Last September, Ghana’s water agency announced that due to contamination of the country’s main rivers from mining activities, certain communities would be cut off from water supplies. When protestors ...

Every afternoon, 55-year-old Bashir Ahmad Ganie walks along the Sukhnag stream near his village in Budgam, not to fish or bathe as he once did, but to inspect the damage. The riverbank where ...

Recent examinations of the health and environmental impacts of mountaintop mining – stripping the tops off of mountains to extract coal – has the practice looking pretty guilty. It apparently spikes ...