The country’s biggest lithium mine has residents of McDermitt skeptical. The town straddles the Nevada-Oregon border and has a history of pollution.

It doesn’t take much for a century-old mine shaft to cave in around you. Or for the mercury, lead or arsenic leftovers to leech into the Silver State’s already strained groundwater supply. That’s why, ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

Picture a town that exploded from nothing to thousands of people in just three years, only to vanish like a desert mirage. Rhyolite, Nevada, was that place, a Wild West boomtown born from gold fever ...