Tag: Mining
Gold rush, mercury legacy: Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting...
Jacqueline Gerson, Duke University; Austin Wadle, Duke University, and Jasmine Parham, Duke University
Gold is everywhere in modern life, from jewelry to electronics to smartphones....
Mine waste dams threaten the environment, even when they don’t fail
Christopher Sergeant, The University of Montana and Julian D. Olden, University of Washington
Scars from large mining operations are permanently etched across the landscapes of...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
