Illegal gold mining is growing in Ghana, one of the world's top gold producers. A weakening economy and high unemployment ...

When Daniel Romero worked at a river mine in Canaima National Park, in southeastern Venezuela, he would wait until the sun ...

The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year—more than 20 million acres in ...

According to police findings, the illegal mining operation in Indonesia's new capital city spans approximately 300 hectares.

One of the illegal mining locations is in the Bukit Soeharto Forest Park (Tahura) area, a conservation forest.

More than 60,000 hectares of forest land, equivalent to 84,000 football fields, have been destroyed by illegal mining activities in southern Ghana alone in the last 17 years, remote sensing data from ...

Without that law — which opened the West to mining with no federal royalties and little environmental oversight — there’s a reasonable chance the Rosemont proposal would have been scaled back or ...

Hasdeo Arand, one of central India's largest intact forests and the site of the country's longest anti-coal protests by ...

The Jharkhand High Court has upheld the decision of the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) refusing ...

In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the streams are telling us a story about forest recovery following acid rain and logging. According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Last month, I returned to my village in Berekum (Bono region) and stumbled upon a quiet miracle. The river we used to cross ...