Mary Kathleen’s uranium town still had 212 homes when its mine closed in 1982; the company settlement was dismantled and auctioned off in 1983Mary Kathleen was once a thriving community centered around a uranium mine in Queensland, complete with schools, a cinema, and numerous hom...
05 Sep, 2026, 03.10 PM IST
In 1906, gold created Skidoo in Death Valley and drew 700 residents; after producing about $1.5 million, the mining town was finally abandoned in 1942In 1906, an accidental gold find near Death Valley led to the establishment of Skidoo. Miners Harry Ramsey and One-Eye Thompson stumbled up...
03 Sep, 2026, 02.30 PM IST
In 1903, 110 million tonnes of rock fell on a sleeping Canadian town in two minutes; even now, part of Frank remains buried beneath the mountainIn 1903, a massive rockslide from Turtle Mountain devastated the town of Frank, Alberta. This catastrophic event remains Canada's deadliest...
28 Aug, 2026, 07.39 PM IST
Europe's rivers run dry, and history resurfaces: Century-old shipwreck emerges in Serbia's droughtExtreme heat and drought are causing European rivers to recede. A steam tugboat from the early 1900s has emerged from the Sava River. This ...
20 Aug, 2026, 12.17 PM IST
Tiny restaurants are having a big moment as Indian diners chase chefs, stories and scarce seatsSome of the most talked-about restaurants are also the smallest. These under-20-seater, chef-led diners have people battling online for a r...
16 Aug, 2026, 05.18 PM IST
Peace killed a boomtown: How the end of World War I turned one of Australia's biggest copper settlements into a ghost townKuridala was once a thriving Queensland mining town, which prospered greatly during World War I. Copper became a strategic metal, driving s...
07 Aug, 2026, 11.49 AM IST
A Colorado citizen scientist lived alone at 9,600 feet for 52 winters and measured snow daily; his notebooks now help calibrate satellitesBilly Barr dedicated over fifty years to carefully measuring snow in Gothic, Colorado. His unwavering observations turned into an essential...
02 Aug, 2026, 01.38 PM IST
In 1992, Douglas Tompkins began buying Chilean wilderness; decades later, much of it became the 994,000-acre Pumalín National Park, larger than YosemiteDouglas Tompkins bought vast tracts of land in Chile for conservation. He created Pumalín National Park, a reserve larger than Yosemite. Lo...
31 Jul, 2026, 05.51 PM IST
How to Demonstrate Adaptability When Interviewing for a Senior RoleAs a senior leader, your strongest advantage in today’s job market isn’t your titles, decades of experience, or a specific metric of succes...
20 Jul, 2026, 06.17 PM IST
Canada province preparing lawsuit against OpenAI over school shootingBritish Columbia said Tuesday it was preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI over the company's failure to report violent ChatGPT activity by th...
08 Jul, 2026, 07.58 AM IST
A top banker tried to sway Pope Leo XIV on rare earth miningLatin America's development bank chief urged Pope Leo XIV to consider responsible rare earth mineral extraction, highlighting its potential...
20 Jun, 2026, 06.02 PM IST
Search underway for radioactive capsule missing in AustraliaThe truck left the site on Jan. 12 but the capsule was not discovered missing until this week, which was when emergency services were alert...
28 Jan, 2023, 10.49 AM IST
A Bitcoin boom fueled by cheap power, empty plants and few rulesSoaring Bitcoin values may be the investment talk of Wall Street, but a few hours north, in upstate New York, the buzz is about companies t...
06 Dec, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
Adani recruiting 280 roles for Australia's Carmichael coal mineThe coal mine was a swing factor in Australia's 2019 election that helped deliver a surprise victory to the conservative Liberal-National c...
09 Sep, 2021, 10.11 AM IST
COVID-19 impact: Near-term cash flow stress expected in construction sector, says IcraRecent developments witnessed labourers migrating to their home towns, thus impacting construction activities. Disruption in the second-hal...
31 Mar, 2020, 08.17 PM IST
- Forest Advisory Committee recommends mining in the Saranda Forests
The Forest Advisory Committee in its February meeting, recommended the diversion of 242 hectares of forest land in the Jhillingburu forest ...
11 Mar, 2013, 08.35 AM IST
- SAIL may not get nod to mine Chiria reserves in Jharkhand
A key environment ministry panel, the Forest Advisory Committee, has recommended that the public sector steel major SAIL not be allowed to ...
07 Feb, 2011, 01.48 AM IST