In 1967, the U.S. decommissioned a military base that had been constructed underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. In doing so, the military removed a portable nuclear reactor that had helped power the ...

The concept of "zero waste" is becoming increasingly popular. That's why many industries have created plans to reduce the majority, if not all, of the materials that would otherwise end up in ...

A vast pit of toxic waste buried in the Greenland ice sheet is threatening indigenous peoples' rights to a clean and safe environment, Greenlandic officials claim. The decades-old waste is part of a ...

The overall building construction process is wrought with waste as sheet metal contractors often purchase more material than they need so that their timelines are not jeopardized by material holdups.

The largest number of occupational injuries in the private sector occurred among workers in the transportation and material moving job class which includes truck drivers and collection laborers. The ...