A federal grand jury has indicted a Navajo man, his father and a business partner on charges that they were running illegal marijuana growing operations in New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation to ...

A new report says the expansion of nickel mining in Indonesia is a threat to one of Earth's most biodiverse marine regions.

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act on January 29th, giving federal authorities more power to deport illegal ...

Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government champions have brought much needed positive changes by pushing for the adoption of international human rights ...

With little attention in the media, except in a few Western states, former President Joe Biden on Dec. 19 signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act. It ...

Indonesia’s parliament is fast-tracking amendments to the country’s mining law, in a move that could reshape the country’s ...

A new international mining sector standard, compiled by some of the industry’s most powerful players, is the latest example ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was ...

Cecilia M. Bailliet, the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, highlighted Suriname's ...

Tinsukia Rights Council hails court's action on illegal mining. Judicial intervention seen as crucial for environmental ...

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...

U.S. funding for policing that has targeted illegal logging, mining and other issues that have damaged the rainforest.