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

By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining

Taking inventory for the new year of transformation and action

A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup

With this summer’s strike, the country’s powerful Indigenous movement united two agendas long in tension: resistance to austerity and opposition to natural resource extraction.

Coal mining destroyed Appalachia's mountaintops. Then came the floodwaters.

Voters in Colombia and France put left coalitions in office, and Tunisian workers shut the country down

Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is attempting to transform the country’s overpriced energy industry by nationalizing lithium — a move essential to kicking out private mining and developing a robust and affordable public energy sector.

Hemp fuel and other biofuels could reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions.