Mining

Far from 'hippies versus miners', this was a former mining community which took on a developer and won, again and again.

Banks Mining's operations at its Bradley surface mine in County Durham have ceased.

Ecuador's protected forests to define Rights of Nature and test jurisprudence in country’s Constitutional Court.

Covid-19 is hitting mine workers hard, revealing the underlying burdens of disease and inequality caused by extractivism.

Citizens of Cáceres, Spain, are opposing lithium mining project that jeopardises World Heritage and sustainable livelihoods at a new extractive frontier.

The mining industry has abused the pandemic to turn a profit and advance their interests, putting land and water protectors at greater risk of harm.

More than 100 organisations have signed a letter repudiating mining companies for putting Indigenous Shuar communities in the Ecuadorean Amazon at risk.

Farmer Joam Pím Evans describes how his community is resisting mining by reclaiming and reforesting common-lands in Galicia, Spain.

Communities and NGOs call out mining giant Anglo American on Amazon mining plans and Covid-19 response

Ecuadorian children take state-owned Petro Amazonas to court over air pollution from gas flares.

Rural people living on the frontline of Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in southern Madagascar are seeing their rights ignored, their lives and livelihoods devastated.

Popular movements in Argentina are better than average at stopping the mining madness. The contrast with Bolsonaro's Brazil is striking.

Research exposes the systemic nature of the conflicts created by the Canadian mining company Pan American Silver (PAS).

Mining families from Durham teamed up with climate activists to halt the expansion of an open-cast coal mine.

The people of Cajamarca stopped a gold mine in their water and food rich territory. But the real story is what happened next...