Mining

Ireland has been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the Island are fighting back.

'Green mining' is an oxymoron that is gaining traction in the EU and pushes a risky narrative about an environmentally destructive sector.

Communities, organisations and academics write to the EU to reject plans for a mining-heavy EU Green Deal.

We need a holistic, material transition towards a circular society.

Green Economics Institute (GEI) and Green European Foundation one-day conference asks, 'mining for metals, can it be fair?'

Robert Jenrick, communities secretary, to “call in” controversial application for new coal mine on the Cumbrian coast.

Young activists have added their voices to the call to stop a controversial new coking coal mine in Cumbria.

Communities in southern Madagascar impacted by water pollution are still waiting for basic public health information from mining giant Rio Tinto.

Brazilian activists continue to campaign for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil.

Campaigners are infuriated that a deep coal mine in Cumbria has been permitted, and are fighting back.

The fate of some of Ecuador's last remaining cloud forests and hundreds of livelihoods rests on the outcome of a trailblazing Rights of Nature case concerning two tiny amphibians.

The struggle to save the Los Cedros Forest Reserve in Ecuador from mining will set huge precedent for biodiversity protections.

The outcome of a case to protect the Los Cedros Reserve from mining will set a precedent for all future Rights of Nature cases in Ecuador.

Activist Fikile Ntshangase’s death is another case of the injustice that environmental defenders endure.

Meet the mining giant that talks big on responsibility, but has a long way to go to meet its own hype.