To develop techniques to drill into the surface of Mars to look for signs of life, NASA and Spanish scientists recently began drilling 150 meters (495 feet) into the ground near the source of the ...

A search for evidence of cryptic life in the subsurface region of a fractured Paleozoic volcanosedimentary deposit near the source waters of the Rio Tinto River (Iberian pyrite belt, southwest Spain) ...

More than three decades after it ceased operations, the people of Bougainville are still grappling with the devastating impact of the Panguna Copper Mine. Thirty-five years after Rio Tinto abandoned ...