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Canada’s claim that it champions human rights is at odds with its mining practices

Canada presents itself as a gender equality and human rights champion both at home and abroad. But it’s also a global leader in mining, an industry with an abysmal human rights record.

The Conversation · Jan 26, 2025

A local’s guide to Broken Hill: ‘Chances are, someone will spark up a chat’

Artists are drawn to this historic outback mining town where creative energy meets red dirt, says the former director of the Broken Heel festival, Esther La Rovere

The Guardian - AU · Jan 24, 2025

Data centers are booming in Texas. What does that mean for the grid?

As energy demand surges, largely due to crypto mining facilities, data centers and industrial electrification, Texas officials are looking at how to increase supply and shore up the grid.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 24, 2025

Adventure tourism under threat and environmentalists up in arms after government lifts coal mining ban in Canada's Eastern Rockies

The prospect of renewed impact on land and water ecosystems has sparked public outcry and protests

Advnture · Jan 23, 2025

What makes a landslide and why they are familiar in Indonesia

Flash flooding and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java have killed at least 21 people and damaged villages and rice fields

The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2025

The last time it was legal, exports of sea sand destroyed dozens of Indonesian islands. Now, the ban is being lifted

Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation.

The Conversation · Jan 22, 2025

Informal mining in South Africa is here to stay. Police brutality won’t end it – here’s what will

In mid-January 2025 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala Umgodi — meaning “plug the hole” – which had cut off food and water in an effort to “smoke out”…

The Conversation · Jan 22, 2025

Clean energy incentives must not 'support injustices'

A centrepiece Labor policy will be put to the test months before an election as mining companies, clean energy groups and unions comb through its implications.

AAP · Jan 22, 2025

Why your retirement fund might soon include cryptocurrency

Pension funds are investment pools that manage people’s retirement savings. They aim to encourage long-term saving and provide financial security to retirees. But some pension funds in the US, UK and elsewhere have recently begun investing in cryptocurrencies, an asset class renowned for its volatility.

The Conversation · Jan 22, 2025

As gold prices surge, Ghana faces ‘looming crisis’ over illegal mining

Illegal and small-scale mining known as galamsey is contaminating the country’s rivers and soil, activists say.

Al Jazeera · Jan 22, 2025