Energy, Extraction & Industry

3+ hour, 57+ min ago   (225+ words) A wildfire tore through Quito's La Vicentina and Itchimbía districts on Sunday, September 13, sending a column of smoke visible from Carcelén to Bicentenario before crews declared the blaze controlled by 8:30 p.m. that night. By the time the flames died down,…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (517+ words) Johannesburg, South Africa (15 September 2026) – This is a cool one for the local history and heritage buffs, archaeology nerds and techies! Long before there was a Johannesburg, there was already industry happening on the ridge we now know as Melville Koppies....

8+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1669+ words) Steven remembers it well. Stalmine, 1994. He was standing in a field over a hole that had appeared in the ground, no bigger than his hand. Within hours, it had grown wide enough to swallow a car. Today, the crater at…...

12+ hour, 42+ min ago   (117+ words) The Kashmir Horizon Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan, 2026 Assessment Released Srinagar | September, 14: Jammu has improved its standing in the Centre's 2026 Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan rankings, climbing to 20th position among medium-sized cities, while Srinagar slipped to 26th rank among cities with populations over 10 lakh Reports…...

12+ hour, 31+ min ago   (579+ words) Here's what's making news in the Goldfields, Esperance, Midwest and Wheatbelt regions of WA today. Locals at Glenfield Beach in Geraldton have been praised for helping a surfer attacked by a shark. Geraldton local Mel Ismail was taken to hospital…...

15+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1001+ words) The river it was written for then ignored the ruling completely, which is where this stops being a legal principle and starts being a farce. The doctrine has two halves and the Supreme Court laid both out in 1892. If a…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (517+ words) Ancient Origins Vast Iron Age Complex Found in Hallstatt Salt Mine A concealed network of Iron Age workings has been identified beneath Hallstatt, Austria, covering over 300 meters (984 feet), and proving that prehistoric salt mining was more complicated than expected. The…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (685+ words) Bisbee is a former copper mining town in southeastern Arizona with a difficult claim to fame. In 1917, the Bisbee Deportation illegally expelled 1,300 miners from town and transported them toward Columbus, New Mexico. Today, steep streets and colorful Victorian buildings draw…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (471+ words) GAB News Down South by Tom Poland: Into The Lebanon Silver Mine 8-22-2026—a day for numbers, a day to visit the Old West. From Denver’s mile-high air we took I-70 45 miles west to an elevation of 8,772 feet to board an…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (258+ words) A former County Durham coal mine site that has been reclaimed by nature could be given official protection as a new Local Nature Reserve. The move would pave the way for the former Shincliffe Colliery site, which closed in 1886, to…...