Illegal grinding of ore releases lead dust that contaminates air, water and food LAGOS, Nigeria—More than two dozen children have died of...

Globally, there’s an increasing shift of funds towards responsible and ethical investments, with 98% of institutional investors already...

Thirty years ago, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established to tackle the world’s most challenging environmental issues. With...

This Challenge calls for innovative bioeconomy projects in the Amazon Forest that protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystem...

#Ecuador Contamination #InPerspective. For decades the waters of the Calera River and the Yellow River have been contaminated due to the...

An overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners...

Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization...

Every day around a staggering 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years breathes air that is so polluted it puts their health...

The life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average by breathing the toxic air that is widespread across...

Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) an Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. "Profit proudly...

New research published in the journal Environment International found evidence of microplastics in the human placenta. Researchers called...

Artisanal gold mining is known to cause high levels of mercury (Hg) contamination to human populations, due mainly to many miners burning...

LA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss...

In 2012, the global trade in mercury reached a peak of US$210 million. Four thousand and forty tonnes of the element—used in everything...

A study of women in Belgium found black carbon particles, or soot, within the organ. Breathing in polluted air may send soot far beyond a...

University of Oxford earth scientists with diverse expertise have combined their knowledge to inform national and international policy on...

Robbie Williams has shared a fishy tale about his brush with death caused by a seafood diet. The Angels singer, 46, said that he’d been...