The curious minds at What If investigate the catastrophic effects if the Mullaperiyar Dam suddenly collapsed, revealing flooding, destruction, and human impacts.

A landslide last week killed at least 200 people in eastern Congo at a rebel-controlled coltan mine and families of the deceased are mourning their lost loved ones ...

A landslide last week collapsed tunnels at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead.

China, which harbours ambitions to control the Yarlung Tsangpo, as the Brahmaputra is known in Tibet, is moving ahead with ...

In the history of the silver market, prices had traded above $40 an ounce for only a handful of brief periods before last year. On Friday, exhausted traders watched in shock as the precious metal ...

The question of how to protect fish and the ecological health of rivers that feed California’s largest estuary is generating heated debate in a series of hearings ...

Oil built the 20th century. Rare earths and critical minerals is building the 21st. Every electric vehicle, wind turbine, solar panel, and guided missile depends on materials one country controls.

China invested heavily in one of its most ambitious dam projects, designed to control floods and generate massive power. Engineers claimed the structure could withstand extreme conditions. But ...

An official investigation into a deadly mine dumping site collapse in Lufeng city, Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, has concluded that long-term illegal operations and regulatory ...

China will begin charging a 13% value-added tax on contraceptives starting Jan. 1 while exempting childcare services from the same tax, a move authorities say is part of a broader effort to boost ...

Independent monitoring has found a high prevalence of deformities in fish in the Volta Grande do Xingu area of the Brazilian Amazon, following the construction of the massive Belo Monte dam. Potential ...