Toxic runoff from rare earth mining in Myanmar and Laos is contaminating Mekong River tributaries, endangering fisheries, farms, and food exports in Thailand and beyond. Scientists have detected ...

Residents in Cambodia are reporting vanishing fish and illnesses along a waterway they suspect is being contaminated by gold mining. ● The number of residences at high risk of flooding in the United ...

The Jharkhand High Court was hearing a PIL filed in 2013 alleging illegal mining around the Siwane River in Hazaribagh ...

Toxic waste inundated homes and fields in a spill over a year ago. Zambia is relying on China to grow its copper-mining ...

HELENA, MT — U.S. Geological Survey researchers say rising levels of nitrate and selenium in Canada’s Elk River are unparalleled in the annals of modern monitoring. The concentrations of selenium and ...

A Minnesota-based wilderness protection group is sounding the alarm that a nearly-overturned mining ban in the U.S. will open ...

Critics of crypto-mining operations say the burgeoning industry is not delivering on promises to provide jobs and economic development to rural areas in exchange for cheap power and tax breaks. Little ...

Authorities from Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment were dispatched to Mondul Yorn, a small village in the remote ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...

A bill to overturn the ban on mining near the Boundary Waters was recently passed by Congress, reigniting years of debate on ...

I applaud my state Sen. Jen McEwen's lead in promoting common-sense protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Lake Superior by introducing a “prove it first” bill (SF59/HF 148) in ...

Wisconsin lawmakers in both chambers of Congress voted on a bill overturning a 20-year mining ban in the area surrounding the ...