Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

In a blow to illegal gold miners along South America's Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges ...

Interpol and partners have launched a global law enforcement effort to fight illegal deforestation in tropical areas.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National ...

SAN FRANCISCO – California’s ban on the use of suction dredges to extract gold from rivers is legal and not overridden by a 19th century federal law that allows mining on federal land, the California ...

A federal court has upheld an environmental law that protects fish habitat from a certain type of gold mining in Oregon rivers and streams. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed ...

Every summer, Mike Leslie and his wife load up their camping gear and gold mining equipment and head to the Middle Fork of the Yuba River for the weekend. Leslie is among dozens of locals and folks ...

(AP) – An Indian tribe, conservation groups and salmon fishermen filed a lawsuit challenging the return of suction dredges to mine for gold in California rivers. The lawsuit was filed late Monday in ...

URGING Malacañang to take immediate action, a House deputy minority leader on Tuesday filed a measure seeking an urgent congressional inquiry into the large-scale dredging and extraction activities of ...

Mamamayang Liberal Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima has called for an investigation into a Chinese company’s dredging operations ...

Hundreds of illegal mining dredges converged on Brazil's Madeira River in November, creating a floating city near the town of Autazes in the state of Amazonas. The rush — involving as many as 600 ...

The California Supreme Court says a ban on the use of suction dredges to extract gold from rivers is legal and not overridden by a 19th century federal law that allows mining on federal land FILE - In ...