Miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo face few protections in the global rush for metals for the energy transition—as well as a toxic legacy from a previous rush to mine for nuclear weapons.

The designation protects land sacred to Native tribes and blocks new mining.

The Democratic senator claims to be worried about electric vehicles relying on foreign lithium. The best way to fix that would be walkable cities and great public transit.

Rhetoric about American energy independence has long been used to trample Indigenous rights. The new era of renewables should be different.

An apparent victory for Evo Morales’s Movement Toward Socialism shows that tomorrow’s green energy won’t look much like the old oil empires.

The crisis in Bolivia has an urgent message for environmental policy in the United States.

It’s one small step for man, one giant leap for asteroid prospectors.

A mine massacre and the fight for South Africa's future