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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anthropic accidentally leaked part of the internal source code for its coding assistant Claude Code, according to a spokesperson. The leak could help give software developers, and Anthropic's ...

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 ...

For most of Earth’s history there has been no need to govern the ocean floor. Considered more inhospitable than the dark side of the moon, the deep seabed has been largely left to its own devices. But ...

The Kawishiwi River flows Wednesday, June 12, 2019 near Ely, Minn. Twin Metals is proposing to build an underground copper-nickel mine near Ely, Minn. and close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...