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El Salvador’s San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has long killed them...
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El Salvador’s gang-busting strongman President Nayib Bukele has set out on a new mission: to kickstart his country’s sputtering economy by inviting back the...
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Anahi Jorge, 23, works for a lithium extraction company in Argentina, earning four times the salary of a local government worker in her village...
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As night falls in Chile’s Atacama desert, the world’s driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to measure levels of lithium — a crucial mineral...
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A modest wooden school in the middle of the Colombian Amazon preserves the memory of atrocities perpetrated against Indigenous people by rubber industrialists more...
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Waving banners and shouting “no to mining,” environmental activists gathered in small boats on a lake between El Salvador and Guatemala on Friday calling for the...
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Panama’s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that a contract allowing a Canadian company to continue operating Central America’s biggest copper mine was “unconstitutional.” The...
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Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo on Friday announced a ban on new metal mining concessions, but maintained a contract with a Canadian company that has...
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Demonstrators and police clashed Tuesday in Panama as protests over a copper mine spilled into their fifth day, with President Laurentino Cortizo vowing he...
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Police in Panama fired teargas Monday at protesters burning tires and blocking roads to protest a contract allowing a Canadian company to continue operating...