More constant is the polluted runoff during spring and summer, when snowmelt from the Mosquito mountains washes through mine dumps and drains from abandoned mines. Every minute, 694 gallons (2,627 ...

The 45-year-old artist and professor at Ohio University has become well known for his “Toxic Art” — colorful paintings whose pigments contain rust-colored iron oxide from Ohio coal mine runoff. The ...

As explained by 90.5 WESA, the Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory at the university published its findings in November and discovered that “the impacts of acid mine runoff and sewage overflows into ...

A facility in a nickel-mining complex in the village of Kawasi on Obira island. Mining runoff has turned the waterway behind it a reddish brown. Officials have made it a priority to build a nickel ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed extending Endangered Species Act protections Monday to the Kentucky creekshell, a ...

The waters from that lake then run into the Lempa River. They say the environmental impact of runoff from the mine could be ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

Piles of mine waste that loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville are a reminder of the city's boom days.