Australia has a well-earned reputation as a mining nation. Now we're moving towards mining 'off world', on the Moon.
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A NSW court's decision to rule out a coalmine on the basis of climate change could signal a turning of the tide in an arena where environmental litigants have previously struggled to gain traction.
Before democracy South Africa's mining sector prioritised profits over the people and environment. Not much has changed.
The coal, oil and natural gas industries are also connected with human rights violations, public health disasters and environmental devastation.
The Grand Canyon, which marks 100 years as a national park on Feb. 26, 2019, is known today as an iconic natural wonder. But early European visitors weren't impressed.
A high number of carnivores have been discovered at a huge industrial site in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Nearly 1,800 Brazilian dams are at risk of failure, according to the government. Fixing them is expensive – but ignoring aging dams can have considerable social, economic and environmental costs.
Australia's government can do more to ensure Australian mining companies do no harm in pursuit of Africa's mineral wealth.
Distrusting large federal bureaucracies isn't reserved for conservatives anymore.
An American coal company is suing the Canadian government over Alberta's plan to combat climate change.
The industrial patterns of mining shaped many Australian towns, which found varied uses for disused mine sites. The mining boom ensures the challenges these sites present will be with us a long time.
Villagers from a community in South Africa's Eastern Cape fought to be consulted and for the power to consent to mining their land.
In countries like South Africa which has a big and robust mining sector, tailings need to be managed with extra care.
A massive new discovery this summer of miles of corals in deep waters off South Carolina shows how much we have yet to learn about life on the ocean floor.
Indian mining firm Adani has announced scaled-down plans for its planned Queensland coal mine, which it will now fund itself. But there are still many questions hanging over the project.
Liquid minerals containing sulfur behave like a hot knife through butter – they're so corrosive they can melt their way through solid rock.
Rural Westerners have been stereotyped as angry ranchers who hate government. But for every gun-wielding militia member, there are many others who work collaboratively to protect what they value.
Nauru is best known as a site of Australian offshore asylum detention. But everyone on the island - not just refugees - is struggling with the issue of environmental change that threatens their lives and homes.
Canada's proposed new environmental assessment law is facing heated, if not necessarily well-informed, opposition. The real question is whether it goes far enough.
African economies could benefit more from backward linkages to the mining industry than from beneficiation.
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Professor of Environmental Science, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Deputy Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Andrew Dempster is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geoenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Durham University
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Professor, Graduate School of Business, Curtin University
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Peter C. Doherty is a Friend of The Conversation.
Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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retired, University of Western Australia
