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28-04-2013 Six million Chinese workers are victims of pneumoconiosis
13-08-2012 French health expert refuses Legion d'Honneur
24-07-2012 Giant Caterpillar is on a downward crawl
17-07-2012 Indian Human Rights Commission raps denial of silicosis deaths
05-06-2012 Out of the Woods: can Australia overcome fatal carbon flaws?
22-05-2012 Are China's "instant" buildings too good to be true?
15-05-2012 India's Kaziranga - Between Rocks and Wild Places
20-02-2012 World's biggest asbestos trial sees two billionaires sentenced to prison
10-01-2012 Israel exploits Palestinian resources in occupied West Bank
21-11-2011 India: "devils" in the deep blue sea?
12-09-2011 Exposing the hidden destructiveness of 11 September 2011
12-09-2011 Human bricks in China's walls
11-07-2011 Italian court seeks 20-year terms for asbestos poisoners
21-02-2011 More revolutions must come!
14-02-2011 The Methodical Shooting Of Boys At Work In Gaza
21-12-2010 Australia - Sands of time: rock art versus Rocla
13-12-2010 Asian anti-asbestos delegation headed to Quebec
08-11-2010 Israel's bloody response to young men collecting gravel
01-11-2010 Cemex gets blasted in Dominican Republic & US
04-10-2010 Donkeys Work
20-09-2010 Ocean exploration reaches perilous new depths
17-07-2010 More lead poisoning and slave labour reported from China
14-12-2009 Turin trial opens over asbestos deaths
30-11-2009 UNDP condemns cement plant near Dominican National Park
05-10-2009 Dusts of Death: Asian Activists Gather to Fight Workplace Illnesses
16-07-2009 New report exposes China's Labour attrition
07-07-2009 Top cement maker faces $558 million lawsuit
07-07-2009 Judge blocks cement factory, Dominican President to consult the UN
08-06-2009 Dominican Republic: Environmentalists rally to block cement plant
27-05-2009 Vietnam's aluminium war heats up
11-05-2009 India imposes ban on hill mining
04-08-2008 India's contract workers face growing dangers in construction, mining, brick-making and manufacturing
28-07-2008 After quake, China leans on grieving parents to buy their silence
04-01-2008 Indonesia update
23-11-2007 India Cements to own overseas coal mines
17-10-2007 London Calling: the bull behind Al's goring
31-08-2007 Doe Run Lead Production Loss Put At 6,500 Tons
30-08-2007 China Says May Sack Energy-Guzzling State Firms' CEOs
30-08-2007 China Urges Electricity Suppliers to Buy ‘Green’ Power Ling Li
30-08-2007 US update
30-08-2007 China update
30-08-2007 China update
16-08-2007 Local police and security guards break up peaceful workers' protests
14-08-2007 Black stuff and nonsense
14-08-2007 Black Stuff And Nonsense
13-08-2007 Indonesia wants to renegotiate copper contract
13-08-2007 Indonesia update
13-08-2007 Indonesia update
04-08-2007 Women lead marble mining opposition
26-07-2007 Diary of a Strike: 3,000 workers at the Shuangma Cement Plant strike in protest at management's comp
15-07-2007 Chemical Company Profits From Double Counting Of Carbon Credits
29-06-2007 China update
29-06-2007 A Journey Into The Black Heart Of Shanxi
29-06-2007 Massive Crackdown On Slave Labour Camps – A Response To Years Of Neglect And Collusion
29-06-2007 National People's Congress Approves New Labour Contract Law
29-06-2007 As Unrest Rises, China Broadens Workers' Rights
29-06-2007 China Update
28-06-2007 Mine Boss Jailed For Reporter Death
22-06-2007 China update
22-06-2007 China Update
22-06-2007 Update on Chinese minerals companies overseas: Kenya, Australia, Russia, Mongolia, Vietnam, North Ko
22-06-2007 China Says Exports Fuel Greenhouse Gas Emissions
19-06-2007 China’s Environmental Crisis Catalyzes New Democracy Movement
19-06-2007 China Now Number One in Carbon Emissions; USA Number Two
15-06-2007 Update: foreign companies in China
15-06-2007 Zijin On The Warpath Yet Again
19-05-2007 Gold Fever in Patagonia
19-05-2007 Latin America/ Caribbean update
19-05-2007 Latin America / Caribbean update
17-05-2007 PERU
16-05-2007 Barrick bids Famatina project goodbye, La Rioja
16-05-2007 ARGENTINA
15-05-2007 Peruvian Congress Investigates Doe Run Compliance: Congresswoman Rejects Mining Company "Blackm
