Jean Bakomito Gambu, governor of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s northeastern Haut-Uélé province, visited a gold mining site this…
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Woodcarvers in China’s eastern city of Dongyang produce billions of dollars in expensive furniture every year, much of it made…
Armies of excavators and dump trucks carving deep, terraced ruts into and around hills, mountainsides and waterways are a common…
Jingjing Zhang is a lawyer and environmental activist who has fought Chinese companies that pollute for decades. Her work has…
More than seven months after a toxic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine caused one of the worst environmental disasters…
Ghanaian authorities are promising to punish Chinese nationals involved in illegal gold mining as the government tries to reduce the…
In preparing for a raid on a notorious illegal mining settlement known as Abrewa Ni Nkrane, members of the Ghana…
With several arrests in the past year, Liberia is the latest West African country to clamp down on illegal mining…
Farai Maguwu has collected stories and testimonies throughout Zimbabwe for years. Some are heartbreaking, some disturbing, and each is accompanied…
Less than two weeks after 50 million liters of toxic mining waste burst from the Sino-Metals Leach copper mine into…