Precious World Heritage Sites that protect vital biodiversity and human cultures are at risk from oil decelopment and other industries. Under threat are not just nature, wildlife, land and water but the 11 million people who depend on the 114 sites' environmental quality for their livelihoods.
… worldwide from threats ranging from oil and gas exploration to mining and illegal logging. … and mixed World Heritage sites have oil, gas or mining concessions overlapping them or …
Countries at the UN have agreed to start formal negotiations on a new 'legally binding instrument' to conserve the biological riches of the high seas that cover 45% of planet Earth, and ensure their sustainable use for the benefit of all mankind.
… prospecting, regulation of offshore oil and gas drilling, and the clean up of vast …
Governments and companies making no effort to quantify the real climate impacts
… quantify the real climate impacts Greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands operations are … significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted. 'Governments and companies …
The Church of England has dealt a significant blow to Vedanta Resources plc by pulling £3.75 million worth of investments from the company on ethical grounds
… world, running through everything from the gas guzzler to the wind turbine. Any country …
A group of campaigners from Alaska have stepped up their campaign against plans to build one of the world’s largest goldmines by buying shares in Anglo American
… moratorium on all activity by oil and gas industries would help safeguard the local …
Students, workers and civil rights activists gathered in their hundreds today in Delhi to protest at the mining company Vedanta, and the Indian government's support of highly destructive mining projects in forests and on indigenous peoples' lands.
… in Australia and Zambia, as well as oil and gas operations in three separate countries. …
Greenland's first female prime minister is on a modernising drive to prosperity and independence, But will the combination of melting glaciers, oil, mining projects and mass immigration bring wealth or destruction?
… Licences for exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the waters off Greenland have been …