Marshalls Mono Ltd had sought Calderdale Council’s consent to extract sandstone reserves beneath a former footpath diversion, and then complete restoration work. The work also includes the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Millions of sandstone quarry workers in India breathe toxic dust that causes a terminal lung disease called silicosis. To treat the illness, workers are forced to take ...

Ongole: Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh, one of the state's major granite-producing regions, is witnessing a serious erosion of worker safety, with authorities failing to implement ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. The legal battle over the stone quarry next to William B. Umstead State Park is far from over. A Wake County judge put the quarry’s ...

Most American dairy cows are milked by immigrants. On Dale Hemminger’s farm in upstate New York, the cows are milked by robots. When a cow wants to be milked, it walks up to a machine that cleans its ...

Meghan Burns was busy at work for the Department of Education in March 2025 when her computer restarted at exactly 5 p.m. When it turned back on, she learned her job as a civil rights attorney had ...

For Ashley Garley, the past year has been “messy, challenging and heartbreaking.” Garley, a former contractor and malaria expert with the US Agency for International Development, was among the first ...

Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some crazy stuff and taught us a lot about the future of AI agents. WSJ’s Joanna ...

On Ailsa Craig, a special type of microgranite provides the special recipe needed for the ideal curling stone. Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty, Andy Buchannan / ...