In recent years, a number of academic analyses have emerged which draw attention to how most artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities - low-tech, labour-intensive, mineral extraction and ...

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A new chronicle of redwood logging exposes how a cadre of wealthy industrialists reaped a fortune in the name of environmentalism. If handled poorly, a history of the so-called Redwood Wars—especially ...

WABASHA -- A demonstration of small-scale logging equipment, including use of horses, will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 16 and 17 on state forestland at Kruger Management Area in Wabasha.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The mercury used to amalgamate gold is cheap, effective and toxic. Studies from artisanal and small-scale mining sites across the Amazon reveal ...

JUNEAU, Alaska— A coalition of conservation groups, Alaska tribes, a commercial fishing advocacy group and an ecotourism operator today filed a request to intervene in a timber industry legal ...

Thanks to a successful court challenge by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, over 10,000 acres of grizzly bear habitat in northwestern Montana will not be decimated by commercial logging. In late June ...

LIMA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Thousands of small-scale miners in Peru blocked roads and camped outside Congress on Monday to demand extension of a program that allows them to operate temporarily, but which ...