6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (1644+ words) JAKARTA — Raja Ampat, one of the world’s most biodiverse marine regions, remains under pressure from Indonesia’s expanding nickel industry as three companies continue to seek permission to develop nickel projects in the archipelago, according to a new Greenpeace report. Located…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1050+ words) In Nicaragua, the mining sector has steadily grown over the last two decades, with gold becoming a top export and a pillar of the national economy. For most of that time, the growth was gradual. But in more recent years,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (822+ words) Stretching 450 kilometers (280 miles) from Cape Columbine, two hours north of Cape Town, to the Orange River which marks the country’s natural border with Namibia, South Africa’s West Coast is vast, remote and sparsely populated and, moving north, characterized by a…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1457+ words) The immediate drivers of illegal gold mining are familiar. Enforcement is thin across vast stretches of forest, and illicit gold passes too easily into lawful commerce. The broader economic incentive comes from a global market in which gold prices have…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1704+ words) The Elk Valley in southeast British Columbia is home to Canada’s four largest coal mines. With a proposed mine expansion moving through environmental assessment, people on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border worry the valley’s decades-old pollution problem could…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (1431+ words) PHOZI VILLAGE, South Africa — On a grassy mountainside overlooking the Indian Ocean on South Africa’s Eastern Cape coast, dozens of cattle graze freely. For generations, families in the small rural villages of Tyolomnqa, Phozi, and Qaga, about 30 miles from the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (574+ words) ACCRA — In a landmark ruling, the Accra High Court has sentenced Bernard Antwi Boasiako, a regional chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party, to 20 years in prison for facilitating unlicensed mining in the Samreboi concession. The concession is in Ghana’s…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (236+ words) However, Perenco does not appear to have cooperated with the parliamentary investigation. At the time the parliamentary report was published, the multinational had not responded to lawmakers’ questions regarding the incident. The report also flagged missing evidence at the site…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (429+ words) Roughly 36% of such abuse allegations recorded between 2010 and 2025 were in South America. Many of the abuses involved local community rights violations, labor rights violations and attacks against defenders. Of the allegations reported worldwide in 2025, 17% were related to the abuse of…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (895+ words) Over the last several years, the United States and European Union have intensified efforts to secure the minerals needed for a clean energy transition. Officials have fast-tracked new projects and signed deals with countries across the globe to ensure access…...