Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by Ron DeSantis
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NASA opposes lithium mining at tabletop flat Nevada site used to calibrate satellites
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Australian Commonwealth government lodges High Court challenge to landmark native title compensation claim over Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory
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The young miners dying of “an old man’s disease”
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Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel
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A Swedish town is on the move, one building at a time – subsidence from the world's biggest iron ore mine threatens to swallow up the Arctic town of Kiruna
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Greta Thunberg detained at German coal protest
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has denounced police violence at 'Pinky' and 'Brain' tunnel protest in Lützerath, Germany
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Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals has been found in Sweden – may not reach market before 10-15 years' time due to environmental risk evaluations
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Swedish reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry
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Young Australians just won a historic human rights case against an enormous coal mine
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Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company
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World's northernmost permanent settlement, Longyearbyen, is estimated to be heating at six times the global average – so what is being done to save it?
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Norway is extending the life of its last Arctic coal mine – will now operate until 2025 amid Europe's energy crisis
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Visiting Canada’s $50 million 1980s ghost town
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Rare earths processor Neo Performance Materials has bought exploration rights to mine in Greenland – diversifying supplies of minerals critical for advanced technologies
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Environmental defenders celebrate a ‘huge’ win for ‘unique’ Tasmanian rainforest
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Indigenous reindeer herders fear the drive towards a more sustainable economy is destroying their traditional way of life and identity in Sweden
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Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change, but it could also become ground zero for sourcing the metals needed to power the solution to the crisis
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Vladimir Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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Can Finland and Sweden help decarbonize EU economies? Geopolitical realities and pandemic-related supply chain issues are increasing the pressure on EU
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Greenland weighs up economy versus climate crisis – as the island eyes tourism and mining it is also mindful of controlling the cost
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The mechanical transmission of power: Stangenkunst
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UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi
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The Gold Rush returns to California
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Why miners risk their lives to get sulfur from an active volcano | Risky Business
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EVs and batteries: The world's lithium and cobalt problems
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Spot at Kidd Creek Mine
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The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley"
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We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.
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Arctic island finds green power can be a curse – Greenland's rare-earth elements are attracting superpowers riding a green revolution
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Rescuers in China have freed eleven gold miners who were trapped hundreds of metres underground for two weeks
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Buildings and residents testament to the rich seams of history and identity of Kiruna in Sweden are ousted in favour of the profit-laden iron ore seams lurking beneath
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Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
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Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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Sweden suffers one of its strongest earthquakes at an Arctic iron ore mine – quake measured magnitude 4.1 and forced the mine to close
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Days of Night/Nights of Day
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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Norway adopts initiative for sustainable mining – TSM requires mining companies to annually assess their facilities' in areas including energy use and greenhouse gas emissions
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Dis.cool is creating profiles of Discord users who have never signed up for their service and they are refusing to delete them.
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The woman shaking up the diamond industry
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There are no known commodity resources in space that could be sold on Earth
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Finland to become EU's only uranium producer – Finnish government gave the green light on Thursday for state-owned Terrafame to extract and refine
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How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
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Deep-sea mining and the race to the bottom of the ocean
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Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
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Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining
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The strange, uncertain fate of one of the world’s most valuable salmon habitats
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Norway's last coal miners fight for survival against climate policy
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