This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

But now, the government of Peru has slashed the borders of the protected archaeological park that encompasses the Nazca Lines ...

The Office of State Land Commissioners on Thursday denied the renewal of six leases for a controversial gravel mining ...

Land in central Arizona holds great spiritual value to the Western Apache Indians and is on the world's third-largest deposit ...

Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture’s giant ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern against people who speak out against" human rights abuses ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

The group Apache Stronghold is vowing to carry on the fight against a massive copper mining project on land the Apaches hold ...

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed Thoothukudi district authorities to ensure that no mining or ...

Dozens of religious groups had urged the court to take the case to test the scope of a 1993 federal law protecting religious ...

More than a dozen opponents to the massive copper miining project will appear at the Phoenix federal courthouse on Friday.