L’Algérie : Principal Exportateur de Gaz Naturel Liquéfié en Afrique
30 January 2024
En 2023, l’Algérie a démontré d’impressionnantes performances dans le secteur de l’exportation de gaz naturel liquéfié (GNL),
There are 1, 489 content items of different types and languages related to extractive industries on the Land Portal.
How Illegal Mining Caused a Humanitarian Crisis in the Amazon
07 February 2023
The onslaught of illegal miners into Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon has destroyed forest, polluted rivers, and brought disease and malnutrition to the Yanomami people. Now, the new Brazilian government is confronting a health crisis and moving to evict the miners.
Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation
16 January 2023
Experts call for stronger land use planning as extent of Indonesian forest lost to coal mining is revealed
The Moi struggle for land rights
15 November 2022
On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia
Peatlands in Congo Basin opened for oil exploration
09 September 2022
A swampy swath of the Congo Basin has become a new battleground between those seeking revenue from natural resources and those concerned about keeping them in the ground.
African leaders blast European no-shows at climate adaptation summit
06 September 2022
While three African presidents flew to the Netherlands for the Africa Adaptation Summit on Monday, only Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte was there to meet with them.
One of World’s Most Polluted Spots Gets Worse as $1 Billion Cleanup Drags On
31 August 2022
In the more than a quarter century since Shell Plc left Ogoniland in southern Nigeria, oil has continued to ooze from dormant wellheads and active pipelines, leaving the 386-square mile kingdom’s wetlands shimmering with a greasy rainbow sheen, its once-lush mangroves coated in crude, well-water smelling of benzene and farmlands charred and barren.
As More Land Turns to Desert, Fights Erupt Over Water
17 August 2022
There are too many animals for the available water supply in the Gobi desert region. The situation worsens each year.
Main photo: Bolortuya Bekh-Ochir, right, and Jargalsuren Tungalagzaya fill a trough with water for a herd of goats in Mongolia's Gobi desert region (URANCHIMEG TSOGKHUU, GPJ MONGOLIA)
Cash-Strapped Taliban 'Exploiting' Afghanistan's Natural Resources To Boost Revenue
15 July 2022
Cash-strapped and cut off from international aid, the Taliban-led government is tapping into Afghanistan's natural resources to boost revenue.
Since the Taliban toppled the Western-backed government in Kabul and seized power in August 2021, the export of and custom duties from coal have become a key source of revenue for the militant group.
In the Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes
23 June 2022
Known as the rice basket of the country, the delta now sees houses tumbling into rivers and livelihoods lost
When a riverbank subsided and gave way, Tran Van Bi’s house collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta four years ago. Everything his family had accumulated over 32 years was gone in an instant.
In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures
13 June 2022
- Much of the landscape of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province has been transformed, its formerly vast forests razed for logging, monocrop agriculture and open-cast coal mining.
- A recently published study analyzes how waves of extractive industries have affected the inhabitants of one village in the province
- The cumulative impacts of these industries were found to be severe, but also to vary depending on multiple factors including ethnicity, gender, wealth and age.