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The supply of critical minerals like lithium faces serious risks because of the failure of community approval.
The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been entangled in coal country.
Critical minerals are in demand around the world for military, technology and other uses. A geoscientist shares what’s known about Ukraine’s reserves, which could help the country recover from war.
Sand mining destabilises riverbeds and affects local communities but new hi-tech surveillance can improve the monitoring of extraction and help protect these people.
The emergence of a well-resourced rival claim to Indigenous land rights is of growing concern to the Innu people of Labrador-Quebec.
China’s engagement with Africa has evolved over the past 24 years, with a shift towards mutually beneficial investments.
The remote Bassari community, located between Senegal and Guinea, experiences climate change as one of many changes. They are best placed to come up with solutions that work for them.
Combining different approaches to time use presents an interdisciplinary picture of what the global human day looks like.
A gradual drawdown of gold mining is a critical step towards sustainability.
Our prospects of a better, fairer future are inextricably linked with the minerals and metals beneath our feet. Is it time to make peace with the industry that extracts them?
To fully understand what led to the stabbings in James Smith Cree Nation, we need to look at how the legacy of settler colonial violence impacts Indigenous communities.
In today’s episode, we hear from two women who talk about how diamond mines in the Northwest Territories have negatively impacted women and girls and perpetuated gender violence.
While marketing has made diamond rings a symbol of heteronormative happy endings, women from the Northwest Territories tell a different story about their experiences with the diamond mines.
New research finds Queensland’s laws fail to protect private conservation areas from the hidden impacts of mining on groundwater.
We think of mountains as remote and little affected by human activity. Unfortunately, the negative impacts of what we do has important implications for nature, wildlife and human society.
For 200 years, a small number of countries have exploited the marine wildlife of Antarctica, often with devastating impact on their populations.
Indigenous land stewardship, resource extraction and corporate interests remain critical issues to addressing large-scale environmental concerns such as pollinator loss in Canada and beyond.
Europe recycles 70% of its steel, but much is exported, turning what should be a circular process into a linear one. Instead, materials need to be circularity-ready the moment they’re manufactured.
The Bomvana say the global development agenda has created division because it sees people as individuals rather than primarily as members of a collective.
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Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Researcher: Institut Metropoli, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Researcher, Cirad
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Assistant professor, University of Sussex
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Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Research Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, Expert for Conservation Biology, Axa Chair for Functional Mountain Ecology at the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate professor in Sustainable Operations Management, Aston University
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Associate professor of Francophone and Intercultural Studies, University of Regina
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Formerly the Victim Services Coordinator for the Native Women's Association of the Northwest Territories
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Researcher in Climate and Water, University of Leeds
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Research Associate, History and Classical Studies, McGill University
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Lecturer, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University