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Mining

Judge Tom Goldtooth addresses the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal on Feb. 28 in Toronto, Canada. Goldtooth noted that people around the world are starting to reevaluate colonial legal systems. Credit: Courtesy of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature

The Rights of Nature Become a Rallying Point Against an Ascendant Mining Industry

By Katie Surma

Sumean Gebe, from the O'Hongana Manyawa tribe, carries a Sulawesi bear cuscus after hunting on Aug. 19, 2024, in the dense forests of Halmahera, Indonesia.

A Nickel Rush Threatens Indonesia’s Last Nomadic Tribes and Its Forests, Fishermen and Farmers

Text and photos by Garry Lotulung

Kerry Schwartz, a retired hydrogeology faculty member and water resources educator at the University of Arizona, holds up a small sample of water from the spring in Alum Gulch. Credit: Esther Frances/Inside Climate News

The Renewable Energy Transition Has Residents of a Small Arizona Town on Edge

By Esther Frances, Megija Medne and Phillip Powell

Kathy Love, director of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, listens during a discussion highlighting the consequences of longwall coal mining at Oak Grove High School. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Federal Regulators Say An Alabama Coal Mine’s Plans May Violate Law, Leaving Citizens At Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

The aftermath of a home explosion above Oak Grove Mine that killed W.M. Griffice in Adger, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Federal Regulators Waited 7 Months to Investigate a Deadly Home Explosion Above a Gassy Coal Mine. Residents Want Action

By James Bruggers, Lee Hedgepeth

A sperm whale dives underwater as a Greenpeace sailing vessel, named the Witness, goes on a scientific expedition in August 2024 in Norway. Credit: Christian Åslund/Greenpeace

Norway’s Plan for Seabed Mining Threatens Arctic Marine Life, Greenpeace Says

By Teresa Tomassoni

People attend the burial of 14-year-old Colombian environmental activist Breiner David Cucuname, who was shot dead during a rural security patrol on Jan. 14, 2022 in the indigenous community of Las Delicias in Colombia’s Cauca Department. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

‘Appalling Figures’: At Least Three Environmental Defenders Killed Per Week in 2023

By Katie Surma

Oak Grove residents including Clara Riley (left) and Lisa Lindsay (center) attend a meeting in central Alabama to discuss the consequences of longwall coal mining. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

In the First Community Meeting Since a Fatal Home Explosion, Residents Grill Alabama Regulators, Politicians Over Coal Mining Destruction

By Lee Hedgepeth

Apache Stronghold members and supporters stopped in Gallup, New Mexico, on Aug. 18. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Apache Group is Carrying a Petition to the Supreme Court to Stop a Mine on Land Sacred to the Tribe

By Noel Lyn Smith

The Griffice family's home that exploded in Adger is one of more than a hundred that Oak Grove Mine operators have said could be impacted by subsidence. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Regulators Said They Didn’t Know Who’d Purchased a Mine Linked to a Fatal Home Explosion. It’s a Familiar Face

By Lee Hedgepeth

Melissa (left) and Steve Fry look out at the proposed mine site in the Galiuro Mountains outside Mammoth, Arizona, on March 14. Credit: Michael McKisson/Arizona Luminaria

Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water

By Wyatt Myskow

At the Salton Sea in California, geothermal plants could soon also extract lithium from brine water contained deep in the ground. But local community members and environmentalists worry about the impacts the mining will have on local water supplies. Credit: EcoFlight

Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water

By Wyatt Myskow

A recent development on newly-bought Marshall County land scars the lush green landscape near Lake Guntersville in Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Alabama’s Bald Eagle Territory, Residents Say an Unexpected Mining Operation Emerged as Independence Day Unfolded

By Lee Hedgepeth

Sandy Bahr (center), director of Sierra Club's Grand Canyon Chapter, and Carletta Tilousi (right), member of the Havasupai Tribe, deliver a petition to the Arizona State Capitol Executive Tower in Phoenix on June 27. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Tribes and Environmentalists Press Arizona and Federal Officials to Stop Uranium Mining Near the Grand Canyon

By Noel Lyn Smith

An aerial view of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Credit: Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity

As a Nevada Community Fights a Lithium Mine, a Rare Fish and Its Haven Could Be an Ace in the Hole

By Wyatt Myskow

As a Longwall Coal Mine Grows Beneath an Alabama Town, Neighbors of an Explosion Victim Feel Undermined and Unheard

By Lee Hedgepeth

Judge Reginald L. Jeter is presiding over the lawsuit filed by the Griffice family against the operator of Oak Grove mine. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Family to Add Wrongful Death Claim Against Mine Operator in Lawsuit Over Home Explosion

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Rosemont Copper Company operates in the Santa Rita mountains, located in southeast Arizona. Credit: Esther Frances/Inside Climate News

Congress Pushes Forward With Bill Expanding the Rights of Mining Companies on Federal Land

By Esther Frances, Megija Medne and Phillip Powell

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