Open-pit mining is a type of surface mining used to extract coal, gold, and other minerals. It creates immense water and air pollution, disfigures landscapes, and destroys habitats.

The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar ...

Therefore, there is no scope for doubt that open-pit coal mining in Phulbari and Barapukuria areas will cause serious social, economic, and environmental disasters.

The Interior Department signed off on a mine on Nature Conservancy-managed forestland in Tennessee. The Trump administration ...

Alberta announced a new coal policy that will ban new open-pit coal mines in the foothills but allow steel-making mines to be built.

Alberta has announced plans to draft new rules that will see mountaintop removal mining and open-pit coal developments prohibited on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. In a statement on ...

Industrialist Isidro Consunji built his family's DMCI into an infrastructure empire. The $660 million acquisition of a ...

The extraction of coal in Bangladesh has never gained momentum, as bureaucratic paperwork keeps piling up.  Whether it is open-pit or underground mining, files circulate between departments for ...

As the provincial government finalizes details of new rules for coal mining in Alberta’s mountains and foothills, one company is asking officials to pick a definition of open pit mining that won ...

Crews tearing apart a 1.5-acre pile of coal mine refuse that has been smoldering for two decades recently uncovered a section which measured 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Researchers argue that 300GW of solar energy could be produced at Mpumalanga’s old mines and those closing in the next decade ...

On the day the Paris climate pact was signed, nearly a decade ago, it seemed as if world leaders were finally on the same page. They agreed to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C, in an ...