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Red handed: A truck loaded with coal is spotted inside the Ffos-y-Fran opencast mine in South Wales on May 24, months after it was ordered to stop operating Credit: UVAG/Coal Action Network

1 Jun 2023 5 minute read

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. ...

A Greenpeace activist holds a sign as he confronts the deep sea mining vessel Hidden Gem, commissioned by Canadian miner The Metals Company, as it returned to port from eight weeks of test mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone between Mexico and Hawaii, off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Gustavo Graf

23 May 2023 6 minute read

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...

Photo of Mauricio Ye’kuana, a Brazilian Indigenous leader and Treasurer of the Hutukara Yanomami Association (HAY), who work to protect Yanomami and Ye’kuana communities in the Brazilian Amazon

23 Aug 2022 4 minute read

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The violence of Brazil's 'wildcat' gold mining

Indigenous activist Mauricio Ye’kuana speaks on the dangerous fight to protect his people’s land.

27 Jun 2022 6 minute read

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‘Stop the poison’

Peruvian women call on Anglo-Swiss mining giant Glencore, investors and UK and EU parliamentarians to take action on toxic...

15 Mar 2022 4 minute read

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‘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...

Residents hold signs during a protest against Las Bambas mine in Apurimac, where Virginia Pinares also fights

16 Dec 2019 5 minute read

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‘If they kill me, they kill me’

Indigenous human-rights defender Virginia Pinares talks to Vanessa Baird about mining in...

5 Nov 2019 5 minute read

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In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, dams are ticking time bombs

Human rights defender, Tchenna Maso, reflects on the human cost of Bolsonaro's open door policy for mining...

22 Oct 2018 5 minute read

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The cost of mining in Latin America

Global justice campaigners Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz explain why...

22 Jul 2018 3 minute read

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Walter Aduviri – hero or criminal?

Human rights defenders are being criminalized in Peru. John Crabtree highlights the unusual case of Walter...

Philip Miriori stands over the gaping wound that is Panguna Mine.

16 May 2018 15 minute read

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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...

1 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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Farewell to the big village

Amy Booth bids farewell to Cochabamba and shares what the ‘big village’ has revealed to her.

22 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Gina Lopez fights Philippine mining

The fiery Filipino environmentalist talks to Veronique Mistiaen.

31 Aug 2017 7 minute read

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The people, the mine and the World Bank

A mining firm is suing Romania over an environmentalist decision. By Alessio Perrone.

30 Jun 2017 3 minute read

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Making waves: Prafulla Samantara

Indian land rights activist Prafulla Samantara talks to Veronique Mistiaen.

25 Jan 2017 4 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Can Lonmin wash its hands of Marikana’s blood?

Bishop Johannes Seoka takes the mining company to task, nearly five years after the massacre.

1 Nov 2016 10 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

‘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....

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