Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with ...

Oxford reveals a geological “recipe” for finding clean natural hydrogen underground, which could lead to a CO2-free energy ...

The gleaming cities of capital, the spires of skyscrapers, our handheld devices with access to avalanches of information, ...

Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

In some circles natural gas is viewed as the holy grail. In others it's a climate change nightmare. And then there’s ...

The US is racing to wean itself off China’s REEs but is domesticising more projects driving it to the finishing line?

Most of this waste in the US is eventually used to bulk up building materials, or simply dumped. It's estimated that more ...

Treating acid mine drainage and extracting its valuable rare earth elements offers a way to transform pollution into ...

Across coal country, the same toxic sludge and rust-colored water that once symbolized the end of an industry is starting to ...

Researchers at the University of Hamburg, the University of Toulouse, and the DESY and ESRF research institutes have observed for the first time in real time how iron-sulfur nanostructures form in ...