The Alberta government has quietly scrapped a series of ministerial orders that banned coal development in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, returning to an older policy that in part relies on ...

the fate of Northback Holding’s proposal to explore for coal in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains now hinges on a decision from the Alberta Energy Regulator. The Australian-owned company ...

A member of Alberta’s coal policy committee says ... orders banning coal development in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Last month, the government announced more changes to coal-mining ...

The Alberta government has lifted a ban on coal exploration in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains, a move that the regulator says will allow suspended projects to resume. The provincial ...

Alex Cogger, former chief product officer for Rocky Mountain Bikes, says he was a bit surprised to get a call right before the Christmas holidays informing him he would be temporarily laid off ...

Melting ice has revealed an ancient pine forest in the Rocky Mountains in the United States. The trees, which date back almost 6000 years, were found 600 feet (183 metres) above the current tree ...

Opponents say if the Alberta Energy Regulator allows coal mining in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, it will have negative impacts on the environment and people's health that will be ...

Edgecombe County Public Schools leaders are working through the final stages of a state-mandated demerger of the county’s neighboring school system that effectively led to a massive increase in ...

The new watersheds it traveled span a large swath of mountains, hills and high prairie stretching from Leadville to Salida, Fairplay and Cañon City. The map shows where the state’s now 29 ...

The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits at ...

Bernard Hubbard didn’t set out to map minerals. As a geology PhD student at UB, he used satellite and airborne instruments to study volcanoes from above. Later, as a research geologist with the United ...

Languages: English. A new first-of-its-kind map has identified potential locations of naturally occurring geologic hydrogen resources in the contiguous United States—a potentially huge untapped ...