Community activist Rosa Sara HuamánPhoto by Roxana Olivera

Churning up the cloud forest

Roxana Olivera on a Peruvian community's struggles to defend its rights against a mining corporation's dirty tricks.

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NI 475 - Gold trouble - September, 2014
Gold production in tonnes, 2011 1

Gold - the facts

Where does it come from? Who buys it? What do they do with it? What do they do with it? And the impacts of it.

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NI 475 - Gold trouble - September, 2014
Hey, big spender! China’s first gold vending machine – it dispenses coins and bars – landed in busy Wangfujing Street, Beijing, in 2011. Each withdrawal is capped at a million yuan (about US$162,000) worth of gold. Imagechina/Corbis

Stop the gold rush

Richard Swift argues that our appetite for the shiny metal is both pointless and dangerous.

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NI 475 - Gold trouble - September, 2014
Dayak leader, Gagay: ‘I want to sue the mining company for what they have done to us.’Glyn Thomas/WDM

King coal runs amok

Alex Scrivener guides us through the coal-ravaged landscape of East Kalimantan.

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NI 470 - Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth - March, 2014

What the frack...?

The fracking process explained visually.

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NI 468 - Fracking - the gathering storm - December, 2013

The frack files

The lowdown on fracking and why communities around the world are so against it. The myths, the science, the history, the empty promises, the facts – all in this handy primer written by environmental researcher Danny Chivers.

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NI 468 - Fracking - the gathering storm - December, 2013
Rising food prices have been hitting the poorest hardest, leading to looting in some places.

Facing the vultures

Argentina is not in the habit of being cowed by international pressure and financial big-hitters – or by proponents of austerity. Vanessa Baird reports.

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NI 463 - Argentina's challenge - June, 2013
Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers

Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers

Ahead of the Rio +20 Earth Summit, Danny Chivers exposes the canny, crafty and plain deceitful claims of corporations co-opting 'sustainability'

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NI 453 - Protection racket - June, 2012
How do you sleep at night, Mr Davis?

How do you sleep at night, Mr Davis?

Two dead, 100 injured – this is the way Swiss mining giant Xstrata does ‘community relations’ in Peru, while boss Mick Davis is in line for a $44 million bonus.

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NI 453 - Protection racket - June, 2012
Dirty work: a digger at
the Marange diamond
fields in Zimbabwe.Robin Hammond/ Panos

Kimberley Process 'whitewashes' blood diamonds

Aoife Allen describes how The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is not doing enough to clean up the gems trade.

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NI 451 - Adapt or die - April, 2012
‘Many of our people have worked in mines,’ says Mauro Cruz. ‘They know what happens...’Vanessa Baird

Peruvians rise up against the mines

The scale of indigenous-led protests against mining in southern Peru took most by surprise. Vanessa Baird on what led to such flare-ups.

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NI 446 - Nature's defenders - October, 2011
Avatar for real Dario Novellino / Survival

Avatar for real

From Canada to Congo, from India to Australia, indigenous communities are fighting for their lives and livelihoods.

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NI 446 - Nature's defenders - October, 2011
Kondh tribal women listen to a speech by Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi on the day the government said no to Vedanta.Biswaranjan Rout/AP/Press Association Images

Vedanta undermined!

Victory for the hill tribes of India in a David and Goliath battle.

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Gold trouble September, 2014
Gold trouble September, 2014
Gold trouble September, 2014
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Time to rethink disability November, 2013
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
Argentina's challenge June, 2013
Protection racket June, 2012
Protection racket June, 2012
Adapt or die April, 2012
Nature's defenders October, 2011
Nature's defenders October, 2011
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
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