Authorities in Ghana arrested 15 people in a crackdown on illegal mining — also known as galamsey — intensifying ongoing ...

There were 27 defendants, and 23 were given jail sentences. Government officials among those jailed after authorities uncover shocking mining scandal — here's what happened first appeared on The Cool ...

Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

Gurgaon: National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday issued a notice to Haryana pollution board for failing to comply with its ...

PANJAKENT, Tajikistan -- For the some 150 people in the tiny Tajik village of Khumgaron, the pollution and waste from the Chinese gold-mining operation nearby is not what they bargained for.

In Jharkhand’s coal belt, where production pressures run high and pollution risks run deep, one woman descends underground each day—symbolising both the industry’s legacy and its uncertain future ...

High gold prices and unemployment linked to surge in illegal mining, but scientists fear women at risk of maternal deaths, miscarriages and birth defects in their children from the pollution caused.

Mines of misery. A study published by the Journal of King Saud University in 2022 revealed that environmental pollution caused by heavy metals from mining activities is an escalating global issue ...

A nickel stockpile towers over farmer Moharen Tambiling's rice paddy in the Philippines' Palawan, evidence of a mining boom ...

Coal mining pollution is threatening West Virginia's Gauley River, which American Rivers describes as a place with headwaters of a "scenic splendor" that few can rival.