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For the first time, an emissions and climate impact case has arrived at Australia’s High Court. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
The Ludlow strike was one of the most bitter and violent in U.S. labor history.
Former coal communities face higher death rates from suicide, drugs and alcohol revealing lasting effects of industrial decline.
The Trump administration has made several efforts to support the coal industry, but even if coal were free, the economics aren’t in its favor.
Indigenous Dayak women are starting to cultivate chili peppers and lead a just energy transition through backyard farming
The democratic process of scientific study, public debate and comment helps regulators arrive at a rule that balances the needs and interests of workers, companies and the public.
Alberta’s coal initiatives illustrate two dangerous trends in today’s democratic politics — the refusal to heed both the public and experts.
A new book looks at the spiritual dislocation experienced by people to make way for coal mines.
Central Queensland has become a koala refuge. But heavy traffic on one highway is threatening a vital population of these threatened marsupials
Since last Friday, more than 20 seismic events have rattled the earth near the Mount Arthur coal mine in New South Wales.
Vance’s hometown has been analyzed as a sweeping symbol – sometimes overlooking the area’s distinct history and experiences.
Mining has not been particularly lucrative for New Zealand. It makes little economic sense to focus on digging for minerals, despite claims the new mines will aid in the country’s green transition.
Australia supported a phase-out of fossil fuels at the recent UN climate summit but is still expanding coal and gas production. It’s a contradiction that threatens the planet. There is a better way.
South Africa’s plan to transition to green energy may eventually benefit big private companies more than ordinary citizens.
Australia’s clean energy transition cannot succeed unless the government opens debate and decision-making to many more voices.
In this podcast, former Labor climate change minister Greg Combet joins The Conversation to discuss net-zero, and Australia's future as a "renewable energy superpower".
For towns built on mining, mine closures have huge impacts. Because mines inevitably close, communities should be involved from the start in planning for that time.
Land is a scarce resource. Restoration enables sustainable and dynamic use of former mining land and creates opportunities for ex-mining towns.
Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.
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Professor of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Griffith University
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