Mining

Community fears for the restoration of the UK’s largest open pit coal mine.

Human rights violations reported as villagers 'gagged' during negotiations for compensation from Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar.

Damage caused by deep-seabed mining would be extensive and irreversible, says new report.

Lützerath Lebt activists are in an ongoing struggle with German police, erecting barricades and blockading to prevent eviction.

The government’s recent approval of the proposal to open a new coking coal mine in West Cumbria is an example of such climate nationalism in action.

A train line brings workers - and COVID-19 - to the Awa Guajá community, threatening their survival. Part 2 of 2.

A visit to the Awa Guajá where people have died from sadness as well as guns since their land became a freight line for the world’s biggest iron-ore mine. Part 1 of 2.

Experts question industry signals sent by government’s new coal mine approval.

Gove stokes environmental anger by approving first new coal mine in 30 years.

Rio Tinto faces new unrest at Madagascar mine as procedural dance delays promised compensation.

A federal judge has ruled the expansion of Montana coal mine illegal for impacts on water resources, the Yellowstone River, and the climate.

Rio Tinto QMM mine failures 'root of conflict in South Madagascar.'

What the Philippines’ biggest land investor doesn’t want you to know.

Dead fish found after cyclones and storms forced Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Madagascar to dump water causes alarm.

The fragile ecology of the Himalayan region has been increasingly devastated by dams, heavy infrastructure projects and climate breakdown.

Honouring martyred Filipina environmental defenders on International Women’s Day.

Experts at a special hearing warned the EU that its green rhetoric about its mining boom is dangerous and misleading.

The villagers of Andrakaraka, southern Madagascar, are protesting against the Rio Tinto QMM ilmenite mine.

New mining projects are being re-branded clean, green and vital to climate action across Europe. The reality is very different.

Protesters against a titanium mine in South Africa were brutally attacked. Six years later and justice has not been done.

The push to extract raw materials for an urgent ‘clean energy’ transition is impacting on vulnerable frontlines in resource-rich areas.
 

Mining that destroys communities and the ecosystem can have no part in any Green New Deal.

We must be able to imagine a world see from mining destruction before we can make this a reality.

Ireland has been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the country are fighting back.