The Sumitomo Metal Mining Group recognizes that the natural environment, which is the foundation of human health, welfare, and the economy, is deteriorating worldwide, and that biodiversity is ...

By Madeline Shaw Demand for metals has exploded in recent decades, thanks to population growth, technological innovation, and ...

Since the beginning of 2025, four copper mining companies—one British and three Chinese—have been accused of causing severe ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that metal production carbon footprints could be more than 10 times higher than previously estimated, with serious implications for the ...

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SAN SALVADOR, Dec 10 (IPS) - Metal mining has a renewed momentum in Central America, encouraged by populist rulers who, in order to soften environmental damage, claim they can develop it in harmony ...

Magnets for electric cars and wind turbines contain only a small amount of the rare earth metal dysprosium. Yet, this metal is responsible for a large share of the environmental impact and costs, ...

For thousands of years, humans shaped their world with stone, wood and bone. Metallurgy, the art and science of working with ...

A recent executive order would accelerate mining in little-understood undersea ecosystems. By Rebecca Dzombak Max Bearak and Harry Stevens Life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is slow, dark and ...