extractivism

Americas

In Shocking Role Reversal, Ecuador Ordered to Pay Chevron $220 Million

Katie Surma / Inside Climate News Dec 11, 2025 Indigenous communities have lived with toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, the victims are being forced to pay Chevron, which acquired Texaco in 2001. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Labor

What It’s Like to Work for the Billionaire ‘Nickel King’

Sarah Anderson / Inequality.org Dec 9, 2025 Labor activists are exposing deadly conditions for Indonesian workers who process battery nickel for Teslas and other electric cars. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

TD Original

‘The Amazon Is Not for Sale’

Lital Khaikin / Truthdig Sep 30, 2025 In New York, Amazonian Indigenous nations denounce a planned auction of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Environment

COP30 Countdown: Challenging Green Capitalism in the Americas

Sabrina Fernandes, Breno Bringel / NACLA Aug 29, 2025 A series of stories makes the case that the Amazon cannot be reduced to a carbon sink for the Global North or a market for green finance. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Activism

Why ‘Treeconomics’ Is Better Than a Profit-Hungry ‘Heartless’ Machine

Eduardo Sasso / Resilience.org Mar 12, 2024 If we are to maintain a habitable planet, we must frame economics with metaphors borrowed from the living world. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Environment

Born To Be Land Defenders

Eliana Lafone, Rebecca Wilson / NACLA Dec 22, 2023 Kichwa activist Leo Cerda on forest protecters, alliance building and moving beyond the extractive economy. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Environment

The Global Race for Lithium Arrives in Rural Brazil

Sam Klein-Markman / NACLA Aug 3, 2023 The global energy transition is set to require a staggering increase in the lithium supply—and rural Brazil is the latest zone of extraction. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )