James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.

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Many ‘dark vessels’ fish illegally in oceans worldwide. New studies show how often they go into Marine Protected Areas.

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After years of delay, the deep-sea mining plans of Canadian firm The Metals Company (TMC) now appear to be progressing as it pursues a controversial new path to securing a license to mine in ...

Doug Roberts, an actor who appeared in “The Wire” and played the character killed by Kathleen Turner in John Waters’ “Serial Mom,” died Monday of complications related to ...

Groundwater mining cannot be sustained far into the future in many areas of the Republican River Basin of Colorado.