Mining

Here are five ways to help empower indigenous people.

Plus, 5 questions with the U.S. president of renewable fuels company Neste.

Minnesota’s Boundary Waters would be put at risk for the sake of copper, nickel, cobalt and platinum.

There’s a long way to go for responsible mining, but a Mexican mine just took the first step with an audit by the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance.

Plus, the voluntary carbon market is growing like gangbusters.

In areas of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction, countries cooperate through the Law of the Sea Convention, ratified by 167 countries and the European Union. The U.S. should join them and help to lead on this issue.

The company already uses 71 percent recycled silver and gold, but it wants to stop using these metals from mined sources by 2025.

Form California to Peru, the history of toxic pollution from mining repeats itself.

Although the economics have yet to pencil out, scientists are exploring the use of phytomining to help meet the world’s increased demand for lithium, a key component of batteries that run EVs and other modern electronics.