Natural resources—such as fossil fuels, water, and minerals—are materials found in the environment that are essential for life and highly utilized in production. Though these resources are viewed as ...

Extraction of Earth's natural resources could surge 60 percent by 2060, imperiling climate goals and economic prosperity, the UN said Friday, calling for dramatic changes in energy, food, transport ...

Renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky will exhibit his latest eye-opening aerial documentation of natural resource mining in ...

The inequality of resource wealth: Communities rich in oil and minerals often live in poverty. Few sectors have contributed more to the twin crises of global inequality and climate change than oil, ...

Natural resource management is the practice of sustainably using and protecting natural resources. Natural resources include land, water, air, minerals, forests, fish, and wildlife. Managing natural ...

The resource evaluation and subsequent extraction of dimension stones are critical for optimising quarry productivity while mitigating environmental impacts. Recent advances have focused on ...

A study explores how infrastructure development and resource extraction lead to forest degradation and marginalize indigenous communities. Amazonia, Indonesia, and Mesoamerica are home to much of the ...

Today we’re looking at the ways resource extraction is impacting the people and the environment in one of the world’s most important tropical forest nations, the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ...

While natural resource funds can protect economies from expenditure volatility, budget shocks and 'dutch diesease', they can also be conduits for corruption LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – ...