Source: Censored: Australian scientists say suppression of environment research is getting worse
Scientists have been banned from publicly discussing the environmental effects of activities such as mining. Environmental scientists in Australia say that they are under increasing pressure from their employers to downplay research findings or avoid communicating them at all. More than half of the respondents to an online survey thought that constraints on speaking publicly on issues such as threatened species, urban development, mining, logging and climate change had become worse in recent years.