Environment / Mining
Articles about Mining, ordered by date. 
Dirty Deal
Serbian villagers resist as lithium mining threatens to wipe them out, writes Matt Broomfield.
In the dock
Report on environmental defenders in Ecuador by Michele Bertelli.
Minerals and maoists
Report on violence in India by Nikita Jain.
Trade colonialism, again
Luciana Ghiotto, Bettina Müller and Lucía Barcena examine how Europe’s attempts to secure the raw materials for green technologies are following a tried and tested path across the Global South.
Held to ransom
A mining company wants to extract billions of dollars from Greenland’s government as compensation for a defeated rare earth mining project. Sebastian Skov Andersen reports on the case that’s divided the region.
The Interview: Mauricio Ye’kuana
Graeme Green speaks to the Indigenous activist about the dangerous fight to protect his people’s land from destructive mining in the Brazilian Amazon.
Once upon a Rio Tinto mining project
When the transnational giant decided to dig for lithium in Serbia it was met by widespread protests. But beyond the people’s rebellion lie deeper questions of imperialism, environmentalism and ‘green’ tech. Andrej Ivančić and Sergey Steblev inspect them in this cautionary tale.
Paradise lost?
A vast area of Namibia and Botswana is under threat from oil and gas exploration. Devastating consequences are feared for the people, wildlife and natural environment. Graeme Green reports on the fight to keep Kavango alive.
‘Our whole truth will come out’
Roxana Olivera reports on the indigenous women who could make legal history by holding a Canadian mining company to account for its operatives overseas.
Prising open the arctic
Norway presses ahead with a large-scale auction of oil exploration licences in the Barents Sea.
Out of sight, out of mind
Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.
Human rights defendants acquitted
Vanessa Baird reports on a landmark ruling in Peru.
The Interview: Virginia Pinares
Taking a stand against mining corporations can cost you your freedom – and even your life – in Peru. But that does not deter indigenous human rights defender Virginia Pinares. She tells Vanessa Baird why.
Deep-sea dilemma
Sea-bed mining promises many riches, but at great risk. Should we pause for thought? asks marine biologist Diva Amon.
Life after coal
Can we move away from fossil fuels without destroying the communities that rely on them? Sam Adler Bell looks to the devastated US coalfields of Appalachia.
World in motion
In order to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, over 80 per cent of known fossil-fuel reserves simply cannot be burned. As political systems fail, Danny Chivers writes about the social movements are targeting mines, rigs, infrastructure and investment to keep carbon in the ground. Illustrations: Jason Ngai.
India: into the darkness
Coalminers in treacherous ‘rat-hole’ mines work without safety equipment or rescue protocols in northeast India.
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