First tar sands mine to open for business in Utah
"It's heartbreaking. It's impossible to reclaim and rehabilitate the land once they do what they are planning to do with it."
Mine waste spill fouls water in Colorado and New Mexico
The latest ecological disaster left the Animas River a sickly color, after an accident on Aug. 5 sent at least three million gallons of mine waste gushing into the water.
Toxic algae blooming in warm water from California to Alaska
A vast bloom of toxic algae off the West Coast is denser, more widespread and deeper than scientists feared even weeks ago.
