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Australia: Climate activists blocked world’s largest coal port

The action aims to expose the impacts of climate change in Pacific Island countries. On Friday 17 November, a group of 30 climate activists from 12 small Pacific Island countries held a protest at the world’s largest coal export port…

Scandalous pollution in Vaca Muerta

At the end of 2000, the Argentinean Association of Environmental Lawyers warned of the phenomenal levels of pollution in Vaca Muerta. The lawsuit was filed against Comarsa, the company in charge of treating the waste, along with eight oil companies…

Indigenous peoples, democracies and territories

In times of elections, advances of right-wing options and democracies in crisis, indigenous peoples propose other models of life: without exploiting nature, with solidarity, complementarity and reciprocity. Overcoming genocide, structural racism, extractive governments and millenarian peoples who mark out paths.…

The impacts of mining on women affected by dams

Reports included conditions from skin diseases, anxiety, and depression to the loss of the will to live. Who are these women victims of mining, and how has the activity altered their ways of life and existence? By Jacqueline Melo e…