Many millions of years ago, a section of ocean was isolated in what would become the Andes. When it eventually receded, it ...

NUEVA FUERABAMBA, Peru (Reuters) - This remote town in Peru's southern Andes was supposed to serve as a model for how companies can help communities uprooted by mining. Named Nueva Fuerabamba, it was ...

Illegal gold mining is growing in Ghana, one of the world's top gold producers. A weakening economy and high unemployment ...

Mutare residents living on the foothills of the Christmas Pass escarpment in Toronto and Penhalonga just outside the eastern ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The lawyer for a group of villagers in Thailand who won a 10-year lawsuit against a mining company for polluting their land and water says he is prepared to take further legal action if ...

More than five thousand families benefit directly from the two rivers. For years these families have relied on the two major rivers, which empty into the Indian ocean in Mozambique, for their day to ...

They are demanding its cancellation to protect their water, jungle, and land. Security has been tightened outside the ...

NGT orders Rajasthan to rehabilitate villagers harmed by limestone mining, providing financial aid for house damage and health impacts.

In her new book, Thea Riofrancos explores the environmental and social costs of the race to embrace green solutions like ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. "I was equally shocked when youths in their early 20s traversed the entire village the ...

Madikeri: Locals are facing severe problems due to stone mining in the nearby Nerugale gram panchayat area of Yalakanur ...

Youth Crushed To Death In Chaibasa For Protesting Sand Smuggling Villagers Block Road In Anger. Chaibasa (Jharkhand), Nov 7 ...