As Tesla sales tank, it’s not exactly the best time for the automaker to receive more bad press. However, Tesla faces a ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

St Josephine Bakhita’s life reminds us that slavery is not inevitable, we must confront the uncomfortable truths ...

Molly Crabapple is incandescent. “Fuck generative AI,” she said. “Fuck generative AI left. Fuck generative AI right. Fuck ...

It is, however, Rwanda’s illicit extraction of eastern Congo’s highly lucrative minerals, including gold and the world’s largest reserves of cobalt (used in batteries ... capture many mines, and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is trapped in an unrelenting cycle of conflict, displacement, and humanitarian suffering ...

If those of us who do not believe in the so-called "climate emergency" are to win the day, we need to take a page out of ...

The company also plans to invest $2 billion in the Mingomba copper-cobalt mine in Zambia, which is said to be the world’s highest-grade undeveloped large copper deposit. Mingomba contains 247 ...

The nation’s first and only cobalt mine opened in Idaho in 2023 before halting production due to a price slump in the market that made the mine unprofitable. The US relies entirely on imports ...