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

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,000-year-old gold mining and processing complex that opens a rare window into how an ancient imperial economy actually worked. Instead of a single shaft or ...

How frustrating to be a Chinook salmon. You exit the Pacific Ocean into the Columbia River, then migrate up the Snake River to the Salmon River, where hundreds of miles from the ocean in central Idaho ...

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