In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South ...

Maung Tu, 40, a manager at a mining company, purchased a betel nut farm of 2.4 hectares, or 6 acres, near the southern tip of ...

A new global analysis finds that many of the world's most threatened seagrass meadows lie within designated Marine Protected ...

The city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America’s southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran ...

Late one Friday afternoon in January, three adjoining acreages on the mist-cooled ridges above Mittagong, New South ...

A study led by Prof. Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most ...

The map relies on a combination of Indigenous knowledge and government data to map water resources and Indigenous communities ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

Land mines and other unexploded remnants of war continue to pose a deadly threat across Syria, causing widespread casualties ...

At its most basic level, drought means there is a lack of water to meet needs. Every year, we carefully monitor snowpack, precipitation, and local temperatures to help anticipate potential drought ...

The number of mining claims on U.S. public lands is growing. A 27 percent increase since 2019 has brought the total to nearly a half-million. A new study showed many are in close proximity to, and ...

The Ghana Police Service has arrested five individuals suspected of engaging in illegal mining activities on River ... Constituency of the Central North Region. The suspects are made up of two ...