A miner is speaking out on the harrowing experience when a sanitation tunnel collapsed in Wilmington, momentarily trapping ...

The clean energy revolution is being built on the backs of enslaved children and at the cost of strengthening China.

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world’s largest cobalt producer, has extended its export ban on cobalt by another three months. The decision, aimed at strengthening the country’s influence ...

The admin is signing peace and economic pacts today with countries that should be bursting with investment, not swimming in blood.

Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: seawater.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, industrial and artisanal mining of cobalt and copper, essential for battery-powered technologies, poses risks to the reproductive health of women, preliminary ...

Artisanal mining represents 10-20% of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s copper and cobalt production. But artisanal miners in the DRC continue to be exposed to numerous health and safety risks ...

He and his co-authors found it difficult to draw conclusions about cobalt mining in the DRC because there simply wasn’t enough research done on it. Instead, they looked at cobalt mining in Australia, ...

Some three quarters of the word’s supply of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children as young as 10 years old help extract the metal from hand dug shafts in the ...

After cobalt was discovered beneath one neighborhood, Congolese began digging under their houses. Some tunnels extended into neighbors’ properties. Illustration by Pola Maneli ...

Artisanal and small-scale mining plays a critical role in supplying the world with minerals vital for decarbonization, but this kind of mining typically lacks regulation and can be socially and ...