Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.

The clean energy revolution is being built on the backs of enslaved children and at the cost of strengthening China.

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

China’s dominance in rare earth metals has come at a steep environmental cost, with radioactive waste and polluted land ...

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 ...

The protests in Serbia voice a loud and clear message–that the quest for environmental sustainability needs to be holistic in that it takes into account not only the end goal of having cleaner ...

Recent advances in technology have made deep-sea mining more feasible. But removing the nodules - which also requires pumping ...

One parent reached out to the r/landscaping subreddit for advice on the ideal building materials for a backyard playground.

A decade after a dam collapsed in Brazil, sending a deluge of toxic mud into villages and waterways, residents complain of an ...

The impacts of Resolution Copper's water use would be severe. And thanks to Arizona law, there's not much we can do about ...

The toxic brew, called acid mine drainage, can spoil groundwater and coat stream beds with rust, killing aquatic life. Left untreated, this process goes on indefinitely.

NPCA is fighting for widespread mining reform so a 19th-century law giving the mining industry first dibs on public lands ...