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Climate

Global Climate March The Global Climate March took place in various cities around the world on 29 November 2015, the day before the opening of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The march was organized by a huge coalition of climate groups and global ac ...

* Global Day of Action * March Against Monsanto * March for Science (2017) *

People's Climate March (2014) The People's Climate March (PCM) was a large-scale activist event orchestrated by the People's Climate Movement to advocate global action against climate change, which took place on Sunday, September 21, 2014, in New York City, along with a serie ...

People's Climate March (2017) The People's Climate March was a protest which took place on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, and among 1 million locations throughout the United States, and locations outside the U.S., on April 29, 2017. The organizers, the People's Climate M ...

School strike for climate School Strike for Climate ( sv, Skolstrejk för klimatet), also known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students who skip Friday ...

Fridays for Future School Strike for Climate ( sv, Skolstrejk för klimatet), also known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students who skip Friday ...

(FFF) (2018-) **

September 2019 climate strikes The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, were a series of international strikes and protests to demand action be taken to address climate change, which took place from 20–27 September 2019. The strikes' ...

* Stop Climate Chaos * Say Yes demonstrations * March for Science Portland * Camp for Climate Action *

End Fossil - Occupy! End, END, Ending, or variation, may refer to: End *In mathematics: **End (category theory) **End (topology) **End (graph theory) ** End (group theory) (a subcase of the previous) **End (endomorphism) *In sports and games **End (gridiron football) ...

Mining

Antamina mine The Antamina mine in the Andes Mountains of Peru is one of the largest copper/zinc mines in the world. It is an open pit mine owned by Teck Resources which had an estimated life of mine at 15 years. It also produced molybdenum. It produced 390,800 ...

Akyem mine Akyem mine is an open-pit gold mine near New Abirem in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It is owned by Newmont. The mine was developed in 2005, with commercial production beginning in 2013. The mine has resulted in environmental conflict in which fa ...

* Ashio Copper Mine * 2000 Baia Mare Cyanide spill * Conflict minerals * Cuajone mine *

Dairi mine The Dairi mine is a zinc and lead mine in the Dairi Regency of the North Sumatra province of Indonesia. It is owned by Dairi Prima Mineral, which obtained a permit to explore the area in 1988 and started drilling in 1997. The largest of the ore ...

* Dolores mine *

Escobal mine protests The Escobal mine protests are a series of political protests opposing the Escobal mine, a large silver mine developed by Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources in San Rafael Las Flores, Guatemala. Since 2009 various community groups have adv ...

Fenix Nickel Project The Fenix nickel project also known as El Estor mine is an integrated mountain-top nickel mine and processing facility near El Estor in the Izabal Department of eastern Guatemala.

* Himpunan Hijau *

Kabwe mine Kabwe mine or Broken Hill mine is a retired lead smelting and mining operation near Kabwe, Zambia that operated from 1906 to 1994. At its peak, between 1925 and 1974, it was owned by Anglo American plc and was Africa's largest lead producer. The ...

* Kamoto mine *

Kenticha mine The Kenticha mine is a tantalum and lithium mine located in the Oromia Region of Southern Ethiopia. It is one of the largest tantalum reserves in the country, having estimated reserves of 116 million tonnes of ore grading 0.02% tantalum. Mining a ...

Las Bambas copper mine Las Bambas copper mine is an open-pit copper mine in the Cotabambas province of Peru. With over a billion tons of copper ore, the deposit is one of the largest in the world and produces 2% of global copper. Las Bambas also produces molybdenum concen ...

2015 Peruvian protests against Las Bambas mining project The protests escalated on 29 September, when four people were killed and dozens injured in clashes between demonstrators and police, prompting President Ollanta Humala to decree a state of emergency. 29 September clashes On 29 September, an es ...

Lega Dembi mine The Lega Dembi Mine is the largest gold mine in Ethiopia. It is near Shakiso in Oromia. Lega Dembi has a yearly production of around 4,500 kg of gold and silver, and is owned by MIDROC. Pollution from the mine has resulted in environmental c ...

* Marikana massacre *

Mirador mine The Mirador mine is a large copper mine located in the Amazonian province of Zamora-Chinchipe in southern Ecuador. It is one of the largest copper reserves in Ecuador, and the first industrial-scale copper project to be developed in the country. ...

* Mutanda mine *

Nchanga Copper mine Nchanga Copper mine, previously the Chingola Copper mine, is an underground and open-pit cobalt and copper mine in Chingola, in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. It is the largest copper mine in Africa. It is owned by the Konkola Copper Mines, a ...

Phosphorite War The Phosphorite War ( et, Fosforiidisõda) is the name given to a late-1980s environmental campaign in the then- Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, against the opening of large phosphorite mines in the Virumaa region. The movement, peaking in ...

