El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has long killed them all. Now, residents fear the same fate for other rivers -- ...

El Salvador in 2025 faces key decisions: mining, political reforms, and security. At what cost will the country move forward?

Now, residents fear the same fate for other rivers -- and the creatures and people depending on them -- after Congress, at President Nayib Bukele's request, reversed a ban on metal mining.

Religious sisters in El Salvador are joining the church's "Yes to life, no to mining" campaign, calling for the restoration ...

The report contributed to El Salvador becoming the first country in the world, in 2017, to outlaw metal mining due to the harmful effects of chemicals such as cyanide and mercury used in the ...

Nations such as El Salvador, Iran, and Paraguay already use Bitcoin to minimize their dependence on traditional financial ...

Governments that use hydroelectric, geothermal, or solar energy are installing infrastructure to mine Bitcoin. This allows ...

A clause in the country's recently-completed IMF financing deal suggested a prohibition against El Salvador accumulating any additional bitcoin.

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...