Lithium mining is not a green transition-it is a continuation of extractive colonial logic, dressed in sustainable rhetoric. The Lithium in your phone and car batteries is metaphorically red with ...

Canada's mining industry is under fire after an international tribunal found it committed environmental and human rights violations around the globe. Earlier this year, the International Rights of ...

A few weeks ago, the Nigerian government issued a warning to illegal miners to vacate all mining sites in Zamfara State without delay. Officials reaffirmed that the ongoing suspension of mining ...

Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. and into surrounding lakes and streams ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In southeastern Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley, a region that is home to up to 85% of the country’s known lithium deposits, residents say the ...

Proposals to open or expand metal mines invariably hinge on two assertions — mining will usher in local prosperity and the environmental impacts will be minimal and fully mitigated. The first ...

On Sunday, June 29, Indonesia will break ground on a $6 billion electric vehicle (EV) battery plant on Halmahera, the largest of the Maluku islands. The facility will mine the island’s abundant nickel ...

Kai Baucom, a graduate research assistant at Pittsburg State University, lifts a handful of rocks from the bottom of the Spring River and checks for any mussels. The fish and rare mussels hiding in ...

Satellite data show at least 27 new rare earth mines have opened across Laos since 2022, mostly in protected areas and many within the Mekong River Basin, raising transboundary pollution risks for ...