according to the country’s onsen law, which also specifies several kinds of minerals the water must contain. The number of foreign visitors to the country hit an all time high of 36.8 million ...

Conversely, onsen are bathhouses that use geothermal hot spring water, made possible by Japan’s widespread volcanic activity, and saturated with what are believed to be beneficial minerals. As you ...

The joint economic investment deal announced Wednesday that gives the U.S. access to Ukrainian minerals may provide Ukraine with more support for its defense against Russia. But it also comes at a ...

One good thing that came from the spat between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky last week at the White House was that it seemed to put a minerals deal between the U.S. and Ukraine in jeopardy.

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo sent a letter to President Donald Trump offering a minerals deal in exchange for a security agreement with the U.S. that would remove violent ...

The ask comes after China curbed exports of some of those minerals as part of its retaliation against American tariffs. China dominates the rare earth mineral market, mining about 60% of the world ...

Plan aims to counter China's control over critical minerals Fighter jets, submarines, bullets built with minerals processed by China Trump doesn't plan to establish critical minerals stockpile ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. TThe world is on the brink of a ...

President Donald Trump is laser-focused on securing high-value critical minerals for the United States, whether through pushing to buy Greenland or demanding a share of Ukraine’s resources.

Another looming shortage now preoccupies political and military leaders as more of the country's energy economy depends on electricity, technology and the critical minerals that make it all possible.

But these “green” technologies depend on the mining of critical minerals, which comes with environmental costs. Biology, she and her colleagues believed, could be a solution. They were ...