For over a century, the United States and Canada have worked in tandem to manage four of the five Great Lakes that straddle ...

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Extracting resources from the Earth always comes with costs. As we race toward a cleaner, greener future, there is a risk of ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

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Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide.

The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...

The Sunshine State built more large-scale solar than California last year and was again No. 2 for residential, despite state ...

Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: ...

A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.

A "rollercoaster" of funding cuts and layoffs have gutted critical agricultural research projects across the nation.

While the ability to pull enough minerals from these sources to power the energy transition is still a long way off, ...