Venezuela is set to hand over 12% of the nation's territory in the upper reaches of the Amazon rainforest to mining corporations, writes Lucio Marcello, with 150 companies from 35 countries poised to devastate the army-controlled 'special economic zone'. But resistance is growing, and a counter-proposal aims to protect the area's precious biodiversity, indigenous cultures and water resources in a new South Orinoco Mega Reserve.
… Amazon: mega-nature reserve? Or mega-mining frontier? Lucio Marcello | 30th March 2017 News Venezuela Mining Ecocide Indigenous Peoples Forests … the upper reaches of the Amazon rainforest to mining corporations, writes Lucio Marcello, …
Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has personally attacked eco-defender Carlos Zorrilla in TV broadcasts for resisting a vast new copper mine in a precious area of pristine cloud forest, and opposing the advance of oil exploration into the Amazon. Fearful for his life, Zorilla is now seeking international support for his, and his community's, battle for land, water and the natural world.
… Zorrilla | 25th March 2015 News Ecuador Mining Ecocide Forests Commons Natural World … I have been an activist in Intag's anti-mining struggle for two long decades. But it … agricultural communities. Until the mining companies came looking for copper, the …
The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black Hills of South Dakota, ancestral home to the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and groundwater. But this time, writes Ben Whitford, the Lakota are not alone ...
… water! Ben Whitford | 3rd March 2014 News Mining Ecocide Indigenous Peoples USA Water … the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and … ... In recent years, that's led a number of mining corporations to target the region, and …
Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, a gigantic open pit copper and gold mine is planned in the heart of the Shuar peoples' territory. David Dene tells the story of a growing international campaign to uphold and defend the 'Rights of Nature', in Ecuador and beyond.
… David Dene | 29th April 2014 Activism Forests Mining Ecocide Ecuador Indigenous Peoples … the 70 Shuar communities in danger from the mining project. In Quito I was able to secure …
What's needed to pull the world's economy out of recession? According to the G20, it's a massive wave of 'infrastructure' development worth as much $70 trillion, writes Bill Laurance. But all the roads, mines, dams, pipelines and 'development corridors' will inflict massive damage on wildlife populations and natural havens, not to mention local communities that stand in the way.
… | 16th March 2015 News Development Transport Mining Ecocide Forests … The Amazon also has almost 53,000 active mining leases , covering some 20% of the … and fires, poaching, illegal gold mining and rampant land speculation. Mining …
Mining corporations, politicians and big NGOs are meeting in London today to plan the future of extractive industries in Africa, write Nnimmo Bassey & Sheila Berry. Absent African civil society and impacted communities, delegates are setting an agenda for 'resource-led development' that will cook the continent in the greenhouse gases of its plundered oil, gas and coal.
… 2015 Comment Africa Development Fossil Fuels Mining Oil Coal Ecocide Climate Change let-them-eat-carbon-cut.jpg Mining corporations, politicians and big NGOs … of land, water and the air. The scars of mining in Africa are visible in the coal mines …
A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry, writes Nick Meynen. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
… booms Nick Meynen | 9th May 2017 News Mining Ecocide War India China Singapore Sri … scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more … the police to arrive, the men present at the mining site pulled her out and assaulted her . …
The world we inhabit is a miracle of billions of years of evolution as life has unfolded in its full beauty and diversity, writes Grant A. Mincy. But human activities - deforestation, mining, urbanisation, pollution, climate change - are tearing away at the functioning fabric of the living biosphere. A mass extinction is under way, and it must be halted, and reversed. But how?
… Mincy. But human activities - deforestation, mining, urbanisation, pollution, climate … The purpose of the trip was to visit a coal mining town in the Central Appalachians. We … trying to understand the effects of strip mining throughout the region. Coal mining has …
Brazil has suffered its biggest ever industrial disaster, write Ana Luisa Naghettini & Geraldo Lopes. Breached and overflowing dams have released a massive slug of toxic muds and tailings from iron mining into the country's fifth largest river system that provides drinking water for downstream cities, destroying ecosystems in rivers and vast areas of biologically fragile ocean.
… News Water Waste Pollution Brazil Ecocide Law Mining Corporations brazil-dam-mud-cut.jpg … slug of toxic muds and tailings from iron mining into the country's fifth largest river … on 5th November, a mud dam burst from the mining enterprise Samarco, a joint venture of …
When Mike Roselle tried to give his State Governor a sample of Mountain Top Removal dust for analysis, he was not expecting to be arrested at gunpoint and banged in jail for a week on suicide watch - all without charge.
