The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators - continues to face serious threats ...

Hundreds of Indigenous youth have gathered in Colombia's conflict-hit reserve of Las Delicias, in Cauca, for a biannual ...

Indonesia, Brazil, Suriname and Ghana account for 80% of all tropical deforestation linked directly to industrial mining, a new study has found. In two out of three tropical countries, large-scale ...

According to a World Wildlife Fund study, gold and coal extraction resulted in over 70% of all mining-related deforestation from 2001 to 2019.

You’ve heard the term, but do you know the true facts about deforestation? The makers of paper products do. But trust us: Deforestation and another term you’ve probably heard, clear-cutting, are not ...

The bill facilitating mining activities in olive groves and other rural lands also grants a permit for a stone quarry in ...

In a heartfelt move to preserve Nigeria’s fast-disappearing indigenous languages, Retired Brigadier General Jeremiah Faransa ...

In small-scale and artisanal mining, mercury is used extensively to extract gold. In this practice, the gold reacts with ...

We showed that more than 10,000 people mining in the area did not cause more deforestation than several hundred people clearing forest for farming.

The research estimated that globally 16,785 km 2 mining-induced deforestation has led to the release of approximately 490 million tons of CO₂, almost equivalent to Brazil's or more than ...

Although they objected to the mining and deforestation, their lives will continue to be disturbed until the government follows up on a Constitutional Court decision in 2012 concerning customary ...

She noted mining has also led to widespread deforestation and toxic pollution. The film, "CRITICAL MINERALS: Creating a Just & Sustainable Clean Energy Transition," will be screened at the Social and ...