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Baotou Iron & Steel Group in China’s Inner Mongolia province is planning to spend 2 billion yuan (US$280 million) to expand a huge manmade lake near Baotou city that contains toxic historical “tailings” (waste lef

The Western Australia Environmental Protection Authority has agreed to conduct a full environmental assessment of Talison Lithium’s plans for a major expansion of the Greenbushes lithium mine, the largest in the world, after 95 percent of the 364 comments submitted to the age Read More

Dateline Resources has been granted U.S. Read More

Indigenous communities in Chile are trying to strike a deal with Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), based in Santiago, Chile, and Albemarle, which is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, to reduce the environmental impact of the world’s largest lithium mines.

Indigenous communities in Suriname have sued their government to withdraw an agreement with Chinalco (Aluminum Corporation of China Limited), to dig for bauxite near the village of Bakhuis in the central reg Read More

Facebook shut down its eight year-old fact checking program this month provoking a slew of criticism that the social media giant was bowing to pressure from the incoming U.S. presidency of Donald Trump, who will take office on January 20.

Over 400 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in the Krasnoyarsk Krai region of Siberia is the town of Norilsk, population 170,000. Developed in the 1930s by the then-Soviet Union, it is one of the coldest as well as one of most most polluted places in the world.

A U.S. federal court ruled in favor of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma after it sued Enel Group for violating its tribal sovereignty.

When black rain poured down around the Tata Steel plant in IJmuiden, a shipping town in the Netherlands, residents were told that they had no need to worry so long as they kept their windows closed, peeled their vegetables, and washed their hands more frequently. Read More

Some three quarters of the word’s supply of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children as young as 10 years old help extract the metal from hand dug shafts in the Tilwezembe mine in Katanga province.