Extreme weather events such as flooding, drought, wildfires, water scarcity and rise in sea levels driven by climate change ...

South African authorities on Monday suspended rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due to safety concerns.

LUBUMBASHI is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

Plateau State Governor, Barr. Caleb Mutfwang, has expressed deep concern over the increasing number of school dropouts in ...

Freeport-McMoRan has a mining location south of Tucson near Sahuarita and a technology center in Tucson. The company has worked with Sahuarita Unified School District, supporting students to ...

Stakeholders in the cocoa sector have called for concerted efforts to stem the disturbing reality of the use of ...

A new report from the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab and GoodWeave International highlights the risk of modern slavery ...

As Tesla sales tank, it’s not exactly the best time for the automaker to receive more bad press. However, Tesla faces a ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 seized one of the world’s most productive coltan concessions, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, a UN report estimates that 120 tonnes of the precious ...

Republican Congressman Rich McCormick proposed in an interview that free school lunches be removed from schools and children ...

Overheating crypto mining rigs have caused another major fire in South Korea, emergency services in North Jeolla Province ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was ...