Clashes between mining companies and communities are often about the age-old question of whether mining, with its adverse impacts, can benefit the many or only a selected few.
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A media study of public criticism of plastic reveals that stigmatisation may result in limited bans, it leaves the vast majority of plastic production and pollution unexplored.
These scientists identified the five most severe crises the planet faces in a new report, Our Future on Earth 2020.
Our work represents the first assessment of what social and economic factors are connected to environmental degradation across the entire African continent.
Australia’s environment took a beating in 2018, as temperatures rose, rainfall declined, the health of rivers and ecosystems worsened, and floods, droughts and bushfires all took their toll.
Consumers are only benefitting from cheap clothes at considerable cost to the environment and by exploitation of a poor, vulnerable garment workers.
Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
There are some big misconceptions about the charcoal sector and its role in environmental damage.
Queensland’s new draft land-clearing laws aim to put the brakes on years of environmental destruction. But the bill contains several loopholes that are likely to stymie progress.
Given that cities may be home to 80% of humanity by the end of the century, they can only be sustainable if eco-friendliness is one of their core features.
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Visiting professor
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Lecturer in Conservation, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer Biostatistics, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Political Sociology and Critical Theory, University of Bath
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Assistant in the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Disaster Risk Management and Health, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
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ARC Future Fellow in Fisheries Science, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Climate scientist, CGIAR
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Professor of International Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Scientist, Bioenergy, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)