Revival of legislation to protect glaciers by banning mining in glacial areas is spawning debate.

Canadian miner's troubles reflect authorities taking a closer look at how mining is regulated and taxed.

The nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars from expanded agriculture and mining that carves away at their fragmented habitat.

ROUNDUP, Mont. (AP) — The big mining companies first came knocking on Ellen Pfister's door in the 1970s, ready to tap the huge coal deposits beneath her family's eastern Montana ranch.

Pfister and others successfully fended them off, and as the coal industry retreated domestically, it appeared their battle might be won. But now, a fast-growing market in exporting coal to Asia has Pfister and other ranchers seeing their long-held fears become reality.