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"Colombia Bans All New Oil and Mining Projects in its Amazon–an Area the Size of Sweden"
#Colombia #Environment

Colombia Bans All New Oil and Mining Projects in its Amazon–an Area the Size of Sweden
In Colombia, Vélez noted, some 43 oil blocks and 286 mining requests had currently not yet broken ground in various parts of the Amazon

Gold mining exposes Indigenous women in Nicaragua to high mercury levels https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/gold-mining-exposes-indigenous-women-in-nicaragua-to-high-mercury-levels/

Gold mining exposes Indigenous women in Nicaragua to high mercury levels
Indigenous women of childbearing age from Nicaragua’s Waspam municipality have been exposed to toxic levels of mercury, according to a new report by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN). The researchers took hair samples from 50 women between 18 and 44 years old. The women live in the Indigenous communities of Li Auhbra and Li […]

"What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything."
#DeepSeaMining
https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/w…

What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.
Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples.

Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bitcoin-mining…

Trump frequently campaigned with coal miners during his 2016 presidential run,
and has since continued to participate in photo-ops using miners as a symbolic backdrop for his energy policies while campaigning and serving in office.
However, despite the president courting the CEOs of the mining industry heavily during his campaign,
miners themselves feel neglected and left behind.
Days after the executive order, on April 11,
just before coal mines were expected t…

Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.

As if I didn’t have enough excitement in my life, I am reading this history of a Great Lakes mining and shipping company.
It only took twenty pages to utter the famous, chilling phrase.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

🐈‍⬛ ‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/25/they-are-scared-of-us-now-how-one-tropical-forest-turned-the-tide-on-log…

‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers
Low-cost tech and joined-up funding have reduced illegal logging, mining and poaching in the Darién Gap – it’s a success story that could stop deforestation worldwide

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
BLAKE: [V.O.] It's only a couple of years since it was abandoned. Under terms of the interplanetary mining agreement the company was bound by law to leave fuel and other...
VILA: Blake, you alright?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/272 B7…

Ukraine launches first lithium mining project: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/13/ukraine-launches-first-lithium-mining.html

JOURNAL> Journal of Global Buddhism v 26, n 1
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The complexity and effort that went into this scam are amazing.
Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-scam-mining-as-service/

Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds
Sophisticated crypto scams are on the rise. But few of them go to the lengths one bitcoin mining executive experienced earlier this year.

Plans to dispose of mining waste in Norway’s Arctic Ocean worries Sšmi fishers, herders
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/plans-to-dispose-of-mining-waste-in-norways-arctic-ocean-worries-sami-fishers-herders/

🪏 Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/brazil-dismantles-hundreds-of-illegal-dredges-in-major-amazon-mining-crackdown/

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal networks operating across the Amazon Basin. The international police agency said officers dismantled 277 floating mining rafts worth an estimated $6.8 million. […]

Bitcoin miners retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up about 90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Mining company BHP has been found liable for a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, known as the country's worst-ever environmental disaster, by London's High Court.
The dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted the river and destroyed hundreds of homes.
UK court finds mining firm liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster - BBC News

UK court finds mining firm liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster
The 2015 dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted a river and destroyed hundreds of homes.

"Norway hits pause on deep-sea mining until 2029 amid growing environmental pressure"
#Norway #Oceans #Environment

Norway hits pause on deep-sea mining until 2029 amid growing environmental pressure | The Optimist Daily

Assessing the metal and rare earth element mining potential of undifferentiated #asteroids through the study of carbonaceous chondrites: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/545/1/staf1902/8317164?login=false -> Mining asteroids for water and metals explored: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/mining-asteroids-water-and-metals-explored

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
DAYNA: Well no, but Soolin's right though, Servalan will be more worried about the mining, the stuff they're digging up now, won't she?
GERREN: Unfortunately, they're not digging up anything much. There's virtually no feldon left. Belkov's milked this planet for twelve good years, now he knows the game's up, he wants to use the crystals to buy survival.

JOURNAL> Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 52
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One of those news days that will confuse some people: China's coal "output" (mining) grew 1.2% y/y to a record high in 2025, but "output at coal plants" (burning it in power plants) fell 1%, so stockpiles grew and prices fell.

Brazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/brazilian-amazons-most-violent-city-tied-to-illegal-gold-mining-on-indigenous-land…

Brazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land
Violence has escalated in the small Brazilian town of Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade as illegal gold mining on the nearby Sararé Indigenous Territory has exploded over the last two years, according to the 2025 Amazon Violence Atlas. Located in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border, Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade recorded the highest […]

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/352fc0e3-0f0d-4e72-abe6-dd992b040caa

Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
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OH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.. COME. ON.
We literally don't deserve to survive this extinction level event we're making for ourselves.
#crypto #cryptocurrency

@… thought this might interest you:
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/debunking-again-the-m…

Debunking (again) the Mining Association of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotians are opposed because mining uranium makes no economic sense and would put the health and well-being of citizens too much at risk.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

"It is a sin to interfere with another community’s ability to fulfill its covenant with God. Hills cannot shout for joy if their tops have been sheared off by strip-mining. Fish cannot swarm seas boiled by an ozone-depleted atmosphere."
—Professor Gregory Mobley writing in the new issue of Reflections, in a piece titled "God’s Eco-Network of Covenants."

Climate change is straining Alaska’s Arctic. A new mining road may push the region past the brink https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/climate-change-is-straining-alaskas-arctic-a-new-mining…

Climate change is straining Alaska's Arctic. A new mining road may push the region past the brink
AMBLER, Alaska (AP) — In Northwest Alaska, a proposed 211-mile mining road has divided an Inupiaq community already devastated by climate change. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd has plummeted 66% in two decades while salmon runs have collapsed from record rainfall and warming waters. The Trump-approved Ambler Access Road would unlock copper deposits and other […]

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitfarms says it will wind down its BTC operations and pivot to AI infrastructure after posting a net loss of $46M in Q3 (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/348573/bitfarms-wind-down-bitcoin-mining-pivot-ai-aft…

Bitfarms Will 'Wind Down' Bitcoin Mining and Pivot to AI After $46 Million Loss
Bitcoin miner Bitfarms will end its Bitcoin operations in the coming years, shifting focus to providing infrastructure for growing AI demand.

"The extraordinary geochemistry of rare #mineral deposits exposed to ultraviolet light demonstrates an unparalleled earth science. What makes the ores of this small mining district completely unique on Earth?
LEARN MORE ABOUT NEW JERSEY'S MINING HERITAGE #geology

RESOURCE> Three new publications from the BuddhistRoad World
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Mrs Losttourist just asked me "what's a Davy lamp?" and I was able to immediately explain it was a mining lamp consisting of a naked flame enclosed in a mesh structure so that it didn't explode, because I was taught that at school.
And now all I can think of is why the hell did they teach that to a London schoolkid in the 1980s?
#TOTP

This is a subtweet...
People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism

In 'Historic Victory' for Oceans, Norway Pauses Controversial Deep-Sea Mining Plans | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/norway-d

"Deep-sea mining tests impact more than a third of seabed animals, landmark study warns"
#Oceans #Environement

How damaging is deep-sea mining? New landmark study sheds light
A five-year-long investigation into how deep-sea mining impacts biodiversity has finally been published.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sacred and Carnal Devotion to Saints - Eric Huang
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New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-mapping-reveals-hidden-mining-boom-in-laos-that-threatens-the-mekong/

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong
BANGKOK — A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, including major tributaries of the Mekong, Southeast Asia’s longest river, heightening concerns about contamination of waterways that sustain local communities. Stimson has not ground-truthed the mine sites identified through satellite imagery, but Mongabay spoke […]

An interesting 4-part series of articles about ore formation processes (published on Hackaday, of all places):
Introduction And Magmatic Processes
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/ore-formation-introduction-and-magmatic-processes/
Hydro…

