Environment
Mining
Be it lithium, gold, cobalt or coal, the mining industry has immense influence on global geopolitics.
Here, we discuss the scandal of the continued extraction of coal, the devastating consequences of deep-sea mining and the toxins that can enter our waterways following extraction.
We also hear from campaigners across the globe seeking to counter the negative side effects of mining activities.
Who’s backing Glencore’s toxic mining? (You, perhaps?)
Banks and pension funds in the UK and Europe are helping to ruin lives in Colombia and Peru, Vanessa Baird writes.
History on repeat: Aberfan and Mariana
Rebecca Jarman and Diana Salazar report on the stark similarities between two mining-related tragedies.
Britain’s great coal scandal
The UK’s largest opencast coal mine has ‘illegally’ extracted 300,000 tonnes of coal after being ordered to close. Daniel Therkelsen of Coal Action Network reports on this shocking state of affairs.
The race is on to stop deep-sea mining
Graeme Green reports on why this is a critical year to stop destructive deep-sea mining from taking hold of the world’s oceans.
The violence of Brazil's 'wildcat' gold mining
Indigenous activist Mauricio Ye’kuana speaks on the dangerous fight to protect his people’s land.
‘We will oppose it until the end of our lives’
Shadrack Omuka reports from Kenya’s Arabuko Sokoke forest on the threat posed to East Africa’s largest coastal forest from titanium mining.
Walter Aduviri – hero or criminal?
Human rights defenders are being criminalized in Peru. John Crabtree highlights the unusual case of Walter Aduviri.
This land is my land
Ian Neubauer reports from Bougainville, where rebels chased away a mining company 30 years ago. Now the company is planning its return.
Gina Lopez fights Philippine mining
The fiery Filipino environmentalist talks to Veronique Mistiaen.
The people, the mine and the World Bank
A mining firm is suing Romania over an environmentalist decision. By Alessio Perrone.
‘We are slowly being killed by this mine’
The British-Australian mine of Cerro Matoso has been linked to birth defects, pollution, poverty and paramilitary pay-offs. Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik investigates.
One woman’s victory against a mining giant in Peru
Máxima Acuña has just won the Goldman Prize for her resistance against a gold mine – but why are women’s bodies on the frontlines of resistance to extractivism? asks Sian Cowman.
Living with fracking
What’s it like to live next door to the fracking rigs? Six photographers spent two years in gas-rich Pennsylvania trying to find out.
Spinning gold: the ‘happy’ story of Canadian mining
What world are Goldcorp’s shareholders living in, wonders Emilie Teresa Smith as she sits in on their AGM.
Rio Tinto and the Oyu Tolgoi mine
Richard Harkinson and Richard Solly from London Mining Network on the project threatening the rights of indigenous people in Mongolia.
‘Life yes, gold no!’
Peru’s gold rush threatens indigenous communities’ right to water. Roxana Olivera meets one of the faces behind the struggle, Máxima Acuña.
Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers
Ahead of the Rio +20 Earth Summit, Danny Chivers exposes the canny, crafty and plain deceitful claims of corporations co-opting 'sustainability'
Peruvians rise up against the mines
The scale of indigenous-led protests against mining in southern Peru took most by surprise. Vanessa Baird on what led to such flare-ups.
