| New Scientist | Environment | 7 March 2022 | | By Adam Vaughan | More than three-quarters of the world's largest rainforest has become...

| Eurek Alert| Peer-Reviewed Publication | | Duke University | 28-Jan-2022 | Scientists record the highest levels of atmospheric mercury...

| Earthshot Prize | 16 February 2022 | “We must make this the decade of the Earthshot. A decade where we all respond with urgency and...

Artisanal and small-scale mining accounts for 20 percent of the global supply of gold and currently generates a combined $25-30 billion...

Scientific America By Elizabeth Miller on November 4, 2021 Hotter, drier mountains leach more metal into streams from abandoned mines and...

UN News Global perspective Human stories 30 October 2021 Health Masami Ogata is a survivor of Minamata Disease, a debilitating illness...

Vancouver, BC –The Newswire -14 October 2021– Newlox Gold Ventures Corp. (“Newlox” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Dr....

Sept. 30, 2021 the Government of Poland deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 135th Party to the #MinamataConvention on...

Written by Elizabeth Boham, MD "Mercury can affect nearly all your organs, especially the brain, heart, kidneys, and gut, and many...

By Joanna Kedzierska "Levels of deforestation in Colombia have significantly increased in recent years due to logging by the legal mining...

On Aug 19, 2021 the Government of Bahrain deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 133rd Party to the Minamata Convention on...

IF YOU ARE HEAVY, it could be making you sick and tired and age prematurely. And I don’t mean heavy with fat … I mean heavy with heavy...

In partnership with Fiocruz, CINCIA, and other institutions, WWF-Brazil has created the Mercury Observatory, which assembles studies and...

Do you know what gold, jewellery, electronics, Ecuador, biodiversity destruction, and UK Super Rock Star @robbiewilliams have in common?...

In the Peruvian highlands, a Swiss refinery said it had a sustainable source of artisanal gold. Prosecutors suspect its main supplier was...

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

| Journal of Cleaner Production | Volume 311, 15 August 2021, 127531 | | P. Torkamana, M. M. Veiga, L. R. P. de Andrade Lima, L .A....

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...