Extraction

The fossil fuel industry could take important measures to mitigate climate change, but devotes itself to the opposite. The real scandal is their unwillingness to invest in renewables.

The Waorani of the Ecuadorian Amazon have reached an emblematic legal victory in protecting their ancestral lands from petroleum extraction.

Protests against fracked-gas pipelines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are part of a growing movement of direct-action resistance to extraction. Insider Eric Moll reports from the Frontline of the resistance