JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) – People in Jefferson County are protesting a quarry operating in Piedmont, who say the company behind it, Whaley Construction, never received a permit from the county.

A research team has investigated the importance of limestone quarries for wild bee conservation. Diverse landscapes with good connectivity between quarries and calcareous grasslands proved to be ...

A research team has investigated the importance of limestone quarries for wild bee conservation. Diverse landscapes with good connectivity between quarries and calcareous grasslands proved to be ...

Quarries typically evoke a certain kind of imagery: roughly hewn walls, crushed rubble underfoot, and stone slabs carelessly abandoned in unsightly heaps. But, on Canada's Vancouver Island, one such ...

Mines eventually run dry, but the holes and caverns left behind can serve as stable frameworks for the right kind of reuse. Across the globe, limestone and salt mines and rock quarries that long ...

NOTE: As the primary reporter covering the ongoing stories about the proposed RMI quarry expansion, Post Independent Editor Taylor Cramer recused himself from the editorial board discussions and ...

A new report by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and three other conservation organisations calls on companies and regulators in the extractive industry to safeguard biodiversity found only in ...