Illegal Amazon gold trade shifts to USDT payments as Venezuela becomes a hub for cross-border crypto settlements.

Police shut down seven illegal gold mines in Lampung, arrest 24 people and seize heavy equipment linked to Rp 1.3 trillion in state losses.

Democratic senators pressed the U.S. government’s top intelligence official at annual worldwide threats hearings Wednesday about the war with Iran, including whether she had advised President Donald ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Licensed mining companies that work with illegal miners, school dropouts seeking quick cash, and weak enforcement are among the key factors driving illegal mining in Rwanda, a parliamentary report has ...

Strategic organizations repurpose retired technology to drive sustainability and data security, turning warehouse clutter ...

In northeastern Somalia, the remote town of Milxo has transformed over the past decade from a small cluster of buildings into a booming gold mining hub, attracting both local and international actors.

As the country moves to intensify mining and oil operations, environmental and Indigenous leaders’ bank accounts are being frozen or closed. Such “debanking” cuts them off from financial support and ...

Over 2,400 illegal mines in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia are poisoning the Mekong River with arsenic and cyanide, driven by global rare earth demand.

Debanking” is the government’s newest weapon of repression against environmental leaders and anti-mining advocates.

The NBL’s bid to lure Josh Giddey’s Chicago Bulls to Australia has ramped up, with league boss Larry Kestelman flying to America to continue talks.