President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communities ...

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

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

From 2001 to 2020, 120,000 hectares (296,525 acres) of forest loss was related to mining, much of it linked to surface coal mining in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Digital maps at Nusantara Atlas, a platform that monitors deforestation and forest fires in Equatorial Asia, show at least four mining companies operating within 50 to 100 kilometers of the ...

Wildfires and extreme drought. Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...