Canada's mining industry is under fire after an international tribunal found it committed environmental and human rights violations around the globe. Earlier this year, the International Rights of ...

Residents and community leaders in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area’s (GPAA) Pochalla South County are raising alarm over suspected contamination of river water sources, with mounting claims that ...

Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...

A major U.S. mining company has applied to extend and expand its operation in Sydney, Australia, despite being fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for offences relating to water pollution, ...

Love of the Boundary Waters, northern Minnesota’s national treasure, isn’t partisan or a choice between environmental ...

A china clay mining company in Cornwall has agreed to pay £430,000 to charity after pollution leached in to rivers. The Environment Agency said Imerys Minerals paid the sum to the West Country Rivers ...

The global push for clean energy depends on minerals like nickel and rare earths, but the extraction of those very materials ...

Mahdi Mehrtash, Ph.D., is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the ...