07-05-2007 Blood and Gold on Algamarca Hill
06-05-2007 Villa Las Rosas Prohibits Mining
04-05-2007 Govt Told Not to Resume S'pore Sand Exports
04-05-2007 Granite Mining Threatens Riau Protected Forest
04-05-2007 Indonesia update
04-05-2007 Farmers, Informal Gold Miners Clash Over Pollution
04-05-2007 Indonesia update
02-05-2007 CHILE
27-04-2007 Indonesia update
27-04-2007 Indonesia update
24-04-2007 Flawed Judgement: Newmont Buyat Bay Criminal Case
24-04-2007 Indoneisan Mine Pollution Ruling: Setback for Environmental Justice
24-04-2007 Newmont executive, company found not guilty in pollution trial
23-04-2007 In an Indonesian bay, fish, tumours and controversy
21-04-2007 Blood Money: U.s. Bank Funds Korean Project That Will Destroy Native Community
21-04-2007 South Asia update
20-04-2007 Buyat Bay Case: Court has to decide for People Justice
20-04-2007 CNMC signs $150 mln worth of copper contracts in Africa
20-04-2007 China update
20-04-2007 China Update
19-04-2007 Buildings Are China's Energy "Black Holes"
17-04-2007 Zijin Mining Expands Overseas Mines
15-04-2007 Hunan Nonferrous to expand mineral resource development - president
12-04-2007 OMYA neighbors make one last stand
27-03-2007 Imported Pollution Adds to China’s Environmental Woes
22-03-2007 Indonesia update
22-03-2007 Indonesia update
22-03-2007 WALHI SUES NEWMONT
16-03-2007 Prosecutors confident Indonesian court to find Newmont guilty of polluting bay
15-03-2007 China's iron ore traders reject India's new export duty
15-03-2007 Bosai Mining assumes management of South American bauxite mine
15-03-2007 Indonesia Says to Allow Singapore Granite Exports
13-03-2007 Archipelago in the mud
09-03-2007 China Update
09-03-2007 China update
08-03-2007 China Abandons Annual Energy Saving Targets
08-03-2007 ANALYSIS - China Building Blitz Holds Key to Energy Saving
21-02-2007 Note to editors:
21-02-2007 UK company called to account for DRCongo dirty trade
21-02-2007 UK company called to account for DRCongo dirty trade
03-02-2007 Indonesia Update
03-02-2007 Indonesia update
30-01-2007 New Laws Won't Solve Indonesia Mining Investment Woes
25-01-2007 Indonesia Bans Sand Exports to Singapore
23-01-2007 Indonesia Newmont Boss Says No Complaints On Mining
22-01-2007 Banful Paddy Farmers Switch to Sand Mining
22-12-2006 Asbestos Roundup
22-12-2006 Asbestos Roundup
20-12-2006 Study: Asbestos Fears Are Justified - USGS Scientists Debunk Industry Claim, Call Particles Dangerou
18-12-2006 Ban asbestos now! Asbestos major reason for rise in Canadian work-related deaths
17-12-2006 Brakes Warning Remains: OSHA Statement on Asbestos Exposure Hazard Survives Challenge
14-12-2006 American Journal of Industrial Medicine Publishes Materials from ADAO's 2006 Asbestos Disease Awaren
21-10-2006 The world's worst places
15-10-2006 JAMAICA
20-09-2006 US Update
20-09-2006 Keeping Cities Cool
20-09-2006 US Update
20-09-2006 EPA Not Fulfilling Environmental Justice Requirements
20-09-2006 California Sues Automakers Over Global Warming
18-09-2006 U.S. Missing Renewable Energy Opportunities
15-09-2006 Clean Energy Bill Could Create Half a Million Jobs
23-08-2006 Minister claims the government is not legally bound to give miners' families compensation after a &
23-08-2006 India Update
08-08-2006 Coeur d'Alene Says Alaska Mine Suit Dismissed
08-08-2006 US Update
08-08-2006 US Update
06-08-2006 Appalachian Citizens Demonstrate at Governors Conference
04-08-2006 Group says proposed N.S. quarry will hurt environment, tourism and fishery
04-08-2006 Errors understate mercury emissions
02-08-2006 Suit Filed Over Paradise Coal-fired Plant in Kentucky
20-07-2006 China Update
20-07-2006 China Update
15-07-2006 Occupational illnesses and injuries cost China 100 billion yuan per year, official warns
15-07-2006 63 killed and 26 trapped in three separate coal mine accidents
30-06-2006 Indonesian Update
30-06-2006 Indonesian Update
29-06-2006 Walking out of slavery
29-06-2006 Biak-na-Bato destruction scored
25-06-2006 Philippines Update
25-06-2006 Philippines Update
23-06-2006 Biak-na-Bato mining put to a halt
22-06-2006 Philippines mulls tough mining regulations
22-06-2006 Are miners certifiable?
