The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

In 1996, when herpetologist Rafe Brown accompanied a few biologists to the Philippine island of Mindanao to study frogs, they heard a cacophony near their campsite. In a puddle that skirted the forest ...

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

Cheap volcanic rock that languishes in open-cut mines and quarries could transform Australia's farming sector as a natural ...

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

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

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

A new documentary looked at ways to reduce the human and environmental harms stemming from the mining of "critical minerals." ...

Ecological experts and advocates have tasked the Nigerian government to ensure that environmental rights are made justiciable to avoid the environmental ...

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

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

President John Mahama unveils GOLDBOD Task Force to combat illegal mining, enforce gold trade laws, and restore environmental ...