Mining

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.

Global upswell of civil society organisations, communities and academics tells EC to align raw materials sourcing plans with the interests of people and planet.

A Constitutional Protection Action could protect the Rights of Nature over the economic rights of transnational companies in Ecuador's Intag Valley.

Mining giant BHP was complicit in the Samarco mining disaster in Brazil but the company has not learned from the experience.

Banks Mining application for Highthorn near Druridge Bay, Northumberland, turned down by communities secretary Robert Jenrick.

The Karen Indigenous People in Myanmar founded the Salween Peace Park to protect their mega-diverse territory and their culture from extractivism and conflict.