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How is mining in Sweden affecting Indigenous Saami communities?

Bertie talks to Saami activist Tor Tuorda about concerns around plans for new Swedish mining sites.
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Hanna Hindström and Ana Celestial
  • Opinion

Mining boom in the Philippines threatens environmental defenders

Since 2010 the country has lost forest cover three times the size of New York City in mining zones for critical minerals, stripping away the country’s resilience to climate-related catastrophes, including typhoons and floods. 
D. Raghunandan
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Privatising space will make emissions soar

Space travel comes with atmospheric risks – and if corporations take over the world beyond our orbit, who will regulate extraterrestrial waste and mining?
Investigations

Drax-owned facilities broke environmental rules more than 11,000 times in the US

Read our series of investigations on the UK’s biomass supply chain, watch clips from the BBC Newsnight documentary, and explore international news coverage.

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Amite pellet mill in Gloster ©️ Nico Hopkins of The Perfect Shot

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  • Markets

How Exxon is using international law to sue the Dutch government

Exxon owes the people of Groningen millions in compensation for damage caused by gas extraction. Thanks to a legal instrument, it could be the residents of the province that end up compensating the fossil fuel giant.
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“Shocking and sad”: how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South

Camille Corcoran talks to experts about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.
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  • Bioeconomy

Why was organic policy blamed for Sri Lanka’s financial crisis?

Academic research offers a different story from news media on Sri Lanka's short-lived ban on agrochemicals. Bertie Harrison-Broninski explores what really happened, and whether there's a future for national-scale organic policy.
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Have monopolies broken agricultural markets? 
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Why are foreign companies suing governments that decarbonise?
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What does space privatisation mean for climate?
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Why has the US government profiled pesticide scientists?
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