National Geographic Focus on Nigeria
National Geographic’s February 2007 issue depicts the impacts that oil and gas development have had in the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
Chile: Travels in the Southern Reaches of a Long, Thin Country
Chile is a country known for its exceptional beauty—but tensions persist over natural resource development. Global Greengrants’ newest employee, Jessica Sherman, Development Associate, recently spent five months in southern Chile researching the region’s
Honduran Environmental Defenders Murdered
On Dec. 20, 2006, two activists with the Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO) were shot to death in the Honduran department of Olancho.
India: Bhopal — ‘The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster’
On December 3, 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were gassed to death after a catastrophic chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant. According to the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, more than 27 tons of methyl isocyanate and other deadly gases “turned the city into a gas chamber.” The […]
Update: Another Victory in New Caledonia
Environmental activists gained a further victory in New Caledonia when a French court ordered a halt to construction of the multi-billion dollar Goro nickel mine.