The Ogun State Commissioner for Forestry, Taiwo Oludotun on Friday said that government has deployed Amotekun operatives into its forest reserves to curb illegal mining, tree felling and other ...

Mr Buah revealed that recent data presented to Parliament shows that 44 per cent of Ghana’s 288 forest reserves have already been destroyed largely due to illegal mining and logging activities.

President Donald Trump wants to increase logging in national forests and on public lands, including by bypassing endangered species protections. To do that, the federal government would have to ...

The Endangered Species Act makes it illegal to harm or kill protected species and has led to restrictions on logging, mining and oil and gas development. The Marine Mammal Protection Act bans ...

The collapse of a tailings dam—an earth-filled embankment used to store mining waste—on February 18 released an estimated 50 million liters of waste into the Kafue River, according to ...