The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department has identified 260 abandoned uranium mine sites throughout the state, according to NMED's 2023 Abandoned Uranium Mines Data Gap ...

In the Colorado backcountry, the most dangerous hazards are the ones that don't look like hazards at all. The recent death of ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

After years of demanding the cleanup of uranium waste at the Kerr-McGee Quivira Mines on the Navajo Nation community advocates got the news this week that the Environmental Protection Agency will ...

Cleanup work is now underway at four abandoned uranium mine and mill sites across New Mexico as a part of the state's Mine ...

Thousands of open cut mines lie abandoned worldwide, while more stringent mine site rehabilitation laws in Australia are ...

A recent tragedy in Colorado wasn't an anomaly. From drowning in quarries to stumbling into open pits, hundreds have died in vacant mines across the United States since 2000.

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

An abandoned cinnabar ore mine for mercury in Texas. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has issued an order to unlock federal dollars to recover above-ground critical minerals from functioning and ...

It doesn’t take much for a century-old mine shaft to cave in around you. Or for the mercury, lead or arsenic leftovers to leech into the Silver State’s already strained groundwater supply. That’s why, ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Kat Dahl and Mikayla Evans have deep connections to the Sean Williams-Johnson City Police Department (JCPD) case — and a lengthy series of text messages shows they bonded ...

The Government plans to rehabilitate 994 abandoned mining and quarrying sites by 2030 in partnership with various stakeholders, according to a new climate action plan covering 2025-2035.