As world leaders, policymakers, and civil society gather for Climate Week NYC – the world’s largest climate event – this webinar, drawing on the Oakland Institute’s RUSH report, will bring together ex...

In 2025, Global Witness documented 124 land and environmental defenders were killed for protecting their land, territories, natural resources and communities

June 2026: Just six months into office, Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s, tethered on the edge. Starting late April, as demonstrators and security forces clashed in the country’s capital, La P...

There is an insidious lie that has taken root in the energy transition narrative pushed by the world’s most powerful financial, political, and environmental institutions: we need to massively scale up...

There is an insidious lie that has taken root in the energy transition narrative pushed by the world’s most powerful financial, political, and environmental institutions: we need to massively scale…

A report warns the global rush for critical minerals is driven by industries beyond clean energy, with major environmental and social costs in Africa.

As governments and corporations scramble to secure critical minerals, a new Oakland Institute report exposes the forces fueling today’s unprecedented mining boom. RUSH: Global Scramble for Minerals Wa...

Seemingly unlikely alliances are springing up in Canada and the U.S. to prevent rural communities from becoming a ‘toxic CO2 dumping ground’.

Far from the promises of sustainable development touted by the World Bank, the current scramble is driven by a strict logic of geopolitical power. A damning report from the California-based Oakland In...

It happened. An OpenAI system broke out of its secure testing environment, hacked its way online, then broke into a second company's servers to access data.No one told it to. It chose to.Now imagine t

​By gaining access to more critical minerals, Trump can expand the war machine and, in turn, make a profit; his administration has shown it will stop at nothing to achieve that.

Kristen Lyons investigates how climate policies such as carbon offsets simply provide security for big polluters, while leaving our planet in danger.

Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is renowned the world over for its wildlife and as the home of the indigenous Maasai people. To promote tourism, the government wants to enlarge the protected area – and e...

Ahead of the 48th Session of the World Heritage Committee, the Oakland Institute calls upon the Committee to confront the ongoing human rights violations against the Maasai in the Ngorongoro Conservat...

The global mining industry says more extraction of rare earth minerals is necessary to fight climate change. But a new report says conventional industries, AI and defense are driving much of the deman...

As governments and corporations scramble to secure critical minerals, a new Oakland Institute report exposes the forces fueling today’s unprecedented mining boom. RUSH: Global Scramble for Minerals Wa...

United States’ foreign assistance has always been a self-serving tool – shrouded as aid, it helped maintain economic and political control over countries in the Global South. Deployed as a strategic s...

Die US-Diplomatie im Kongo dient eigenen Interessen – zum Nachteil von Millionen Konfliktbetroffenen

Elders warn ‘it will be the end of our people’ as Tanzania steadily forces the Masai out of Ngorongoro Crater, a gem on the tourist trail

U.S.- based Virtus Minerals signs major mining deal in the DRC, raising questions about environmental damage and accountability.

Between 2017-2024, the World Bank provided over US$100 million for the Resilient Natural Resources Management for Tourism and Growth (REGROW) project, which doubled the size of Ruaha National Park and...