“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Spring is in the air. I know that feeling well. Winter’s mantle recedes with each passing day. The trees are beginning to bud. The parade ground is gradually transitioning from brown to green. In ...

The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...

The recent sinkholes on I-80 were caused by long-abandoned mines. See the map showing hundreds of closed New Jersey mines.

Copper demand is rising in the U.S. and is set to double in the next 10 years. Mining executives say more mines need to open ...

Small towns are ideal for weekend getaways, offering just enough diversions to be entertaining without being overwhelming, ...

After arriving in California in late 1859, Hannah settled in a town 30 miles southwest of Sutter’s Fort called Vacaville. She ...

The Canopy by Hilton at Deer Valley is just one of a number of new hotels popping up around Deer Valley — specifically in ...

In his mining history column for Mining the West magazine, UNR mining history professor Eric Nystrom looks at the history of ...

“I estimate it will take at least $5,000 to get it running, and at the end of the day, it will still be a 22-year-old engine,” he surmised. So, what are the telltale signs an engine is too far gone to ...

Ben Runkle and butcher Bryan Butler opened Salt & Time on East Seventh in 2013. The shop was among the vanguard of new businesses taking an old-school approach to procuring, butchering and aging ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which ... In addition, thorium is three times more abundant than uranium, and easier to mine. MSRs in development today are based on two ...