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How to Think About the Extractive Problem of Lithium Mining
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (1030+ words) From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio's environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Thea Riofrancos, the author of "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism." Electric vehicle sales are skyrocketing. In 2025, more than one in five…...
Ecuadorians to Vote on Constitutional Rewrite, Possibly Gutting Rights of Nature
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (1702+ words) Our nonprofit newsroom investigates the biggest threats to our planet, holds decision-makers accountable, and pushes back on climate disinformation so facts stay front and center. In 2008, Ecuador made history by enshrining the rights of nature in its constitution, recognizing ecosystems…...
Minnesota's Boundary Waters Just Lost Protection From Mining
1+ week, 1+ day ago (776+ words) Our nonprofit newsroom investigates the biggest threats to our planet, holds decision-makers accountable, and pushes back on climate disinformation so facts stay front and center. WASHINGTON'Despite hours of impassioned arguments from Sen. Tina Smith, the U. S. Senate ended a Biden-era moratorium…...
Deep Sea Mining Negotiations Resume Amid Industry Pushback and Environmental Alarm
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (324+ words) Our nonprofit newsroom investigates the biggest threats to our planet, holds decision-makers accountable, and pushes back on climate disinformation so facts stay front and center. Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston,…...
Two Years After Fatal Explosion, Alabama Mine Regulator "Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (902+ words) OAK GROVE, Ala. It's been a long two years for Lisa Lindsay." And every day since her neighbor's home exploded above an expanding coal mine in March 2024, she's been reminded of how far her community still has to go." OSMRE…...
Nation's First Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Biodiversity Hotspot
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1175+ words) But in Patagonia, Arizona, residents and environmentalists are preparing for the impacts the project will bring to a world-renowned biodiversity hotspot, as the town, the nearby city of Nogales and Santa Cruz County inch closer to signing a community benefit…...
A Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah's Redrock Country
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (756+ words) Lawmakers from Utah have commandeered an obscure law to unravel protections for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, potentially delivering on a Trump administration goal of undoing protections for public conservation lands across the country. "This is the blueprint for which…...
Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (560+ words) President Donald Trump plans to announce an executive order on Wednesday directing the U. S. Department of Defense to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants. The order, first reported by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by a White House official, comes…...
Peaceful Protest Against Whaling in Iceland Lands Two Activists in Court
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (1292+ words) At 4 a. m. on Sept. 4, 2023, two environmental activists, Elissa Phillips and Anahita Sahar Babaei, climbed aboard a pair of aging whaling vessels moored side by side in Reykjav'k harbor to stop them from heading out to sea. A temporary ban on killing…...
Coal Communities Accuse Congress of Breaking Its Promise to Clean Up Abandoned Mine Lands
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (827+ words) When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2021, authorizing more than $11 billion in new funding to reclaim lands and waterways damaged by abandoned coal mines, the people who lead this work on the ground were ecstatic....