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Company promises to use 100% recycled cobalt by 2025.

Members of the illicit sand mining mafia operating along the Thamirabarani watercourse on Tuesday afternoon, brutally killed a Village Administrative Officer (VAO) in his office. Family members of the VAO alleged that he had been facing threats from the illicit sand mafia and was not given police protection, even though…

Diane Wilson took on Formosa Plastics and won a $50m settlement to help clean up decades worth of toxic plastic waste

Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work fighting against illegal mining and large-scale projects aimed at facilitating soybean exports in the Tapajos River Basin

Silver is the most speculative precious metal. Gold and silver have a long history as financial assets, but few governments consider silver a reserve asset. Meanwhile, silver is an industrial and precious metal that tends to outperform gold on a percentage basis on rallies and underperforms during bearish periods. In…

People should not assume the water that falls on their roofs is safe to drink, experts say

The Chilean government’s newly announced plan to have the state take a majority stake in the lithium industry has disconcerted business leaders

The lithium-producing countries are scrambling to seize control of lithium mining amid the electric car boom.

They’ve drawn most attention in eastern Ukraine, but it seems wherever war breaks out – from Syria to Sudan – this group of mercenaries can be found profiting from bloodshed, writes World Affairs Editor Kim Sengupta