Three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, used in smartphones and laptops, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This ...

accountable over alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the DRC. In that case, 16 plaintiffs accused five companies - Tesla, Alphabet, Apple, Dell Technologies ...

As the insatiable demand for critical minerals fuels conflicts around the world, the EU is failing to enforce its own law ...

The US-Saudi agreement on critical minerals is a promising start, but its success hinges on building transparent, scalable, ...

The deep-sea mining gamble is no financial miracle. Rather, it is a sinking investment that is quite literally costing the ...

The term 'rare earth' dates to an 18th‑century Swedish mine and survives mainly out of habit. In truth, these 17 metals are ...

The Indonesian government’s approach towards local content requirements in two industries – telecommunication devices and renewable energy ...

This law was used in a 2019 class-action against five U.S. technology companies including Apple, Alphabet (Google ... benefited from child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic ...

The Metals Company says the metals — which include nickel, copper, cobalt ... Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce — have also come out backing a moratorium on deep sea mining.

Beyond personal savings, choosing certified refurbished smartphones help curb Indias burgeoning e waste challenge and ...

Free world economic order and free economic system have been busted and brought to a naught. We live in a changing world order that is drastically transformed the global institutions and agencies that ...