Mumbai, Jan 12: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken cognisance of a complaint filed by students of an Urdu ...

Public complaints around bitcoin mining noise pollution are growing, but miners have plenty of solutions at their disposal. Let’s use them. Bitcoin mining is loud. Anyone reading that sentence who has ...

DULUTH — State regulators want any potential mining activity to be farther away from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness than currently allowed, leaving more restrictive regulations up to the ...

There wasn’t much Aris Adrianto felt he could do when the gold miners’ heavy vehicles broke into Bukit Gajah Berani, here in this remote pocket of Sumatra’s Merangin district. “They just kept going, ...

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 ...

Apr. 1—The Biden Administration announced at the end of March that the U.S. and Canada intend to come to an agreement this year to reduce and mitigate the impacts of water pollution from mining ...

Beneath the rising sun, people from nearby Indigenous communities navigate across the Vaupés River in traditional wooden ...

A federal judge's ruling released today holds Northshore Mining Co. to state air pollution regulations that compare asbestos-like fibers in Silver Bay air with air in St. Paul. U.S. District Court ...

Scientists have found that the highest recorded levels of atmospheric mercury exist in an unlikely place — Peru's Amazon rainforest. The study, published on Wednesday in Nature Communications, pointed ...

A Canadian mining company has been hit with a $114,750 fine after repeatedly dumping illegal amounts of cobalt-laced waste into a river system in British Columbia, Victoria News reported. Provincial ...

The Bush administration has delivered the second half of a one-two punch against rules the Clinton administration put into effect to rein in environmental damage by hardrock mines in the West. The ...