The world’s appetite for sand is surging – and it comes at a real cost to the environment. The alternative: a paradigm shift in metal mining to also extract sand.
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Security governance at abandoned or closed mining sites must be improved and inclusive policies that address employment needs must be implemented.
West Africa has been a gold mining hub for centuries.
Climate policies in Africa must include clear commitments to combat modern slavery.
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.
Forests in India’s tribal heartland are being caught in the crossfire of conflict.
The prime minister’s state-of-the-nation focus on economic growth, particularly in mining and tourism, was long on aspiration and short on realistic expectations.
The demand for sand is soaring in places like Singapore. But extracting sand from the sea is destructive. It’s worth looking at alternatives
Giving aluminium smelters tax incentives to switch to clean energy is long overdue. The question now is how to accelerate the clean energy rollout
Many small towns rely on one major industry and can face long-term existential shocks if that industry fails. Biden’s attempt to reposition rural economies for the future missed a crucial factor.
The Interior Department manages about one-fifth of all US land. Its secretary mediates among many competing uses for it, from recreation to energy production.
Ferdinand von Sommer was Western Australia’s first government geologist – but until now his life and career have been shrouded in mystery.
Imagine you’ve worked 12 hours in hot and dirty conditions. Some of your co-workers have collapsed or been injured. You wish you could just get another job. But you can’t. You’re stuck in space.
Greening sounds good compared to deforestation, but in the Arctic, the expansion of plant life amplifies dangerous feedback loops and could harm the carbon-storing permafrost.
Deep seabed mining is already controversial because of inherent environmental and biodiversity risks. A new study shows that its economic impacts may hit even harder.
Recycling metals from e-waste will be critical as demand for raw materials is likely to outstrip supply in the near future.
The Northern Territory’s economy might have grown the fastest but Western Australian remains the wealthiest of the states and territories, according to new data.
There’s an urgent need to repair trust in the Australia’s business sector with strong, ethical governance standards.
A business-centric approach can overshadow the broader goals of social and environmental sustainability.
Purely technical solutions to the challenges of sustainable development will likely end in failure. Living within planetary boundaries will require a unified effort across disciplines and economies.
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Technology and Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Science, University of South Africa
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University