed ‘expendable’. So toxic waste keeps flowing
An EPA investigation confirmed residents’ worst fears about operations at an industrial landfill. What happens next is all ...
Nose-to-tail mining: How making sand from ore could solve a looming crisis
Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this ...
Surface mine reclamation in Eastern KY ‘alarmingly slow,’ leaving problems in its wake
A new report says hundreds of surface-mined coal sites across Eastern Kentucky have not been fully reclaimed as quickly as ...
In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples
Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of ...
Massive Simandou mine can end Australia's golden iron ore age, or start new one
The term gamechanger is often over used enough to be rendered meaningless, but the huge Simandou mine in the West African ...
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Bill would let new power plants in 'energy production zones' override some local laws
Utilities that want to build a new power plant on the site of an old one or a former coal mine could bypass local zoning and ...
Where coal plants are retiring, and still burning
Politically, there’s a lot of support for coal in Wyoming and Utah where Rocky Mountain Power is operating so I think they ...
Buffalo News2dOpinion
My View: Memories about the world's oldest game played
The children’s game of rock, paper, scissors belongs in the same family with morra, but is as far from it in demand for skill ...
Renewable energy ambitions in northern Colombia collide with Indigenous worries
CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia — Giant wind turbines tower over a cemetery sacred to Zoyla Velasquez and her Indigenous Wayuu ...
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Boulder Celebrates Completion of Century-Old Coal Seam Fire Mitigation Project
Boulder completes the Marshall Mesa Coal Fire Mitigation Project, extinguishing an over-century-old seam fire and planning ...
Germany’s rightward shift reflects Pennsylvania’s Rust Belt realignment — and Democratic failures with the working class
It’s hard not to see the political parallels between Cottbus, a city of 100,000 about 75 miles south of Berlin, and Rust Belt swaths of Northeastern Pennsylvania.