04/13/2021 April 13, 2021. Low wages, water shortage and acidified landscapes: Mining critical raw materials endangers human rights and the environment. Yet the industry is expanding.

The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

More than a century of gold mining has left towering piles of bleached mine waste, known as "tailings," all over Johannesburg's landscape. Discovery of gold in the region in 1886 led to the ...

A satellite photo taken after a devastating mining disaster in South Africa revealed a golden river of dried mud glimmering on the landscape. But its gleaming shine was caused by a torrent of ...

Toxic mine pollution has turned Ohio rivers orange. Now it’s being made into paint. By Chelsea Lee, CNN ... Can ancient eco-engineering help fix our degraded landscapes?

The mine now uses toxic chemicals to process gold, ... Photos recently taken by drone for The State reveal a denuded landscape with deep mining pits, piles of rock and the extensive, ...

This study, which is the first to document how mining has altered the landscape and simultaneously amplified the risks of mercury poisoning, was conducted through the collection of water and ...

Centuries of mining activity have left a toxic legacy that has ensnared its inhabitants in a vicious cycle of displacement, landscape mutilation, environmental pollution, ...

Activity at Arizona's mines is surging, and so is the release of toxic materials. A new Environmental Protection Agency report shows that releases of mine tailings and other toxic emissions ...

Zhao Liang acts as a modern-day Dante exploring Inner Mongolia’s environmental destruction by toxic mining. By Jay ... dwindling green pastures and dead landscapes disemboweled by toxic mining.

SPOKANE — Toxic mine pollution is no longer flowing into Washington state’s picturesque Lake Chelan for the first time in nearly 60 years because of a $500 million cleanup to contain ...

With rolling hills, forests and hiking trails, Southeast Ohio is a haven for lovers of the outdoors. Yet cutting through the landscape are countless orange-stained streams, colored by the iron ...