Today we visited #mønstedkalkgruber the world largest #limestone#mine. Extraction stopped in 1956. Visitors can walk for 4 km of official pathways or venture on any passageway they find on the 60 km of available tunnels.
We saw people fully equipped with speleology tools like flashlights, protective gear, etc. and ready to go off track on the narrow caves.
Over the past months, the #LakotaLaw team has spent many hours in #Nevada at Peehee Mu'Huh — #ThackerPass — where construction has begun on a mine to exploit the largest known lithium deposit on #TurtleIsland.
Find out more about the Indigenous-led #resistance, the total disregard by both government and mining interests for an historic #massacre site with great biological #diversity and sensitivity, and the police raid on and dismantling of the #OxSam prayer camp.
Please watch the new video, produced in partnership with #OxSamCamp and the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (#RSIC), which gives more background on the legal fights and shares powerful testimony from people including RSIC Chairman Arlan Melendez and, especially heartbreakingly, one brave, youthful camp member.
As two separate legal fights against the #mine move forward — and a hearing is scheduled for this week — the mining company is leveraging legal challenges of its own
Researchers pored over satellite imagery to create one of the most comprehensive data sets on the global mining footprint ever generated.
The data set maps out in fine detail the boundaries of a combined 65,585 km2 (25,323 mi2) of mining sites across the world.
Nearly 10% of the total mining areas mapped in the study fell inside protected areas like national parks, Ramsar wetlands and UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
"...widespread occurrence of mining inside protected areas across the world, the data set includes more detail on those activities than ever before. Overall, a staggering 👉6,232 km2 (2,406 mi2) of boundary-violating mining operations👈 were mapped by the study...
There are so many important questions we can address...the distribution of different bird species, or things like flooding risk, for example. Or how a different #mine is going to be
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Naval mine explodes near resort in Romania (www.pravda.com.ua)
An explosion occurred in the Black Sea near the resort village of Costinești, Romania, on the morning of 14 August.
Lithuania announces creation of mine clearance coalition for Ukraine (www.pravda.com.ua)
Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas has announced the creation of a mine clearance coalition to help Ukraine.