Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals. Critics fear harm to fragile marine ecosystems. The WWF ...

The Kosi river carries around 120 million cubic metres of silt annually that collects on the riverbed and increases the risk of flood. About 94% of the annual sedimentation occurs during the monsoon, ...

A local innovation is helping to dredge sediment more efficiently from water cleaning reactors, contributing to the treatment ...

Shan Human Rights Foundation cites Thai government study showing Sai River flood sediment contains heavy metals at up to 18 ...

Nature scientists reveal that there is a new form of oxygen that is found at the surface of the ocean. As we know it, the ...

Illegal gold mining, known locally as “galamsey,” has spread across Ghana, driven by historic rises in global gold prices.

VILLAGERS and tourism industry players at Kampung Sahom, Gopeng, are crying foul over an alleged mining operation that is believed to be polluting Sungai Kepar. Led by Kampung Sahom village chief ...

The Coeur d’Alene River Basin, Lake Coeur d’Alene and the Spokane River are impacted by heavy metals from historic mining ...

This is a rocky area known for its stone mining, and cultivation had been adversely affected (although not to the ... With de-silting taken up properly, the depth of water sources improved and in ...

Since 2020, experts from the University of Glasgow in the UK and University of the Philippines Los Baños have led PAMANA – ...

The dam has experienced its fair share of unexpected trauma, threatening river flow levels, depleting water storage and exposing sediment. Sediment is the walled molded mud that contains the ...

By Edward DEBRAH ‘Remember, it is only when the last tree has died, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught will we realise we cannot eat money’ – Cree Proverb ‘Galamsey’ a popular term for ...