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Ffos y Fran is the UK's largest opencast mine and its operators had applied for an extension

The Lwera wetland, stretching more than 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Ugandan capital Kampala into the western interior, has long been worked over by sand miners, both legal and illegal, motivated by demand from the construction industry

A Nevada Democratic U.S. senator wants Congress to step in to ensure mining companies can use established mineral claims to dump waste on neighboring federal lands

Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who headed a campaign that led mining corporations to respect her people's Indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Brasília (AFP) - Alessandra Korap Munduruku first turned to activism as she watched advancing agriculture devastate her Indigenous territory in Brazil, but it was her battle to drive out mining giant Anglo American that landed her in the spotlight.

Diane Wilson took on Formosa Plastics and won a $50m settlement to help clean up decades worth of toxic plastic waste

Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work fighting against illegal mining and large-scale projects aimed at facilitating soybean exports in the Tapajos River Basin

Silver is the most speculative precious metal. Gold and silver have a long history as financial assets, but few governments consider silver a reserve asset. Meanwhile, silver is an industrial and precious metal that tends to outperform gold on a percentage basis on rallies and underperforms during bearish periods. In…