Americas
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean‘They’re waiting till we die of cancer’: 10 years on, Mexico’s worst mining disaster still poisons livesIn the desert town of Ures, everyone lives under a shadow of ongoing sickness and hardship stemming from a waste spill in 2014. But they are losing hope of seeing justice
From the agenciesFrom trash to treasure: emerald hunters in Colombia – in picturesEvery year, hundreds of emerald hunters dig through mining debris in Las Animas River, in the foothills of the eastern Andes mountain range. Colombia is by far the world’s largest producer of the precious stones, and the mining municipality of Muzo is known as the emerald capital of the world
