The rising demand for rare earth materials is fuelling a mining boom in Myanmar and Laos. Toxins from these sites are flowing into Mekong River’s tributaries in Thailand, threatening public health and ...

The new federal office will undo a change made after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Critics say it could reduce environmental oversight. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Trump administration is ...

Measure passes 50-49 to overturn a 20-year ban on mining near renowned Boundary Waters canoe area wilderness The US Senate narrowly voted on Thursday to overturn a ban on mining near Minnesota’s ...

The U.S. Senate voted 50-49 Thursday to allow sulfide mining in areas near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The vote ends President Joe Biden’s 20-year moratorium on mining leases across ...

Beret Leone is a native Minnesotan who joined the WCCO team as a reporter in September 2022 - and she's thrilled be back home in the Twin Cities! Beret grew up in Chaska and graduated from Bethel ...

The Senate on Thursday overturned a mining moratorium in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, a boon for a Chilean mining conglomerate Antofagasta. The chamber voted 50-49 to overturn a 20-year ...

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Coders have had a field day weeding through the treasures in the Claude Code leak. "It has turned into a massive sharing party," said Sigrid Jin, who created the Python edition, Claw Code. Here's how ...

The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

Commercial deep-sea mining hasn’t yet begun, but it soon could — with the potential to reshape vast stretches of the ocean as companies move to extract minerals from the seafloor. However, this ...