Ore Formation: Introduction And Magmatic Processes
Hackaday has a long-running series on Mining and Refining, that tracks elements of interest on the human-made road from rocks to riches. What author Dan Maloney doesn’t address in that series…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/5]:
- Look-Ahead Reasoning on Learning Platforms
Haiqing Zhu, Tijana Zrnic, Celestine Mendler-D\"unner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14745 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115575981129228810
- Deep Gaussian Process Proximal Policy Optimization
Matthijs van der Lende, Juan Cardenas-Cartagena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18214 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115610315210502140
- Spectral Concentration at the Edge of Stability: Information Geometry of Kernel Associative Memory
Akira Tamamori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23083 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115644325602130493
- xGR: Efficient Generative Recommendation Serving at Scale
Sun, Liu, Zhang, Wu, Yang, Liang, Li, Ma, Liang, Ren, Zhang, Liu, Zhang, Qian, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11529 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115723008170311172
- Credit Risk Estimation with Non-Financial Features: Evidence from a Synthetic Istanbul Dataset
Atalay Denknalbant, Emre Sezdi, Zeki Furkan Kutlu, Polat Goktas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12783 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115729287232895097
- The Semantic Illusion: Certified Limits of Embedding-Based Hallucination Detection in RAG Systems
Debu Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15068 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115740048142898391
- Towards Reproducibility in Predictive Process Mining: SPICE -- A Deep Learning Library
Stritzel, H\"uhnerbein, Rauch, Zarate, Fleischmann, Buck, Lischka, Frey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16715 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115745910810427061
- Differentially private Bayesian tests
Abhisek Chakraborty, Saptati Datta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15502 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/111843467510507382
- SCAFFLSA: Taming Heterogeneity in Federated Linear Stochastic Approximation and TD Learning
Paul Mangold, Sergey Samsonov, Safwan Labbi, Ilya Levin, Reda Alami, Alexey Naumov, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04114
- Adjusting Model Size in Continual Gaussian Processes: How Big is Big Enough?
Guiomar Pescador-Barrios, Sarah Filippi, Mark van der Wilk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07588 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/112965266196097314
- Non-Perturbative Trivializing Flows for Lattice Gauge Theories
Mathis Gerdes, Pim de Haan, Roberto Bondesan, Miranda C. N. Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13161 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_heplat_bot/113327593338897860
- Dynamic PET Image Prediction Using a Network Combining Reversible and Irreversible Modules
Sun, Zhang, Xia, Sun, Chen, Yang, Liu, Zhu, Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22674 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/113401026110345647
- Targeted Learning for Variable Importance
Xiaohan Wang, Yunzhe Zhou, Giles Hooker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02221 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113429912435819479
- Refined Analysis of Federated Averaging and Federated Richardson-Romberg
Paul Mangold, Alain Durmus, Aymeric Dieuleveut, Sergey Samsonov, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01389 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113588027268311334
- Embedding-Driven Data Distillation for 360-Degree IQA With Residual-Aware Refinement
Abderrezzaq Sendjasni, Seif-Eddine Benkabou, Mohamed-Chaker Larabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12667 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/113672538318570349
- 3D Cell Oversegmentation Correction via Geo-Wasserstein Divergence
Peter Chen, Bryan Chang, Olivia A Creasey, Julie Beth Sneddon, Zev J Gartner, Yining Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01890 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/113949981686723660
- DHP: Discrete Hierarchical Planning for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Agents
Shashank Sharma, Janina Hoffmann, Vinay Namboodiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01956 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/113949997485625086
- Foundation for unbiased cross-validation of spatio-temporal models for species distribution modeling
Diana Koldasbayeva, Alexey Zaytsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03480
- GraphCompNet: A Position-Aware Model for Predicting and Compensating Shape Deviations in 3D Printing
Juheon Lee (Rachel), Lei (Rachel), Chen, Juan Carlos Catana, Hui Wang, Jun Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114017924551186136
- LookAhead Tuning: Safer Language Models via Partial Answer Previews
Liu, Wang, Luo, Yuan, Sun, Liang, Zhang, Zhou, Hooi, Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19041 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114227502448008352
- Constraint-based causal discovery with tiered background knowledge and latent variables in single...
Christine W. Bang, Vanessa Didelez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21526 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114238919468512990
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reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

In 'Historic Victory' for Oceans, Norway Pauses Controversial Deep-Sea Mining Plans | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/norway-deep-sea-mining-2674367383

🪏 Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/copper-rush-pushes-vale-to-ramp-up-mining-near-amazonian-protected-areas/

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas
The metal needed in electric cars and solar panels comes with a high cost for Amazonian communities.

Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/chi…

SYMPOSIUM> Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
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United States-Japan Framework (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/10/united-states-japan-framework-for-securing-the-supply-of-critical-minerals-and-rare-earths-through-mining-and-processing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p50#a251028p50

"Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown"
#Brazil #Environment

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal networks operating across the Amazon Basin. The international police agency said officers dismantled 277 floating mining rafts worth an estimated $6.8 million. […]

CFP: Pietism and Rule: VII. International Congress for Pietism Research, Halle (Saale), 5–8 September 2027
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This CSO letter submitted today has a single #China/#HongKong entity, China Labour Bulletin.
Which self-dissolved in mid-2025...
https://foejapan.org/en/issue/20251205/27117/

Call for the Suspension of Irresponsible Nickel Development in Palawan, the Philippines — More Than a Decade Without Effective Environmental Measures, Leaving Community Rights at Risk — International Petition (8,411 Signatories from 36 Countries; 90 Organizations from 40 Countries) Submitted to Sumitomo Metal Mining | Friends of the Earth Japan
Ahead of Human Rights Day on December 10, an international petition calling for the suspe...

