At least nine have been killed and 20 more wounded in an escalating land conflict on Nicaragua's Miskito Coast over the past month, with hundreds displaced.
At least four are dead following clashes between police and residents in Peru's Apurímac region, amid protests over the Chinese-owned Las Bambas copper mine project.
Campesinos on a cross-country march to demand a clean-up of Peru's massively polluted Oroya metal-smelting complex were attacked by the National Police.
Indigenous and labor protesters again marched on Quito, now demanding release of "political prisoners" detained in last month's nation-wide demonstrations.
Residents of a town in northwest Argentina took to the streets in protest after a pipe carrying cyanide to Barrick Gold's Veladero mine fractured and spilled its contents in the area.
Protesters cut off access to the Bolivian mining city of Potosí for almost a month in a dispute with the central government over development and investment in the remote region.
One worker was killed before laid-off employees of the idled Oroya smelting complex lifted their strike as Peru's government pledged to reach a deal with the facility's creditors.
Opponents of the disputed Tia Maria mega-mine held a dissident contingent at the parade marking the 475th anniversary of the founding of Arequipa, Peru.
One year after a catastrophic waste spill at British Columbia's Mount Polley Mine, the facility is set to re-open—but its expansion is blocked by the opposition of local First Nations.
Federal authoriites approved an expansion of coal-mining and burning in the Four Corners area—as NASA has detected a massive methane plume over the region.
Members of the San Carlos Apache tribe returned to Arizona after traveling to Washington DC to protest a land-swap that would turn a sacred site over to copper mining.
A court in China ruled that a lawsuit against ConocoPhillips China and China National Offshore Oil for a 2011 oil spill can proceed under a new law allowing NGOs to directly sue polluters.
