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Mining

Elim, Alaska is perched above Norton Bay, an inlet of the Bering Sea. Credit: Max Graham/Northern Journal

A National Quest for Uranium Comes to Remote Western Alaska, Raising Fears in a Nearby Village

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

Participants at the Association for Mineral Exploration conference in Vancouver in January examine core samples through magnifying devices. The yearly conference is known as a gathering place for companies with prospects in Alaska. Credit: Jesse Winter for Northern Journal and Inside Climate News

In Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley’ of Mining, Speculators Power a Hunt for Alaska’s Minerals

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy

By Kiley Price

Kathy Love, director of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, speaks during a June ASMC meeting. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In a Deep Red State, a Mining Regulator Is Wary of Possible Trump Cuts to Its Budget

By Lee Hedgepeth

An aerial view of the Pattison Co. quarry in Garnavillo, Iowa. Credit: Pattison Co.

As an Eastern Iowa Quarry Seeks to Quadruple Its Water Use, Residents Urge the State to Intervene

By Anika Jane Beamer

Jennifer Allen, a Pima County supervisor who represents the district containing Ironwood Forest National Monument, speaks at a rally to protect the area on June 7. Credit: Kathleen Dreier Photography/Friends of Ironwood Forest

Across the Country, Locals Rally to Protect National Monuments Threatened by the Trump Administration

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of Oak Flat, a site sacred to the Western Apache, near Superior, Ariz. Credit: EcoFlight

US District Court Ruling Keeps Fight Against Mining of Site Sacred to Western Apache Alive

By Wyatt Myskow

Visitors stand atop a large mound of salt byproduct from lithium production at a mine in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

UN Scientists Propose a Plan to Meet Global Demand for Critical Minerals

By Carrie Klein

A helicopter overflies the area of a collapsed dam as rescue workers search for victims near the town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil on Jan. 25, 2019. Credit: Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

Rich Countries’ Energy Transitions Threaten Indigenous Peoples and the Environment

By Katie Surma

George Walley, a Noongar elder, sits at the edge of an Alcoa mine site near Jarrahdale in Western Australia on March 24. Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

How Pittsburgh’s Alcoa Is Undermining a Rare Forest To Fuel Its Global Aluminum Empire

By Jamie Wiggan and Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

Patrick Donnelly, the Great Basin director for the Center for Biological Diversity, walks through an alkaline meadow in Fish Lake Valley on May 6. The valley used to be home to a series of streams and lakes that once provided habitat for fish like the Fish Lake Valley tui chub. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Fish Threatened By Farms and Mining Set to Be First Species Listed As Endangered in Second Trump Term

By Wyatt Myskow

Human rights attorney Alejandra Gonza (right) stands with Brenda Díaz Valencia, who is holding a photo of her father, Antonio Díaz Valencia, and his colleague Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 3, 2024. The two men disappeared after criticizing mining practices in Mexico. Credit: Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images

Defending Human Rights Is Dangerous. Defending Nature Makes It Even Riskier

By Katie Surma

Hector Denogean Sr. stands the Mammoth Miners Memorial in Southern Arizona. Denogean says he can’t support a new mine that may take more water out of the drying region. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

In Southern Arizona, Community Opposition to Mining Grows in Towns That Once Depended on the Industry

By Wyatt Myskow, Yana Kunichoff

Heavy vehicles stop moving as a timed detonation brings down a wide coal face at the Buckskin Coal Mine, in Gillette, Wyoming. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg via Getty Images

House Committee Offers Fossil Fuel Industry a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity to Develop on Public Lands

By Jake Bolster

An aerial view of Oak Flat in Arizona. Credit: EcoFlight

Oak Flat is Sacred to Western Apache. The Trump Administration Intends to Approve a Plan to Destroy It

By Wyatt Myskow

A grizzly bear, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Acts, walks among pine trees in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jim Peaco/National Park Service

How the Trump Administration’s Interpretation of One Word—‘Harm’—Could Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Species

By Kiley Price, Wyatt Myskow

Kathy Love, the Alabama Surface Mining Commission director, speaks at the agency’s meeting on Thursday in Jasper, Ala. Photo credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

A Year After a Fatal Explosion, Alabama Extends Deadline for Coal Companies to Monitor Methane Gas Above Mines

By Lee Hedgepeth

The controversial Pinyon Plain Mine continues to operate within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni—the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument—on Aug. 27, 2024 near the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Trump Executive Order Streamlines Mining Permits. Environmentalists Fear What Comes Next

By Wyatt Myskow

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