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Mining

October 2025

  • A man stands with his back to camera in a doorframe. On the wall beside him is painted a large mural of anti-mining activist Dora Sorto, who was murdered in 2009.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Secret mining studies and private deals: is a new gold rush quietly starting in El Salvador?

  • A Chinese deep-sea heavy-duty mining vehicle completing a trial in 2024.

    In the depths of the ocean, a new contest between the US and China emerges

  • Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young

    Greens say Labor’s nature laws revamp ‘worse than status quo’ with climate impact of fossil fuel projects overlooked

  • Murray Watt

    With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Can Colombia embrace clean energy without damaging the Amazon?

  • Country diary
    Country diary: The unlikely success of wildlife in lead country

  • Trump orders approval of 211-mile mining road through Alaska wilderness

  • NSW’s fast-track planning laws could allow mines to be approved without environmental assessment

September 2025

  • Medicines and doctors files spread out on a table with Patricia Silva's hands in view.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

  • Woman with two children in front of a tree

    ‘We are horrified’: proposed lead mine in wine region has community living in fear for children’s health

  • Electric vehicle being charged

    How Australia plans to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

  • Pastoralist Lachlan Gall stands at the bottom of one of his empty dams on his property north of Broken Hill, Australia

    ‘A slap in the face’: our expert panel on Australia’s 2035 emissions target

    Anika Molesworth, Rod Sims, Philip Oldfield, Innes Willox, Alison Reeve and Tristan Edis

  • Community fights lead mine near primary school as report highlights Australia’s failure to protect children

  • Mining companies leave many Queensland farmers’ land barren and broken. When they go belly up who pays for rehabilitation?

  • First Dog on the Moon
    Boreholes leaking methane? Not as funny as it sounds

  • ‘Tip of the methane iceberg’: 130,000 coal boreholes must be audited after toxic leaks in Queensland, experts say

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘The Dubai of South America’: how the promise of riches from lithium mining turned to dust in Bolivia

  • Finance for transition mineral mining is driving destruction and abuse, says report

August 2025

  • Campaign group Lock the Gate used drones with thermal imaging cameras to find 13 koalas in one night in trees earmarked for clearing by mining company Glencore

    Koala habitat would be destroyed by Glencore plan to expand Queensland coalmine - video

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    Plan to extend Queensland coalmine would bulldoze ‘critical’ koala habitat

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