Environment / Mining

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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
446 - 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
437 - November, 2010
A Canadian filmmaker wins damages from the government

A Canadian filmmaker wins damages from the government

Canadian ambassador to Guatemala guilty of slander

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
435 - September, 2010
In the 1980s and 1990s Blankenship used scab labour and armed guards, the closure of union mines and a plethora of intimidation tactics to break the labour movement in the coal fieldsCAROLYN KASTER / AP / PRESS ASSOCIATION IMAGES

Don Blankenship

Big coal equals big profits, so Don Blankenship doesn’t worry too much about pollution.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
435 - September, 2010

Leave it in the ground!

Activists Nnimmo Bassey and Mel Evans report from the frontline.

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NI 419 - Climate justice - January, 2009
419 - January, 2009
Dirty and dangerous – workers who clean up oil spills often suffer neurological and digestive problems. Cancer rates are higher in areas close to oil activity than in the rest of Ecuador.Photo: yasunigreengold.org / Oscar Francino / Ali Supay

Toxic blocks

No-one said oil was clean. But Ecuador’s experience of extracting fossil fuels is about as bad as it gets, reports David Ransom.

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NI 413 - Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil - July, 2008
413 - July, 2008
The indigenous peoples of Yasuní retain strong community values. They need to – under the shadow of military and oil company repression.Photo: yasunigreengold.org / Mauro Burzio

Yasuní – is this the way beyond petroleum?

Is Ecuador’s bold proposal not to exploit a billion barrels of oil in the Yasuní National Park a serious option for combating climate change? If so, the world is going to have to move fast, warns Vanessa Baird.

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NI 413 - Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil - July, 2008
413 - July, 2008

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Nature's defenders October, 2011
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Climate justice January, 2009
Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil July, 2008
Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil July, 2008
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