The Right has worked hard in recent years to portray itself as defenders of beleaguered coal miners. But over a thousand miners are currently on strike in Alabama and we haven’t heard a peep about it from conservative talking heads.
The Inuit Ataqatigiit party won 37% of the vote, with 29% for the ruling social-democratic Siumut party, according to official results reported by Reuters. At the center of Tuesday's election was the fate of a rare-earth and uranium mining project.
If ordinary people can overcome powerful companies to protect their water in a poor country like El Salvador, imagine what their counterparts can do here.
The United States backs anti-narcotics operations as Colombia’s military faces a storm of criticism.
Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — not just of disease, but of violence, exploitation, and corporate capture.
To the north, the Barents Sea, an offshoot of the Arctic Ocean, bounds them both. This remote region -- approximately 800 miles from Oslo and 900 miles from Moscow -- has, in recent years, become a vortex of economic and military activity.
Nine months before the dam was ruptured, the mining company admitted in an internal document that the dam was weak and that its collapse would cause a large loss of life
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