Tag: Mining
Engineered Microbes Pull Critical Minerals from Mining Waste
October 1, 20255 min readMeet the Microbes That Munch Mountains of Mining WasteBiomining uses engineered microbes to harvest critical mineralsBy Vanessa Bates Ramirez...
Chinese-linked mining firms in Zambia sued by Copperbelt farmers over ‘ecological...
Farmers in Zambia have filed an $80bn (£58.5bn) lawsuit against two Chinese-linked firms, blaming them for an "ecological catastrophe" caused by the collapse...
Deep-Sea Nodules May Produce Oxygen—Raising Concerns over Ocean Mining
Clare Fieseler's and Jason Jaacks' reporting was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier.Rachel Feltman:...
Church Is Wheeled Away in Sweden as Mining Disrupts the Ground
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Zambia dismisses US health warning after toxic spill in Kitwe’s copper...
The Zambian government has dismissed claims of dangerous pollution in the Copperbelt mining region, following safety concerns raised by the US embassy.On Wednesday,...
Landslide Traps Gold Miners in Eastern Congo
new video loaded: Landslide Traps Gold Miners in Eastern CongoBy Axel Boada•July 22, 2025A landslide at the Lomera artisanal gold mine in eastern...
Trump Takes a Major Step Toward Seabed Mining in International Waters
President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that...
Trump’s Executive Orders on Coal Call for More Mining and Weaker...
CLIMATEWIRE | President Donald Trump on Tuesday made an unprecedented peacetime intervention in the electricity sector, using executive orders to force aging coal-burning...
Mining the Pacific – future proofing or fool’s gold?
BBC/Lindle MarkwellPrime Minister Mark Brown, who is driving this, also happens to be the tourism minister and the seabed minerals minister. He's made...
