If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect that ...

The environmental footprint of artisanal mining depends on how it’s done – and the effects of alternative land uses like ...

Deforestation has led to the loss of more than 85 million hectares of land in the Amazon Rainforest. This is nearly the size of Colombia.

With less than ten days to go until the end of September, Brazil has recorded almost 200 thousand fires since the start of ...

Despite Ghana's existing regulatory framework—anchored by the Minerals and Mining Act (2006) and the Environmental Protection ...

This has made the fight against illegal mining increasingly difficult and almost a lost cause. It is for the aforementioned ... In fact, much of this massive deforestation has taken place within the ...

National Geographic Explorer Josh West has a strong grasp on the role of nuance when it comes to nature's processes, and consequently, when it comes to proposing solutions to environmental issues.

These are some but few of the exposed brutal evidence of devastation of our mother Ghana environment currently ongoing in the ...

Moore ADINGO The economy loses an estimated US$2.3billion annually – a figure just US$700million short of the funds secured through the country’s three-year International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout ...

Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling out Fonterra for ‘profiting from rainforest destruction’. The organisation says that the ...

Permits granted for the construction of an industrial mining project in northern Colombia are raising concerns among ...

Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes ...