Portside

While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.

If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins in November, his next administration comes armed with plans for a massive deregulation of federally-owned public land—your land, our land, the basis of our shared national identity.

Lithium mining in Serbia reveals the ever-expanding extractivist frontiers and integration of peripheries. Yet, the resistance to the lithium mining project, serves as a testament to the possibility of fighting for alternative sustainable futures.

The state’s just transition plans promised by the Energy Transition Act haven’t panned out for many workers.

“We need to have a grown-up conversation about what kind of system do we need, that will stop this ridiculous, outrageous harming that we're doing to ourselves and the planet.” - Gail Bradbrook

Those who dig up the valuable mineral often work in horrific and dangerous conditions, says Siddharth Kara, an international expert on modern-day slavery and author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.

I’ve been working for several years on a large linoleum blockprint that traces the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan project.

El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both mining and border wall construction in remote areas.

An archaeologist traces the current protests in Peru to exploitive labor policies enacted in silver mines during Spanish colonial rule from 1532 to 1800.