Tag: Critical Minerals
The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy...
Abraham Nunbogu, United Nations University and Kaveh Madani, United Nations University; Yale University
There is a troubling contradiction at...
Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth
Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Adam Charles Simon, University of Michigan
Demand for copper is surging because...
Venezuela’s fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil...
Antonio Machado Allison, Wesleyan University
Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a...
How the US can mine its own critical minerals − without...
Yuanzhi Tang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott McWhorter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Every time you use your phone,...
US-Ukraine deal highlights Ukraine’s wealth of critical minerals, but extracting them...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Ukraine’s mineral wealth has been a key factor in its negotiations with the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future
John Parker, Smithsonian Institution and Justin Nowakowski, Smithsonian Institution
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1...
