Environmental Win in Honduras
On February 28, government officials in Honduras decided to no longer grant open-pit mining permits due to the environmental concerns ...
Tag: Mining
Protests in Serbia Against Destructive Mining Plans Face Government Violence
For four consecutive weekends, protests have been sweeping Serbia, spurred by plans for multinational mining group Rio Tinto to begin ...
Mining Threatens 20% of Indigenous Lands in the Amazon
For decades, the Yaigojé Apaporis Indigenous People in Colombia’s lower Apaporis River Basin worked to get their traditional lands formally ...
Your Smartphone Could Have Contributed to Devastation in the DRC
The early 2000s saw coltan help further technological development - but at what cost to the DRC? To understand the ...
Seven ways new technology will impact the mining sector
There is concern that massive job losses will occur in the mining sector because of automation. Some aspects of the ...
Shrinking the environmental footprint of mining
Almost every element in the periodic table has a use in modern society, and we are consuming them in larger ...
From Where I Stand: Tebogo Mashego
EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY UN WOMEN AS PART OF THE SERIES “FROM WHERE I STAND”, WHICH CAPTURES PEOPLES STORIES ...
From Where I Stand: “I became a man just to access the mines”
EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY UN WOMEN AS PART OF THE SERIES “FROM WHERE I STAND”, WHICH CAPTURES ...