What if we could harvest critical minerals from seaweed instead of digging them out of the ground?
Scientists at NREL and the University of Alaska are studying how seaweed naturally absorbs rare earth elements near Alaska's Bokan Mountain. They're developing cost-effective extraction methods that could lead to large-scale seaweed farms producing these essential minerals—offering a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to traditional mining.

A Phyto Finish: Could Seaweed Be Mined for Critical Minerals? - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Some Seaweeds Accumulate Critical Minerals. NREL Scientists Are Studying Which Ones Do It Best Seaweed: the phyto(mining) frontier? Puns aside, seaweed is emerging as a surprising mining source. NREL chemist Stefanie Van Wychen and a team of five departed Juneau, ... [continued]

Urban sprawl and illegal mining reshape a fragile Amazon frontier https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/illegal-mining-and-urban-sprawl-reshape-a-fragile-amazon-frontier/

Urban sprawl and illegal mining reshape a fragile Amazon frontier
MITÚ, Colombia — Beneath the rising sun, people from nearby Indigenous communities navigate across the Vaupés River in traditional wooden canoes toward Mitú, a rapidly expanding town in the Colombian Amazon. The canoes are packed with fish, plucked from the river’s tea-colored waters hours before, and produce, harvested from their traditional gardens. To reach the […]

Important & informative 🧵re #indigenous & #uncontactedpeople
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115446627734

Important & informative 🧵re #indigenous & #uncontactedpeople
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115446627734

Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD, author of "Beyond Brutality, Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah"
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“Many AVs are electric, but the metals and minerals used to build them often come from environmentally harmful mining operations that damage communities—especially Indigenous communities—and ecosystems abroad.”
Appreciate @… calling this out! Cars aren't green, AV or not. Sign her petition to let California counties vote on whether we wan…

Let the People Decide: Give Us a Vote on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have flooded San Francisco’s streets, raising serious safety and traffic concerns for residents, pedestrians, animal advocates, and local businesses. In 2025 alone, both Waymo and Zoox recalled over 1,200 vehicles due to crash risks. AVs have also blocked emergency vehicles, caused traffic jams, and created dangerous situations for people walking, biking, and driving. Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft already made traffic worse, accounting for about half th…

"Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown"
#Brazil #Environment

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in Amazon mining crackdown
Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns in the Amazon. The raids targeted criminal networks behind environmental crimes and were supported by officers from six Amazon countries. Authorities collected forensic samples to trace pollutants, while follow-up investigations aim to dismantle the illicit gold trade’s financial networks.

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mekong-sand-mining-risks-collapse-of-se-asias-largest-freshwater-lake-study-finds/

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake has been dwindling year by year. Experts have long pointed to upstream hydropower dams in China […]

"Trump is keeping coal on life support. How long can it last?"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Trump is keeping coal on life support. How long can it last?
A combination of federal intervention and rising energy demand have stalled coal’s decline, but experts see little hope of a lasting revival.

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/845831/ai-chips-data-center-power-water

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
AI data centers are using growing amounts of electricity and water, research shows, although companies aren’t divulging many details.

‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/green-energy-transition-leaves-a-dirty-trail-in-the-philippines-nickel-belt/

‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt
MINDANAO, Philippines — Communities living near mining operations in the southern Philippines’ Caraga region are feeling the toll of the global energy transition, with nickel mining driving deforestation and pollution, according to a recent report. Climate Rights International (CRI), the U.S.-based NGO behind the report, highlighted harms to the environment, local livelihoods and public health […]

To anyone who's been following human rights issues in #Tibet or the #Uyghur regions, or Chinese links to illegal #rareearth mining in #Laos

China’s green energy miracle and a conspiracy of silence - Coda Story
With Beijing indispensable to the global transition away from fossil fuels, questions are no longer being asked about the human cost

Is diesel behind the US takeover of Venezuela?
Diesel is the main fuel used in road transport, mining and quarrying, and agriculture. Fuel oil is used in shipping but with the regulations of 2020 on sulphur emissions, it is closer to diesel in character and this in turn impacts on the scarcity of diesel.
The US has to import the crude oil to make diesel. Its own crude is too light
Venezuela's oil is very heavy.

