Mining

Governments and companies making no effort to quantify the real climate impacts

Copper underwires the modern world, running through everything from the gas guzzler to the wind turbine. Any country that finds substantial reserves of the metal ought to consider itself to have struck gold. That is, until you let the World Bank decide how your mines should be run…

Greenpeace activists block Shell's tar sands oil extraction operation in protest at its environmental cost

Official admits government cut off water supply to force Bushmen out of the Central Kalahri Game Reserve

Government-owned Royal Mint admits it has no ethical sourcing policy

Fighting a mine funded by foreign investment in Gabon has seen Marc Ona Essangui spend time in prison, but his only response, he says, is 'serenity'

Alaska's long-standing wild salmon-fishing industry could be under threat from large-scale mining development

Scientists are leading the charge against political foot-dragging on climate change, with James Hansen arrested for protesting against coal mining and Kevin Anderson warning the UK Government its emissions levels are 'dangerously optimistic'

Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc. Andrew Wasley reports

Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc

Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet.

From country cousin to king gold, silver is slowly cleaning up its tarnished reputation, writes Matilda Lee

Mining giant Vedanta receives a gift wrapped complaint following plans to turn sacred homeland into a bauxite mine.

Environmental group Global Response has challenged Wal-Mart’s claim that their Love, Earth jewelery is ‘committed to protecting the environment’.

The battle between mining giant Vedanta and the threatened tribal Dongria Kondh of Orissa, eastern India continues.