GWM has completed its 4000th full vehicle crash test at its safety laboratory in China, using the new Haval H7 plug-in hybrid ...

Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick spent a decade mining tax data to identify an under-the-radar class of American wealth.

Placer mining delivers ~9.4M tonnes of TiO2 and 40% of tin output. See how junior miners enter placer ground for under $500K.

Mining uranium is only the beginning of the nuclear fuel cycle. Before uranium can fuel most reactors, it has to be refined, converted, and, depending on the reactor, enriched and fabricated into fuel ...

EVERY THREE years, hundreds of thousands of 15-year-olds sit down to answer questions in the global PISA test, now held in over 90 countries. They do not revise for it, nor do the results affect their ...

As demand grows for rare metals and materials that are essential for clean energy, private companies and researchers alike are turning their attention outwards – away from Earth and towards nearby ...

Patti Epler is the Ideas Editor for Civil Beat. She’s been a reporter and editor for more than 40 years, primarily in Hawaii, Alaska, Washington and Arizona. You can email her at patti@civilbeat.org ...