Mercury, dredges and crime: Illegal mining ravages Peru’s Nanay River https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mercury-dredges-and-crime-illegal-mining-ravages-perus-nanay-river/

Mercury, dredges and crime: Illegal mining ravages Peru’s Nanay River
On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five dredges operated by illegal miners excavate the Nanay River Basin, in the Loreto region in the Peruvian Amazon. “They are like enormous leeches in the water,” said Manuyama. The plane has begun its second […]

Deep-sea mining risks disrupting the marine food web, study warns
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"Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’"
#Africa #Guinea #Environment

Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’
For Mariame Condé, the seed-collecting work came at a critical time. In January 2022, she was pregnant and nearly out of food. Her husband had left their village to search for gold in Sigiri, a mining area, and their harvest was almost gone, she told Mongabay in a WhatsApp message. That year, Condé collected 20,000 […]

JOURNAL> Journal of Global Buddhism v 26, n 1
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Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
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RESOURCE> Three new publications from the BuddhistRoad World
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"Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years"
#Norway #Environment #Oceans

Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years
Norway on Wednesday postponed the first licenses to permit deep-sea mining in its Arctic waters for four years, a delay environmentalists hope signals the "nail in the coffin" of the plans.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 14 December - 21 December
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sacred and Carnal Devotion to Saints - Eric Huang
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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 14 December - 21 December
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China says the December 2020 theft of 127,272 BTC, now worth ~$13B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian is likely a "state-level hacker operation" led by the US (Bloomberg)
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China Accuses US of Orchestrating $13 Billion Bitcoin Hack
China’s cybersecurity agency accused the American government of orchestrating the theft about $13 billion worth of Bitcoin, representing China’s most recent attempt to attribute major cyberattacks to the US.

The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives - Dr Helen Frisby - Zoom Sun, Nov 1, 2026, 8:00 PM
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SHARED WORLDS Online Conference August 1, 2026 | Call for Papers Deadline February 1, 2026
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CFP: Pietism and Rule: VII. International Congress for Pietism Research, Halle (Saale), 5–8 September 2027
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ONLINE SEMINAR: Borders of Healing: Transmission, Secrecy, and Syncretism in the New Generation of Segnatori
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Mississippi River mining plan in Minnesota dredges up concerns about damage to natural areas https://phys.org/news/2025-12-mississippi-river-minnesota-dredges-natural.html

Mississippi River mining plan in Minnesota dredges up concerns about damage to natural areas
The Mississippi River snakes below the bluffs at Spring Lake Park Reserve near Hastings, where people stroll or ski along the trails to take in the view of the majestic river.

"Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support"
#Indonesia #FossilFuels #Energy

Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support
A surge in the supply of Chinese-backed coal-fired power plants built to supply electricity to Indonesia’s fast-growing nickel mining and processing sector is undermining Beijing’s efforts to dial back support for fossil fuels, a study released Nov. 3 has found. In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly four years ago, China’s president, Xi Jinping, […]

Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (Bloomberg)
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Bitcoin (BTC) Miners Hunted After Stealing $1 Billion Power From Malaysia Grid
Cracking down on illegal Bitcoin mining gangs has become a cat-and-mouse game in Malaysia.

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/09/tapanuli-orangutan-ape-indonesia-sumatra-martabe-gold-mine-aoe

Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made "no sense" (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
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How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data-mining company’s chief executive.

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/09/tapanuli-orangutan-ape-indonesia-sumatra-martabe-gold-mine-aoe

"Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation"
#Trees #Environment #Deforestation

Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal networks behind illegal logging, timber trafficking and gold mining, which drive large-scale deforestation and generate billions in illicit profits each year. The effort announced ahead of the U.N. COP30 climate summit in Brazil will focus mainly on tropical forests […]

NEW JOURNAL ISSUE> New Issue of Buddhist Studies Review, 42.1
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TALKS > Online Buddhist Studies Events (Dec 16 - Jan 21)
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 30 November - 7 December
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 7 December - 14 December
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New Issue of Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sacred and Carnal Devotion to Saints - Eric Huang
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | 21st Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies
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Call for papers | Catholic Record Society 68th Annual Conference | 1-2 July 2026 | London & online
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ONLINE SEMINAR: Borders of Healing: Transmission, Secrecy, and Syncretism in the New Generation of Segnatori
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ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s)
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TALK> Asst. Prof. Klairung Iso, "KARMA AND CAUSATION IN THERAVĀDA BUDDHISM: RETHINKING DETERMINISM AND EXTERNAL PHENOMENA”
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Call for Papers: "Gods in/of the Machine: Technologies of Metahuman Presence and Communication" in EASA 2026 conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
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TALKS > Online Buddhist Studies Events (Dec 16 - Jan 21)
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 30 November - 7 December
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 7 December - 14 December
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