One small Indigenous territory is currently the site of roughly 70% of deforestation in Indigenous territories across the Brazilian Amazon…
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The bill would create a new legal shield for people who own former phosphate mining land. It helps owners remove…
States Should Support Colombian Initiative for Minerals Treaty. When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in…
Several mining companies, primarily Chinese, mine copper and cobalt without regard for environmental standards and the impact on local communities…
Malaysia has suspended operations at a rare earth site and two tin mines in western Perak state following an investigation into complaints that a stretch of a major river had…
As the world races to secure the critical minerals needed for the energy transition, military technology, and more, and new…
As China has cut back on domestic extraction of rare earth minerals, uncontrolled mining in Myanmar has boomed in areas…
Southeast Alaska tribes and environmental groups have delivered nearly 30,000 messages to British Columbia lawmakers about transboundary mining. Earthjustice, the…
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the…
Three major coal mining disasters underscore the importance of learning from past incidents to inform safer and cleaner practices, thereby…