The research estimated that globally 16,785 km 2 mining-induced deforestation has led to the release of approximately 490 million tons of CO₂, almost equivalent to Brazil's or more than ...

Illegal mining inside the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread, satellite data show, driving environmental devastation. Deforestation ...

Vegetation clearing to extract nickel, which is used in renewable technologies, leads to greater carbon emissions than ...

Indonesia has an opportunity to reform nickel mining practices by ensuring stronger standards, community participation and ...

The Cross River State government has been called upon to reintroduce and enforce total ban on deforestation and illegal ...

“Mining in places like Indonesia right now is causing massive deforestation, and there’s Indigenous land being taken away. This is a solution that’s right on America’s doorstep. The beauty ...

Illegal and small-scale mining known as galamsey is contaminating the country’s rivers and soil, activists say.

Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) campaigner Alfarhat Kasman also considered the proposal as a form of the government's lack of ...

The Lands and Natural Resources Minister-designate, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, has assured Ghanaians of his commitment to ...

If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect that to cause lots of deforestation and harm local wildlife. Mining has a very ...

Over the course of just eight years, the forests surrounding Indonesia’s Lake Poso, an ecological and evolutionary “gem” on ...

revealing via satellite datasets that mining activities cleared an area of forest almost the size of Kuwait or Eswatini country between 2000 and 2019. This deforestation has not only released ...