The Oregon city suspended the use of any insecticide containing neonicotinoids, but not everyone is happy.

The apiarian artery is the buzziest infrastructure project in Scandinavia.

These epidemics have hit full force, with scientists scrambling to unravel the causes and, more importantly, the solutions.

Concern over dwindling pollinator populations trumps worries of apiarian disturbances.

Ortho's decision to nix neonicotinoids is an important one.

Mushroom extracts have been shown to reduce the presence of bee-killing viruses.

Waste-free living has led Lauren Singer to an unexpected new career and a better life.

Raymond Wang, 17, won prestigious $75,000 award for engineering a system to make cabin air safer.

Two college sophomores designed the gloves to make communication easier for the deaf community.

VBS.TV took a trip to West Virginia to investigate the evils of mountaintop removal mining. Take some time today and watch this.

Robert Byrd's death will create a void that may directly affect environmental policy.

The ENOUGH project points out at least one commonality between Mac and PC -- they both use conflict minerals.

English fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett smelt his own iron ore to create his knightly sword.

Mark Ruffalo, actor and environmental activist whose family lives in an area of upstate New York directly where "fracking" is a common practice, explains the da

Some see the EPA's regulation of mining in the region as federal overreach. Politicians are running against the agency in November's election.

In honor of the Chilean miners being rescued, we've put together a selection of miraculous rescue efforts.

This amazing video shows Carlos Barrios, the thirteenth miner rescued from the mine, being pulled to the surface.

Video: Newscasters say relationship may be old news, but it does add a new twist to a day of reunions.

After two days of being glued to the news watching the miners emerge, it’s time to celebrate.

Now you can help the rescue the Chilean miners in this mind-numbingly boring video game.

Kentucky's governor says the EPA is overstepping its bounds. Other groups contradict his claims of looking out for the environment.

There were plenty of heroes among the 43,000 people who ran the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, but rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena was the favorite of

Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell joins Morning Joe to discuss former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship and examining his role in the worst mining disaster in 40 yea

Robert Redford shares why he has joined the fight against the coal mine.

Check out this wonderfully strange music about the Bagger 288, one of the largest mining excavators in the world.

Colorado's debate over uranium mines isn't that different from other energy debates around the nation.

Supreme Court decides not to hear the case about a plan to build 'the world's largest garbage dump' near the iconic national park.

New report lists the 10 places most threatened by a 100-year-old mining law. Some say it's time to update the rules.

Coal helped create communities throughout Boone County, West Virginia, years ago but now mountaintop removal mining may be demolishing more than just mountains

A scathing report on the April 2010 mine disaster that killed 29 miners at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia is set to be released.

Environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. is fighting with community activists to save West Virginia's Coal River Mountain from the hands of major coal corporations t

Did Japan hit the rare earth elements jackpot? Scientists have found undersea mud off the coast that could be packed with elements like yttrium, cerium and pras

Massey Energy kept two sets of safety log books at their Big Branch Mine in West Virginia, where 29 miners died after an explosion last year— one for the fede

Fracking fluid, the liquid waste left over from the controversial mining technique, wreaks havoc on a plot of land in a test by the U.S. Forest Service.

Romania's president wants to mine for gold in Transylvania — even if it means destroying a 2,000-year-old Roman mine and historic site in the process.

Just in time for the conservationist president's birthday, the U.S. unveils a plan to freeze uranium mining near one of his favorite places: the Grand Canyon.

You might remember the former U.S. senator from Idaho as the anti-gay politician who was arrested for lewd conduct in an airport bathroom. He's back in Washingt

Science fiction dreams of mining riches from asteroids only make sense if humans can make it worth their time and effort. The new Planetary Resources group back

A new billionaire-backed venture announced today that it plans to use robots to mine asteroids for precious metals and in the process add trillions of dollars t

Human dreams of mining asteroids won't become a reality without space robots. The billionaire-backed company Planetary Resources has announced plans to do the d

A newly unveiled firm's asteroid-mining plans may be ambitious, but they're not any crazier than some extractive operations already under way here on Earth, com

A crowd of farmers, environmentalists and community members gather at a May Day rally in Sydney to call for tougher mining restrictions to protect sensitive lan

Mining the plentiful resources of the moon and near-Earth asteroids could alter the course of human history, adding trillions of dollars to the world economy an

Private groups are shaping business plans to tap into the resource-rich environs of outer space. Early celestial targets with commercial cross hairs on them are

American chemists are searching for new and resourceful ways to extract uranium from deposit-rich oceans in order to reduce the expensive mining process's cost.

No U.S. president has waxed as poetically about mining the moon the way John F. Kennedy did about landing on it.

Chessboard-like grid patterns that cover sand dunes in China are explained as attempts at mining nickel in the deserts.

Another study confirms rising levels of mercury emissions worldwide, much of it from gold mining.

A new mine could provide 1,500 jobs, but protestors say the environmental cost is too high.

Deep Space Industries Inc. announced that it plans to harvest metals and water from asteroids within a decade.