The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have appointed a special "diamond cop" to combat the smuggling of gemstones and precious metals as the illegal trade flourishes on the back of demand from drug dealers.
A new report published in Australia has found that coal mining communities around the world suffer from elevated levels of death, disease and birth defects.
Deer hunters in the American mid-west have shown little enthusiasm for new non-toxic copper bullets which would reduce the impact of lead ammunition fragments on local fauna.
Matt Stroller at Naked Capitalist asks whether the United States is gradually transforming into a resource extraction economy with a more oligarchic […]
Scientists from France's Ecole Polytechnique have developed a remarkable new technology which extracts trace amounts of gold from industrial waste water.