(Juneau, Alaska)—News broke Thursday that Brazil’s mining agency plans to ban upstream tailings dams used for storing mining waste, after Vale SA Corrego do Feijao mine’s dam burst on January 25, 2019. More than 150 people were killed in this disaster, and hundreds more are still missing, and presumed dead. This catastrophic mine failure […]
SAN DIEGO — U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy crews offloaded more than 5,100 pounds of seized cocaine Friday, worth nearly $70 million wholesale, in San Diego following a 49-day counterdrug patrol in the Eastern Pacific aboard Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Edmonton with an embedded U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment. The cocaine […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]cross Alaska and a sliver of western Canada, 280 seismic stations silently do their jobs. Hidden in dark holes drilled into rock in boreal forest, northern tundra and mountaintops, the instruments wait patiently for the next tremor. The EarthScope Transportable Array of seismic monitors is now embedded across Alaska and Canada, adding 196 new stations […]
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]oth U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are expressing disappointment with General Motors’ announcement it is slashing 15 percent of its salaried workforce and halting production at five facilities across North America, “We don’t like it,” Trump said. “I believe they will be opening up something else (in the state of […]