Tag: Mining
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...
Raw materials, or sacred beings? Lithium extraction puts two worldviews into tension
Mario Orospe Hernández, Arizona State University
Located in the heart of South America, Bolivia contains the largest lithium deposits...
Deep seabed mining plans pit renewable energy demand against ocean life...
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University; Christiana Ochoa, Indiana University; David Bosco, Indiana University, and Kerry Krutilla, Indiana University
As companies...
Plans for deep seabed mining pit renewable energy demand against ocean...
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University; Christiana Ochoa, Indiana University; David Bosco, Indiana University, and Kerry Krutilla, Indiana University
As companies...
Scientists at work: We use environmental DNA to monitor how human...
Marie Simonin, Inrae and Emily S. Bernhardt, Duke University
Rivers, lakes and wetlands cover just 1% of the Earth’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
