Large heaps of earth greet first-time visitors to the gold mining regions of Kitumbi, Bukuya, and Makokoto sub-counties in Kassanda District. These piles, made up of mine waste, are believed to ...

Adding that over 60% of Uganda’s mining workforce was employed in ASM and that with the right support, ASMs can be a major driver of economic transformation – supporting Uganda’s ambitions to grow the ...

From The World's partners at the Deutsche Welle, DW, program "Living Planet,” reporter Kathleen Schuster looks into some ...

Indigenous women of childbearing age from Nicaragua’s Waspam municipality have been exposed to toxic levels of mercury, ...

The discovery of gold deposits in Malawi has left hotspots pitted, endangering the environment and human health. Every ...

One of the biggest culprits of mercury pollution is small-scale gold mining, where mercury is used to separate gold from rock and soil. The problems this causes for the environment and for the health ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to take stronger steps against mercury use in ...

Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.

The Bureau of Meteorology’s new $4.1m website is shithouse after leaving Queenslanders at the mercy of dangerous thunderstorms Sunday afternoon. However there is a silver lining to what was a ...

GENEVA, Nov. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The nations of the world have enacted an end to dentistry's notorious and toxic amalgam era. On 7 November, without dissent, they amended the Minamata Convention ...