Today, most people visiting our public lands are aware of the principles of Leave No Trace. One easy way to remember the 7 ...

Joshua Tree Trail begins at an opening in the fence behind the parking lot’s large sign for Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness.

The pristine white snowpack blanketing the Rocky Mountains may look pure, but a new study reveals it carries an invisible ...

This video explores the abandoned town of Rhyolite, Nevada, uncovering hidden mines and forgotten remnants of its mining past. From crumbling structures to underground discoveries, it reveals how ...

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

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

Nevada lawmakers are once again taking the lead in a bipartisan effort to reverse a court ruling adopting a stricter ...

Most cities reveal themselves at street level, but their true stories often lie beneath. Beneath sidewalks and subways, ...

The state Senate has passed Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco's, R-Morris, bill that would establish the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program in the state Department of Transportation to protect ...

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 ...

New Jersey lawmakers are moving to plug the state’s most dangerous abandoned mines, the same hidden hazards blamed for sinkholes that swallowed sections of I-80 earlier this year, under a bill that ...

New Mexico's Environment Department plans to finish cleaning up at least one abandoned uranium mine by next summer, and has begun site evaluations at 15 uranium mine and mill sites in the northwest ...