* Pueblo Viejo mine *

Tilwezembe mine Tilwezembe is an open-pit copper and cobalt mine in Lualaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo owned by Katanga Mining, a subsidiary of Glencore. Officially, Glencore has shuttered the mine, but the site is still being used by artisi ...

* Rennell Island bauxite mine * Resolution Copper (Oak flat) *

Rio Tinto massacre On February 4, 1888, Spanish civil guards fired on a crowd of protesting Rio Tinto Company mineworkers in Zalamea, killing 13 and injuring 35. Background In early 1888, Anti-Smoke League agriculturalists and Rio Tinto workers came togethe ...

* Roșia Montană protests *

Rovina mine Rovina mine is a proposed open pit mine in the west of Romania in Hunedoara County, 18 km north of Deva Deva may refer to: Entertainment * ''Deva'' (1989 film), a 1989 Kannada film * ''Deva'' (1995 film), a 1995 Tamil film * ''Deva'' ...

San Carlos Panantza mine The San Carlos Panantza mine is a large copper mine located in the south of Ecuador in Zamora-Chinchipe Province. San Carlos-Panantza is one of the largest copper reserves in Ecuador and in the world having estimated reserves of 600 million tonnes ...

* Shifang protest * Thacker Pass lithium mine *

Toroku arsenic disease was a disease resulting from air and water pollution from a refinery at a mine at Toroku, located in Takachiho, Nishiusuki District, Miyazaki, Japan. It emitted arsenic-containing air, resulting in patients with chronic arsenic poisoning prod ...

* Uranium mining on Navajo reservations *

2010 Xinfa aluminum plant protest The 2010 Xinfa aluminum plant protest (信发铝厂污染引抗议) occurred when the Chiping County, Shandong Xinfa aluminum & power group (山东信发铝电集团) began when villagers started complaining about pollution created by the factory. ...

* Yanacocha gold mine

Fossil fuels

* Arun gas field * Bayou Bridge Pipeline protests * Coastal GasLink pipeline ** 2020 Candainan pipeline and railway protests * Dakota Access Pipeline protests * Grassy Mountain Coal Project * Hambach Forest * Karachaganak Field *

Keystone pipeline The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and owned by TC Energy and as of 31 March 2020 the Government of Alberta. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alb ...

* Lago Agrio oil field *

2012–2014 Romanian protests against shale gas The 2012–2014 Romanian protests against shale gas are an ongoing series of protests in major Romanian cities against exploitation of shale gas through controversial method of hydraulic fracturing. The main causes of these protests are the pollu ...

* Environmental issues in the Niger Delta **

Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), is a social movement organization representing the indigenous Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria. The Ogoni contend that Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), along with ot ...

* Stop Line 3 * Trans Mountain pipeline

Timber and agriculture

Indigenous rainforest blockades in Borneo Indigenous rainforest blockades in Borneo began during the late 1980s and 90s. Borneo’s forests contain a variety of ecosystems, including rainforests, peatlands, mangroves, heath forests, and palm trees. The Sarawak Region had been ruled by the ...

Chipko movement The Chipko movement ( hi, chipko andolan, italic=yes, lit= reehugging movement) is a forest conservation movement in India. The movement originated in 1973 at the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh) and went on to beco ...

* Fairy Creek timber blockade *

Grassy Narrows road blockade The Grassy Narrows road blockade is an ongoing roadblock in Canada that started in 2002 to prevent clearcutting of timber on Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation territory. History The Grassy Narrows road blockade began on December 2, 2002 and pre ...

* Gurindji Strike *

Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary The Prey Lang Forest (; km, ព្រៃឡង់, ) is a forest in Kampong Thom, Preah Vihear, Kratie and Stung Treng Provinces in Northern Cambodia. The forest covers an estimated 3,600 square kilometres (1,390 square miles). It is one of So ...

Chico Mendes Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes (; 15 December 1944 – 22 December 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the ...

* Green Belt Movement

Toxic waste

Agbogbloshie Agbogbloshie is a nickname of a commercial district on the Korle Lagoon of the Odaw River, near the center of Accra, Ghana's capital city in the Greater Accra region. Near the slum called "Old Fadama", the Agbogbloshie site became known as ...

Cancer Alley Cancer Alley (french: Allée du Cancer) is the regional nickname given to an stretch of land along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, in the River Parishes of Louisiana, which contains over 150 petrochemical plants and ...

* China PX protests * Grassy Narrows mercury poisoning * Electronic waste in Guiyu * Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan * Jinkanpo Atsugi Incinerator *

2005 Huashui protest The 2005 Huashui protest took place in Huashui (画水) Town, Dongyang (东阳) County, Zhejiang Province (浙江省) in March and April 2005. The Huashui protest began as opposition to pollution from the Zhuxi Chemical Industrial Park (竹溪工� ...

