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The National Parks Conservation Association and the Mojave Desert Land Trust join forces to engage the Hi-Desert Community in mine pushback -- plus a recap of recent developments

THE BODY of a miner was recovered from a flooded coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district on Wednesday, two days into the search for nine men trapped below ground. The mine, which is 300 feet (91.44 m...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

Tomorrow will mark a historic day for an outback WA community as the Federal Court decides how much compensation it is due after Andrew Forrest's FMG mined its land without permission.

Professor Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), stood ankle-deep in the murky waters of Pasoro, a rural community near River Offin, her expression a mix of resolve and dismay. Behind her, excavators had...

The Fort Belknap Indian Community is opposing a settlement between the state’s Department of Environmental Quality and mining companies that illegally mined on the tribes’ ancestral homeland, harming crucial water sources for the reservation. From 2020 to 2022, Blue Arc LLC and Legacy Mining LLC conducted mining activities at the Zortman Mine in the Little Rocky Mountains without permits, licenses, or performance bonds, resulting in damage to ongoing environmental reclamation efforts. The Zortman-Landusky Mine opened in 1979 and was operated by Pegasus Gold Corp. until it filed for bankruptcy in 1998. Two decades of mining activities caused widespread surface and groundwater contamination, and in 1999, the DEQ and Bureau of Land Management took over the site. In 2001, Luke Ployhar, owner of Blue Arc LLC, bought the land out of the bankruptcy under the condition that the DEQ had ongoing access to conduct reclamation activities. The two agencies spent approximately $85 million cleaning up the area, according to the consent order. The site needs water treatment in perpetuity, meaning the additional cost to taxpayers could exceed hundreds of millions of dollars. The illegal mining activities damaged the continuous environmental cleanup and caused contaminated water to flow downstream to the Fort...

The leader of an Indigenous community in Peru accused illegal miners of using children as "human shields" in the Amazon.

Between 2023 and 2025, PPATK detected IDR185.03 trillion in transactions believed to be directly connected to illegal gold mining activities. These findings are part of 27 analytical reports and two intelligence briefs.

Dutch by birth but living in Latin America for two decades, Raphael Hoetmer has travelled the Amazon rivers alongside Indigenous defenders and peasants to collaborate in their struggles for territory and conservation, but every time he returns to the Amazon...

Taking a decisive step to curb illegal mining in Hamirpur district, the government has closed five crushers and imposed a hefty fine of crores of rupees. These crushers were found involved in illegal ...

ഇടുക്കി> ഇതാണ് പുതിയ നവ കേരളം. ഇടുക്കി സിപിഎം ജില്ലാ സെക്രട്ടറി സി.വി.വര്‍ഗീസിനും മകനും മരുമകനുമെതിരെ അനധികൃത പാറഖനനത്തില്‍ അന്വേഷണം വന്നതിനു പിന്നാലെ ജി ...

Dutch by birth but living in Latin America for two decades, Raphael Hoetmer has travelled the Amazon rivers alongside Indigenous defenders and peasants to collaborate in their struggles for territory and conservation, but every time he returns to the Amazon...

As Cop30 approaches, a new report makes it clear the survival of isolated tribes is under threat as protections are eroded. It’s time our countries fulfilled their obligations to defend Indigenous peo...