Extractivism

November 15, 2024
Shanya Cordis

Oneka LaBennett’s recent book excavates layers of myth-making and storytelling in Guyana to examine the gendered dimensions of environmental extractivism and global capitalism.

October 18, 2024
Giada Ferrucci

The assassination of Honduran water defender Juan López offers a chilling reminder of the threats local leaders face in the most dangerous region in the world for environmental activists.

September 4, 2024
Peter Klepeis, Keith Klepeis, Gabriela Mora-Klepeis, Jorge López Maldonado

Green hydrogen in southern Chile elicits glowing rhetoric from energy advocates. But unless benefits are shared with locals, the project could replicate harmful inequalities.

August 29, 2024
Grace Livingstone

Uruguay was the first country in the world to enshrine water as a human right. Today an extractivist model threatens water sustainability and sovereignty.

August 19, 2024
Florencia Pagola, Carolina Bas Lemos, Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet

From Mexico City to Montevideo, women are leading the fight to protect their communities’ water from extractive projects. 

August 15, 2024
Emma Banks

Cañaverales is the first to benefit from a new government program aimed at protecting campesino communities from industrial development, but corporate power remains a major obstacle to justice and dignity for its people.

May 23, 2024
Ann Louise Deslandes

Candidates in Mexico’s upcoming general election promise to fix water scarcity, but the problem runs deeper than the polls.

April 29, 2024
Patricia Rodríguez

For one researcher and member of the Colombian environmental movement, confronting the climate crisis—and the false solutions proposed to address it—means transforming society as we know it.

April 19, 2024
Giada Ferrucci and Pedro Cabezas

The Bukele administration’s case against five community leaders, environmental activists, and former FMLN members sparks international outcry.

February 13, 2024
Patricia Rodríguez

For a small farmer in Rio de Janeiro state, a private port catering to the fossil fuel industry has brought a decade-long struggle to remain on the land.

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