UK Tar Sands Network tells us: The last month has seen a burst of action against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, with 1,252 people arrested during two weeks of sit-ins in front of the White House. Even Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama have...
Survival International has been speaking to Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve as they celebrate drinking water from the Mothomelo borehole for the first time in nine years. It marks a significant step towards their full return to their ancestral lands...
Commentary by Nostromo Research The release of a wikileak (below) last week raises questions about the operations (and governance) of one of the largest companies recently registered on the London Stock Exchange – one which shot straight into the FTSE 100 on its...
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a fresh government. And it’s brought with it a “baptism of fire” in the shape of radical proposals to change the country’s existing minerals legislation. A new law would grant indigenous landowners rights over their...
On 16 August 2011, a prominent Indian environmental and social activist was shot dead while preparing to leave her home in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A passionate opponent of the “tiger mafia” and supporter of tribal peoples’ rights,...
On the eve of a court hearing in Brisbane on August 29-31, Friends of the Earth International called on London-listed Swiss mining giant Xstrata’s shareholders and investors to act to stop Xstrata’s massive ‘Mega Coal Mine’ project in...
