The Stena Immaculate, a U.S.-flagged tanker, and Solong, a Portuguese-flagged ship, were both ablaze in the North Sea.

Navajo leaders reached an agreement with the mining company to allow transport of the ore, arguing that federal laws would have allowed it anyway. People living along the transport route are ...

Open-cast mining, where coal is dug out of the ground through a giant, open pit, destroys habitats. South Africa has many of ...

It continues today. I collected oral accounts from people living in these mining-affected communities. My book analyses what it means to lose the land, and challenges the idea that land is only a ...