Trade colonialism, again

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.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Transition mining

Transition mining

Nick Dowson looks at the figures.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
The abandoned mining town of Ivittuut in the South West of Greenland.Photo: Carolyn Jenkins/Alamy

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.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Photo: Cassandra Mello/Terra Floresta Filmes

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.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Residents of Loznica, a small city in western Serbia located in proximity to the lithium-mining project, gather on 20 July 2021 to make their voices heard against it. By November the protest would go countrywide.Photo: Marko Zamurovic/Shutterstock

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.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Home under threat: Endangered savanna elephants have a migratory corridor in the Kavango region.Photo: A Curious Ape

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.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Some of the plaintiffs in this long quest for justice – Angelica Choc (the widow of Adolfo Ich Chamán), Irma Yolanda Choc Cac and Irma Yolanda Choc Quib.Photo: Rights Action

‘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.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea.Photo: NASA

Prising open the arctic

Norway presses ahead with a large-scale auction of oil exploration licences in the Barents Sea.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020.Photo: Feisal Omar/Reuters

Out of sight, out of mind

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Human rights defendants acquitted

Human rights defendants acquitted

Vanessa Baird reports on a landmark ruling in Peru.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Photo: Vanessa Baird

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.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Benny Zable, an Australian performance artist, takes a stand at an anti-Adani rally earlier this year. Ships will head from Australia to Goa, India, where coal dust settles in homes and washes up on beaches.Photo: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty

Coal is in the air

Report from Goa, India by Mahima Jain.

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NI 521 - Who owns the sea? - September, 2019
The mineral-rich eastern Clarion-Clipperton zone is home to diverse marine species, 90 per cent of which are new to science.Photo: Natalie Hurova/Unsplash

Deep-sea dilemma

Sea-bed mining promises many riches, but at great risk. Should we pause for thought? asks marine biologist Diva Amon.

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NI 521 - Who owns the sea? - September, 2019
Gary Bentley was laid off after 12 years working down the mines in Letcher County, Kentucky.Photo: Lance booth

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.

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019

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.

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019
Coalminers in treacherous ‘rat-hole’ mines work without safety equipment or rescue protocols in northeast India.Photo: Tashi Tobgyal / Indian Express Archive

India: into the darkness

Coalminers in treacherous ‘rat-hole’ mines work without safety equipment or rescue protocols in northeast India.

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NI 518 - Building a new internationalism - March, 2019
Civil society protests against fracking in Cheshire, 2016. Is a new wave of resistance coming?Photo: Dave Ellison / Alamy

Fracking haunts sceptred isle

Resistance is rising in the UK as the company behind the controversial energy-extraction process known as fracking gears up for a return to action.

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NI 514 - The next financial crisis - July, 2018
Philip Miriori stands over the gaping wound that is Panguna Mine – the largest open-cut copper mine when in operation.All photos by Ian Neubauer

This land is my land

Nearly 30 years after eco-rebels sent mining company BCL fleeing from Bougainville for wholesale environmental carnage, it is planning its return to the mineral-rich island. But, as conflicts of interest and intrigues develop, locals are less than pleased. Ian Neubauer reports.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
Photo: Blanca Tasilla Moqueira/Women, Mining and Photography 2017

Women against mining – and for the good life

Photography is helping Peruvian women document life near Latin America’s largest goldmine.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Railways September, 2022
Railways September, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
Who owns the sea? September, 2019
Who owns the sea? September, 2019
The right to the city July, 2019
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
Building a new internationalism March, 2019
The next financial crisis July, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
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