Workers Pay the Price for Dangerous Tailings Dams  - Earthworks Recent failures at mine waste facilities highlight the importance of protecting workers’ rights and safety.

A recent Mexican tailings disaster acts as a reminder of how mine-workers are often the first / main casualties from dam failings.

earthworks.org/blog/workers...

Woman who won legal case over greenhouse emissions awarded top environmental prize Sarah Finch is among six recipients of the Goldman Environmental prize, awarded to honour grassroots activists around the world

Great to see six women winning these awards for amazing work - I am particularly pleased to see activists who have been holding UK mining mulitnationals to account (namely the Pebble mine in Bristol Bay & the Panguna mine in Bougainville).

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No, "THIS is Spinal Tap!"

Trump Administration Rushes Offshore Mining Lease Sales in Pacific Waters, Sidestepping Indigenous Consultation - Greenpeace - Greenpeace The Trump Administration is moving to fast-track offshore mineral extraction in U.S. Pacific waters, according to a newly released Department of the Interior document. The plan is raising concerns abo...

“The people of American Samoa have opposed deep sea mining in our waters from the very start, yet this process continues to move forward as if our voices are optional. A 20-year lease on our seabed is not a minor decision; it [has] permanent implications"

www.greenpeace.org/usa/trump-ad...

BLM advances another controversial uranium mine - Center for Western Priorities Over the past year, the Trump administration has made a number of policy changes intended to pave the way for increased mining and other extractive activity on public lands. While the administration’s...

This really won't end well - we've seen this sort of 'national sacrifice' before in US (in the 'Four Corners' area), and where it ends up...

westernpriorities.org/2026/04/blm-...

Fast-tracking US critical minerals could backfire without safeguards, Oxfam warns A central concern is that compressing timelines could undermine the very stability the US is seeking.

There is much to the arguments here - the focus on 'critical minerals' and 'home/friend-shoring' extractives has prioritised rush and 'security' over ESG issues - but that is a false dichotomy, as respecting ESG will actually secure supply chains

www.mining.com/fast-trackin...

Climate disinformation in the Philippines | IMS This report examines how climate disinformation legitimises deadly attacks on Indigenous Peoples and what must change.

This is a different type of climate misinformation ... not climate denial, but attempts to misrepresent indigenous peoples rights and opinions in order to (mis)appropriate their land for climate-related projects often associated with the energy transition.

www.mediasupport.org/publication/...

German demo plant targets lithium recovery from battery scrap Tozero, a Bavaria-based battery recycling startup, has opened an industrial demonstration plant designed to recover lithium and other materials from

I know this is early stage, but worth bigging up the moves towards circularity - and self-sufficiency - re battery materials in Europe

resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2026...

Stop Trump’s attack on whales

action.eko.org/a/stop-trump...

Woodland with bluebells

Time to add to the flood of UK bluebell wood photos ... You know you can never have enough!

(Astonbury wood in Hertfordshire for those interested)

Deep-sea mining is a systemic risk, investors say Asset managers caution that the sector may be difficult to track Investors have explicitly turned away from deep-sea mining investments with moratoriums and exclusion policies, coming to the conclusio...

“If you’re serious about managing risk, this is not only about environmental risk, it’s financial risk for your portfolios and ultimately a systemic risk”

This is a good summary of financier concerns over deep-sea mining

www.sustainableviews.com/deep-sea-min...

In my dream last night, having heard of House of All - a band made up of ex-members of the Fall - I was then asked to join playing bass. (A classic stress dream as I didn't know any of the tunes!)

However, in my dream the band were called Fall Out, which my waking self thinks is a much better name.

Critical minerals, critical rights: The energy transition must change course in the DRC - Business and Human Rights Centre Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre

"Critical minerals demand a critical approach to rights. Failing that, the energy transition risks becoming a new chapter in the long history of extractive exploitation on the continent"

www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/crit...