… blasted and gouged away by the barbarous mining method called Mountaintop Removal. … perhaps. Mercury? Who really knew. The mining companies weren't saying. Neither was … Coal Roselle got it into his head to take the mining dust to the one person in the state who …
The Arctic is becoming a battleground as Russia, Norway, Canada and the US vie for access to oil, gas and minerals – campaigners fear safety and the environment will be the losers
… to see an influx of oil and gas rigs and mining infrastructure over the next two … North Sea during the 1970s and 80s. Diamond mining is already underway in the Canadian … high for a long time to come, which is why mining and oil companies are preparing to dig …
A new movement has been launched at COP21 in Paris to give legal effect to the rights of nature and communities, writes Hal Rhoades, providing effective protection against the gross environmental damage and human rights violations that accompany extractive industries from mining to oil development and agri-business projects, and which underlie climate change.
… Law Human Rights Ecocide COP21 Climate Change Mining Indigenous Peoples shuar-cut.jpg A new … that accompany extractive industries from mining to oil development and agri-business … harmed due to destructive processes such as mining, fracking and industrialised …
As global media focus on Crimea's forthcoming referendum on whether to join Russia, we remember another 'Act of Free Choice' in West Papua in 1969 - which set off 45 years of military occupation, theft, repression and murder.
… wilderness being devastated by logging, mining, agricultural and biofuel interests. …
New development financiers like China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank are driving a global attack on the environment, writes Bill Laurance. With their fast track 'no questions asked' procedures, they are financing a wave of destructive mega-projects, giving the World Bank and other lenders the excuse to lower their already weak safeguards.
… such as roads, dams, gas lines, mining projects, and so on. Some people had … dams , and hundreds of thousands of new mining, oil and gas projects . The … fragmentation, poaching, fires, illegal mining and land speculation. For instance, our …
Lawyer Polly Higgins is spearheading a campaign to have 'ecocide' recognised by the UN as an international crime against peace. But how will this work in practice?
… and carrot of opportunity. So will all mining and deforestation wind down and … on your approach. 'For example, if you're mining, but at the same time restoring the land that you're mining out of, it will push for new processes …
The idea of a 'good, or even great, Anthropocene' as promised in the Ecomodernist Manifesto is purely delusional, writes Derrick Jensen. Worse, it underlies a narrative in which the wholesale destruction of nature and of sustainable indigenous societies is repackaged as a noble mission - one whose ultimate purpose is the complete alienation of humans from the planet that spawned us.
… "Mines." "Where do you get the miners?" Mining is one of the first three forms of …
March 8 is World Women Day, but today (March 3) there's another good reason to reflect on the role of women in society, write CAMILLA ROLANDO MAZZUCA & BROTOTI ROY. On this day last year the awarded environmental activist Berta Caceres was killed
… extraction frontiers further. These include mining, oil and gas drilling, deforestation, …
End Ecocide has just days left in which to gather 1 million signatures from across Europe. Joselyn Morton urges all Ecologists to sign - and force the European Commission to progress the initiative.
… saying: "Pope says Nope to fracking and mega-mining. Not on Planet Earth." So far they have … or a mountain top that has been trashed by mining. The earth has enough slag heaps and …
The impact of fracking on communities and ecosystems demands a complete rethink of the human relationship with nature, writes Shannon Biggs. Nature has rights - and this must be reflected in our laws.
… known as ' fracking .' Along with tar sands mining and mountaintop removal, fracking (or … the removal of whole mountaintops for coal mining, or fishing the oceans to extinction ? …
Humanity is continuing to drive species into extinction at a terrifying rate, writes Robert J. Burrowes - not just nameless beetles and midges, but mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and trees. The biggest causes are habitat destruction, pollution and hunting ... and unless we stop soon, we too will be among the victims of our ecocidal attack on Earth.
… use (whether it be residential, commercial, mining, farming or military) and our … chromium, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc. Mining and smelting activities and the …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline
Frontline Online: Sign the petition and help stop Ecocide? Lorna Howarth | 20th January 2013 News Ecocide Polly Higgins Climate Change ecocide eu.jpg The Law of Ecocide would create a legal duty of …