Multinational mining company Drummond has said it will fight sanctions levied against it for dumping vast deposits of coal into the sea earlier this year, reported newspaper El Espectador Wednesday.
At least 80 people had to be hospitalized in the northern Colombian coastal city of Santa Marta on Sunday after a fire billowed toxic smoke over the city.
Colombia’s Congress on Tuesday passed a bill that bans the use of quicksilver in the country’s industrial and mining sector.
Colombia is paying a high price for the boom in mining, which is incurring unrecognized costs due to the preeminence of a narrow and deficient economic philosophy, according to a…
Colombia’s government on Wednesday introduced a ban on building hotels within the boundaries of the country’s 57 national parks.
Colombia this month became one of the first in Latin America to declare indigenous sacred land to be of “national and cultural interest,” according to lobby group Amazon Conservation Team…
A set of Colombia’s mining regulations from 2001 that are set to expire this month are causing concern about what a return to the old standards could mean for informal…
An alleged FARC attack has caused an oil spill in the south of country, Colombia’s nationally-run oil company Ecopetrol said Sunday.
As Colombia’s livestock industry eats away at the Amazon rain forest, the hidden environmental costs will be passed down to future generations, an expert said Thursday.