Ban on mercury in dental fillings is a positive step. But small-scale gold mining will remain the largest global contributor to mercury pollution without ...

A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to ...

The Tasmanian Government has directed Hellyer Gold Mines to cease mining operations at the Hellyer Mine for significant ...

Parties to the UN Minamata Convention on Mercury met this week to discuss illegal trade, gold-mining pollution, and other ...

A leading barrister says Tasmanian prisoners who are locked down should get their jail time reduced – but the government has ...

Countries at Minamata Convention COP-6 in Geneva agreed to phase out mercury dental amalgam by 2034. The deal includes ...

With the U.N. Climate Change Conference coming up next week, Suriname finds itself at the center of a global debate about how ...

Laura Owens, the daughter of the Bay Area radio icon, previously pleaded not guilty to charges that she doctored medical evidence and lied on the stand while pursuing a paternity case against ...

In 1992, Sydney Possuelo, then the head of Brazil's indigenous affairs agency Funai, led an operation to evict thousands of ...

Interpol and partners have launched a global law enforcement effort to fight illegal deforestation in tropical areas.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed —Mahatma Gandhi   A few months ago, I was privileged to be part of a “selected group” to help develop and launch a ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, ...