Mining

Lawyers warned against using AI in legal casework – as it happened

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Caitlin Cassidy and Rafqa Touma (earlier)

06, Dec, 2024 @6:32 AM

How can News Corp call its gas splash an ‘exclusive’ and a ‘special report’ when it’s paid for by industry? | Adam Morton

Readers led to believe a short-on-facts advertorial exhorting government to let companies extract more gas is straight news coverage

Adam Morton

02, Dec, 2024 @2:00 PM

Norway forced to pause plans to mine deep sea in Arctic

Small Socialist Left party threatens to block budget if government becomes first to issue licences for deep-sea exploration

Karen McVeigh

02, Dec, 2024 @12:35 PM

Plibersek had nature positive deal in writing before Albanese vetoed without her knowledge

Exclusive: Environment minister agreed detail with Greens but the PM intervened after lobbying from WA premier and miners

Karen Middleton and Lisa Cox

28, Nov, 2024 @7:45 PM

What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?

In Pará state children are being born with neurological disorders. Experts note similarities to the mercury poisoning disaster in Minamata, Japan – but say that is not the whole story

Dan Collyns in Itaituba, Brazil

28, Nov, 2024 @12:00 PM

Uncontacted hunter-gatherers facing threat of genocide because of minerals mining, claims report

Survival International says Hongana Manyawa in Indonesia are at risk but mining company says the people in ‘voluntary’ contact with workers

Damien Gayle

26, Nov, 2024 @5:00 AM

Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boom

Estimated $2bn lost in missed taxes from environmentally destructive practice some blame on political corruption

Eromo Egbejule in Wassa Akropong and Dunkwa-on-Offin

25, Nov, 2024 @5:00 AM

Queensland First Nations group lodges racial discrimination complaint against Adani

Coalminer rejects allegations that press releases and social media posts implied members of the group were not ‘legitimate’ Aboriginal people with a connection to sacred site

Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent

21, Nov, 2024 @2:00 PM

Work to regulate one of Australia’s biggest sources of carbon dioxide stalls, FoI documents reveal

Exclusive: Environmental group says it is ‘concerned’ to hear progress on cleaning up air pollution from diesel-burning may have hit a wall

Peter Hannam Economics correspondent

11, Nov, 2024 @2:00 PM

‘I do an illegal job, stealing’: the women forced to scavenge in Bolivia’s tin mines

Some work underground, others pick over tailings; all are running huge risks. But in the town of Huanani, the mines are the only way to support a family

Sarah Johnson

05, Nov, 2024 @10:00 AM