Cobalt is a critical component of green technologies like battery electrodes and the magnets in electric motors and wind ...

Congo is by far the world's biggest producer of cobalt ... including children. Alexis Mikandji, the director general of the Ministry of Mines’ certification agency, CEEC, said the Congo had ...

Firms continue to look for the best way to acquire these materials, but environmental safety and cost efficiency hang in the ...

AI is making it much easier to spread disinformation, enable fraud, and cause conflicts to become deadlier. Moreover, AI, ...

Electric vehicles promise a cleaner future, but behind Tesla’s sleek designs lie lithium mining disasters, toxic battery ...

The world's top cobalt supplier suspended exports in February after prices hit a nine-year low at just $10 a pound.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is considering extending a ban on exports of cobalt, as it explores how to implement quotas ...

Cobalt prices and stocks surged in China after the Democratic Republic of Congo extended its export ban to September, ...

Congo has extended its ban on the export of cobalt, a key material in making electric vehicle batteries, for another three ...

In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at the horrors of the cobalt supply chain fueling the electric car and ...

Gécamines SA, Congo's state-owned mining company, has filed an application to acquire a division of Chemaf Resources Ltd. a few months after announcing its intention to block the sale of the copper ...

and the 21st century brought one more complication to peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the proliferation of mining operations. DRC is home to some of the world’s largest ...