Deep in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, a working industrial pit has given way to something far older and stranger than modern ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town in California tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mish-mash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes ...

DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION, Calif. — Little-understood groundwater flows and mining in this desert region don’t mix — a complexity some feel is lost on a federal administration focused on “energy dominance ...

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s defense ministry says it will soon begin clearing thousands of mines in southern Israel. In a statement Sunday, defense official Ervin Lavi says the ministry will clear 60 ...

Unprecedented heavy rains which recently lashed Kuwait unearthed dozens of land mines planted by Iraqi troops during their 1990-91 occupation, disrupting the emirates popular desert camping season, ...

Two scenes. Two storytellers. Two visions for a climate-altered American West. On an overcast spring morning, I hopped a low metal fence off a lonely dirt road in the Nevada desert, following botanist ...

A 9-year-old dog named Hailey was found at the bottom of an old mine shaft in Arizona. Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue A dog owner was exploring a mining area in the Arizona desert ...

For most of Minecraft’s history, its many blocky biomes and landscapes remained relatively silent save for background music composed by Daniel “C418” Rosenfeld and noises emanating from animals and ...