ENVIRONMENT

Mining the top source of environmental conflicts

Major and mid-sized miners are embroiled in more environmental disputes around the planet with local communities than other sectors, with coal coming second only to crude oil in terms of the commodities driving conflict, according to a survey by Spanish researchers.

 A Chumash Day Pow Wow and Inter-tribal Gathering

A Chumash Day Pow Wow and Inter-tribal Gathering

Rio Tinto at 51 has the third-highest number of environmental conflict cases ongoing in the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJA) compiled by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat...

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