3+ hour, 50+ min ago   (1167+ words) The negotiations were intense, says Julia Pe'a Ni'o, the Colombia country manager at the Natural Resource Governance Institute. At the seventh U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) in Nairobi last December, behind closed doors, Colombia's joint proposal with Oman was facing resistance from…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (610+ words) Peru plans to reinforce its mining sector this year with billions of dollars in investment across several ongoing projects, some of them with a history of environmental damage. The Ministry of Energy and Mines announced it will invest $7.6 billion to…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1347+ words) In 2024, Indonesia extended PT Vale Indonesia's license until 2035. Now the company is looking to expand its operations within the concession, amid an explosion in global demand for nickel used in electric vehicle batteries as part of the green energy transition....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (688+ words) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shared with the U.S. administration a list of state-backed projects for investment consideration in which critical minerals like copper, manganese and lithium are being mined, according to Reuters. The Central African nation had already announced…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1558+ words) JAKARTA " The Indonesian government has revoked the permits of 28 companies over environmental violations that authorities say exacerbated the deadly floods and landslides that struck the island of Sumatra in late 2025. The revocations follow an audit carried out by a government…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (883+ words) On Dec. 2, 2025, Guinea celebrated a milestone when a ship loaded with iron ore departed from the newly constructed port of Morebaya on the Atlantic coast. The shipment of 200,000 tonnes of ore, pulled out of the Simandou mountain range in the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1231+ words) Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong's annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake has…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (854+ words) But various Indigenous S'mi leaders and activists are picking apart the company's consultation process, studies and environmental safeguards as insufficient. "There are several groups in the community which will have nowhere to go in the winter," Fredrik Prost, a S'mi…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (956+ words) BOMBIA, Guinea " As day breaks over the green hills around the town of Bombia, the raucous cries of chimpanzees echo through the forests of the Kankouyah mountain range. Recently, the sounds of the wild have been mingled with the distant…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (720+ words) On Nov. 12, BOEM issued a request for information, or RFI, which indicated its interest in offering mineral rights to companies through lease agreements along the CNMI's outer continental shelf, a process that could eventually allow commercial mining to proceed on…...