In the wide desert of Beaver County, Utah, a new kind of power plant is being designed to run day and night like a nuclear station, but without fuel rods or smokestacks. Houston-based Fervo Energy has ...

Global powers are accelerating efforts to mine critical minerals in the rapidly warming Arctic, raising geopolitical tensions and environmental alarm over the region's fragile ecosystems.

A development firm is proposing a new crushed-rock quarry in southwest Columbia County. The site would span over 360 acres ...