Zinc’s premium to lead stretched to over $1,000 per ton during the fourth quarter of 2024, the widest gap since February 2023. Although the two metals mostly come from the same mines ...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Zinc's premium to lead stretched to over $1,000 per ton during the fourth quarter of 2024, the widest gap since February 2023. Although the two metals mostly come from the same mines, divergent ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.

South African rescuers have pulled 36 bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in two days of operations, police say, adding that the survivors would face illegal mining and immigration charges.

To see the toxic legacy of lead mining in the US and understand the complicated task of cleaning it up, all one has to do is look at Richard Rankin’s backyard in Missouri. The septic system of ...

open image in gallery Grass covered mounds mark the site of the Roman-era lead mine at Charterhouse on Mendip in the UK (Andrew Wilson) These are likely linked to the expansion of the Roman Empire ...

The Los Angeles urban wildfires have devastated families and communities with agonizing loss. Residents’ most prized possessions and decades-old homes have become reduced to smoke and ashes.