This policy paper by Global Witness and Amazon Underworld examines the state of illegal mining and trafficking of critical ...

Activists face steep risks in Colombia, the deadliest country in the world for people protecting land and forests. Global ...

Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly ...

People bathe in the river, they eat from the river — they live, dance and sing there,” says Dora Agudelo Vazquez. “Their ...

Colombian guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) is willing to resume peace negotiations with the current government or with whatever new government is elected next year if commitments ...

The surge in gold prices is driving a rapid expansion in informal and unregulated gold mining that is often illegal and ...

Ghana has banned mining in forest reserves as part of sweeping environmental protections aimed at safeguarding water bodies ...

A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, ...

Land and environmental defenders face death threats, harassment, intimidation and killings as nickel mining operations expand ...

In 2021, the war-torn North African nation accounted for approximately 0.6 per cent of the global Bitcoin hash rate, ...