Mining

The International Seabed Council once again failed to come to an agreement over the rules to govern the practice of mining valuable resources in deep ocean habitats.

• By Todd Woody

The proposed mine would sit within Cenderawasih Bay National Park, while parts of it also overlap onto or border the Wondiwoi Mountains Nature Reserve—both protected areas.

• By Basten Gokkon

Records obtained by Pacific Standard reveal that a top official at the DOI had a hand in nixing a government-funded public-health study in Appalachia—after a series of meetings with some of the most powerful mining players in the country.

• By Jimmy Tobias

With a Canadian company looking to mine gold, silver, and copper on ancestral lands, opponents worry about toxic water and the destruction of Menominee heritage.

• By Sophie Yeo

As real estate building increases across the world, so too does the illegal extract of sand, which results in serious environmental impacts.

• By Alexandra Popescu

The mining company also said that, given the Trump administration's plans to abandon the Paris Agreement, it will reconsider its relationship with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

• By Kate Wheeling

Steve Gardner's engineering company was dropped for performing "junk science" to discredit a regulation that it was hired to help prepare.

• By Ian MacDougall

Scott Walker signed legislation Monday ending a nearly 20-year ban on precious metal mining.

• By Kate Wheeling

The Obama administration proposed the rule last year to ensure that companies demonstrate their ability to pay for environmental clean-up.

• By Emily Moon

Democrats warn that mining expansion could devastate Minnesota's Superior National Forest.

• By Emily Moon

Widows of deceased striking miners who were killed during the Marikana massacre walk from the memorial site during the event's fifth anniversary in Marikana on August 16th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Enforcement was left up to consumers, and many legitimate mining operations were shuttered.

• By Rick Paulas

Jessie Landerman, a writer, producer, and director with the New Media Advocacy Project, discusses a new series of videos to help communities stand up to big mining companies.

• By Caitlin Looby

Activists point to rights abuses, ecological disasters, and what they believe to be unfair distribution of profits.

• By Keith Schneider

As mining interests deepen in the southeastern Pacific, researchers are racing the clock—and pushing the frontiers of science—to understand this unknown stretch of sea.

• By Brooke Jarvis

A new book traces our dependence on rare elements—and the environmental costs of a revolution in global mining.

• By Tim Heffernan

How can conservation possibly succeed on a planetary scale if key green leaders and allies keep getting gunned down?

• By Jimmy Tobias

The evidence on conventional job re-training programs is unimpressive, which is bad news for the thousands of coal workers who are likely to lose their jobs in the coming years.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Peabody Energy, the nation’s largest coal company, is seeking release from a pledge to pay into a health insurance fund.

• By Alec MacGillis

Uranium mining threatens aquifers that could provide the drought-stricken West with emergency water supplies.

• By Brian Palmer

Research suggests that moral concerns about mining's environmental impact have less sway when money's on the line.

• By Nathan Collins

Buy fewer of them, and recycle when you upgrade.

• By Francie Diep

A new gold rush could spell big trouble for South American tropical forests, a new study finds.

• By Kate Wheeling

This landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa isn't a failed state in the traditional sense: There's no dictator, no child soldiers. But most of its 14 million people live on less than $1 per day. How did things get this way, and can they ever get better?

• By Michael Hobbes