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

The Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous Land. By Manuela Andreoni Blacki Migliozzi Pablo Robles and Denise Lu Aug. 2, 2022. ... Carved into the dense, lush landscape, ...

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 as rare earths. They are key components in nearly everything that we switch ...

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?

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...

Last June, Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine, also in the Yukon, spilled an avalanche of zinc and cyanide into the landscape and nearby waterways after the failure of a heap leach facility.

Understanding Rare Earth Elements Rare earth elements, or REEs, are a group of 17 metals crucial for many modern technologies ...

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 ...

Two recent papers show how natural landscape transformation and degradation, due to pasture and crop monoculture creation and mining in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, can increase bioaccumulation of ...

Hazardous abandoned coal mine lands – relics of the pre-1977 unregulated coal mining industry – linger, polluting the landscapes and threatening the safety and health of people and ecosystems.

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 ...