Mining

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.

Imagine you’re walking along and notice a flash from the ground. You look down and you’ve stumbled upon gold. You think your luck has changed, what’s shining back at you is a life of luxury, problems over. Except if you’re Luis Arteaga, a 95 year-old father of 10 in Honduras.

The world’s favourite precious metal is hiding a dirty little secret. Laura Sevier reports on the truth behind the glitter, and asks whether gold can ever be green

'Don't make the same mistakes as us,' Australian think-tank the Mineral Policy Institue has warned China

Remote, unregulated and...running out. Why the business of fuelling nuclear power can't give us energy sovereignty