Brazilian public health researchers have found mounting evidence in the state hosting COP30 that mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining…
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Nearly 450 billion yuan ($63 billion) has been invested in mineral exploration and 150 new mineral deposits have been discovered…
In May 2025, the China Global South Initiative (CGSi), a collaboration between the Keough School of Global Affairs and the…
For more than two decades, Ross Orr has been challenging one of mining’s most prominent paradoxes: The Sustainability Paradox, which often…
Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources ( Semarnat ) is working on creating a National Catalog of Mining Units to provide…
KATHMANDU — When the monsoon arrives in Jhumlabang village in Nepal’s far west, 35-year-old Til Kumari B.K. spends hours in…
Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília, lawmakers, Indigenous leaders and civil society representatives gathered to present a global parliamentary investigation into the…
Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report finds. An illegal gold rush has…
Regardless, local officials approved the project in 2024. Despite promises of bringing cash and clean energy to a long-struggling region in the…
As wildfire mitigation and prescribed burns are delayed amid the government shutdown, the U.S. Forest Service gave final approval to Hecla Mining Company for…