Kokuba River The is a river in Naha, Okinawa, and is the hydrographic resource for domestic urban fresh water. A number of geographical places on Okinawa bear its name, such as and . The river flows into the East China Sea. Poisoning The river and people ...

Love Canal protests Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a landfill that became the site of an enormous environmental disaster in the 1970s. Decades of dumping toxic chemicals harmed the health of hun ...

* Qidong protest *

Khian Sea waste disposal incident On August 31, 1986, the cargo ship ''Khian Sea'', registered in Liberia, was loaded with more than 14,000 tons of ash from waste incinerators in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The city had previously sent such waste to New Jersey, but that state re ...

North Carolina PCB Protest, 1982 The North Carolina PCB Protest of 1982 was a nonviolent activist movement in Warren County, North Carolina, a predominantly black community where the state disposed of soil laced with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The toxins leaked into the lo ...

Washington Works Washington Works, officially named Chemours Washington Works and previously DuPont Washington Works is a plastics factory in West Virginia, United States. The factory was opened by DuPont chemical company in 1948 and ownership transferred to Ch ...

Dupont Chambers Works Carneys Point Township is a township in Salem County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 8,049, reflecting an increase of 365 (+4.8%) from the 7,684 counted in the 2000 Census, which ha ...

* The Lafarge- Holcim cement factory in Montcada i Reixac (Catalonia) *

Prestige oil spill The ''Prestige'' oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker , carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 ...

Deepwater Horizon oil spill The ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010 off of the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered ...

Urban development and infrastructure

2011 Bolivian indigenous rights protests The 2011 Bolivian protests were a series of demonstrations by indigenous peoples who opposed the construction of the Villa Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos Highway through the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, the ancestra ...

Gezi Park protests A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the Urban Development, urban development plan for Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-i ...

* Green Bans * Hands off our Forest *

Heathrow airport expansion The expansion of Heathrow Airport is a series of proposals to add to the runways at London's busiest airport beyond its two long runways which are intensively used to serve four terminals and a large cargo operation. The plans are those present ...

* Homes before Roads * List of road protests in the UK and Ireland *

Oka Crisis The Oka Crisis (french: links=no, Crise d'Oka), also known as the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance (), was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, which began on July 11, 1990, and lasted 78 days until Septe ...

Runway 18 West Runway 18 West (German ''Startbahn 18 West'') is a 4000-meter-long runway that runs from north to south on the western edge of Frankfurt Airport. A small northern portion of the runway is located in the Frankfurt district of Flughafen, while the ...

Stop Cop City Stop Cop City (SCC), also known as Block Cop City & Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF), is a decentralized movement in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, whose goal is to stop construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center by the Atlant ...

Dams and water conflicts

Agua Zarca dam The Gualcarque River ( es, Río Gualcarque) is a river in Intibucá, western Honduras. It is sacred to the indigenous Lenca, who depend on the river for their subsistence. It is the site of the proposed Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam, a joint Hondur ...

Belo Monte dam The Belo Monte Dam (''formerly known as'' Kararaô) is a hydroelectric dam complex on the northern part of the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. After its completion, with the installation of its 18th turbine, in November 2019, the ins ...

* Chico River dam * Flint water crisis * Save Manapouri Campaign *

Plachimada Coca-Cola struggle The Plachimada Coca-Cola struggle was a series of protests to close the Coca-Cola factory in the village of Plachimada, Palakkad District, Kerala in the early 2000s. Villagers noted that soon after the factory opened, their wells started to run ...

* Tellico Dam * Tipaimukh Dam *

Cochabamba Water War The Cochabamba Water War was a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia's fourth largest city, between December 1999 and April 2000 in response to the privatization of the city's municipal water supply company SEMAPA. The wave o ...

Les Soulèvements de la Terre Les Soulèvements de la Terre (The Earth Uprisings Collective) is an environmental movement, environmental collective, part of the civil society in France. History The collective was founded in 2021 by former members of the ZAD de Notre-Dame-des ...

Nuclear

Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival The Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival was a series of political rock concerts which took place in Germany during the 1980s. Its purpose was to support protests against the planned nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf (German: Wiederaufbereitungsanlage ...

(1980s) *

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor, reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainia ...

* Fukushima Daiichi disaster *

Kyshtym disaster The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and n ...

* Nuclear industry in South Australia ** Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta *

Nevada Desert Experience Nevada Desert Experience is a name for the movement to stop U.S. nuclear weapons testing that came into use in the middle 1980s. It is also the name of an anti-nuclear organization which continues to create public events to question the moralit ...

Disasters

Bhopal disaster The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Considered the world's ...

* Hurricane Katrina *

San Juanico disaster The San Juan Ixhuatepec explosions of 1984, also known as the San Juanico disaster, was an industrial disaster caused by a series of explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in San Juan Ixhuatepec, Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Me ...

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