Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to batteries and catalysts for chemical reactions. Since the 1980s, a race has ...

Climate activists worry about the high-energy demand for bitcoin mining. A once-dormant power plant is humming with activity outside Pittsburgh as thousands of miners work 24 hours a day. The miners ...

Czechia ends 250 years of hard coal mining as the country's last deep mine closes, reshaping jobs, energy, and industrial ...

Countries worldwide have eyes on Greenland for its natural resources, but the island only has one fully operational mine. We visited to find out why.

Jaime López García, president of the National Union of Coal Industry Workers, speaks to Green Left’s Ben Radford about how ...

(AP) - Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday. Gov.