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Oct 15, 2024 | 
reporteasia.com | Alicia Chen |Gabriela Mesones Rojo
Desde 2013, el 96 por ciento de los residentes de la antigua Morococha se han visto obligados a reubicarse en una zona de humedales propensa a inundaciones, que también está aislada de la carretera central. La situación es aún peor para unas 20 familias que se han negado a reasentarse. “Las familias que quedan en la antigua Morococha enfrentan acoso diario por parte de la empresa minera china Chinalco”, dijo Borda.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
es.globalvoices.org | Gabriela Mesones Rojo |Alicia Chen |Romina Navarro
En 2013, la empresa minera Chinalco (中国铝业集团有限公司) fue motivo de un debate internacional sobre el impacto del extractivismo con la noticia de que había logrado reubicar a un pueblo peruano entero, de 5000 habitantes, para dejar espacio a una mina de cobre.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
globalvoices.org | Gabriela Mesones Rojo |Alicia Chen
In 2013, Chinese mining company Chinalco (中国铝业集团有限公司) sparked an international conversation about extractive impacts with the news it had successfully relocated an entire Peruvian town of 5,000 residents to clear space for a copper mine.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
globalvoices.org | Alicia Chen |Gabriela Mesones Rojo
Amidst the shimmering, ecologically diverse salt flats spanning Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina, a delicate balance has long existed between nature's pristine beauty and human habitation. But in recent years, the global surge for lithium is transforming landscapes across these Andean wetlands, known as the “Lithium Triangle.” Lithium, powering electric cars and green energy storage systems, plays an essential role in the global green energy transition.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Alicia Chen
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
everand.com | Alicia Chen
Originally published on Global Voices Amidst the shimmering, ecologically diverse salt flats spanning Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina, a delicate balance has long existed between nature's pristine beauty and human habitation. But in recent years, the global surge for lithium is transforming landscapes across these Andean wetlands, known as the “Lithium Triangle.” Lithium, powering electric cars and batteries, plays an essential role in the global green energy transition.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alicia Chen |Natalia Velez |Robert Hawkins |Andrew Palacci
1 Introduction Humans do not just passively absorb knowledge from the world; we actively teach one another culturally specific skills and knowledge (Csibra & Gergely, 2009; Kline, 2015). We can be taught to distinguish edible mushrooms from poisonous ones, to build more effective tools, and to solve differential equations, all of which would be difficult or dangerous to acquire through trial and error alone. However, the cognitive mechanisms enabling effective pedagogy are not fully understood.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
es.globalvoices.org | Gabriela Mesones Rojo |Alicia Chen |Guadalupe Rufino
El 30 de mayo de 2024, cuatro comunidades en Buriticá, donde viven 10 000 personas al sur de Colombia, enviaron una carta de ayuda para exigir a las autoridades tomar acción urgente contra la creciente violencia cercana a la mayor mina de oro del país. Esta mina es propiedad de Zijin Continental Gold, empresa subsidiaria de la minera Zijin Mining, conocida por su demanda al Gobierno colombiano en noviembre de 2023 por no proteger la mina de ataques de mineros locales.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
globalvoices.org | Gabriela Mesones Rojo |Alicia Chen
On May 30, 2024, four communities in Buriticá, home to 10,000 residents in western Colombia, sent an SOS letter to public authorities, urging action against the increasing violence near the country’s largest gold mine. This mine is operated by Zijin Continental Gold, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Zijin Mining, which sued the Colombian government in November 2023 for not protecting it from attacks by local miners. These local miners do traditional and small-scale mining in the region.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
globalvoices.org | Alicia Chen |Gabriela Mesones Rojo |Melissa Vida
IMAGEIn 2024, Global Voices is launching and running a Global Climate Justice Fellowship for a period of 10 months to pair independent sinophone journalists and journalists from Central Asia, Francophone Africa and Latin America to assess the role of China in mitigating the global climate crisis. As many economic superpowers, China is both part of the problem and part of the solution in this issue and across regions.
