Tag: Mining
Mining powers modern life, but can leave scarred lands and polluted...
Matthew Ross, Colorado State University
Modern society relies on metals like copper, gold and nickel for uses ranging from medicine to electronics. Most of these...
World Bank ruling against Pakistan shows global economic governance is broken
Kyla Tienhaara, Queen's University, Ontario
It’s been a rough month for Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan.
It started off with the International Monetary Fund approving a...
Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands
Zoltan Grossman, Evergreen State College
The sea of red on recent election maps make it look like rural areas are uniformly populated by Republicans. And...
A defeat on offshore drilling extends the Trump administration’s losing streak...
Alejandro E. Camacho, University of California, Irvine and Robert Glicksman, George Washington University
The Trump administration’s push to boost fossil fuel extraction has received a...
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...
Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...
Grand Canyon National Park turns 100: How a place once called...
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
Few sights are as instantly recognizable, and few sites speak more fully to American nationalism. Standing on the South Rim...
Deepwater corals thrive at the bottom of the ocean, but can’t...
Sandra Brooke, Florida State University
When people think of coral reefs, they typically picture warm, clear waters with brightly colored corals and fishes. But other...
Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the...
Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
