Making hydrogen with mining waste
A new catalyst made from mining by-products promises cheaper hydrogen production.
A group of Queensland researchers have used mining waste to make a catalyst that could render hydrogen fuel productio...
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Gorgon’s carbon capture shortfall
What was the plant trying to do, and what went wrong?
The self-described “world’s largest carbon capture and storage project” hasn’t captured enough carbon to meet its goa...
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Blind shrimps, translucent snails
11 mysterious new species found in potential fracking sites.
By Jenny Davis, Charles Darwin University; Daryl Nielsen, CSIRO; Gavin Rees, CSIRO, and Stefanie Oberprieler, Charles...
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Cosmos Briefing: Lithium
Experts discuss lithium and renewable energy needs.
As the demand for renewable-energy technologies skyrockets, we need to think about how to source their constituent ma...
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Mining with microbes in space
Can bacteria extract useful materials from rocks?
The first mining experiments in space have revealed that microbes can efficiently extract elements from rocks in zero...
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Gold mining restricts Amazon forest recovery
Study measures impact of a growth industry.
Gold mining significantly limits the regrowth of Amazon forests and thus their ability to accumulate carbon, accordin...
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To frack or not to frack
New study suggests conventional ways are tougher on groundwater. Nick Carne reports.
Fracking continues to be a divisive issue, and even good science can’t always help in painting a clear picture of its...
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The search for dark matter finds gold
Literally a new way of detecting gold and mineral deposits.
A method for locating seams of gold and other heavy metals is the unlikely spin-off of Swinburne University’s invol...
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Australia’s rehabilitation of abandoned mines offers lessons for the world
Across the globe, countries are figuring out how to bring plants and animals back to abandoned mi...
The 1986 Australian film Crocodile Dundee brought global fame to its leading man Paul Hogan, but the real star of the...
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The world's top 10 battles for environmental justice
The Environmental Justice Atlas is an international collaboration that tracks land and energy con...
Environmental justice activism is to this age what the workers’ movement was for the industrial age - one of the most...
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Mining takes toll on Amazon
Study finds effects of mining on tree loss are much greater than previously thought. Andrew Maste...
In Brazil, about 90% of Amazon deforestation caused by mining operations happens outside the boundaries of mining lea...
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The hidden social and environmental costs of sand mining
The massive sand mining industry is often forgotten. It happens on a vast scale, is poorly regula...
Even more voracious than the consumption of finite reserves of fossil fuel, the mining of sand and gravel represents ...