U.S. defense contractors purchased tin from White Solder, a Brazilian company accused of sourcing from illegal mines in Indigenous territory.

The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.

Greenpeace say the research vessel has just finished deep sea mineral exploration work for an American firm.

The global race for what’s below pits the business interests of the super-rich against the rights and livelihoods of local communities across the globe.

Cells using abundantly available materials could help break the grip on rare earths needed for EVs and energy storage

Economic insecurity and growing distrust in institutions are undermining governments’ ability to sustain support for climate action.

In the high Andes of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, you can still find the vicuña, a shy, elusive camelid, revered by Indigenous people. It has reasons to be cautious of humans. Long-prized for i...

Petromasculinity not only kills people on the road. It spills into our politics, fuelling far-right individualism.

Brazil, China, Germany and Russia have recently joined an unfortunate club

When Bolsonaro was president, he almost destroyed the Amazon. Now, his son could be elected to start Bolsonaro 2.0 and finish the job. Recent research by Ekō just exposed that Meta AI, Gemini, Grok an

Developers are starting to add these batteries, known as long-duration energy storage, to data centers

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npj Ocean Sustainability - The false promise of deep-sea mining

Modern-day colonialism is enabling Trump's deep sea mining ambitions in the Pacific.

More than half of critical minerals worldwide are located under or near Indigenous lands. Community protests have interrupted production, so the business case for taking human rights seriously is beco...

In 2025, Global Witness documented 124 land and environmental defenders were killed for protecting their land, territories, natural resources and communities

With its determination to extract more fossil fuels and its useless adaptation plans, does the UK government have any idea what it is igniting?

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Warning by United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was joint hottest month ever

TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society.

The new OECD report Enhancing Resilience through Traceability: Insights from Lithium and Nickel Supply Chains in Latin America and Southeast Asia provides analysis and a policy roadmap to support mine...

Opponents of the controversial Solwara deep sea mining project in Papua New Guinea have had another legal win in their bid to get the national government to release documents relating to the project.

Reports from Bougainville say heavy machinery and vehicles belonging to a foreign mining company were destroyed in an arson attack at the Panguna mine site.

Entrepreneurs are racing to secure seabed mining permits. Then comes the hard part.

When the rightwing pro-Christian protesters are standing outside the rightwing pro-Christian newspaper demanding to be bought a house, you hardly need a satirist to intervene

Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Big Food is making us sick - we need an EU sugar tax!

The Philippines is moving to accelerate critical-mineral development across millions of hectares of land, raising concerns that expanded mining and faster permitting could put pressure on forests, anc...

There is an insidious lie that has taken root in the energy transition narrative pushed by the world’s most powerful financial, political, and environmental institutions: we need to massively scale up...

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Some Chinese rare earth suppliers are declining to ship to the U.S. for fear of repercussions from Beijing, three sources said, ​underscoring how access to the materials remains an issue for the U.S. ...

Why are our prime ministers more afraid of a few wealthy people than they are of losing office?

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After lying dormant for years, the Era Dorada project in Asunción Mita resumed this year and villagers say history is being repeated, despite promises of change

Since 2023, 14 African countries have introduced export restrictions on unprocessed critical minerals, requiring “local beneficiation” – or in-country processing and manufacturing – prior to export, a...

Editorial: Outsourcing the industry to China cannot continue, but Europe knows it can no longer count on the US for a solution

15 million drones are set for deployment in the Russia-Ukraine war, marking the start of mass drone warfare.