The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement called for a boycott of supermarket chain Carrefour in 2022 over company ties to illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Carrefour profits ...

Two new troves of internal documents from Palantir, a data surveillance company based in Colorado, have shone a light on how computer programmers are designing new software to help the U.S.

Baotou Iron & Steel Group in China’s Inner Mongolia province is planning to spend 2 billion yuan (US$280 million) to expand a huge manmade lake near Baotou city that contains toxic historical ...

Dateline Resources has been granted U.S. government approval to mine for gold and rare earths at the Colosseum project inside the Mojave National Preserve in California, despite the fact that major ...

Facebook shut down its eight year-old fact checking program this month provoking a slew of criticism that the social media giant was bowing to pressure from the incoming U.S. presidency of Donald ...

When black rain poured down around the Tata Steel plant in IJmuiden, a shipping town in the Netherlands, residents were told that they had no need to worry so long as they kept their windows closed, ...

Spills from Petroperú’s oil drilling have devastated the Marañón river in Peru for some 50 years. In order to tackle the pollution, a group of Kukama Indigenous women sued the government and Petroperú ...

Empresa de Energía del Pacífico (EPSA) dumped over 30 years of accumulated sediment from the Anchicayá dam in western Colombia in July 2001, polluting the river, killing fish, destroying farmlands and ...

After the Netherlands implemented a sweeping ban on the use of coal in electricity generation by 2030, energy giant RWE took the country to arbitration court to demand €1.4 billion in compensation for ...

Toyota published advertisements for its Hilux SUV vehicles by depicting them driving through rugged nature scenes. Activist groups Adfree Cities and Badvertising lodged a complaint with the UK ...

Cobre Panamá, the largest open pit copper mine in Central America, is operated by Toronto-based First Quantum Minerals. After some 250,000 people in Panama took to the streets to protest against ...

Private sector projects to solve the climate crisis have soared in the last decade: green energy options from British Gas and NextEra; Tesla electric cars; panels from JinkoSolar in China; and Siemens ...