Beijing has invested heavily in Africa’s vast reserves of energy, metals and minerals, securing access to essential commodities while expanding its geopolitical clout across the continent as ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Billion-Dollar Disasters January - June 2025 The future of this database of the most costly U.S. weather and climate disasters was uncertain after the National Oceanic ...

Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) said Monday that the remaining five workers who were missing following the September 8 mudslide at the Grasberg Block Cave mine in Indonesia were found dead. During the ...

‘Mariana x BHP,’ ‘Altxaliliak’ and ‘La increíble historia de una película que no hemos visto’ win prizes at the 21st edition of the co-production forum SAN SEBASTIÁN — Brazilian-Chilean production ...

Thirteen miners died in a pair of explosions at the Jim Walter Resources Mine No. 5 on September 23, 2001. The initial explosion was caused by a roof fall that ignited methane gas, with a second, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Nearly half a century after a man helped to save lives by stopping traffic from entering a collapsed bridge, while also rescuing a motorist from the creek below, he was honored Monday ...

A hazy cloud that emerged over the active volcano was the result of high winds rather than a new eruption. By Amy Graff and Soumya Karlamangla On the morning of May 18, 1980, the most destructive ...

On the morning of May 18, 1980, the most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history killed 57 people in Washington state. The enormous column of ash that was unleashed by Mount St. Helens has been ...

The Zambian government is walking a diplomatic tightrope after a Chinese mining company at the centre of one of its worst toxic spills comes under fire by environmental activists and foreign diplomats ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — A ceremony honoring those who died in a mine disaster returned to Lackawanna County on Sunday. 156 years ago, on September 6th, 1869, 110 miners and two rescuers died in the Avondale ...

From a viewpoint at about 6,190 feet above sea level, a giant hole in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and ¾ of a mile deep. Trucks with tires bigger than a sedan look like ...