Mining rush for critical minerals threatens Amazon land reform settlements
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Indigenous rights, the environment, and international law: What’s at stake at this week’s seabed mining talks
Indigenous advocates who have been fighting for their rights to be acknowledged in global regulations…
Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in Alaskan waters
President Donald Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of…
Japan’s unprecedented project could test the limits of deep-sea mining
The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security. On September 7, the Chinese…
What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.
For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching…
Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?
Seafloor covered with manganese nodulesScience History Images/Alamy A process to extract metals from their ore…
Sustainability In Your Ear: Buckstop’s Alexander Olesen Digs Into Urban Mining
Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts. Every solar array, battery system,…
Engineered Microbes Pull Critical Minerals from Mining Waste
October 1, 20255 min readMeet the Microbes That Munch Mountains of Mining WasteBiomining uses engineered…
How a profit-sharing agreement could be a new model for mining on Indigenous land
In 2020, when Brian Mason began his first term as Chairman for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes…
In rural Florida, locals suspect a mining company is to blame for flooding
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Marjorie. The storm had passed,…