20-06-2006 Sustainable construction: Building momentum, brick by brick
18-06-2006 Sepang sand mining threatens locals' livelihood in Bengkulu, Sumatra
17-06-2006 Church, NGOs call for Reyes' resignation over Lafayette
16-06-2006 SCIENTISTS ON DENR DECISION TO RE-OPEN LAFAYETTE: UNSCIENTIFIC, UNSOUND AND ILLOGICAL
10-06-2006 India Update
02-05-2006 Eliza Kissya: Preserving the 'sasi' tradition against the odds
25-02-2006 India Update
25-02-2006 India Update
18-02-2006 Tata initial work by year-end - Steel plant at Tontoposhi
18-02-2006 India Update
18-02-2006 India Update
15-02-2006 ADIVASIS OF BANSAPAL PROTEST AGAINST EXPANSION OF MINING – Public hearing disrupted and cance
15-02-2006 Nalco appeals to people's body to call off stir
10-02-2006 New mining policy in three months: Minister
09-02-2006 India hotbed of mining
08-02-2006 Govt's Balco exit plan might delay
05-02-2006 Rampant pollution and state inaction forces farmers to attack and kill a miner in Goa
25-01-2006 Brazil may give land to "wildcat" diamond miners
10-01-2006 Bonded Labourers Rescued From Brick Kiln
22-11-2005 Bricks Kiln Contractor Sold a Lady, Her Son At Rs 70,000
10-11-2005 India Mining Roundup
10-11-2005 India Mining Roundup
03-11-2005 Bauxite mining will affect tribals badly
31-10-2005 Government embarks upon a transparent mining policy
31-10-2005 Government embarks upon a transparent mining policy
30-10-2005 Mittal eyes Anglo American's mining assets
30-10-2005 Youths oppose Posco deal
28-10-2005 Posco move to reduce project oustees
05-09-2005 Deforestation, sand mining bring water table down
08-07-2005 Polluters Will Pay $50 Million to Clean Maryland Superfund Site
17-06-2005 UNEP implicated mining in tsunami aftermath
08-06-2005 Awkward squads fighting toxic waste
26-02-2005 London Calling - February 26 2005
15-02-2005 World Day against Child Labour 2005 to focus on child labour in mines and quarries
15-02-2005 World Day against Child Labour 2005 to focus on child labour in mines and quarries
20-01-2005 Clay mining in Kerala creates health concerns
20-01-2005 Clay mining in Kerala creates health concerns
19-01-2005 Human Rights Commission member visits mining site
16-01-2005 India Update
16-01-2005 "ground Zero" For Exploited Indian Sandstone Quarry Workers
15-01-2005 Tsunamis and Reckless Resource Extraction - The Unknown Link
14-01-2005 In a statement of appalling insensitivity towards the victims, some Indian scientists have expressed
07-01-2005 Quarrying made Kanyakumari coast vulnerable'
02-01-2005 One of India's major nuclear power plants was profoundly affected by the tsunamis, and many employee
02-01-2005 Tsunami underlines importance of CRZ
30-12-2004 London Calling - December 30 2004
30-12-2004 London Calling! December 30 2004
29-12-2004 Coming next month: brand new coastal rules
29-12-2004 Mining companies untouched by tsunamis
27-12-2004 Human activities contributed to tsunami's ravages: environmental expert
15-10-2004 Two vast quarry proposals threaten people and biosphere in eastern Europe
15-10-2004 Two vast quarry proposals threaten people and biosphere in eastern Europe
19-08-2004 Is "sustainable cement" all it's cracked up to be?
11-08-2004 Dolomite Quarry Plans Encroach on Caucasian Wilderness
19-05-2004 Europe's Coastlines Eroding Into the Sea
09-01-2004 Court Unanimously Rejects 'Back Door' Quarry Attempt
09-01-2004 Court Unanimously Rejects 'Back Door' Quarry Attempt
19-11-2003 Britain's Biggest Ever Quarry Proposal Goes to Court
15-11-2003 Notes to Editors:
07-07-2003 Call for solidarity with Polish village-protest against destructive mining plans
07-07-2003 Background Information: Destructive Mining Plans Threaten Historic Landscapse in Karonosze and Izert
07-07-2003 Organizations Already Signed
01-05-2001 Silent victims of silicosis
01-05-2001 Judge's Ruling Gives W.R. Grace a Break: Attic Insulation Found Not a Risk to Homeowners
01-05-2001 See an artist's impression of the proposed quarry at:
01-05-2001 Lafayette’s 30-day test run - A Simple Gimmick?
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