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Fossil fuel exports were meant to fund a revolutionary leftist agenda. But the state’s move to drill in Tariquía reserve has led to bitter conflict and diminishing returns

But the tribe’s resistance against Enel’s rent-seeking is only one example of the fights against alternative energy projects that are happening all across rural America.

Latin America’s water wars: The people of the Ixquisis valley thought their most valuable resource would help lift their villages out of poverty. Instead, murder and violence followed

The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation has fought for years for compensation from iron ore mines in the Pilbara, but may soon be producing renewable energy to sell to those same companies.

Conviction of businessman who conspired in murder of indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres raises hopes of end to impunity

Pipeline company downplaying major legal and financial risks of crossing unceded First Nations territory in British Columbia

As the UN forum on indigenous issues meets in New York, we, the Munduruku people of Brazil, demand an end to the destruction of our territory

As Pakistan seeks to address its power crisis by mining coal, villagers in the Thar desert are fighting to prevent state acquisition of their ancestral land

The Munduruku Indians are gaining support as they fight the Brazilian government to stop their territory being submerged

EU leaders must vote against a biofuels policy that is increasing world hunger and causing environmental devastationBurning hundreds of millions of tonnes of staple foods to produce biofuels is a crime against humanity...

Funded by British investment, mining brings deforestation, health problems and pollution to Samarinda, part of 'coal's last frontier'Just 30 years ago, Samarinda was a sleepy village surrounded by deep equatorial forest and...

Government reports high levels of barium, lead, chrome and petroleum-related compounds in region that is home to oil fieldPeru has declared an environmental state of emergency in a remote part of its northern Amazon rainforest,...

Residents of Sani Isla have built up an arsenal of weapons to fend of Petroamazonas, in a confrontation which did not take place as expectedAn indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building...

The couple hope to dissuade indigenous Kichwa villagers from accepting the advances of PetroAmazonasAn Ecuadorean shaman and his British wife will embark this week on a house-to-house campaign in their Amazonian village to...

Lowering consumption in the developed world, renewables, ending land grabs, a price for natural resources, private sector investment – what's the answer?How do you ensure access to safe water, energy and land in a way that...