Deep-sea mining heats up as new player challenges early mover advantage Deep Sea Minerals is targeting exploration licenses in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

Now you know this feels like a bubble waiting to burst ... a rash of new companies raising money based on an untested permitting route for an industry that may not happen, and is currently relying on specific political patronage...

www.mining.com/deep-sea-min...

"If commercial mining proceeds before sufficient baseline measurements are collected, the missing data cannot later be reconstructed. Training models on incomplete data sets will weaken early-warning capabilities."

Exactly!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For decades, climate policy has been framed as a technical swap: fossil fuels out, minerals in. But if extraction keeps expanding overall, the model has not changed — only its branding has.

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I see @nilspratley.bsky.social is still peddling nonsense!

I hope @katharineviner.bsky.social examines this given the
@theguardian.com's #Climate pledge

Its incoherent for their finance editorials to take this line, it undermines the excellent climate reporting by @dpcarrington.bsky.social & team

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn Venezuela is close to passing a law to update the country’s mining regulations and attract private investment in gold, silver, coltan and other minerals. But advocacy groups say the law may end up exa...

So the mining law in Venezuela could be hugely damaging for the environment in the Amazon ... am sure no-one saw that coming as a result of the 'drill baby drill' mandate

news.mongabay.com/2026/04/vene...

Difficult to believe it is getting on forw 200 years since Charles Mackay wrote the "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", but still these bubbles come & still folks fall for it ...

If the #JCB Family of Multi-Millionaires are so hard up to pay proper Inheritance Taxes, why are they able to donate SO MUCH MONEY to #Reform Party?

Oh ... so they have expectations of #Reform helping out the Multi-Millionaires?

Right. Noted.

"Party of the People", eh?🤮🤮

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis) When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...

We need more of this sort of informative, yet heartfelt, commentary around #DeepSeaMining

Few people have the experience of @drandrewthaler.bsky.social - so worth paying attention to the conclusions

news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...

James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

Bretton Woods Institutions and the financialisation of food systems BWP’s new report examines how IMF and World Bank policies have contributed to reshaping global food systems to prioritise financial speculation over food security.

The history of financial hedging is sert within commercial agriculture. However, what started as an effort to protect actors, especially farmers, from market volatility joined other tools for financialisation to generally drive financial instability.

www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2026/04/hard...

Dumb Tzu

😍 Meet the Bamboo coral with lots of tiny polyps - individual animals dotted along the branches.
Deep sea mining risk damaging these creatures & the ecosystems they support. Another reminder why a ban on deep sea mining makes sense.

🔗 Learn more: dsm-campaign.org/the-issue/wh...

#DSMC #StopDSM

The future of religion's bright, the future's orange ...

Stop Fossil Gas - Greenpeace International Dirty energy deals with Trump have to end. Europe must break free from fossil fuel dependence and build an energy system with 100 % renewables.

I signed to stop Trump controlling Europe’s energy.

Fossil gas brings chaos. Renewables bring security.

Join me. Add your name:

#StopFossilGas act.gp/3O5yFOv

American Samoa said ‘no’ to deep sea mining, Washington heard ‘faster’ (commentary) At 7:45 a.m. one recent January day in American Samoa, a delegation from Greenpeace and Pacific Island partners sat in a small radio studio explaining why we had traveled thousands of miles across the...

“To the Indigenous people of American Samoa, the ocean is not just the backbone of our local economy, it is sacred. As it stands, the people of American Samoa are opposed to deep-sea mining in and around the territory.”

news.mongabay.com/2026/04/amer...

Wow, that must mean the Colonel created KFC to pander to a 'specific demographic'? I always knew there was something suspicious going on with that fellah ...

Protect civilians - keep landmines banned Landmines are coming back to Europe - quietly. Countries like Poland and Finland are moving toward producing and using them. Others could follow. These weapons don’t disappear after wars end - they ke...

Landmines are coming back to Europe - quietly. Countries like Poland are already moving toward using them. Others may follow. They don’t stop killing when wars end. We can still stop this, but we need to act now. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-04...