Mapping the middle ground: Balancing mining activities with survival of Utah’s rare plants
It can be easy to assume that the vast stretches of desert in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado are mostly ...
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12.3 million EU project will digitize the mining industry and ensure increased sustainability
Today, Europe imports many of the mineral resources needed to produce everything from mobile phones, renewable energy, and modern defence ...
Single-cell raman-based tool developed for efficient mining of live functional microbes from nature
Currently, the best way for scientists to isolate a specific microbe with a particular metabolic function from an environment is ...
Study estimates how much deforestation could increase if restrictions on mining in the Amazon are lifted
A model developed by Brazilian researchers shows that opening up protected areas of the Amazon to mining projects would lead ...
Unintended consequences: analyzing interventions on mercury use and emissions in artisanal gold mining
Mercury is a unique element that has found a myriad of scientific and practical applications throughout the centuries. Besides its ...
Technology: University of New Mexico researchers find Bitcoin mining is environmentally unsustainable
Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more ...
Can gold mining be more sustainable?
In a review paper recently published in the journal Land Degradation and Development, Shrabya Timsina and Nora Hardy focused on the effects ...
Shallow-water mining is not a sustainable alternative to deep-water mining, scientists argue
Shallow-water mining projects are already underway in Namibia and Indonesia, and projects have been proposed in Mexico, New Zealand, and ...
New research: More than half of all tropical deforestation directly attributable to industrial mining takes place in Indonesia, with Brazil, Ghana and Suriname also suffering major losses
WORCESTER, MA (SEPTEMBER 12, 2022)—New peer-reviewed research published in PNAS today showed that, out of 26 countries, Indonesia accounted for ...
Digging through patents to make mining greener
Fukuoka, Japan—As the world confronts the ongoing climate crisis, moving to greener technology has become a requirement in every facet ...
New mining professor wins SME career boost grant
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, or SME, selected associate professor Angelina Anani for its 2022 Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Academic Career ...
How environmentally responsible is lithium brine mining? It depends on how old the water is
AMHERST, Mass. – A groundbreaking new study recently published in the journal Earth’s Future and led by researchers at the ...
New research finds deep-sea mining noise pollution will stretch hundreds of miles
New research published today in the peer-reviewed journal Science examines the potential for underwater noise pollution from seabed mining operations, ...
New WVU program trains next generation of toxicologists to collect, analyze air samples from mining, fracking sites
West Virginia University is launching a toxicology training program that offers students something no other academic program does: experience collecting air ...
Sensitive proprietary patterns discovered in data mining given privacy boost
Researchers have given a boost to privacy and protection of proprietary or other sensitive information during data mining, while not ...
“Gold veins mined in the city” A technology to realize ‘urban mining’
In South Korea, which relies on imports for 99.3% of metal resources, the per capita consumption of metal resources is ...
Climate change and lithium mining negatively influence flamingos
Lithium is powering the world’s electric vehicles, making the metal a key part in the quest to reduce carbon emissions. ...
Controversial policy to reconcile mining and biodiversity conservation demonstrates success
Ambatovy mine, a major contributor to Madagascar’s economy and a company which positioned itself as a leader in sustainable mining, ...
Illegal gold mining continues to harm Amazon ecosystem
NEW ORLEANS—A major intervention against a global hotspot for illegal river gold mining proved to be only narrowly effective at ...
How mining companies can better protect workers from injury and death
New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has identified some key causes of workplace fatalities in the Western Australian mining ...
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Anu, previously gropod, awarded nearly $1 million competitive grant from the National Science Foundation
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International group of scientists warns nuclear radiation has devastating impacts on ecosystems
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New experimental treatment can stop the growth of schwannoma tumors
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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In search of the invisible galaxy
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Latin American and Caribbean researchers detail colonialism in ornithology