Bolivian gold miners push into national park despite country’s green rhetoric
Mining co-ops – with oversize influence in the government – are moving into the Amazon’s Madidi national park The footage is jerky, perhaps shot covertly....
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Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster to get day in UK courts
Court of appeal judgment allows £5bn lawsuit against mining giant BHP by more than 200,000 victims of 2015 Mariana dam disaster More than 200,000 victims...
Mexican farmers demand redress for illegal mining and violence on their land
Owners of community land bought shares to join annual meeting of Fresnillo, a Mexican FTSE 100 company Mexican farmers have travelled to London to demand...
Rejection of Arctic mine expansion bid offers hope for narwhal population
Conservationists and Inuit community relieved at decision on Canadian iron mine that threatened ‘extirpation’ of cetacean The expansion of an iron ore mine in the...
Is a Madagascan mine the first to offset its destruction of rainforest?
Researchers say the island’s biggest mine is on track to achieve no net loss of forest but that ‘there remain important caveats’ Ambatovy mine on...
‘We are afraid’: Erin Brockovich pollutant linked to global electric car boom
Exclusive: Investigation uncovers evidence of contaminated air and water from one of Indonesia’s largest nickel mines Read more in our Battery life series A Guardian...
Myanmar: dozens feared missing after landslide at jade mine
At least one person has died and up to 100 more could have been swept into a lake in the latest incident to strike the...
