There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies—everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, ...

For more than three decades, one of the country’s largest gold deposits lay dormant, its pits filling with water and its name fading from global headlines even as it remained etched in local memory.

Operating since 1903, Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Mine near Salt Lake City remains one of the most productive mines in the world, where workers pulled 134,000 metric tons of copper from the earth last year, ...

There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies – everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, ...

Greenland, the world’s largest island, lies mostly inside the Arctic Circle; 80 percent of the island is covered in an ice sheet that on average is 1.4 miles deep. Because of warmer Atlantic currents ...

Federal scientists said the region contains enough of the critical battery metal to replace American imports for 328 years.

FOR MOST of the past 30 years Western firms have been leaving rather than investing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, says Guy-Robert Lukama. The former chair of Gécamines, the main state-owned ...