U.S. Mining Company Defends Use of Hired Thugs to Attack Indigenous Farmers in Peru

By Sarah Lazare / AlterNet Sep 28, 2016 Similar actions against environmental defenders are mounting throughout Central and South America. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Humanity’s Plunder of Nature’s Resources Is Intensifying

By Alex Kirby / Climate News Network Jul 23, 2016 A new U.N. report warns that a threefold increase in extraction of the earth’s primary materials over the past 40 years will intensify climate change, reduce biodiversity and raise the risk of conflict. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Environmental Activists Are ‘Being Killed in Record Numbers,’ With at Least 116 Dying in 2014

Staff / Truthdig Nov 30, 2015 A new report reveals that two killings of environmental activists occurred on average every week -- up a fifth from 2013. Nearly three-quarters of the known deaths were in Central and South America. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Toxic Mining Law (Video)

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Haiyan: A Disaster Made Worse by Greed

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Nov 15, 2013 The Philippines, which is one of the poorest and least developed nations on the planet, has had little hand in creating the conditions that nurtured Typhoon Haiyan (or Yolanda, as it's known locally), possibly the worst storm in recorded human history.The Philippines, which is one of the poorest and least developed nations on the planet, had little hand in creating the conditions that nurtured Typhoon Haiyan. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Born to Organize

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Striking Miners Charged in Slayings of Colleagues Shot by Police

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Aug 31, 2012 Despite the fact that video seen around the world clearly showed police firing on the South African miners, their co-workers are the ones who are being charged in the deaths. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Battle of Blair Mountain

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 16, 2012 There are still bullets in the ground where working people in the 1920s staged the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

World Scientists Want to Ban Deep-Sea Fishing

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2011 In a report released this week, marine scientists from around the world said industrial deep-sea fishing should be banned because it takes much longer for those fish to repopulate than species that live closer to shore. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Industrial Capitalism Still on Course to Consume the World

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2011 Echoing the now-weary warnings of scientists, environmentalists and other well-meaning people, a United Nations report released Thursday says: “By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year -- three times its current appetite -- unless the economic growth rate is ‘decoupled’ from the rate of natural resource consumption.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

21 Die in Colombia Mine Explosion

Staff / Truthdig Jan 30, 2011 A blast at a coal mine in Colombia has killed 21 workers, less than four years after an explosion took the lives of 30 at the same La Preciosa mine in the northeast of the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chilean Mine Company Goes Belly-Up

Staff / Truthdig Nov 28, 2010 The company that owns the now-infamous mine where 33 Chileans were rescued after two months underground has agreed to liquidate its assets, avoiding bankruptcy. Much of the money will go to pay miners idled by the disaster and to compensate the government for rescue efforts. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )