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![President Trump and Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, pictured on Air Force One.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/09/2019_0901-r1-1-400x300.jpg)
Toxic Alaska Mine Could “Destroy the World’s Last Great Sockeye Salmon Fishery”
The massive Pebble Mine project is back in play after Alaska’s governor met with President Donald Trump.
![Plateau Creek near De Beque, Colorado, where land has been leased for oil and gas production.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0818-plateau-creek-400x300.jpg)
How to Counter Trump’s Disastrous Attack on Our Public Lands
Fossil fuel leasing on public lands is worsening the climate crisis. But there's hope.
![Land within Yanomami Park cleared of rainforest and occupied by the garimpeiros, illegal miners.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/6-yo-400x300.jpg)
Bolsanaro Stands By as 20,000 Miners Invade the Yanomami Amazon Reserve
Bolsonaro claims Indigenous people want mining on their lands, but the Yanomami vehemently deny it.
![A copper mine in Zambia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/06/2019_0609-zambia-mining-400x300.jpg)
How Powerful Mining Corporations Plunder the Global South Without Consequence
Corporate plunder in the global mining industry is severely aggravating social and economic inequalities.
![View of Canadian Goldcorp gold mine at the Los Filos complex in Carrizalillo, Guerrero, Mexico, on November 19, 2015.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/05/2019_0514-mexico-mine-400x300.jpg)
Mining Companies Use Excessive Legal Powers to Gamble With Latin American Lives
Trade agreements and investment treaties take precedence over local health and environment concerns.
![Protesters rally in solidarity with the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 1, 2019. Such disasters symbolize capitalism's failure to secure basic human rights and environmental protections in Brazil.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/2019_0303-brazil-400x300.jpg)
Brazil Dam Collapse Is a Human Rights Disaster and Crime
Such disasters symbolize capitalism's failure to secure basic human rights and environmental protections in Brazil.
![Mining and tourism have not encroached here, on the road on the Southeast border Gobi B, Hatsav Chiyn.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/1-Mng-0918-MN186630pan-400x300.jpg)
A Step Forward for Conservation in Mongolia?
The Mongolian government considers expanding protected areas, but conservation offsets do not undo the harm of mining.
![Abandoned Mary Kathleen open pit, Queensland, Australia, taken in August 2009.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/Mary_kathleen_qld-400x300.jpg)
Rehabilitation of Abandoned Mines in Australia Offers Lessons for the World
With as many as 60,000 such sites, Australia could show the way to bring plants and animals back to abandoned mines.
![Protesters march against mining on March 22, 2018, near Mindo, Ecuador.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2018_0401sm_1-400x300.jpg)
Ecuador Grants Open-Pit Mining Permits in One of the World’s Most Biodiverse Areas
A pristine ecology is under threat.
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Before the US Approves New Uranium Mining, Consider Its Toxic Legacy
Uranium is having a moment in the spotlight.