YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories—This small subarctic city has a big problem. There are 237,000 metric tons of arsenic trioxide locked in the subterranean caverns of Giant Mine on the edge of ...

I approached both Tiffany and Apple and said if I could find opportunities in Alaska, in the Yukon, in B.C., to do a project ...

Tribal members and conservation groups say they don’t want to see a legacy of mining pollution continue in the Taku River.

As the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, my job was to protect both public health and the ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...